When Jack arrived he learned Mary ______ for almost an hour.A.had goneB.had set offC.had l
When Jack arrived he learned Mary ______ for almost an hour.
A.had gone
B.had set off
C.had left
D.had been away
When Jack arrived he learned Mary ______ for almost an hour.
A.had gone
B.had set off
C.had left
D.had been away
When he arrived, he found______ the aged and the sick at home.
A.nothing but
B.none but
C.none other
D.no other than
The child was sorry______his mother when he arrived at the station.
A.to miss
B.having missed
C.missing
D.to have missed
Hardly ______ when it began to rain.
A.had he arrived
B.arrived he
C.he had arrived
D.did he arrive
______ when she started complaining.
A.Not until he arrived
B.Hardly had he arrived
C.No sooner had he arrived
D.Scarcely did he arrive
Jack wishes that he ______ness instead of history when he was at university.
A.studied
B.study
C.had been studied
D.had studied
Tom was disappointed (失望的) that most of the guests ______ when he ______ at the party.
A.left, had arrived
B.left, arrived
C.had left, had arrived
D.had left, arrived
The child was sorry______his mother when he arrived at the station.
A.to miss
B.having missed
C.missing
D.to havc missed
The ad has great appeal. It pictures a handsome man sitting at a piano in front of smiling guests. It tells the story of Jack, who has secretly learned to play the piano through a mail-order course. His friends at a party all scoff when he sits at the keyboard. But as he plays the first notes of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata, " they all amazed. When he finishes his flawless performance, the listeners shower him with applause and praise.
Jack tells his friends that he learned to play through the V. S. School of Music. He explains that he was taught through a new method, using no laborious scales and no tiresome practicing. He didn't even have a special talent for music! In the ad, others, too, could increase their popularity and gain happiness.
The writer of this ad, John Gaples, called this style. the "Walter Mitty approach." Walter Mitty is a character in a short story by James Thurber, who daydreams of taking part in great adventures. Although this ad seems old-fashioned now, many people still dream of such easy social success.
The opening sentence catches your attention by______.
A.surprising you
B.describing a humorous situation
C.ridiculing someone
D.appealing to people's dreams of personal success
The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation: at a lunch with a friend and in a university class. He found that if they had a lunch appointment with a friend, the average American student defined lateness as 19 minutes after the agreed time. However, the average Brazilian student felt the friend was late after 33 minutes.
In an American university, classes not only begin at the scheduled time in the United States, but also end at the scheduled time. In the Brazilian class, only a few students left the class at 12: 00; many remained past 12: 30 to discuss the class and ask more questions. While arriving late may not be very important in Brazil, neither is staying late.
The word "punctual' most probably means______.
A.leaving soon after class
B.coming early
C.arriving a few minutes late
D.being on time