Before I came to America, I __________as an executive secretary with a trading company for one year in Britain.

I ______ half an hour before she came out of the telephone box and I entered.

A) waited B) have waited

C) had been waiting D) was waiting

It is not until he came back _______ I knew it.

A、when

B、after

C、before

D、that

A.before

B.after

C.unless

D.then

A. run to

B. got to

C. came to

D. got down

A.The train I failed to catch had actually arrived 10 minutes earlier.

B.What the man said was not correct.

C.We listened hard, but they didn't.

D.I was reading when she came in, and she didn't apologize before she spoke.

s her on her admission._

TINA： Hi, Liu Hui. Guess what came in the__1___ today

LIU HUI： Your bill, maybe

TINA： No, no. My acceptance__2___ to Yale!

LIU HUI： Wow! Congratulations! You've been working so hard for it. When do classes start

TINA： Freshman orientation is the last week of __3___, but I want to go two weeks before that to get settled in .

LIU HUI： You are great! I guess you will have many things to do before you leave.

TINA： Yes, I'll be very busy. I have to get a __4___, buy a plane ticket and pack my things, but first I want to register for classes.

LIU HUI： Congratulations again. I believe you will have a___5__ experience at Yale.

hing about the victory celebrations in the small town where I lived. We had not suffered much from the war there, though like most children of my age, I was used to see-ing bombed houses in the streets and the enormous army lorries passing through. But both at home and at school I had become accustomed to the phrases "before the war" and "when the war's over." "Before the war," apparently, things had been better, though I was too young to understand why, except there had been no bombs then, and people had eaten things like ice cream and bananas, which I had only heard of. When the war was over, we would go back to London, but this meant very little to me. I did not remember what Lon-don was like.

What I remember now about VE Day was the afternoon and the evening. It was a fine May day. I remember coming home at about five o'clock. My father and mother came in about an hour later. After dinner I said I wanted to see the bonfire (篝火), so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street. The bonfire was very high, and some peo-ple had collected some old clothes to dress the unmistakable figure with the moustache (小胡子) they had put on top of it. Just as we arrived, they set light to it. The flames rose and soon covered the "guy." Everyone was cheering and shouting, and an old woman came out of her house with two chairs and threw them on the fire to keep the fire going.

I stood beside my father until the fire started to go down, not knowing what to say. He said nothing either. He had fought in the First World War and may have been remem-bering the end of that. At last he said, "Well, that's it, son. Let's hope that this time it really will be the last one. "

Where did the narrator live before the Second World War？

A．In a small city.

B．In London.

C．In Europe.

D．In the countryside.

完形填空A French student went to London for his holiday. He thought, “I know a little English. I think people can understand me!”One day he went to a restaurant and sat down__1__the table. He wanted to__2__ a cup of tea and some eggs. Soon the waiter came up to him and asked. “Can I help you？”“A cup of tea and ... ”He could not remember the English word for eggs. He looked around

But__3__was eating eggs. Then he saw a picture-book on the table next to him. There was a picture of a cock on its cover(封面). He showed the picture to the waiter.

“What’s the English word for this？”he asked. “A cock.”answered the waiter. “What do you call a cock’s wife？”he asked again.“A hen.”“And what do you call a hen’s children？ ” “Chicks.”“And what do you call chicks__4__they are born？”“Eggs!”“Very well.”said the French student happily.“Bring me two eggs and a cup of tea,please.”Then he sat down__5__a smile on his face.

1.A. with B. before C. nobody D. have E. at

2.A. with B. before C. nobody D. have E. at

3.A. with B. before C. nobody D. have E. at

4.A. with B. before C. nobody D. have E. at

5.A. with B. before C. nobody D. have E. at

al. I think that you might be interested if I told you some of them.

The world I entered at the age of eighteen when I became a medical student was a world that knew nothing of such advanced things as planes, films, radios or telephones. It was a very cheap world. Prices were stable. When I entered St. Thomas' hospital I rent a set of rooms in Vincent Square for which I paid 18 shillings a week. My landlady provided me with a very good breakfast before I went to the hospital and a dinner when I came back at half past six. I only had to pay for the breakfasts and dinners twelve shillings a week. For four-pence I lunched at St. Thomas' on bread and butter and a glass of milk. I could be able to live very well, pay my fees, buy my necessary instruments, clothe myself, and have a lot of fun on fourteen pounds a month. And I could always pawn (当掉) my microscope for three pounds.

I spent five years at St. Thomas' hospital. I was a bad student, for my heart, as you might have guessed, was not in it. I wanted, I had always wanted to be a writer, and in the evenings, after my dinner, I wrote and read. Before long, I wrote a novel called "Liza of Lambeth" , which I sent to a publisher and was accepted. It came out during my last year at the hospital and it was successful. It was of course an accident, but I didn't know that. I felt I could afford to give up medicine and make writing my profession; so, three days after I graduated from the school of medicine, I left for Spain to write another book. I did not realize, at that time, that I was taking a great risk.

The text is a talk given by the author when______.

A．he was 18

B．his first novel was published

C．he graduated from the school of medicine

D．he was at an advanced age