M: Could we have the bill, pleaseF: Of course. Here you are.M: Thanks. ... (Gulp) Oh, well, money is no object when it comes to birthdays!F: I agree-birthdays should be special.M: I’m glad you said that. Have I mentioned that it’s my birthday next week What can we infer from the conversation().
A. The meal is very expensive.
B. The man will invite the woman again next week.
C. The woman will pay the bill this time.
Sports and SexesIn sports the sexes are separate. (36) and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That (37) is (38) people say. Women are (39) "the weaker sex", or if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught (40) schools and universities. There are women (41) are famous prime ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. (42) European woman can expect (43) until the age of 74; a man only until he is 68. Are women’s bodies really weaker The fastest men can run a mile in (44) 4 minutes. The best women need 5 minutes. Women’s times are always slower than (45) , but some facts are a surprise. Some of the (46) women swimmers today are girls. One of them swam 400 metres (47) 4 minutes and 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tartan" in films was (48) Olympic swimmer, Jonny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes and 59.1 seconds, (49) is 37.9 seconds (50) than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are (51) men (52) . Conditions are very different now, and sport is much (53) serious. It is (54) serious that some women are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check (55) the women are really women or not. It seems like that sport has many problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes. 47().
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B. on
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When John Weston awoke that morning, he remembered that his mother was going into hospital. He hadn’t worked out what was wrong with her. He knew, though, she hadn’t been well for some time now, and it bad become familiar to him to see her eyes narrowed in a sudden attack of pain, and her hand pressing against her heart. Their own doctor, who she had finally gone to for advice, had sent her to a specialist who knew all about these things. He had told her that just as soon as there was a bed for her, she would have to come into his hospital where he could look after her himself.During the weeks since then the pains had come ever more frequently, and the narrowed eyes be came an almost lasting part of her expression. Always rather sharp, she began losing her temper over little things so that John’s father kept his thoughts to himself more and more. John, as ready as possible to make allowances (体谅), tried to think what it would be like to have toothache all the time and how bad-tempered that would make you.So his mother would go into hospital for a few days. He was going to stay with his Aunt Daisy till she came back, and his father would stay on at home by himself. John’s cousin, Mona, was to come in and make the bed and wash the pots and dust round, now and again. That was the arrangement, and John didn’t care much for it. Apart from missing his mother (and she was glad she was going away be cause they would make her better), he wasn’t very fond of his Aunt Daisy because she was even more bad-tempered than her mother. Mrs, Weston went to see her doctor ().
A. as soon as she realized that something was wrong
B. only after her husband advised her to
C. a long time after the trouble began
D. when John asked what was wrong with her
Many people like to decorate their houses at Christmas time. They decorate the inside of the house and the outside, too. Inside they usually decorate a Christmas tree and the fire-place, if there is one. Outside they place wreaths, ribbons, and colored lights on the door and windows. If there is a tree in front of their house, they place colored lights on it, too.In New York, there is a very tall, beautifully decorated Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center at Christmas time. In Washington, there is also a big decorated tree in front of the White House. People come from many cities to admire the trees and the gaily decorated shop windows on the principal avenues of large cities. Why do people come to big cities such as New York and Washington at Christmas time().
A. They come to admire the trees and the decorated shop windows in these cities.
B. They come to decorate a Christmas tree themselves.
C. They come to have a Christmas eve in the White House with the president.