______, I didn’t know how to use the machine.
A. [A] At beginning
B. At first
C. At start
Many of you are studing English and you may be (41) why it is so difficult to learn. It’s actually not too difficult to learn (42) you know some (43) about the language and culture that it reflects (反映)。 Perhaps the first thing you need to know about English is that it is made up of several other languages (44) French, German, Latin, Greek and Angle Saxon. In addition (此外), there are words (45) Spanish and many American Indian words and names, even some Chinese and Japanese (46) can be found in the English language. This borrowing of words (47) other languages is (48) of the key reasons (49) some of the difficulties that people meet with (50) they are learning English.
A. [A] that [B] something [C] one
Nasreddin had a shed(棚子)behind his house. It had no lights in it. One night he went out to the shed to get his ladders(梯子)and lost his ring(戒指)there. He left the ladder, went out into the street and began to look around. One of his friends saw him in the street outside his house, and said to him, " Hello, Nasreddin, what are you looking for" "My ring , "answered Nasreddin. "It fell off my finger. It is a silver(银的)ring with a red stone in it." "Oh, yes. "said the friend. "I remember it. I will help you to look for it. Where did you lose it" "In my shed." "But why don’t you look for it there" "Don’t be foolish! It is quite dark in my shed, how can I find my ring there Here there is light from the lamps in the street.\ Nasreddin had lost his ______.
A. ring
B. silver
C. money
Passage 1 As Texas begins to recover from two weeks of devastating storms, a generally hidden truth about its economy will come to light again. Most of the builders and electricians who will have to repair the houses, remake the roads and re-establish the electrical power lines will have to take on undocumented workers in order to meet their contracts. In 1996 the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) conservatively estimated that Texas had over 600,000 undocumented immigrants doing the jobs no one else wants: hauling carcasses in packing plants, picking fruit, cleaning hotel rooms, or sorting out the unspeakable damage caused by natural disasters. Mention the issue of these workers to a Texan, and he is liable to fall uncharacteristically silent. Even state legislators avoid the issue. They know that many of their constituents employ undocumented workers. They also know that the booming Texas economy is driven in part by the ready supply of cheap, diligent, illegal labour. Dallas is one magnet for undocumented workers. The city’s politicians oppose INS crackdowns fearing they will damage the local economy and bankrupt small companies. Houston is another. There a dawn drive past some of the city’s 36 informal day-labour sites shows the size of the undocumented workforce. Young Mexicans wait on the pavement, ready to jump into the back of any pick-up truck that slows down to take them. Houston police estimate that over 150,000 labourers, about 85% of them undocumented, gather every day in search of a job. It is a testament to the vitality of the Texas economy that most of them get hired usually to mix cement and shift bricks. No questions are asked, no papers signed. Most workers do not even know their employer’s name. They are paid in cash, around 40 dollars a day while the average American earns more than twice as much. The illegal workers are ______.
A. hard-working but costly
B. lazy but cheap
C. hard-working and ambitious
D. hard-working and cheap