All the girls swam in the lake except two, who _____ halfway.

A. gave off     B. gave up  C. gave away    D. gave out

I ____ to go for a walk, but someone called and I couldn’t get away.

A、was planning B、planned  C、had planned  D、would plan

　　Sociologists（社会学家）, working in western countries, have found that a large number of women wished they had been born men. The number is said to be as high as 60％ in Germany.

　　"Women often wish they had the same chances as men have, and think it is still men's world. " said Dr. James Helen, one of the sociologists who did the study.

　　Many men say that they have more duties than women. A man has to make money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for men to be paid more. Some are even against their wives working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children cannot be taken good care of. If women take full-time jobs, they won't be able to do what they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing up the children.

　　Some women disagree. They say they want to get out of their homes and to have freedom to choose between work and home life. Women have the right of equal pay and equal chances.

　　Anne Harper has a very good job. She also believes in "Women's Liberation", "I don't wish I were a man," she says, "and I don't think many women do. But I do wish people would stop treating us like second-class people. At work, for example, we usually do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs only to men—usually they are the best ones. If you are a man, you have a much better chance of living a wonderful life. How many women scientists are there…or engineers?"

Many men think ______.

　　　　A. women can't do what men can

　　　　B. men have to work much harder than women

　　　　C. men can make money more easily than women

　　　　D. women's duty is mainly to do housework at home

　Some women have different ideas. They say that ______.

　　　　A. women need chances to go out of the home more often

　　　　B. women want more freedom in deciding the kind of life they want

　　　　C. if women are given equal pay, they can do everything instead of men

　　　　D. women are no longer interested in taking care of their homes

　　　Anne Harper thought that ______.

　　　　A. women should live a better life than men

　　　　B. women should be really liberated

　　　　C. women should be given better jobs than men

　　　　D. women should live a more wonderful life than men

When he knocked at the door, my mother was busy ____ supper.

A. preparing for                                   B. in preparing

C. to prepare for                                 D. to prepare

I ____ my father ____ and he did so.

A. advised; to stop smoking      B. tried to persuade; to give off smoking

C. persuaded; to give up smoking   D. suggested; to stop to smoke.

____person like him won’t be satisfied with ____ little progress that he has made.

   A. The; a      B. The; /        C. A; /        D. A; the

It was _____ great shock to the world that two airplanes crashed into _____ World Trade Centre in New York on Sept．11．

A．a；／                          B．the；the          

C．a；the                         D．／；the

I lost my way in complete darkness and, ____ matters worse, it began to rain.

     A. making         B. to make       C. made       D. having made

It has been ten years since the Labour Party came into ____ in that country.

     A. control       B. force        C. power       D. charge

Although we hadn’t met for twenty years, I recognized him ____ I saw him.

     A. the moment     B. one moment 

   C. by the moment  D. for the moment