—Are you pleased with what he has done?

—Not at all. It couldn’t be _______. Why didn’t he put more effort into his work?

A. any worse            B. much better             C. so bad                 D. the best

-- Why didn’t you go to Mike’s birthday party yesterday?

-- Well, I _____, but I forgot it.

A．should            B．would            C．should have        D．must have

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take place, as for, keep one’s word, account for, take a chance, in time, now that, have a gift for, break out, settle down, after all, rather than

1. You can rely on him. He always _____________.

2. You are late again. How do you ___________ that this time?

3._______ you are busy, let me do it for you.

4. Don’t give up halfway, Andy. You’ll succeed ________ if you keep on working like this.

5. We will ___________ with the weather and go for a picnic.

6. It was almost midnight that a fire ______in the neighborhood.

7. Don’t move any more; in my opinion, you must______________ to live a stable life.

8. Why didn’t you ask for help, ______ try to do it on your own?

9. He should have offered to pay ---- he has plenty of money, ______.

10. They serve well in this restaurant. __________dishes, they taste terrible.

Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner did now know what to do. The food in his restaurant was cheap and good. But nobody seemed to want to eat there.

Then he did something that changed all that, and in a few weeks his restaurant was always full of men with their lady friends. Whenever a gentleman came in with a lady, a smiling waiter gave each of them a beautiful menu. The menu looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter gave to the man gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine, while the menu that he gave to the lady gave a much higher price. So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was.

Why didn’t people come to the White Rose Restaurant to eat first?

       A．Because the price was high.    B．Because the food was too cheap.

       C．Because the food was not good.     D．The passage didn’t mention.

According to the passage we can conclude that the people who eat at this restaurant are mostly

            .

       A．poor old people              B．rich young people

       C．men with their girl friends      D．parents with their children

According to the passage we can infer that when men with their girl friends eat at this restaurant, the food was paid          .

       A．always by the ladies only B．always by the men only

       C．sometimes by the ladies   D．either by the men or by the ladies

According to the passage we can know that, generally speaking,         .

       A．men are more generous than women

       B．women are more generous than men

       C．men like their lady friends to be generous.

       D．women like their men friends to be generous

—Why didn’t you tell him about the meeting?

—He rushed out of the room _____ I could say a word.

A. before            B. until                C. when           D. after