He said the eighteenth and last lesson () quite easy.

A.is

B.was

C.are

D.were

“But, Dad,”said Tom,“I can only see one light at the end of the bar.”

20、Young people ______ allowed to drink in a bar until eighteen()

A.is not

B.are not

C.many

D.must

21、When Tom was a child, his father often went to a nearby bar______ taking him()

A.by

B.for

C.with

D.without

22、On Tom’s eighteenth birthday, he drank together with his father in that bar for ______()

A.the first time

B.once

C.many times

D.eighteen times

23、Father wanted to tell his son ______()

A.the time to drink

B.something about the light

C.when to stop drinking

D.something about the bar

24、In fact (事实上), there ______ at the end of the bar

A.was one light

B.were two lights

C.were three lights

D.were four lights

After a long journey from Quebec，Canada in l896，1 was finally in a small office in Kingston，Jamaica.Behind a long table piled with books and papers sat an old man，Mr.Campbell，my new employer and the owner of The Lantern. He stared at me so long，and with such an expression of amazement，that I became uneasy and embarrassed.And then at last a single sentence came from his lips, “My God!” It seems that he had expected a woman of the then approved type of bluestocking(女知识分子)，and now a baby had been dropped into his lap!

I sat alone with that old man who stared at me as if l were some person of a strange nature.After he had almost stared me down，he began to ask me questions.

“How old are you？”

“Seventeen.I mean—I’m going on eighteen.”Eighteen was，in fact，eleven months off.

‘‘Have you ever worked before？’’

“I’ve written things.’’

After a silent moment，during which he glared at me more angrily than ever, he demanded：

“What have you written？”

“Poetry, ” I said, and stopped because he said again in that lost voice，‘‘My God!”

“What else？”

“I had a story published in The Star,” I said. “I’ve got it here, if you’d like to see it.”

He made a motion of definite disagreement.

“I taught myself shorthand，’’I said，‘‘and I can take dictation as fast as you can talk.”

“Not a bad idea.” And then he added，“What do you think you are going to do here？”

“Write for your paper，”I said.

“What？”he inquired curiously.

“Why-anything-poetry-”

He waved his hand in such a dismissing manner that I got up, though it was my poetry, not I, he wished to be rid of just then. I went neaner to him and said, “I know you don’t want me an I don’t want to stay. I am dory I came.”

“What about the money I paid for you to came here？”he shouted. “I’m going to lose that？”

21.Mr.Campbell had expected_____.

A.an experienced nurse

B.all experienced journalist

C.a journalist with a baby

D.a young female secretary

22.The girl tried to impress the owner of the paper with_____.

A.her experience

B.her innocence

C.a younger age

D.an older age

23.Mr.Campbell showed some interest in the girl’s ability to_____.

A.compose poems

B.write stories

C.take dictation

D.travel alone

24.Based on the information provided in the passage，Mr.Campbell would probably _____.

A.give the girl the position

B.send the girl back to America

C.ask the girl to show him her poems

D.publish the girl’s poems and stones

25.On the whole，Mr.Campbell was_____.

A.pleased with his new employee

B.amazed by the girl’s literary talent

C.dissatisfied with the girl’s experience

D.angry with the rude manner of the girl

"One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top to prepare it to receive the head. To make the head requires two or three distinct operations. To put it on is a separate operation, to polish the pins is another. And the important business of making pins is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform. two or three of them."

Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4 800 pins a piece. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor, they certainly could not turn out any pin, each of them have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one.

There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this but he also took it for granted that division of labor is in itself responsible for economic growth and development and that it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. But division of labor adds nothing new; it only enables people to produce, more of what they already have.

According to the passage, Adam Smith was the first person to______.

A．take advantage of the division of labor

B．explain the causes of the division of labor

C．understand the effects of the division of labor

D．introduce the division of labor into England

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Once the French ambassador (大使 ) in Rome was giving a ball (舞会 ) to which many important people were invited. The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs(外交部长 ) came very late. A young lady, who was well acquainted with him, saw him enter the ball-room(舞厅 ) and asked why he was so late.

“You see,” said the Minister, “there has been a little accident at the King’s palace.”

The curious young lady asked the Minister to tell her what had happened at the King’s palace.

“Oh, nothing important,” answered the Minister. “The ambassador of Brail (巴西 ), who was to be presented to the King, forgot to take his credentials(外交使节所递的国书 ) with him and was obliged to go back to his hotel to bring them. If he had left them in Brail we should have had to wait at least six months for them.”

“Is Brail so far from Rome ？” asked the lady, who knew very little geography.

“It is in the New World ,” said the Minister.

“In the New World ？” repeated the lady in great astonishment.

“Yes, in the New World,” answered the Minister in a sarcastic(讽刺的 ) tone, “which was discovered by Christopher Columbus(哥伦布 ).”

When the young lady heard this, she rushed into the middle of the ball-room and shouted as loud as she could:

“Ladies and gentlemen, have you heard the latest news？ A new world has just been discovered by a certain Christopher Columbus.”

6.The Italian foreign minister came to the hall very late because _______.

a. someone was hurt in the King’s palace

b.he had had something to do at home

c. he was reluctant to come to the hall

d. he was delayed by a little accident

7. What happened at the King’s palace？

a. The ambassador left his credentials in Brail.

b. The King was late; the Brazilian ambassador had to wait for him.

c. For some reason the ambassador had to go back to Brail.

d. The Brazilian ambassador forgot to take his credentials with him.

8. Where did the ambassador leave his credentials？

a. In his office

b. In Rome

c. In the hotel

d. In Brail

9. The reason why the young lady shouted her announcement was that ________.

a. she was the hostess of the ball

b. she was well acquainted with the Minister

c. she had never heard about Columbus

d. she wanted to broadcast the surprising news

10. Her announcement showed she was ____________.

a. clever

b. thoughtless

c. knowledgeable

d. Ignorant

The research compared results of the crushed-body treatment with results of immunotherapy that used insect venom and also with results of a placebo. After six to ten weeks of immunization, allergic reactions to stings occurred in seven of twelve patients treated with the placebo, seven of twelve treated with crushed body extract, and one of eighteen treated with the venom.

The word "fatal" in paragraph 1, sentence 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

A．harmful

B．lethal

C．painful

D．disease-causing

A. He is said that

B. People said that he

C. It was said he

D. It is said that he

He said he ______ (go to college)the next year.