Which of the following indicates a more polite request or invitation?
A. Come around ↗ tonight.
B. Come around ↘ tonight.
C. Come aroundtonight.
D. Come aroundtonight.
Which indefinite article "a" should he read emphatically in the following sentences?
A. He is a handsome boy, but not smart.
B. He is not a suspect, he is the suspect.
C. He bought a cartoon book for his son.
D. He is talking with a middle-aged man.
He said he’d phone you ( )he got home.
A. the moment
B. the moment when
C. at the moment
D. at the moment when
With the villager ( )the way, we had no trouble ( )the cottage.
A. to lead; finding
B. to lead; to find
C. leading; to find
D. leading; finding
We have no trust in him because he has never ( )the grandiose promises he makes.
A. delivered on
B. eaten off
C. forgotten about
D. abided by
It was such a(n) ( )when they met each other in Beijing because each thought that the other was still in Hong Kong.
A. occurrence
B. chance
C. coincidence
D. occasion
Which of the following tasks fails to develop student’s skill of recognizing discourse patterns?
A. Analyzing the structure of difficult sentences.
B. Checking the logic of the author’s arguments.
C. Getting the scrambled sentences into a paragraph.
D. Marking out common openers to stories and jokes.
When students are asked to go to the local museum,libraries,etc.to find out information about endangered animals and work out a plan for an exhibition,they are doing a(n) ( ).
A. survey
B. experiment
C. project
D. presentation