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The dog's collar was so（）that it came off over his head.
A . loose
B . slight
C . broad
D . excessive
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Richard's news report covering the conference was so（）that nothing had been omitted.
A . comprehensive
B . integrated
C . redundant
D . productive
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The little boy was so fascinated by the mighty river that he would spend hours sitting on its bank and gazing at the passing boats and rafts.
A . very strong
B . very long
C . very great
D . very fast
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The price they offered for my old car was so low that I（）it down.
A、brought
B、turned
C、called
D、refused
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The boy was so interested in the radio that he took it to see how it runs.
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—He was born here. -- That is _______ he likes the place so much.
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It was so noisy outside that the speaker could hardly ________.
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I was so tired that I _____ when I was sitting in the armchair reading.
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The waitress was so __________ that Jane didn't tip her.
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The basketball game was so important that Mike wouldn’t miss it.
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One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you？"
"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a kindness. "He said," Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart. "As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but it also increased his faith in the human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.
Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called in to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down through the hospital hall into her room.
Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room and determined to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special attention to her case.
After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was positive that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words...
"Paid in full with a glass of milk."
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of joy flooded her eyes.
The boy tried to earn money to pay for ______.
A．traveling expenses to school
B．school tuition fee
C．his meals
D．a glass of milk
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The driver stopped his car so abruptly that he was hit by the cab behind him.
A．impolitely
B．violently
C．suddenly
D．maladroitly
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The problem was so complicated that Mr. Smith had to______his brains.
A．crack
B．check
C．rack
D．block
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The squirrel was so lucky that it just missed ___________.
A.catching
B.to catch
C.being caught
D.to be caught
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White people tend to be nervous of raising the subject of race and education, but are often voluble on the issue if a black person brings it up. So when Trevor Phillips, chair man of Britain's Commission for Racial Equality, said that there was a particular problem with black boys' performance at school, and that it might be a good idea to educate them apart from other pupils, there was a torrent of comment. Some of it commended his proposal, and some criticized it, but none of it questioned its premise. Everybody accepts that black boys are a problem.
On the face of it, it looks as though Mr. Phillips is right. Only 27% of Afro-Caribbean boys get five A-C grades at GCSE, the exams taken by 16-year-olds, compared with 47% of boys as a Whole and 44% of Afro-Caribbean girls. Since, in some subjects, candidates who score less than 50% get Cs, those who don't reach this threshold have picked up pretty little at school.
Mr. Phillips's suggestion that black boys should be taught separately implies that ethnicity and gender explain their underachievement. Certainly, maleness seems to be a disadvantage at school. That's true for all ethnic groups: 57% of girls as a whole get five A-Cs, compared with 47% of boys. But it's not so clear that blackness is at the root of the problem.
Among children as a whole, Afro-Caribbeans do indeed perform. badly. But Afro Caribbeans tend to be poor. So to get a better idea of whether race, rather than poverty, is the problem, one must control for economic status. The only way to do that, given the limits of British educational statistics, is to separate out the exam results of children who get free school meals: only the poor get free grub.
Poor children's results tell a rather different story. Afro-Caribbeans still do remark ably badly, but whites are at the bottom of the pile. All ethnic minority groups do better than them. Even Bangladeshis, a pretty deprived lot, do twice as well as the natives in their exams; Indians do better still. And absolute numbers of underperforming whites dwarf those of underperforming Afro-Caribbeans: last year, 131,393 of white boys failed to hit the government's benchmark, compared with 3,151 Afro-Caribbean boys.
These figures suggest that, at school at least, black people's problem is not so much race as poverty. And they undermine the idea of teaching black boys separately, for if poor whites are doing worse than poor blacks, there's not much argument for singling out blacks for special measures: whites need help just as badly.
According to the text, the public response to Mr. Philips' claim is
A．a nervous impression.
B．a mixed reception.
C．a particular performance.
D．a critical comment.
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The specialist was under so much stress that he finally______.
A．broke up
B．broke out
C．broke down
D．broke off
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The rain was so heavy that the man was wet to the skin; his whole body was______ and trembling.
A．stiff
B．straight
C．steady
D．hard
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The only thing that spoilt my joy a little was that I was so______to have anything typical of my country to wear at the dinner.
A．unfortunate as
B．unfortunate as not
C．unfortunate that
D．unfortunately that
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A little girl was given so many picture books on her seventh birthday that her father thought she should give one or two of her new books to a little neighbor boy named Robert.
(76) Now, taking books, or anything else, from a little girl is like taking candy from a baby. but the father of the little girl had his way and Robert got two of her books. "After all, that leaves you with nine," said the father, who was a philosopher and a child psychologist(心理学家), and couldn't shut his big stupid mouth on the subject.
A few weeks later, the father went to his library to look up "father" in the Oxford English Dictionary, to feast his eyes on(一饱眼福) the praise of fatherhood through the centuries, but hc couldn't find volume F-G and then he discovered that three others were missing, too: A-B, L-M, V-Z. He began to search his household, and learned what had happened to the four missing volumes.
"A man came to the door this morning," said the little daughter, "and he didn't know how to get from here to Torrington, or from Torrington to Winsted, and he was a nice man, much nicer than Robert, and so I gave him four of your books. After all, there are thirteen volumes in the Oxford English Dictionary, and that leaves you with nine."
How does the writer feel about taking picture books from a little girl？
A．This sort of thing is quite common.
B．It makes no difference to a child.
C．It's nothing to be surprised at.
D．It may hurt the girl's feelings.
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The boy, who was crying as if his heart would break, said, when I spoke to him, that
The boy, who was crying as if his heart would break, said, when I spoke to him, that he was very hungry, because he had had no food for two days.
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She was so stubborn that she never listens to the advice ______.
A.that I give it to her
B.which I give to her
C.what I give to her
D.I give it to her
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The tree was so beautiful that cars are stopping ___.A.to look
B.lool
C.looking
D.looked
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The movie was so exciting that it took my___away.
A．life
B．heart
C．breath
D．bread
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The question was so unexpected that, for a moment, Vivian was at a loss how to ____ to it.
A. answer
B. reply
C. turn
D. get
