The hostess __ the maid __ the table for dinner while we arrived after a three-hour drive from the town.
A．told, to make
B．was telling, to do
C．told, to lay
D．was telling, to set
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Which of the following statements about small business is not true？
A．It helps effectively t9 fight unemployment.
B．The earlier it starts, the sooner it collapses.
C．There's a good omen for small business according to a survey.
D．Small businesses hire more workers than big businesses between now and the year 2000. -
Before she could shout "look __ "to the old man, he was run by a car coining from his left.
A．back, on
B．out, over
C．up, down
D．ahead, at -
What Makes a "Millennial Mind"？
（1) Since 1000 AD, around 30 billion people have been born on our planet. The vast majority have come and gone unknown to all but their friends and family. A few have left some trace on history: a discovery made, perhaps, or a record broken. Of those, fewer still are remembered long after their death. Yet of all the people who have lived their lives during the last 1000 years, just 38 have achieved the status of "Millennial Minds" that's barely one in a billion. Those whose lives Focus has chronicled have thus become members of possibly the most exclusive list of all time. And choosing who should be included was not easy.
（2) From the beginning, the single most important criterion was that the "Millennial Minds" are those who did more than merely achieve greatness in their own time, or in one field. Thus mere winners of Nobel Prizes had no automatic right to inclusion, nor artists who gained fame in their own era, but whose reputation has faded with changing fashion. The achievements of the genuine "Millennial Mind" affect our lives even. now, often in ways so fundamental that it is hard to imagine what the world was like before.
（3) Not even transcendent genius was enough to guarantee a place in the Focus list. To rate as a "Millennial Mind", the life and achievements also had to cast light on the complex nature of creativity: its origins, nature and its personal cost.
The first paragraph tells us that ______.
A．Focus had a list of "Millennial Minds" worked out in secret
B．Focus had compiled a biographical book of the lives of "Millennial Minds"
C．Focus's list of the "Millennial Minds" consists of a strictly selected few
D．Focus tried hard to exclude most of the famous lives from the list of the "Millennial Minds" -
I tried very hard to persuade him to join our groups but I met with flat ______.
A．disapproval
B．rejection
C．refusal
D．decline -
Glass
（1)Since the Bronze Age, about 3000 B. C, glass has been used for making various kinds of objects. It was first made from a mixture of silica, lime, and an alkali such as soda or potash, and these remained the basic ingredients of glass until the development of lead glass in the seventeenth century.
（2) When heated the mixture becomes soft and moldable and can be formed by various techniques into a vast array of shapes and sizes. The homogeneous mass thus formed by melting then cools to create glass, but in contrast to most materials formed in this way （metals, for instance), glass lacks the crystalline structure normally associated with solids, and instead retains the random molecular structure of a liquid. In effect, as molten glass cools, it progressively stiffens until rigid, but does so without setting up a network of interlocking crystals customarily associated with that process. This is why glass shatters so easily when dealt a blow.
（3) Another unusual feature of glass is the manner in which its viscosity changes as it turns from a cold substance into a hot, ductile liquid. Unlike metals that flow or "freeze" at specific temperatures, glass progressively softens as the temperature rises, going through varying moldable stages until it flows like a thick syrup. Each of these stages allows the glass to be manipulated into various forms, by different techniques, and if suddenly cooled the object retains the shape achieved at that point. Glass is thus open to a greater number of heat-forming techniques than most other materials.
According to the passage glass cools and becomes rigid differently from metals because ______.
A．it has an unusually low melting temperature
B．it does not set up a network of interlocking crystals
C．it has a random molecular structure of a liquid
D．it is made from a mixture of silica, lime, and soda