The top executives were accused of tel...

单项选择题The top executives were accused of telling half-truths and even ______ lies about the company’s financial conditions.

A. down-to-earth
B. upright
C. downright
D. actual

1.单项选择题Pioneer men and women endured terrible hardships, and （）.

A. neither did the children
B. so do their children
C. also the children
D. so did their children

2.单项选择题A ______ surgeon can be as dangerous as a recruit with a gun who does not know how to handle.

A. professional
B. negligent
C. competent
D. mellow

3.单项选择题Mrs. Brown is supposed ______ for Italy last week.

A. to leave
B. to be leaving
C. to have left
D. to have been left

4.单项选择题Legislation has been developed throughout the 20th century, attempting to protect employees from （）dismissal by their employers.

A. uhrecognizable
B. undeniable
C. unreachable
D. unjustifiable

5.单项选择题I would have come to see you had it been possible, but I （） so busy then.

A. had been
B. was
C. were
D. would be

6.单项选择题The contract between the companies will ______ at the end of the year.

A. expire
B. exceed
C. terminate
D. cease

7.单项选择题Her knowledge and experience would make her a(n) ______ asset to the team.

A. worthless
B. priceless
C. valueless
D. inexpensive

8.单项选择题Centuries of wind and rain had worn away the ______ on the gravestones.

A. descriptions
B. prescriptions
C. inscriptions
D. conscriptions

9.单项选择题Britain’s Channel Four television sent him to New York to do a(n) （） interview for its "The World" programme.

A. alive
B. lively
C. live
D. alive

10.单项选择题I spent most of my money in the first week and ______ had very little to eat during the last few days of the holiday.

A. after all
B. consequently
C. otherwise
D. anyhow