of the land in that district          covered with trees and grass.

Everybody showed great respect to the old doctor, who devoted everything he had to __________ the poor conditions of the local hospital.

I regret _____ you that my sister regretted _____ out with you. You are not the kind of person she wants.

A. telling; going     C. to tell; to go         C. telling; to go            D. to tell; going

Professor Li, do you like Ewa and can you make a(n)_______ on her new movie?

When I said that some people are stupid I was not _______ you.

Do you know that _______ with wise men improves your mind?

You’d better go there by train.The train ticket is________the airplane ticket.

There was a________look on his face when he met with the________problem.

We arrived in Spain for the first time a few weeks ago. I decided to   31  a car because we had sold the one we had in England before   32  home. Yesterday the sales office rang us to say the car was   33  . I had tried out a model like it before, but as I was not yet   34    driving in this city, my wife did not want me to collect it   35  so we went together to   36    it. We paid for the car and     37  the papers. They told us that there was   38  petrol（汽油）to take us to a garage, where we could fill up. The   39  garage to the office was about 100 yards away and we got there   40  .But when I turned into the main road I suddenly saw a lot of cars racing  41  me. I got out of   42    as fast as I could by backing into the garage   43    and the man behind  44  me.

"It’s such a problem to   45    to drive on the right side, isn’t it?" my wife said. "Yes, if only I had had a few lessons for   46    ," I replied. "You had better go   47    on the way home," my wife said. "You' d be sorry if you had   48    on the first day, wouldn' t you?" While we were talking, the man behind got out of his car and said in good English," Would you mind tell­ing me   49  you are thinking of leaving?   50    are you going to sit in your car all day?"

Having a husband means an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, getting married saves an hour of housework a week. “It’s a well-known pattern,” said lead researcher Frank Stafford at University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. “Men usually work more outside the home, while women take on more of the housework.”

He points out that differences among households (家庭) exist. But in general, marriage means more housework for women and less for men. “And the situation gets worse for women when they have children.” Stafford said.

Overall, times are changing in the American home. In 1976, women busied themselves with 26 weekly hours of sweeping-and-dusting work, compared with 17 hours in 2005. Men are taking on more housework, more than doubling their housework hours from six in 1976 to 13 in 2005.

Single women in their 20s and 30s did the least housework, about 12 weekly hours, while married women in their 60s and 70s did the most – about 21 hours a week.

Men showed a somewhat different pattern, with older men picking up the broom more often than younger men. Single men worked the hardest around the house, more than that of all other age groups of married men.

Having children increases housework even further. With more than three, for example, wives took on more of the extra work, clocking about 28 hours a week compared with husbands’ 10 hours.

1.According to the “well-known pattern” in Paragraph 1, a married man ________.

2.How many hours of housework did men do every week in the 1970s?

3.What kind of man is doing most housework according to the text?

4.What can we conclude from Stafford’s research?