Quiz Wednesday December 10, 2014 1. Listening It is reported that almost _______ people in China have died of AIDSrelated illnesses in the past 10 months. The figure shows a (an) _________ tendency趋势. 2. Sentence structure But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the hit-andmiss (时好时坏的,粗制滥造的、一般的) pineapples we had known. Q: what’s the subject of the main clause? 3. Joseph _____ to evening classes since last month, but he still can’t say “What’s your name?” in Russian. A. has been going B. went C. goes D. had gone 4.Correction 1)The higher the ground is, the thin air becomes. 2)They almost had no trouble to move the sharks into their new home. 5. 学生们一到学校,我们就出发去纪念堂了。 6.New words: 2. But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the hit-and-miss pineapples we had known.(S) 3. Joseph _____ to evening classes since last month, but he still can’t say “What’s your name?” in Russian. A. has been going B. went C. goes D. had gone 4.The higher the ground is, the thin air becomes. They almost had no trouble to move thinner the sharks into their new home. 5. 学生们一到学校,我们就出发去纪念堂了。moving We set off for the momument the instant/the moment/as soon as the students arrived at the school. 1. Listening It is reported that almost _______ 18,000 people in China have died of AIDSrelated illnesses in the past 10 months. The figure shows a (an) increasing _________ tendency. Nearly 18-THOUSAND AIDSrelated deaths are said to have been reported in China during the first 10 months of this year. According to the Ministry of Health, these latest figures which represent a year-on-year increase of 8.6 percent, mean there were over 34-THOUSAND AIDS patients in the country during the ten-month period.