现在英语水平的高低很大程度上决定着毕业生是否能找到一份高薪的工作，为帮助大学生更好地学习英语，特提供以下资料：
1. The bank is reported in the local newspaper____in broad daylight yesterday
A. to be robbed
B. robbed
C. to have been robbed
D. having been robbed
2.____before, his first performance for the amateur dramatic group was a success.
A. Though having never acted
B. As he had never acted
C. Despite he had never acted
D. In spite of his never having acted
3. By the middle of the 21st century, the vast majority of the world’s population____in cities rather than in the country.
A. are living
B. will be living
C. have lived
D. will have lived
4. Mr. Milton prefers to resign____part in such dishonest business deals.
A. than take
B. than to take
C. rather than take
D. rather than to take
5. No one would have time to read or listen to an account of everything____going on in the world.
A. it is
B. as is
C. there is
D. what is
谜底：
1. C) 据当地报纸报道，那家银行昨天在青天白日下遭到抢劫。
动词不定式的完成式做主语的补足语，声名不定式的行为发生在谓语动作之前。
2. D) 虽然他以前从未表演过，但他为业余剧团做的初度表演仍是很成功。
in spite of意为“尽管，虽然”，后接名词或名词性短语，指导出来状语。选项A没有主语或逻辑主语，选项B)是原因状语从句，选项C)的despite不能指导状语从句，因为它是介词。
3. B) 到二十一世纪中叶，世界上大大都进口将糊口在城市而不是农村。
因为时刻状语by the middle of the 21st century指的是未来，所以选未来进行时。
4. C) 米尔师长教师甘愿告退也不加入这种不老实的商业生意。
prefer意为“甘愿”，厥后接名词或动词不定式;prefer to do sth. rather than do sth.意为“甘愿…而不愿…”，rather than后接不带to的不定式。
5. C) 巨匠都没有时刻去读或去听有关世界上正在发生的一切事务的描述。
在以there be为谓语动辞书定语从句中，如关系代词作主语，则关系代词便可省略。