4.我昨晚本来可以和你一起去。(could)

I with you last night.

5.房前站着一位妇女,她正在打电话。(完全倒装)

a lady who is on the telephone.

答案1.won't be;before　2.was about to give up when　3.Whatever the reason is　4.could have gone　5.In front of the house stands

第二节 阅读理解

　　If you've ever had to chop an onion, you probably know that it's one of the most annoying cooking experiences. It just fills your eyes with tears. Scientists and farmers have been working on a solution to this problem for decades, and they've apparently come up with a tearless onion.

　　Called the "Sunion", this new vegetable is the result of a natural cross-breeding program that's been going on farms in Nevada and Washington since the 1980s. It's supposedly a sweet, mild-tasting onion that doesn't leave that strong, pungent aftertaste, but what really sets it apart from most other onion varieties is that it doesn't cause teary eyes when it's chopped.

　　When you cut into a normal onion, it releases a compound called lachrymatory-factor synthase, and when that hits your eyes, your body produces tears. Now, the interesting thing about regular onions is that the amounts of lachrymatory-factor synthase increase the longer the vegetables are stored, so the older they are, the more you will cry. In Sunions, on the other hand, the levels of that annoying compound drop as time goes by, until it no longer has any effect on your eyes when you cut it.

　　That's what Sunion growers are claiming anyway, but reports from those lucky enough to have tried them seem to confirm these claims. The Huffington Post had three of its reporters chop some Sunions, and apparently, none of them shed a single tear. According to the Washington Post, they don't have the pungency of regular onions and are so sweet that you can eat them "like popcorn".

So the good news is that tearless onions are now a real thing. The bad news is that they are currently only grown in Washington and Nevada, and even though they