___ great the demand to succeed, one should never abandon his moral and social consciousness.
A．Now that
B．As if
C．Although
D．However
答案：D
题目分析：句意：无论对成功的要求有多迫切，人也永远不能丢弃他的道德和社会公德。Now that既然；As if好像；Although虽然，即使；However无论如何后面可以加形容词引导让步状语从句。故选D。
考点: 考查状语从句的连接词的用法。
| 完形填空。 | ||||
| Bill Gates 1 on October 28th, 1955. He 2 in Seattle, Washington. His favorite subjects at school were science and math. 3 he was 13 years old, Bill started to play with computers. Computers at that time 4 very large, but he was interested 5 them. He 6 lots of time doing unusual things with computers. In the end, he and some of his friends worked out a software program (软件程序) with an old computer. He 7 it for ＄4,200 dollars. In 1973, Bill 8 Harvard University (哈佛大学). He left there in the third year to work for a company called Microsoft. In 1975 Bill began his company 9 his friend Paul Allen. They developed software for personal computers. They improved (改进) the software to make it 10 for people to use computers. | ||||
|