一、单项选择

1. Pay attention to______ road sign while driving in ______ foreign country.

A. a; a B. the; the

C. the; a D. a; the

2. We grow all our fruit and vegetables; ______ saves money, of course.

A. which B. as

C. that D. what

3.--It's said that “Traffic” is an exciting film.

--I _____ it yet. I hope to see it soon.

A. didn't see B. hadn't seen

C. don’t see D. haven’t seen

4. He will stop showing off, if no notice _____ of him.

A. is taken B. will be taken

C. takes D. has taken

5. She is always ready to help people in trouble became she thinks it a ______.

A. decision B. chance

C. pride D. pleasure

6.--Would you mind if I used your telephone?

--________ .

A. Yes, do please B. Go ahead

C. Of course D. All fight

7.--Victor looks unhappy.

--Yes. He always _____our success.

A. cheers B. envies

C. admires D. stops

8. This is an illness that can result is total blindness ______ left untreated

A. after B. if

C. since D. unless

9. --What did you say?

--So you _____ to me.

A. won’t listen B. weren't listening

C, didn’t’ listen D. haven’t listened

10. Free medical treatment in this country covers sickness of mind as well as sickness.

A. normal B. average

C. regular D. ordinary

11. What way are you thinking of rid of the flies?

A. to get B. getting

C. being got D. to be getting

12. Be tough-minded, but tender-hearted, ______?

A. MI1 you B. isn't it

C. aren’t you D. are you

13. Her face gave her when she told a lie.

A. off B. away

C. up D. out

14.--Shall I make you _____ to eat?

--Oh, yes, please. I've had hardly ______all day.

A. something; nothing B. anything; something

C. something; anything D. anything; nothing

15. I’ve decided to take the job and I ______ change my mind

A. mustn’t B. can’t

C. won’t D. may not

二、完型填空

Last week I was watching the evening news on TV. The news was about a prize for some scientific 1 ; I forgot what it was. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Stor, 2 something that caught my 3 . "All great discoveries," He said, "are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and 4 .”Being a little over thirty myself I more or less disagreed with him. 5 wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours 6 the ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.

　　First I looked at some of the 7 discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different 8 fall at the same speed, was 9 by Galileo when he was twenty-six. Madame Curie started her research that 10 to a Nobel Prize when she was twenty-eight. Einstein was twenty-six 11 he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, 12 of that. 13 I wondered if those "best years" were true in other 14 .