2000年12月

1. It is important that the hotel receptionist         that guests are registered correctly.

A)make sure     B)has made sure        C)made sure        D)must make sure

2. I suggested he should          himself to new conditions.

A)adopt          B)regulate            C)suit             D)adapt

3. I’ll never forget            you for the first time.

A)to meet         B)to have met                 C)meeting              D)having to be meeting

4. Cancellation of the flight         many passengers to spend the night at the airport.

A)obliged              B)demanded          C)resulted               D)recommended

5. That young  man still denies          the fire behind the store.

A)to start              B)having started        C)start                  D)to have started

6.        in a recent science competition, the three students were awarded scholarships totaling $21,000.

A)To be judged the best                       B)Having judged the best  

C)Judged the best                            D)Judging the best

7. Without proper lessons, you could         a lot of bad habits when playing the piano.

A)keep up          B)catch up                   C)pick up                     D)draw up

8. Everything we eat and drink contains some salt; we can meet the body’s need for it from natural sources without turning            the salt bottle.

    A)to                      B)over                          C)on                     D)up

9. He always did well at school         having to do part-time jobs every now and then.

    A)in case of           B)in spite  of               C)regardless of      D)on account of

10.          receiving financial support from family, community or the government is allowed, it is never admired.

  A)Once                 B)Lest                          C)As                     D)Although

11. All the key words in the article are printed in       type so as to attract readers’ attention.     A)dark                      B)bold                         C)dense                 D)black

12. The basic features of the communication process are identified in one question: who says ______through what channel to whom?

    A)what                   B)when                        C)how           D)such

13. I didn’t         to take a taxi but I had to as I was late.

A)mean                  B)assume                     C)hope                  D)suppose

14. The hours       the children spend in their one-way relationship with television people undoubtedly affect their relationships with real-life people

A)when                 B)on which          C)that                    D)in which

15. I’d rather have a room of my own, however small it is, than       a room with someone else.

A)to share                     B)to have shared           C)share                 D)sharing

16. In Disneyland, every year, some 800,000 plants are replaced because Disney refused to ______signs asking his “guests” not to step on them.

A)put off               B)put down                  C)put out               D)put up

17.          difficulties we may come across, we’ll help one another to overcome them.

A)However            B)Whenever                  C)Wherever           D)Whatever

18. So many directors         , the board meeting had to be put off.

 A)were absent         B)being absent              C)been absent        D)had been absent

19. On New Year’s Eve, New York City holds an outdoor       which attracts a crowd of a million or more people.

   A) affair                  B) incident           C) case          D) event

20. American football and baseball are becoming known to the British public through televised             from the United States.

    A) deliveries           B) transmissions            C) transfer             D) transportation

21. He will surely finish the job on time          he' s left to do it in his own way.

   A) in that                 B) in case                            C) as far as            D) so long as

22. If this kind of fish becomes          , future generations may never taste it at all.

   A) scarce                B) minimum         C) short                  D) seldom

23. The bank is reported in the local newspaper            in broad daylight yesterday.

    A) robbed                                  B) to have been robbed

       C) being robbed                     D) having been robbed

24. Agriculture was a step in human progress          which subsequently there was not anything comparable until our own machine age.

    A) to                     B) in                            C) for           D) from

25. The same factors push wages and prices up together, the one           the other.

    A) increasing         B) emphasizing              C) reinforcing        D) multiplying

26. No one had told Smith about          a lecture the following day.

    A) there be            B) there would be          C) there was          D) there being

27. Operations which left patients          and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable.

    A) injured              B) exhausted                 C) deserted            D) abandoned

28. I was halfway back to the cottage where my mother lived          Susan caught up with me.

    A) though             B) until                         C) when                D) while

29. ______the temperature falling so rapidly, we couldn't go on with the experiment.

    A) With                 B) For                          C) As           D) Since

30. The bed has been            in the family. It was my great-grandmother's originally.

    A) handed out       B) handed round            C) handed over      D) handed down