Owing to a financial disagreement, the cooperation broke down and the two businessmen finally went their ______ ways.

The mother got a bit ________, for her daughter should have come back home from school.

—Are you satisfied with what he did?
—No. It couldn’t have been _____.

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节：语法和词汇知识（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Mr. Smith owns        collection of coins than anyone else I have ever met.
A．larger       B．a larger    C．the larger  D．a large

Say“Cheese”but keep_____while I take your photograph．

--- What do you think of the speech given by the CEO from Hong Kong?
--- Excellent, I have never heard ______________ one before.

Although cats can’t see in complete darkness, their eyes are much more__________to light than human eyes.

To their disappointment, nobody ______ was found under the ruins.

He is a ________child and his parents are ___________ with him.

Hong Kong was so busy over the Spring Festival that all the hotel accommodation was full. She phoned several hotels but none of them had a _________ room.