5. The magazine is intended to appeal to working women in their 20s and 30s.

4. I struggled to keep my balance on my new skates.

3. In the market dealers were bargaining with growers over the price of coffee.

2. His strange behavior made the police suspicious(怀疑的).

从方框中选择合适的词并用其正确形式填空，有两项多余。

bargain, product, ashamed, aggressive, annoy, amusement,

appeal, contain, balance, remove, behave, advance

1. A good salesperson has to be aggressive in today’s competitive market.

10. The officer was____because he neglected his duty.

A. disappeared　　　　　 B. beaten

C. removed　　　　　　　　 D. moved

[解析]选C。考查动词词义辨析。句意：那位官员由于失职而被免职。remove sb. 免除某人的职务；disappear不及物动词，不能用被动形式；beat击败；move移动，均不符合题意。

9. -What do you think of the service of the shop?

-Not good. The shop assistants____very badly towards their customers.

A. affected　　　　　　 B. behaved

C. attacked　　　　　 D. served

[解析]选B。考查动词词义辨析。后句句意：店员对顾客的态度很不好。behave badly表现差；serve作“服务”讲时是及物动词；affect影响；attack攻击，袭击，根据句意选B。

8. Before going abroad he devoted all he could____his oral English.

A. improve　　　　　　　　 B. to improve

C. improving　　　　　　 D. to improving

[解析]选D。考查词组搭配。devote. . . to. . . 致力于，其中to为介词，后接动名词。句意为：出国之前，他竭尽所能来提高他的英语口语。

7. Last Sunday Mr Smith took with some of his friends, ____, to the World Park.

A. including me　　 B. me including

C. me contained　　 D. me containing

[解析]选A。被包括的事物与主语是同一类，且include与宾语之间是动宾关系，故选A。

6. -Did you see the star last night?

-____,　 we were left waiting in the rain for two hours.

A. What’s more　　　 B. That is to say

C. In other words　 D. Believe it or not

[解析]选D。考查交际用语。believe it or not“信不信由你”；what’s more“更有甚者，更为重要的是”；that is to say“也就是说”；in other words“换句话说”。句意为：--昨晚你见到那位明星了吗？--信不信由你，我们在雨中等了两个小时。