9. The _______ you sign your name can tell experts a lot about you.

A. choice 　　　 B. way

C. method 　　 D. means

[解析]选B。choice选择；way方式；method方法；means手段、方法。句意：你签名的方式可以告诉专家许多有关你的情况。

8. We are all surprised that Tom has made ________ in his studies recently.

A. so great progress　　　　　　　 B. so great a progress

C. such great progress　　　　　 D. such a great progress

[解析]选C。progress为不可数名词，故B、D不正确。great progress是由形容词修饰的名词短语，不能用so, 故C正确。

7. -What _______ of computer are you going to buy?

-PC 586.

A. kind　　　　　 B. type

C. sort　　　　　　 D. species

[解析]选B。上句句意为：你打算买什么型号的电脑？type类型，型号；kind种类；sort含有贬义；species物种。

6. -My teacher was angry with me.

-You should get up early to______ being late for class again.

A. avoid　 B. leave

C. miss　　　　　 D. hold

[解析]选A。下句句意为：你应该早起避免再次上课迟到。avoid意为“避免”，强调有意去避免，是主观行为；miss也是“避免，逃避”的意思，但不强调主观意识；leave意为“离开”；hold意为“抑制，约束”，不合题意。

5. -Great changes have taken place in the city!

-Yes, our city has developed into a big city, which is _____ it used to be.

A. four times larger than that

B. four times the size of what

C. four times the size larger than what

D. as four times the size as that

[解析]选B。表示“……的样子”之意时，用what, 不用that, what在句中作表语；英语倍数的表达结构为：①倍数+比较级+than ②倍数+the size(length, . . . )of ③倍数+as+形容词或副词原级+as。此题属于第二种句型结构。

4. -The policeman was ______ in the arm when seizing the murder.

-Really? Let’s see him in the hospital.

A. hurt　　　　　　　　　 B. wounded

C. injured　　　　　　　 D. harmed

[解析]选B。wound多指在战争中、打斗中受的刀枪之伤; hurt一般用语; injure事故、灾难中的受伤; harm危害。前句句意为：那名警察在抓捕凶犯时胳膊受伤了。

3. He was______ to win the 100-meter hurdles race, but he fell to the ground and missed the chance.

A. possible 　　 B. probable

C. likely 　　　 D. maybe

[解析]选C。possible和probable作表语时，主语只能是it或事物而不能是人；maybe为副词，它只能作状语，常常位于句子的开头；likely作表语时，主语可以是人，也可以是物。根据用法，此题选C。

2. People in Mongolia keep horses and sheep; the former for riding, _______ for meat.

A. later　　　　　 B. latter

C. the later 　　 D. the latter

[解析]选D。the former. . . ，the latter. . . “前者……，后者……”。later“稍后，后来”，与句意不符。

1. Some _____ in the shop were stolen during the holidays.

A. jewels　　　　 B. jewelleries

C. a jewellery　　　　 D. jewel

[解析]选A。jewellery不可数名词，是“珠宝”的总称，因此排除B、C两项；jewel“宝石、珠宝”，是可数名词。

10. Guangdong Government has worked out a plan in response to the hand-foot-mouth disease.