15．- you spare me a few minutes?

-________

A．What’s that?　 B．What’s up?

C．How about?　 D．Why not?

答案　B

解析　考查情景交际用语。问话人是询问对方能不能抽出几分钟时间，故而答语用What’s up？意为“什么事？”；What’s that意为“那是什么？”；How about一般不单独成句；Why not？用于回答对方提议。

14．-Next week I’ll travel to New Zealand with my parents.

-It’s________.

A．absolute　 B．fantastic　 C．helpful　 D．adventurous

答案　B

解析　考查形容词词义辨析。A项absolute“绝对的”；B项fantastic“极好的；极有趣的”；C项helpful“有用的，提供帮助的”；D项adventurous“爱冒险的”。由题意“下周我要和父母去新西兰旅游”“太棒了”可知，B项符合题意。

13．When Michael Phelps won another gold medal at the National Aquatics Center，________was likely that his dream of getting 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games was to be realized.

A．which　 B．that　 C．it　 D．he

答案　C

解析　句意为：当Michael Phelps在水立方又赢得一枚金牌时，他在北京奥运会上夺取8金的梦想可能就要实现了。从句中有连词when，故排除A项。由句中be likely that...可知，此处空格处应填it。

12．________those who lived in the slums(贫民窟)，chidren here are really compared to flowers，living a happy and comfortable life.

A．Comparing with　 B．Compared with

C．Comparing to　 D．Compare to

答案　B

解析　考查动词短语compare with/to的非谓语动词形式的用法。compared with/to表示“和……比较起来”，常用过去分词形式放在句首作状语。

11．Don’t worry about the match.We should have no doubt________we will win with the best players in the world.

A．why　 B．whether　 C．that　 D．when

答案　C

解析　考查名词性从句关连词语。由于主句为have no doubt，所以其后的同位语从句的关连词要用that，其它选项的关连词语都表示不肯定的疑问，与主句意义不符合。