During the entrance(升学)exams, there are_____parents waiting for their children outside their test center.

A. thousand of     B. thousands of    C. thousand    D. thousands

------ _______have you been away from your hometown ?

----- For about 13 years .

A. How soon     B. How far     C. How long     D. How often

He_______ every Sunday volunteering in an old people’s home.

A. spends     B. gives    C. uses     D. takes

I don’t like eating chocolate. The taste is too_______.

A. hot     B. delicious     C. nice     D. sweet

You can imagine how different the table manners here are from______.

A. us      B. ours     C. ourselves    D. our

_______the morning of March 31, she made an important decision in her life .

A. Since      B. In     C. From     D. On

The movie Batman and Joker is ______one that I’ve ever seen.

A. more exciting           B. more excited

C. the most exciting       D. the most excited

从方框A—G中选出可以填入对话空白处（1—5）的最佳选项，并将其字母序号填入题前的括号内。选项中有两项为多余选项。

       A: Can you tell me a little about Mexico City ?

1. B:    1    What would you like to know ?

  A: Well, what’s a good time to visit ?

2. B:    2   The weather is always nice .

3. A: Oh, good !    3 

  B: Well, you should visit the National Museum and go to the Palace of the Fine Arts.

4. A:    4 

5. B: Oh, you shouldn’t miss the Pyramid of the Sun.    5  

  A: It all sounds really exciting.

New Kowloon Primary School is going to hold a charity fair(慈善活动) next Sunday. They want to   1  money to buy clothes for poor people. The tickets to the fair are $30    217  . They have already sold 1,000 tickets.

The programme of the fair is good.  3  , the pupil team will have a basketball match          4    the teacher team. Then, two singers, Kitty Li and Betty Fong, will    5   at the fair. There will also be a magic show and Chinese dances. After the shows, there will be a   6   . The teachers and parents have donated many things-----books, toys and food.

At the    7   of the charity fair there will be a lucky draw(抽奖). Mr. Wong, the headmaster, has donated a tape-recorder as the grand prize, and there will be ten   8    prizes.

1. A. waste     B. save       C. spend     D. raise

2.A. one        B. both       C. each      D. either

3.A. Second     B. First      C. Later     D. Now

4.A. with       B. for        C. from      D. on

5.A.speak       B. host       C. call      D. sing

6.A. sale       B. film       C. party     D. meeting

7.A. time       B. end        C. back      D. beginning

8.A. others     B. another     C. more     D. fewer

Shirley Yeats is certainly a very brave woman ! At the age of sixty-seven, she   1   to take a trip round the coast(海岸) of Malaysia. Everything was fine   2   one day, as she was going back to her room on the    3    , she saw smoke coming out of another room. She    4   the captain from her room at once and told him about the fire. Then she went up on deck(甲板) to see   5   she  could do to help. The fire spread(蔓延) very quickly and soon 6    was completely out of control. The captain decided to get all the passengers out as 7  as possible.

Many of the other passengers were   8   , but Shirley remained calm(镇静的). She even helped the other passengers to    9   the lifeboats.

All 1,000 passengers were in the lifeboats and not one passenger   10   in the fire. Shirley was one of the last people to leave. Later, she told reporters, “ I was very afraid,   11   I always knew what I had to do. I   12   all my years as a teacher helped----all that time telling people what to do ! “

1. A. stopped      B. used        C. had      D. decided

2.A. since         B. after       C. until    D. before

3.A. way           B. ship        C. land     D. road

4.A. phoned        B. told        C. asked    D. ordered

5.A. if            B. how         C. what     D. where

6.A. she           B. he          C. that     D. it

7.A. quickly       B. much        C. well     D. usually

8.A. sleepy        B. terrified   C. tired    D. lazy

9.A. get into      B. get back to C. get off  D. get up to

10.A. lost         B. killed      C. hurt     D. died

11.A. and          B. but         C. so       D. or

12.A. need         B. like        C. think    D. hate