Because of the bad management, the company will _____ by another one.

A. be swallowed up        B. be swallowed       C. swallow             D swallow up

语法填空（共10小题，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中的词的正确形式填空。

Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always making new words and we should be able to know ______46_____ most words come from.

         Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, ____47___   (especial) when they are not made ___48___ ham? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany ___49___ (call) Hamburg.

         They did not speak good English, __50__   they ate good food. Some Americans saw them eating round pieces of beef. Never  ___51____ they seen such a strange way. They couldn’t help  ___52____    (ask) the Germans what it was. The Germans did not understand the question and answered, “We came from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea ___53____ he could do something new. He cooked some round pieces of beef like   ____54___ the men from Hamburg ate and sold them in quite a few countries around the world.

Whether this story is true or not, it may be considered to be an interesting ___55___.

完形填空：（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）

In Glasgow, Scotland, a young lady, like a lot of teens today, got tired of home. The daughter objected to her family’s __41__ lifestyle and said, “I don’t want your God. I am leaving!”

She left home. Before long, she was disappointed and unable to find a job, so she tried to do everything she could to __42__ . Many years passed by, her father died, her mother grew __43__, and the daughter became more and more entrenched(固执) in her way of life.

No contact was made between mother and daughter during these years. The mother, having __44__ her daughter’s whereabouts(行踪，去向), went to the poor part of the city in __45__ of her daughter. She stopped at each of the rescue missions with a simple __46__, “Would you allow me to __47__ this picture?” It was a picture of the smiling, gray-haired mother with a handwritten __48__ at the bottom: “I love you still…come home!”

One day the daughter wandered into a rescue mission for a hot meal. She sat __49__ listening to the service, all the while letting her __50__ wander over to the notice board. There she saw the picture and thought “Could that be my mother?”

She couldn’t wait until the service was over. She stood and went to look. It was her mother, and there were those words, “I love you still…come home!” As she stood in front of the picture, she wept. It was too good to be true.

41. A. modern                            B. religious                          C. awful                      D. simple

42. A. earn money            B. help others      C. find job                   D. become famous

43. A. lonelier                     B. slower          C. elder                            D. older

44. A. told about                         B. heard of                         C. written about      D. talked about

45. A. sight                                   B. charge          C. search                D. need

46. A. request                    B. remark                            C. question                D. speech

47. A. print out                            B. look at                            C. send off                D. put up

48. A. record                                B. order                               C. message     D. notice

49. A. sensitively                        B. absent-mindedly C. devotedly    D. carefully

50. A. eyes                                   B. hands                     C. thoughts     D. imaginations

   Seeing the happy ________ of children playing in the park, I’m full of joy and confidence in the future of our country.

    A. sight        B. view                C. sign          D. scene

—Kate！Have you got an invitation(请柬) from Nancy?

—_____. A what?

A. Yes, I’ve got one             B. I’m sorry I don’t know 

C. Say again                   D. I beg your pardon       

---- Have you been here long?

    ---- _______.

   A. No, not very long                 B. Not much long  

C. Yes, only little long               D. No, only yesterday

It was only when the war broke out ______ he began to realize everything was too late.

   A. until           B. that          C. then          D. so

The reason I plan to go is _____if I don’t .

  A because she will be disappointed       B that she will be disappointed

  C because she will have a disappointment  D on account of she will be disappointed

We saw a /an _____elephant in the People’s Park last Sunday .

A lively  B living  C live   D alive

When they arrived at the second crossing, they went the wrong ______.

  A. direction     B. way                C. route          D. street