We will never forget the factory _______ we worked last year.

A. where  B. that  C.  in that  D. of which

He doesn’t have interest in cooking．__________, he’s getting tired of it．

       A．On the contrary                         B．On the one hand

       C．On the other hand                  D．On the whole

The angry boy looked at his mother and shouted out the words ________ in his heart for many years.

A. having been hidden      B. hidden           C. hiding      D. to hide

---- I drove to Zhuhai for the air show last week.

---- Is that the reason _______ you had a few days off?

A. why              B. that              C. what                 D. which

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

The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queensland, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forest.

Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.

Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish! It was a boa(蟒)! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth. It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe from the ground and beat the boa with all her might. One...two... With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.

Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opening her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak(牛排). Lisa was really mad!

Blood was spurting(喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of(松开) Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a man had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.

　　 It was fearless mother love that saved the little boy.

When she rushed into the back garden, Lisa found______

A. a boa eating her son

B. her son was playing with a big snake

C. her son in danger of losing his life

D. her son was fighting with a boa

Lisa failed in fighting against the boa at first just because ______.

A. she was bitten by the boa

B. the boa was too strong

C. the hoe was too sharp

D. she was afraid that she would hurt her son

Lisa bit the snake because ______.

A. she was mad

B. she thought her teeth were much sharper than the boa

C. her son was entwined by the boa

D. she hadn’t got any other way to fight with the snake

What does the underlined word “entwining” probably mean?

A. Biting.                   

B. Twisting or winding sth. around.  

C. Eating.                   

D. Being closely connected with  

A traveler hurried down to the hall of an American hotel and went to the cash-desk. He had just 15 minutes to pay his bill and get to the station. Suddenly he remembered that he had left something in his room.

   "Look here, boy," he said to the bellboy, "run up to my room and see if I have left a parcel on the table there. Be quick about it."

   The boy ran upstairs. Five minutes passed. The traveler was walking up and down the hall, looking very angry. At last the boy appeared.

   "Yes, sir," he reported to the traveler," you have left the parcel there, it's right on the table in your room."

The traveler _______.

A. ran down the street        

B. came downstairs hurriedly

    C. ran so quickly that he fell down

    D. came into the hotel hall very quickly

Which statement is true?

    A. He had to pay his bill and arrived at the station in 15 minutes .

    B. It took him 15 minutes to go to the station from the hotel.

    C. He could pay his bill in 15 minutes and then go to the station .

    D. He had nothing but 15 minutes.

According to the passage, a bellboy is _____.

    A. a boy whose work is to ring the bell

    B. a boy who plays with a bell

    C. a boy whose work in a hotel is to help guests with their bags

    D. the hotel owner's boy

The traveler asked the boy _____ .

A. to go upstairs             

B. to look for his parcel

    C. to fetch the parcel he had left in his room

    D. only to see if the parcel was on the table in his room

Five minutes later, the boy ______ .

A. ran up to the room         

B. came downstairs

    C. reported to the traveler in the room

D. came down to the hall but brought nothing back

单词拼写(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

I have no idea of the ___________(平均) size of classes in the UK.

Great changes have taken place in our country ___________(近来).

Good ________(准备) should be made before we have the important meeting.

Don’t feel e__________ about being different from others.

I would p________ playing outdoors to watching TV at home.

__________ (注意力集中) more on your work or you will be fired.

I found it difficult to keep my b________ on the icy road.

She performed the most c_________ task without a mistake.

I’m learning German, but I still can’t speak it p_________.

Children should be encouraged to be i____________ thinkers.

---- What ________ great fun it would be if we could light candles to celebrate his birthday!

---- Forget it! The teacher in ________ charge of our dorm won’t be happy to see that.

A. /; /                   B. /; the                 C. a; the                        D. a; /

The extremely irresponsible act led by those Japanese will definitely _________ the relationship between the two countries.

A. poison                                   B. cure                         C. defeat                      D. foresee