— I didn’t care about what other people thought about me.

— Well, you ________.

A. should    B. ought to have   C. would have   D. could

I witnessed the gate of the bank _______ open and many men entering it, but I couldn’t make them out in the darkness.

A. force      B. be forced      C. forcing     D. being forced

We are confident that the step the Chinese government has taken to cope with the current crisis is ______ of great significance.

A. what        B. those     C. that       D. one

US Apple decided to expand its business in China in response to an increasing demand ______ digital product.

A. of           B. from       C. to        D. for

Russia’s cutting off the gas supply raised a major concern to the European Union, ______ a number of member states are increasingly dependent on one single supplier.

A. whose        B. that      C. where    D. which

---Mr. Wu, can I have a look at the scores?

---Well, you are a senior, so I_____ hardly remind you that the scores are not open to students.

A. can    B. need   C. will    D. shall

____the problem, it follows that we must develop a plan of action.

A. Recognizing      B. Having recognized    C. Recognized      D. Having recognizing

___ great the demand to succeed, one should never abandon his moral and social consciousness.

A. Now that      B. As if     C. Although      D. However

Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize winner in Literature, grew up listening to folk tales that __ for centuries in his hometown.

A. have been told      B. had been told     C. were told          D. have told

阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A group of frogs was traveling through the woods and two of them fell into a pit(坑). All the other frogs gathered around it and watched as the two frogs tried to jump out. The pit was very deep and it looked as if there was no way      , so they started yelling at the two frogs to       . "The pit is too deep. You will die," they said together. When the       frogs kept trying, the crowd yelled      . After a while, one of the frogs believed what the others were saying, and fell down and      .

     But      , the second frog kept jumping hard       the negative remarks of those that kept yelling at her to accept the       and just die. Finally, with one big leap, she       it out of the pit! 

     In fact, the second frog was       and unable to hear what the others had been saying. She thought they had been       her on the entire time they were yelling! What she had       considered as encouragement       her to try harder and succeed. And that made all the      ! 

With a positive       and being deaf to others' opinions, the second frog reached her goals by using such       as encouragement, instead of being       by others like the first frog, who failed to develop her       to struggle for survival.      , when we overcome others' criticism or       comments, we can do anything we set our minds to, just as the second frog did.

1.A. away           B. out                                    C. on                                      D. over

2.A. give up           B. give out                    C. drop out                           D. drop in

3.A. lost                  B. missed                          C. trapped                    D. tired

4.A. higher            B. louder                          C. clearer                         D. bigger

5.A. died                B. stopped                    C. rested                         D. watched

6.A. obviously       B. disappointingly           C. undoubtedly           D. amazingly

7.A. besides          B. for                             C. despite                        D. except

8.A. problem         B. life                             C. chance                        D. fate

9.A. made          B. jumped                   C. took                                  D. saved

10.A. dumb                 B. deaf                                  C. lame                                  D. blind

11.A. calling          B. holding                     C. cheering                          D. pushing

12.A. mistakenly  B. Brightly                       C. roughly                   D. perfectly

13.A. let                 B. attracted                           C. inspired                            D. kept

14.A. result                 B. difference                       C. achievement                   D. progress

15.A. expression  B.Emotion                       C. soul                                   D. attitude

16.A. possibility         B. certainty                          C. cruelty                        D. negativity

17.A. influenced        B. threatened                 C. suspected                         D. advised

18.A. energy         B. spirit                                   C. potential                          D. mood

19.A. However B. Thus                                  C. Finally                      D. Actually

20.A. surprising         B. annoying                          C. discouraging          D. confusing