The head office of the bank is in Beijing, but it has _________ all over the country.

   A. companies       B. branches       C. organizations  D. businesses

 I walked in our garden, _______ Tom and Jim were tying a big sign onto one of the trees.

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

 Do you have any idea of ________ is actually going on in the classroom?

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

 Follow your doctor’s advice, _________ your cough will get worse.

   A. or              B. and            C. then           D. so

 This book tells ________ life story of John Smith, who left ______ school and worked for a newspaper at the age of 16.

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

 —Well. I do think the rabbit is a beautiful, gentle animal which can run very fast.

   —_____________.

   A. So it is        B. So is it       C. So does it     D. So it does

 Months ago we sailed ten thousand miles across this open sea, which _______ the Pacific, and we met no storms.

   A. was called      B. is called      C. had been called D. has been called

 There was never any time for Kate to feel lonely, ________ she was an only child.

   A. ever since      B. now that       C. even though    D. even as

 In the dark forests ________ some large enough to hold several English towns.

   A. stand many lakes                                    B. lie many lakes

   C. many lakes lie                    D. many lakes stand

【详解】本题考查倒装结构，完全倒装。同时stand 和lie的区别。stand是突出的，lie是平躺的，湖不可能是突出的，所以此题应该选择lie。

阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Scott and his companions were terribly disappointed. When they got to the South Pole, they found the Norwegians（挪威人）had    1them in the race to be the first ever to reach it. After   2the British flag at the Pole, they took a photograph of themselves    3they started the 950-mile journey back.

The journey was unexpectedly    4and the joy and excitement about the Pole had gone out of them. The sun hardly    5. The snow storms always made it impossible to sight the stones they had     6to mark their way home. To make things    7. Evans, whom they had all thought of    8the strongest of the five, fell badly into a deep hole in the ice. Having     9along for several days, he suddenly fell down and died.

The four who were     10pushed on at the best speed they could    11. Captain Oates had been suffering for some time from his    12face; at night his feet swelled（肿胀） so large that he could    13put his boots on the next morning, and he walked bravely although he was in great    14. He knew his slowness was making it less likely that      15could save themselves. He asked them to leave him behind in his sleeping-bag, but they refused, and helped him     16a few more miles, until it was time to put up the   17for another night.

The following morning,     18the other three were still in their sleeping-bags, he said. “I am just going outside and may be     19some time.” He was never seen again. He had walked out    20into the snow storm, hoping that his death would help his companions.

1.A. hit              B. fought         C. won            D. beaten

2.A. growing          B. putting        C. planting       D. laying

3.A. after            B. until          C. while          D. before

4.A. safe             B. fast           C. short          D. slow

5.A. rose             B. set            C. appeared       D. disappeared

6.A. taken up         B. cut up         C. set up         D. picked up

7.A. easier           B. better         C. bitter         D. worse

8.A. to               B. upon           C. as             D. in

9.A. battled          B. struggled      C. speeded        D. waited

10.A. left            B. lost           C. defeated       D. saved

11.A. manage          B. try            C. employ         D. find

12.A. ached           B. frozen         C. harden         D. harmed

13.A. hardly          B. never          C. seldom         D. nearly

14.A. pain            B. fear           C. trouble        D. danger

15.A. all others      B. some others    C. others         D. the others

16.A. away            B. with           C. off            D. on

17.A. bed             B. tent           C. blanket        D. sleeping-bag

18.A. while           B. since          C. for            D. once

19.A. missed          B. separated      C. passed         D. gone

20.A. patiently       B. lonely         C. alone          D. worriedly