6、He always ________ riding a bicycle to taking a crowded bus.  

A. loves       B. enjoys          C. prefers      D. likes

5、Mary wanted to travel around the world all by herself, but her parents did not _______ her to do so.  

A. forbid       B. allow           C. follow      D. ask

4、As you can see, the number of cars on roads _______ rising these days.  

A. keeping       B. keep           C. keeps       D. were keeping

3、The information on the Internet gets around much more rapidly than _______ in the newspaper.  

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

2、_______ meeting held last night was _________ great success.  

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

1、It was a quiet village in which there was a military camp（ 军营）. It was far from the towns and cities and there were some high mountains around. Of course, it was a  46   place for training the new   47   . Mr. White, an officer of forty, was strict with them and he  48   let them leave the camp.

Once Mr. White was ill in bed . He couldn’t  49  and a young officer, Mr. Hunt, began to train the new soldiers  50 him. He knew the young men well and  51 nine soldiers go to the nearest town to have a holiday. But night fell and  52  came back to the camp. He was worried about it and stood  53  . It was five to twelve when Mr. Hunt   54  to go to the town and see what was  55  to the young men. He  56   the car quickly and set off. At that moment the nine soldiers  57  . It seemed that they were all    58  . Of course they found the officer was  59  . “ I’m sorry, sir,” said the first soldier, “ I left the town  60  . But something was wrong with my  61  on my way here. I had to buy a horse and made it run fast.  62   ! It died and I had to run back. ”

And the other   63  soldiers said they were late for the same reason. It was the last soldier’s  64  . He said, “ I’m sorry, sir. I got on the bus on time, but …”

Hearing this, the officer became even angrier and stopped him at once. He shouted, “ If you say something was wrong with your bus, I’ll punish you at once !”

“ No, no, sir,” said the young man . “ My bus was all right, but the dead horses were   65 !

二、选择题

（每空？ 分，共？ 分）

21、 Is that a book on farming? If so, I want to borrow _____?

A. this        B. one        C. it        D. the one

20、Could it be in the room ______ we had a talk last night _____ you left your keys?

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

19、To learn to swim well, _____________.

A. much practice is needed by one              B. much practice is needed

C. one needs much practice                       D. one is needed much practice

18、－They used to be good friends but now they are like strangers.

－How________this________?

A. did; come about                              B. did; happen to

C. was; ended up                                D. was; happened