In all his life, Dickens wrote a large number of excellent novels in the 19th century, _____ some are still popular nowadays.

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

—Tom, your foreign teacher speaks Chinese fluently!

—Oh, she has lived in China for six years, otherwise she _______ such good Chinese.

A. didn’t speak   B. would not have spoken

C. would not speakD. hadn’t spoken

To ensure that children from poor areas can receive fair education, the government has planned to _______ more money to improve the miserable conditions of local schools.

A. announce   B. allocate   C. advocate   D. accumulate

If you absolutely want to get the truth of Malaysia Airlines MH370, _______ wait until the timing is right.

A. at best   B. at all   C. at least   D. at most

The deal, _______ next week, will allow Charney to make a great fortune in the stock market.

A. completed   B. being completed  

C. to be completed   D. having been completed

—Alice, you have won the first place!

   —Pardon? I ______ I would fail the exam this time.

A. think         B. thought          C. have thought     D. am thinking

Microsoft ended support for Windows XP after April 8, which _______a major operating system for some Chinese computer users, and advised users to upgrade to Windows 8.1.

A. remained   B. remains    C. is remaining     D. is remained

The CCTV show Chinese Characters Dictation Competition has taken the country by storm, which is partly designed to arouse people’s _______ in the Chinese language.

A. response    B. enthusiasm      C. significance                                 D. consequence

请根据下面的漫画，结合你自己的切身体会，以"How to face the college entrance examinations"为题，用英语写一篇短评。

要求：1) 着重描述漫画所表达的现象以及你的看法，可适当发挥想象，不要做简单描述；

2) 词数150左右；

3) 参考词汇：补脑汁 tonics

阅读下列短文并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词，每空格1词（共10个小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

Zebras have their own bug repellent(驱虫剂)?

    Eww bugs! They are so annoying! We humans are lucky that we can apply repellents to avoid nasty bites. But what’s an animal to do? They have no choice but to spend their days shooing them off with their tails, unless, of course, they are zebras, who apparently have their own automatic repellent--- their striped skin!

Scientists had originally thought that the reason why the animal had developed the black and white lines was to help protect itself from predators in the African savannah, because the stripes make it difficult to single out one zebra that is traveling with a herd.While that may be true, the theory has never been tested or proven. Now the experts have another---that the stripes have evolved to repel the annoying horse flies that not only feed off their blood, but also, transmit dangerous germs into the bodies of these innocent animals.

The study was performed by a team of Swedish scientists. One of the clues that got them thinking along these lines was the fact that darker horses got bitten more often than light-colored or white ones.

The fact that zebras are born black and only develop strips as they grow older made the scientists theorize that the stripes may be something the animals have developed to make themselves less attractive to flies.

To test if this may be the case, they painted some boards at a horse-infested horse farm in Budapest with patterns of black and white stripes of varying widths and applied a layer of glue on them. What they noticed was that the places where the black and white stripes were at their narrowest (similar to what zebras have) attracted the fewest flies. They achieved similar results when they painted horses with black and white zebra-like stripes.

While the research are not sure why this may be the case, they believe it may be something to do with the way insects operate---horseflies are attracted to horizontally polarized light（偏振光）; since white does not reflect it, white horses are luckier than black ones. But zebras seem to be the luckiest of all. When the researchers measured the polarized light reflected from real zebra skins, they found that it matched light patterns that were the least attractive to horseflies.

While this theory does make logical sense, nobody is 100 percent sure that it is really true, given that it has never been tested on a real zebra. If it is true, it does raise the question of why a horse, a close relative of the zebra has failed to develop stripes. The researchers believe that this could be because there are more horseflies in Africa, where zebras reside, then anywhere else in the world.