If you use too much force, you’ll _______ the key, bending it out of shape.

A. break    B. seize

C. twist    D. split

He found a purse on the seat and decided to return it to the owner, _______ with the address on the electricity bill.

A. started    B. starting

C. having started    D. to start

Some people don’t show _______ in their choice of books, reading whatever they can get.

A. discrimination    B. combination

C. conservation    D. reservation

You _______ how angry the boss was had you been here with us.

A. would see    B. had seen

C. would have seen    D. saw

---John has just been promoted to general manager of our company.

---_______. He is always devoted to his work.

A. A little bird told me.    B. Mind your own business.

C. Good for him.    D. There’s no way to tell.

---How are you getting along with Jim now?

---Well, OK now. But he _______ until I apologized.

A. didn’t forgive    B. hasn’t forgiven

C. hadn’t forgiven    D. won’t forgive

The business school professor studies teaming, _______ people come together quickly (and often temporarily) to solve new or urgent problems.

A. which    B. where

C. that    D. how

假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Smith想让女儿来中国学习汉语，给你发来邮件咨询哪所学校更好，请根据提示给他回一封邮件：

1．推荐光明语言学校(Guangming Language School)；

2．该校有10多年招收全世界各国学生的历史，汉语教学经验丰富；

3．招收不同教育程度的学生；

4．课程(curriculum)丰富，讲课灵活，生动，有趣。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2．可以适当发挥，以使行文连贯。

Dear Smith，

I’m_glad_to_hear_that_your_daughter_will_come_here_to_learn_Chinese.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

As we all know, Mark Twain leads an adventurous life. He left the school early. As an adolescent, he was determined to make her fortune, so he set off New Orleans. However, when he reached New Orleans without a penny in his pocket only to finding there were no boats for South America, when he could get rich quick. Forced to change his plans, he worked for several year as a pilot on a steamboat. Later he became a journalist and begin to write stories about life on the river. Twain’s vivid and often amused descriptions of life on the river became popular, making him one of America’s greatest writers.

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词过括号内单词的正确形式。

British and American English are different 1. many ways. The first and most obvious way is in the vocabulary. There are 2. (hundred) of different words which are not used on the other side of the Atlantic. For example, Americans use automobiles, freeways, gas, cabs and subways 3. the British use cars, motorways, petrol, taxis and undergrounds. Besides, sometimes 4. same word used by Americans and the British has a slightly different meaning, which can be 5.(confuse)．

There are a few 6.(differ) in grammar, too. In addition, the two varieties differ in spelling and pronunciation. American spelling seems 7.(simple): center, color and program instead of centre, colour and programme. Many factors 8. (influence) American pronunciation since the first settlers arrived four hundred years ago. But a Londoner doesn’t have much difficulty 9. (understand) a New Yorker.

The two varieties are moving closer. For more than a century, communications across the Atlantic have developed steadily, which has led to lots of American words and structures passing into British English. So, don’t worry. Users of English will all be able to understand each 10. — wherever they are.