B. what...and then

C. what...that

D. which...so

32.Little _____ that the preparation _____ so long.

A. did they suspect...lasted

B. did they suspect...was lasted

C. they suspected...lasted

D. they suspected...was lasted

33.I don't think that the meeting has been put off, _____?

A. do I

B. does it

C. hasn't it

D. has it

34.I'd rather you _____ him that day.

A. didn't help

B. hadn't helped

C. not to have helped

D. not helping

35.Alice got up late that morning, as she _____ to work that day.

A. needn't have gone

B. mustn't go

C. wasn't necessary to go

D. didn't have to go

36.Mr. Robinson pretended _____ very hard when his boss came.

A. to work

B. to be working

C. being worked

D. to have worked

37.If you do not go t Jack's party, _____.

A. neither do I

B. nor did I

C. nor shall I

D. neither can I

38.They decided to send the wallet to the _____ Office.

A. Losing and Finding

B. Loss and Found

C. Lost and Found

D. Lost and Find

39._____ that even people in the next house could hear him.

A. So loudly he spoke

B. So loudly did he speak

C. So loudly he speaks

D. So loudly he speak

40.-- Is that the reason _____ he gave for his absence?

-- Which of the following is wrong?

A. that

B. why

C. which

D. /

III. Vocabulary

Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.

41.How _____ of him to send us the blanket.

A. considerable

B. considerate

C. considering

D. concerned

42.Read the _____ on the bottle carefully, and you'll understand how to take the medicine.

A. direction

B. information

C. instructions

D. articles

43.The people to the exhibition _____ from workers and peasants to young students. They were eager to learn about the development of the city.

A. consist

B. include

C. compose

D. range

44.If you want to get the diploma by the end of this year, you have to _____ but to pass all the examinations required.

A. alternative

B. selection

C. election

D. choose

45._____ for the post of sales manager needs to have at least two years' experience of management.

A. Appliance

B. Application

C. Applicants

D. Applying

46.I can assure you that he stepped on your foot _____ in order to talk with you.

A. in case

B. on purpose

C. by chance

D. in mind

47.Don't _____ while the professor is giving us the talk.

A. whisper

B. speak

C. chat

D. say

48.The government _____ the citizen to learn English 100 for coming of APEC.

A. called of

B. called out

C. called on

D. called at

49.-- His success _____ his love for his career and long period of hard work.

-- Which of the following is NOT proper?

A. comes from

B. thanks to

C. lies in

D. depends on

50.It was under _____ that the enemy officer agreed to give in.

A. influence

B. pressure

C. control

D. guidance

IV. Cloze

Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

(A)

The most important diamonds are _____ we never see -- the diamonds used in industry. Their value lies in their hardness, not their beauty, and in the thousands of _____ they do.

Industrial diamonds make the needles for hi-fi phonographs. Diamonds cut _____ solid rock in search of oil. Dentists use diamonds too often _____ a powder glued to paper or a wheel. Other diamonds cut and _____ stones and cut metal parts for all kinds of engines. They are _____ used to make wheels for grinding and polishing metals.

Most marvelous of all _____ the diamond dies. These are flat diamonds through which small _____ have been drilled. When metal is _____ through the hole in the diamond, it comes out as thin write.

Cars, airplanes, rails, tin cars, radios, refrigerators, and most electrical _____ could not be made without using industrial diamonds.

51.

A. which

B. that

C. those

D. what

52.

A. jobs

B. works

C. duties

D. functions

53.

A. split

B. apart

C. break

D. through

54.

A. with

B. polish

C. as

D. like

55.

A. polish

B. break

C. sharpen

D. flatten

56.

A. yet

B. still

C. too

D. also

57.

A. is

B. are

C. was

D. were

58.

A. eyes

B. gaps

C. slits

D. holes

59.

A. tugged

B. towed

C. pulled

D. hauled

60.

A. equipment

B. device

C. apparatus

D. instrument

(B)

This hotel is _____ in the main shopping street of North Chester, there hundred yards from the Cathedral.

The original building was _____ in 1710, but his structure has been largely transformed and extended, the present hotel having been completed n 1910. It is four storeys _____ with a lift serving all floor. The public rooms comprise a dining-room bedrooms, three of the latter having private bathrooms. _____ floor has one bathroom and two separate WCs. All bedrooms are _____with washbasins with hot and cold _____, and a slot-matter controlled radio and gas fire. The courtyard around which the hotel is built provides _____ space for ten cars and there is _____ for twenty more off a side street two hundred yards away. This is quite inadequate.

61.

A. placed

B. put

C. situated

D. lain

62.

A. put up

B. done

C. set

D. make

63.

A. deep

B. high

C. wide

D. height

64.

A. seats

B. men

C. people

D. women

65.

A. single

B. tone

C. solo

D. one

66.

A. Either

B. Each

C. None

D. Neither

67.

A. fixed

B. built

C. fitted

D. put

68.

A. gas

B. water

C. fuel

D. steam

69.

A. placing

B. standing

C. sitting

D. parking

70.

A. space

B. spacious

C. rooms

D. parks

V. Reading Comprehension

Directions: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.