第第 2 2 次作业次作业 一、单项选择题（本大题共一、单项选择题（本大题共 5050 分，共分，共 5050 小题，每小题小题，每小题 1 1 分）分） 1. Ann won the speech contest and her opponent congratulated her with （ ）. A. the lapse of time B. a flourish of trumpets C. a pinch of salt D. .a tone of respect 2. Mary seems not worry about tomorrows test. I guess she （ ）_ reading all the books on the reading list. A. must finish B. must have finished C. has finished D. have must finished 3. If I were you, I ( ) the job. A. Accept B. would have accepted C. would accept D. had accepted 4. Please check again in order to ( ) that youve turned off all switches. A. make sense B. make difference C. make default D. make sure 5. All the foreign magazines in the reading room are only _ to the graduates. A. available B. obtainable C. accessible D. unforgettable 6. Most important, children need to learn how to ( ) others. A. made up for B. get along with C. catch up with D. come up with 7. He asked me （ ） to Lijiang. A. if I had gone to B. B. if I had been to C. C. had I gone to D. D. had I been to 8. The ability of remaining anonymous ( ) a kind of cheating. A. lead to B. leading toC. leaded to D. leads to 9. ( ) by the way she spoke to me, I left the office. A. Annoying B. Angry C. Been angry D. Annoyed 10. The price of crude oil on the North American market increased （ ） 5%. A. on B. in C. at D. by 11. I had chosen a table that put me ( ) a good-looking, red-faced English man. A. A) next B. B) close C. C) next to D. D) close to 12. A funny thing happened ( ) to the communications revolution. A. on the way B. in the way C. by the way D. through the way 13. The World Health Organization is a（n） （ ） association which is ready to offer help to any nation suffered from disasters without pay. A. international B. nonprofit C. profitable D. charitable 14. Excuse me, can you tell me where your general manager is? Yes, of course, ( ) A. here does our general manager B. here our general manager comes C. our general manager here comes D. here comes our general manager 15. I think the headmaster is a rigid man who lacks of a(n)_ of humour. A. air B. touch C. gas D. sense 16. The new technology is rapidly becoming more _ to US customers in their own homes. A. available B. comfortableC. reliable D. profitable 17. （ ）arrived （ ） she started complaining. A. Hardly had he when B. Hardly he had. when C. He hardly .than D. Hardly had be. than 18. The people at the party were worried about Janet because no one was aware _ she had gone. A. where that B. of where C. of the place where D. the place 19. When I reached the peak, my partners （ ） me. A. waited for B. were waiting for C. has waited for D. had waited for 20. She ( ) that he would marry a doctor ten years later. A. predicted B. proved C. witnessed D. identified 21. ( ) tonight, why not drop in and play chess with me? A. Since you are free B. For you are free C. Because you are free D. If you would be free 22. I wish I ( ) English fluently. A. could speak B. can speak C. spoke D. would speak 23. I came across an old country guide the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country, and it was impressive to see the great variety of services which were available on one s own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside. Nowadays a superficial traveller in rural England might conclude that the village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction （收缩） of village commerce, but its vigor is still remarkable. Our local grocers shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchange the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queuing （排队） up at a supermarket. And the proprietor （店主） knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value. His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time. His assistants think nothing of bicycling on the village street in their lunch hour to take a piece of cheese to an old age pensioner （领养老金 ） who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing. The more affluent customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour. They have only to hint at a fancy for some commodity outside the usual stock and the grocer, a red- faced figure, instantly obtains it for them. The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individualist can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions of industry or commerce. The writer implies that one disadvantage of town shops is that _. A. their pri