一、选择题

1.This picture is ________ to one my mother has.
A. like
B. same
C. identical
D. alike
2.They are celebrating their town’s annual harvest ________.
A. holiday
B. festival
C. vacation
D. Christianity
3.Indiana Jones is the ________ of the film. That is, he is the main character in the film.
A. hero
B. character
C. pyramid
D. twin
4.In Britain, the summer holidays or summer ________ is from June to October.
A. festival
B. vocation
C. vacation
D. parade
5.You will be ________ if you hide in that cave.
A. safe
B. noisy
C. security
D. living
6.Madam Curie is a very famous ________.
A. hero
B. science
C. scientific
D. scientist
7.“I’m afraid I can’t come after all.”“Well, in that ________ I’m not going either.”
A. matter
B. situation
C. occasion
D. case
8.He bought a ________ of shoes yesterday, didn’t he?
A. sock
B. group
C. pair
D. soap
9.________ is used to mean a single day without work because of a religious or national festival.
A. Festival
B. Vacation
C. Leave
D. Holiday
10.He ________ up to find the house on fire.
A. awoke
B. woke
C. wake
D. woken
11.Soldiers stand or march together to hold a ________ so that important people can examine them.
A. case
B. performance
C. parade
D. show
12.The first 3 pages of the book have been ________.
A. printed
B. woke
C. shaved
D. joined
13. It is necessary for you to use table ________ in cooking.
A. soap
B. salt
C. temple
D. frog
14.A ________ is a thick tropical forest with many large plants growing very close together.
A. bark
B. nut
C. hunter
D. jungle
15.________ they’re late, aren’t they?
A. Naturally
B. Surely
C. Certainly
D. Possibly
16.I took the picture in the ________ city—Rome.
A. far
B. ancient
C. social
D. square
17.Grave is the place where a body is buried, while ________ is the grave of a king.
A. tomb
B. bomb
C. comb
D. pyramid
18.Whenever you want to leave a classroom early, you should ________ permission.
A. ask for
B. listen to
C. talk about
D. hear of
19.A ________ looks like, but is larger than, a mouse.
A. rat
B. frog
C. bat
D. shave
20.There were a lot of art ________ buried by the pirates.
A. tombs
B. temples
C. banks
D. treasures
21.The railway ________ here into two lines.
A. separates
B. divides
C. joins
D. wakes
22.We’d like you to accept this book in ________ for your kindness.
A. payment
B. salary
C. wage
D. income
23. He has too little ________ life.
A. sociable
B. official
C. living
D. social
24.Enemy aircraft dropped ________ on New York.
A. combs
B. atomic
C. bombs
D. tombs
25.Please ________ me in praying for their safe return.
A. like
B. divide
C. join
D. stop
26.Last week he promised that he ________ today, but he hasn’t arrived yet.
A. will come
B. would come
C. would have come
D. is coming
27.“Do you like New York?”“Yes. It’s big and people are cold, but I lived there for a while and I ________ it.”
A. got used to
B. used to
C. used
D. got using to
28.Your composition is almost perfect ________ a few spelling mistakes.
A. except for
B. except
C. but
D. besides
29. I haven’t seen you for quite some time. What ________ lately?
A. did you do
B. were you doing
C. have you been doing
D. had you done
30. ________ was the center of our planetary system was difficult concept to grasp in the Middle Ages.
A. It was the sun and not the earth
B. Being the sun and not the earth
C. That the sun and not the earth
D. The sun and not the earth
31. Shall we request the committee ________ our suggestion again?
A. to consider
B. consider
C. considering
D. considered
32.________ three whole years working on the design of the equipment.
A. It took the chief engineer
B. The chief engineer spent
C. The chief engineer took
D. It cost the chief engineer
33.Did you ask the teacher ________ the day before?
A. what was happened to her
B. what she had happened
C. what she happened
D. what had happened to her
34.Jane has ________ uncle and he is now staying in ________ European country.
A. an; an
B. an; the
C. an; a
D. a; the
35.It’s believed that ________ you work, ________ result you’ll get.
A. the harder; the better
B. the more hard; the more better
C. the harder; a better
D. more hard; more better

二、改错题

1.He suddenly becomes wealthy, which changed his whole way of life.
A. becomes
B. wealthy
C. which
D. whole
2.Bob said it had been foolish to me to make such a mistake.
A. said
B. had
C. to me
D. such
3.A man with his daughter, both looking very anxious, were asking the way to the railway station.
A. looking
B. anxious
C. were asking
D. way to
4.Mary and Joe want to go to China this summer, that sounds like a good idea to me.
A. want to go
B. this summer
C. that
D. to me
5.Ever since he arrived, he has been complaining about constantly the weather.
A. Ever since
B. has
C. about constantly
D. the weather
6.The electric shaver needs being repaired before it can be used.
A. electric
B. needs
C. being repaired
D. before
7.Although a great number of houses in that area are still in need of repair, there have been much improvement in their appearance.
A. are still
B. of repair
C. have been
D. their
8.His father bought him a bike the other day, and his new bike’s colour is more beautiful than my bike.
A. the other day
B. is
C. more beautiful
D. my bike
9.The reason he has been such a success is because he never gives up.
A. The reason
B. such a success
C. because
D. gives up
10.If the forest is cut down, there will be nothing leaving to protect the land.
A. is
B. nothing
C. leaving
D. to protect
11.The horse is one of the most useful animals because they can run fast.
A. The
B. most useful
C. they
D. fast
12.The only way to influence others is to talk about that they want and show them how to get it.
A. The only way
B. others
C. that
D. it
13.It was she who suggested that he had to go to New York in order to get a direct flight.
A. she
B. who
C. he had to go
D. to get
14.After climbing a great hill, one only finds there are more many hills to climb.
A. After
B. one
C. more many
D. to climb
15.I can’t guess whom he had the dinner yesterday evening.
A. can’t guess
B. whom
C. had
D. yesterday evening

三、按照句意选择下列词组填入空格内(如有需要，作适当变化)

in person | come into being | tell ... from ... | show ... around | compare ... to ... | take part in | hear of | wake up | side by side | year by year

1.She disappeared and was never ________ again.
heard of

2.Poets have ________ sleep ________ death.
compared to

3.I had some difficulty in ________ one ________ another.
telling from

4.Our trained guides will ________ you ________ this city.
show around

5.The two boys are walking ________ along the river.
side by side

6.Did all the students ________ the meeting?
take part in

7.When did the world ________?
come into being

8.The winner will be there ________ to receive the prize.
in person

四、常用易混词辨析与练习

ordinary, common, usual, normal

• common 指适合大部分或大多数，含有“共同的”，“常见的”的意思。
• ordinary 指人或事，很常见的，有“平凡的”“普通的”的意思。
• usual 意为“通常的”，“平常的”，强调“习惯性的”。
• normal (正常的)常表示与“反常的”相对。

1.Under ________ conditions a gas is a very poor conductor(导体)of electricity.
A. common
B. ordinary
C. usual
D. normal
2.He is not a hero, just an/a ________ man.
A. common
B. ordinary
C. usual
D. normal
3.The word used in this sense is quite ________.
A. common
B. ordinary
C. usual
D. normal
4.It is ________ with him to go to the office on foot.
A. common
B. ordinary
C. usual
D. normal
5.These kinds of tree are ________ throughout the world.
A. common
B. ordinary
C. usual
D. normal

(B) final, last

• final 并不强调事物的顺序，而是强调结果或最后的定局。
• last 则指一系列事物或动作等的最后一个。

1.December is the ________ month of the year.
A. final
B. last
2.I thought her ________ book was one of her best.
A. final
B. last
3.I wonder if you have made the ________ decision.
A. final
B. last
4.This will be the ________ call for dinner.
A. final
B. last