一、选择题

1.This box ________ two dozen oranges.
A. holds
B. accommodates
C. contains
D. houses
2.They sell eggs by the ________.
A. dozen
B. trust
C. sheet
D. freedom
3.The film is only for the grown-up.
It reads: “________ Only.”
A. Infants
B. Strangers
C. Friends
D. Adults
4.Mr. Brown is a very ________ speaker.
A. current
B. forceful
C. drifting
D. continental
5.She ________ her voice on the phone.
A. pretended
B. disguised
C. covered
D. wrapped
6.The young lady ________ for help when a man robbed her of her bag.
A. burst
B. crashed
C. clipped
D. screamed
7.That famous professor is always ________ by students.
A. surrounded
B. explored
C. following
D. wrapped
8.This is a ________ car, which he bought himself last year.
A. old
B. public
C. private
D. individual
9.Yesterday, an ________ guest came to my home.
A. strange
B. military
C. unexpected
D. foreign
10.________ illness is increasing all over the world.
A. Mind
B. Mental
C. Military
D. Perception
11.These words were ________ from the sentence.
A. contained
B. hired
C. deleted
D. driven
12.We can see a ________ line for cars in the street.
A. continuous
B. constant
C. frequent
D. continual
13.Two U.S. ships ________ the Arctic in 1959.
A. searched for
B. invented
C. discovered
D. explored
14.Mr. Li and I have kept a ________ of more than ten years.
A. address
B. coincidence
C. friendship
D. congressman
15.The only thing he ________ about is money.
A. matters
B. cares
C. unfamiliar
D. likes
16.Mr. and Mrs. White have ________ a very good housekeeper.
A. hired
B. rent
C. borrowed
D. lent
17.She ________ into laughter when she saw a funny picture.
A. wrapped
B. surrounded
C. disguised
D. burst
18.The ________ carried the sailboat down the river and out into the sea.
A. current
B. contain
C. settlement
D. cruel
19.I want ________ to express my thoughts.
A. pound
B. exception
C. freedom
D. institution
20.My father has ________ the company for many years.
A. served
B. worked
C. done
D. made
21.He ________ up the baby in a blanket.
A. wrapped
B. surrounded
C. disguised
D. covered
22.There is a ________ park in this district.
A. close
B. nearby
C. nearside
D. next
23.By a strange ________ we happened to be traveling on the same train.
A. coincidence
B. appointment
C. babysitter
D. conjunction
24.I must find out how this machine ________.
A. clips
B. operates
C. deletes
D. hires
25.This magazine is published ________. We can buy it once a month.
A. monthly
B. weekly
C. quarterly
D. daily
26.Your picture is good ________ some of the colours.
A. besides
B. in addition to
C. except
D. except for
27.It is not a popular belief. ________, I think it is true.
A. Nevertheless
B. As a result
C. In effect
D. In fact
28.Mary couldn’t open the front door because she ________ the key.
A. has forgotten
B. was forgetting
C. had forgotten
D. forgets
29.________ he discovered in his experiment is very important to us.
A. That
B. When
C. What
D. Where
30.Bob went house-hunting for a week but still he didn’t find a room ________.
A. to live
B. for living
C. to be living in
D. to live in
31.The teacher objected to students’ ________ their opened umbrellas near the door.
A. setting
B. to set
C. having set
D. set
32.________ in bed for several hours, he felt much better.
A. Having lain
B. Having laid
C. Laying
D. Lying
33.He made the request that the problem ________ at the meeting.
A. is discussed
B. discusses
C. be discussed
D. will be discussed
34.She was ________ and did not know what was waiting before her.
A. puzzling
B. puzzled
C. being puzzled
D. puzzle
35.Only when she started to explain ________ the reason for this.
A. she realized
B. did she realize
C. she had realized
D. had she realized

二、改错题

1.You may continue to work on this test until the bell will ring.
A. may
B. to work
C. on
D. will ring
2.Seeing from the moon, our earth looks like a big bright disk.
A. Seeing
B. from
C. looks like
D. a
3.When asked why he didn’t attend the meeting, John pretended to not hear.
A. When asked
B. he didn’t
C. John
D. to not hear
4.Plastics can be used to making into many daily necessities.
A. Plastics
B. to
C. making
D. into
5.Everyone who takes the examination will receive their score reports in six weeks.
A. who
B. takes
C. their
D. in six weeks
6.The sun warms the earth, this makes it possible for plants to grow.
A. warms
B. this
C. it
D. for
7.Filling with courage, the girl said she would go there alone at night.
A. Filling
B. would go
C. alone
D. at night
8.Language learning should be a fun, and it benefits both one’s personal development and that of society as a whole.
A. a fun
B. personal development
C. that
D. as a whole
9.As air is heated by the sun, it rises and colder air rushes in to take it place, creating wind.
A. As
B. rises
C. colder
D. take it place
10.We must begin testing this instrument now, no matter however difficult it is.
A. must begin
B. testing
C. now
D. however
11.Until the day she died, the old lady who lives by the university was working part time at the language lab.
A. who
B. lives
C. by the
D. part time
12.It is known to all of us that heat can make water to change from liquid to gas.
A. is known
B. to all of us
C. to change
D. from
13.We were busy to get things ready for the trial production when he phoned us.
A. to get
B. for
C. when
D. us
14.You had better to go now, or you will miss the bus.
A. to go
B. or
C. will
D. miss
15.In the front of our house stands a tall tree without any green leaves.
A. In the front of
B. stands
C. any
D. leaves

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)

reach out | come true | different from | ask for | increase with | be covered with | show up | care for | dig into | stand for

1.UN ________ the United Nation.
stands for

2.The result was quite ________ what we had expected.
different from

3.Tom said he would come to the party, but he didn’t ________.
show up

4.Does your salary ________ the inflation every year ?
increase with

5.The girl ________ her hand for the doll.
reached out

6.The expressway ________ snow last night.
was covered with

7.He ________ the spade ________ the hard earth.
dug into

8.His dream of being on T.V. has ________.
come true

四、常用易混词辨析与练习

(A) empty, vacant

• empty 表示“空无一物”或“毫无应该有的东西”。
• vacant 表示“空间、时间没有被占用”。

1.I sat staring at the ________ sheet of paper, wondering what to write about.
A. empty
B. vacant
2.The top post in the company is still ________.
A. empty
B. vacant
3.The apartment will not be ________ till the end of the month.
A. empty
B. vacant
4.Except for the gold coin, the box was ________.
A. empty
B. vacant

(B) calm, quiet, still, silent

• calm(安静)指海洋风平浪静，人心平气和，镇静。
• quiet(静)指没有吵闹声，人的性情温和安静。
• still(寂静、不动)指没声音或没动静。
• silent(沉默)指不开口。

1.My father was ________ on the subject of where we were going for our holiday.
A. calm
B. quiet
C. still
D. silent
2.The patient was finally ________ after a restless night.
A. calm
B. quiet
C. still
D. silent
3.She remained quite ________ after I told her the bad news.
A. calm
B. quiet
C. still
D. silent
4.The sea became ________ toward sundown.
A. calm
B. quiet
C. still
D. silent
5.How ________ everything is! There is not a sound to be heard.
A. calm
B. quiet
C. still
D. silent