韦思外语培训中心专练（二）
一．选择题
1.______recent report stated that the number of Spanish speakers in the U.S. would be higher than the number of English speaker by_____ year 2090. A, the B. A, / C. The ,/ D. The, a
2.If you go by ______train ,you can have quite a comfortable journey, but make sure you get _____fast one. A. /, / B./, a C. the, a D./,/
3. It is often said that ____teachers have _______very easy life. A /,/ B. /,a C. the,/ D. the, a 4.I can't remember when exactly the Robinsons left _____city ,I only remember it was ______ Monday. A.the , the B. a ,the C. a, a D. the, a
5.If you grow up in ______large family, you are more likely to develop _____ability to get on well with ______others. A. /,an，the B. a, the,/ C. the,an,the D. a, the,the
6.Mrs Taylor has ___8-year-old daughter who has _____gift for painting –she has won two national prizes. A. a, a B. an ,the C. an ,a D. the
7.Afetr dinner he gave Mr. Richardson ________ride to ________Capital Airport. A .the, a B. A,the C. /, a D. /, the
8.On May 5,2005,at ___World Table Tennis Championship ,Kong Ling hui and Wang Hao won the gold medal in men's with ____score of 4:1. A. a ,a B. / the C. a ,/ D. the ,a
9.I knew______John Lennon,but not ____famous one. A. /,a B. a ,the C. /,the D. the, a
10.The book tells ____life story of John Smith ,who left _______school and worked for a newspaper at the age of 16. A. the, the B. a , the C. the./ D. a,/
11.When you come here for your holiday next time, don't go to _____hotel; I can find you ______bed in my flat. A. the ,a B. the,/ C. a ,the D. a,/
12.If you buy more than ten, they will knock 20 pence off________. A. a price B. price C. the price D. prices
13.____on-going division between English –speaking Canadians and French-speaking Canadians is _______major concern of the country. A. The ,/ B. The ,a C. An ,the D. An,/
14.When he left _____college, he got a job as ______reporter in a newspaper office .
A. /, a B /, the C .a the D .the, the
15.The most important thing about cotton in history is ___ part that it played in ____Industrial Revolution.
A. /,/ B. the,/ C. the , the D. a ,the
16.While he was investigating ways to improve the telescope Newton made _______discovery which completely changed ____ man's understanding of color. A. a ,/ B. a ,the C. /, the D. the ,a 17.It is ___world of wonders, _____world where anything can happen.
A. a. the B. a, a C. the, a D. /,/
18.The Wilsons live in ______A-shaped house near the coast. It is _______17th century cottage. A. the, / B. an, the C. /, the D. an ,a
19.Tom owns ______larger collection of ______books than any other student in our class. A. the ,/ B. a,/ C. a ,the D. /, the
20.For a long time they walked without saying ___word. Jim was the first to break _____silence. A. the, a B. a ,the C. a ,/ D. the,/
二．完形填空
Dear grandma,
How is it going? I hope that grandpa is now. I was sorry to hear that he had a last week. I hope you are in good health.
Things are fine now. I finished my end-of-year exams last week and got my 3 card today. I always get 4 when I see the envelope from school in the mail, but I did OK this time. I had a really hard with science this semester, and I wasn't surprised to find that my worst report was from my science teacher. She said I was lazy,