______ the problem of water pollution gets more serious, the government is searching for a way to deal with it.
A.Providing                         
B.Although                     
C.However                     
D.Because

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She really treasures the ______ car that she inherits from her grandfather.
A.big old green antique      
B.green old big antique
C.green big old antique       
D.old big green antique

What aspect of broad-tailed hummingbird behaviour does the passage mainly discuss?


 
A.Migration routes.
B.Mating habits.
C.Caring for the young.
D.Selection of nest sites.

A. volcanic
B.secretary
C.advocate
D.properly

A.preferential          
B. international
C. invaluable
D.unidentified

Read the passage below and choose the best answer for each question.
Miss Richards was a teacher at a school in England. She taught chemistry and physics from the lowest to the highest classes in the school. Sometimes the new classes learnt quickly , but sometimes they were very slow, and then Miss Richards had to repeat things many times. One year , the first class had studied chemistry for several weeks when Miss Richards suddenly asked : “ What is water?” . There was a silence for a few seconds, and Miss Richards felt sad , but then one of the boys raised his hand. He was not one of the most intelligent students in the class, so she was glad that he could answer “ Water is a liquid which has no colour until you wash your hands in it,” the boy replied.
How did Miss Richards feel when the students couldn’t answer her question immediately?
A.happy  
B. normal  
C.miserable  
D.unhappy

I like Jim , who is very good at ________judgments.
A.giving         
B. doing 
C.making         
D.getting

The school required that every student _________before September 1st .
A.register 
B.registered 
C. registers            
D.was registered

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.
The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today's Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst's rival New York paper, the Morning Journal.
Both were immensely popular, and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the "Yellow Kid," the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The "Yellow Kid" was in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech ballon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters' heads.
The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks's "Katzenjammer Kids," based on Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The "Kids" strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of earlier comics.
Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. The first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-white comic strip had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country.
The word “it” refers to _________.
A.The“Yellow Kid”
B.dialogue                  
C.farce                       
D.balloon

Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.
When I go out to eat with my friends, we usually                    . This way everyone knows that he or she is spending.
A.go Dutch   
B.run in the family
C.keep up with the Joneses
D.are a man of means