Choose the best answer.
His main interest lies ...........research, not ............managerial work.




A.on/in
B.in/in
C.on/on
D.in/on

Choose the best answer.
Next summer, we're .....................a swimming pool built in our back garden.




A.making
B.deciding
C.letting
D.having

Choose the best answer.
The class stands up as you enter the room and you say, "................."




A.Take a sit
B.sit yourselves
C.Take your seat
D.sit you

Pick out the word whose stress is placed differently.




A.disappear
B.engineer
C.education
D.attachment

Pick out the word whose stress pattern is different
(28)




A.diversity
B.opportunity
C.revolutionary
D.reservation

Helen left her camping _______ behind when she went camping.




A.packet
B.tools
C.gear
D.kit

Many people get sick after ______ the fish ______ in the polluted waters.




A.they eat – catching
B.having been eaten – being caught
C.having eaten- are caught
D.eating – caught

I ______ the sales manager now if I _______ such a terrible mistake




A.would be / didn’t make
B.will be/ haven’t made
C.would be / had not made
D.would have been/ had not made

Read the following passage and then choose the best answer
The most important celebration holiday inChinais the New Year. At this time shops are closed. The people celebrate by feasting, by paying friendly calls to their neighbors, and by visiting the temples to make promises for the New Year. Children parade through the streets carrying colorful lanterns and paper figures. Firecrackers similar to those used in theUnited Stateson the Fourth of July are set off. In fact, on the night that the New Year's celebration begins, the exploding fireworks make so much noise that no one is able to sleep.
The time of the New Year is also the time at which Chinese people refresh their homes. For example, the windows, which are made of thick rice paper, are torn down, and new ones are put up. This is also the time during which people pay their debts. Every man tries to settle all his bills before the beginning of the New Year.
This article as a whole is about ...................... .




A.New Year's promises
B.paying debts
C.The Chinese New Year
D.holiday China

Choose the best option to complete the blanks in the following passage:
The FIFA Women's World Cup is the (26) _____ important international competition in woman's football. Contested (27)_______four years, the first women's world cup tournament, named the Women's world championship, was held in 1991, 61 years after the men first FIFA World Cup tournament in 1930. The current format has 16 _(28)________ compete every four years for the winner trophy. Of the first four tournaments held, theUSAhas won the championship twice. Since its first tournament , the Women 's world cup has continued to grow in popularity. FIFA estimates that there are currently forty millions girls and women (29)_______ football around the world, and the number of women will equal to the number of men by 2010.
(26)




A.most
B.almost
C.mostly
D.more