Bill was about average in performance in comparison with other students in his class.
A.about average
B.in
C.with other
D.his

Fiona has been typing the report for an hour.
A.Fiona will finish the report in an hour.
B.It is an hour since Fiona started typing the report.
C.Fiona finished the report an hour ago.
D.It took Fiona an hour to type the report.

“We lost the last game because of the referee,” said the team captain.
A.The team captain said that without the referee, they might have lost the last game.
B.The team captain refused to tell the referee about their loss in the last game.
C.The team captain admitted to the referee that they had lost the last game.
D.The team captain blamed the referee for their loss in the last game.

“If I were you, I would not choose to write about such a sensitive topic,” the teacher said.
A.The teacher advised me on writing about such a sensitive topic.
B.I was ordered by the teacher not to write about such a sensitive topic.
C.I was blamed for writing about such a sensitive topic by the teacher.
D.The teacher advised me against writing about such a sensitive topic.

They couldn’t climb up the mountain because of the storm.
A.The storm made it not capable of climbing up the mountain.
B.Their climbing up the mountain was unable due to the storm.
C.The storm made them impossible to climb up the mountain.
D.The storm discouraged them from climbing up the mountain.

Jack: “What’s wrong with you?”
Jill: “______.”
A.A. Thank you very much
B.I’m having a slight headache
C.No, I don’t care
D.Yes, I was tired yesterday

Peter had very little money but managed to make ends meet.
A.Peter found it hard to live on very little money.
B.Peter could hardly live on little money.
C.Having little money, Peter couldn’t make ends meet.
D.Peter got by on very little money.

She has lost her appetite recently.
A.She hasn’t had any food recently.
B.She has gone off food recently.
C.She hasn’t eaten a lot of food recently.
D.Her appetite has been very good.

_________ (17)
A.alter
B.evolve
C.develop
D.change

B. Reading comprehension: Read the text and choose the best answer.
A new study shows that women can reduce their chances of developing heart disease by jogging for about three hours every week. The researchers at Harvard Medical School in Bostonhave just reported the results of the study on the New England Journal of Medicine. The study is the first to show the effectiveness of jogging in the developing of heart disease in women. Only a few earlier studies have examined the effects of jogging on the heart, but nearly all have been done on men. The new study involves more than 72,000 women between the ages of forty and sixty-five during a period of eight years. The researchers have found that women who jog at least three hours a week have a thirty to forty percent lower chance of suffering a heart attack than those who do not.
Most of the earlier studies have been done on __________.
A.babies
B.children
C.women
D.men