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1、[单选题]“This Is Your Life” is one of the most popular programmes on British and American television. Every week a famous person is invited to a television studio, without knowing that he or she will be the subject of the programme. The _______ meets the person outside the studio and says “This is your life!”
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A.comrade
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B.company
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C.compare
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D.compere
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2、[单选题]“What’s the most exciting thing that’s happened to you lately?” “Just call me _______. My wife and I had our first baby.” “Oh, that’s wonderful. ”
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3、[单选题]He told me that some people could remember their past lives when they were hypnotised. And he asked if I wanted to try. I didn’t believe it at first, but _______ I agreed.
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A.in the end
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B.at the end
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C.finally
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D.at last
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4、[单选题]Well, as you can see from the weather map, there’s varied weather activity across the United States and Canada today. Let’s start with the west coast, where it’s raining from British Columbia down to _______ California.
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A.eastern
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B.western
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C.southern
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D.northern
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5、[单选题]People who drank beer one or more times a day reported the least amount of illness. Heavy drinkers, however—people who drank _______ or more pints of beer a week—reported more illness.
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6、[单选题]Herbert Wilson and his wife went to the Isle of Wight for their summer holiday. But they were by no means _______ with their hotel. As soon as they returned home, Herbert decided to write to the Manager of Happytours.
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A.peace
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B.pleasant
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C.pleased
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D.police
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7、[单选题]“That’s all very well if you live in the country where they speak the language but I _______.” “Yes, I understand the problem. Though even if you live in the country where the language is spoken, you have to reach a certain standard before you are able to have conversations with the natives. I was thinking perhaps you might arrange with another student or students to have regular conversation practice.”
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A.don’t
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B.won’t
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C.wasn’t
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D.weren’t
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8、[单选题]“We’re going on holiday to relax after the move, you see, and I wanted to take something with me to read.” “I’m sorry, but we can’t _______ issue tickets without some form of identification.”
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A.probably
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B.possibly
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C.probable
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D.possible
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9、[单选题]Sarah has a well-fed happy husband and four healthy children. When she was _______, I was learning to type. When she was knitting, I was writing articles for the school newspaper. When she was having her second child, I was in Panama, doing my first job for United Information Services.
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A.watching up
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B.washing up
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C.wishing up
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D.working up
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10、[单选题]The EEC is to give another ₤31 million to Britain’s poorer areas. The _______ from the regional development fund includes ₤13.5 million for Northern Ireland and ₤10 million for industrial improvement and road works in the north of England.
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A.aid
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B.eight
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C.AIDS
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D.ace
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11、[单选题]It is a sad fact that in Britain the real newspapers, the ones that report the facts, sell in thousands, while the popular papers that set out to shock or amuse have a circulation of several million. One’s inescapable conclusion is that the vast majority of British readers do not really want a proper newspaper _______. They just want a few pages of entertainment.
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A.at all
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B.talk
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C.to all
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D.for all
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12、[单选题]“Dr. Jones, how exactly would you _______ eccentricity?” “Well, we all have our own particular habits which others find irritating or amusing, but an eccentric is someone who behaves in a totally different manner from those in the society in which he lives.”
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A.design
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B.resign
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C.refine
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D.define
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13、[单选题]I like to sort of educate people about their bodies, and show them, you know, how to do the exercises and movements safely. Like, it just _______ me when I see people trying to do situps with straight legs—it’s so bad for your back!
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A.cures
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B.amuses
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C.kills
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D.fills
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14、[单选题]At first it was fun, because there was so much to learn and working with figures and money was interesting. But after about two years the thrill was gone, and now it’s very routine. I keep the books, do the payroll, pay the _______, pay the insurance, pay the bills. I hate paying the bills, because there is never enough money to pay them.
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A.taxis
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B.tax
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C.texts
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D.taxes
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15、[单选题]In this week’s edition of “Up with People”, we went out into the streets and asked a number of people a question they just didn’t expect. We asked them to be self-critical…to ask themselves exactly what they thought they lacked or—the other side of the coin—what _______ they had.
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A.futures
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B.virtues
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C.values
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D.fortunes
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