The opening province which ______ thirteen counties and three coastal cities will quicken its paces of economic development.
A. consists of B. makes up of C. is included D. is contained
—What shall I do with the medicine?
—The instructions _______ that you should take three pills a day.
A. speak B. write C. say D. tell
—I wonder if you could go to the movie with me.
—Oh, just leave me alone. I _______ a composition all the morning and haven’t finished yet.
A. write B. was writing C. have written D. have been writing
We are sparing no efforts to create ______ more peaceful and more advanced world, ______ place where everyone enjoy his life and freedom.
A. the；a B. /；the C. a；a D. the；the
根据提示翻译。（共5小题，计10分, 每小题2分）
1. 父母们总是不允许他们的孩子晚上外出。(permit …to)
2. 他不可能在这出现的，我刚才在电影院还看见他呢。(情态动词)
3. 既然我们已经完成了设计，就该有公司来进行建设了。( now that; in one’s turn)
4. 我向他许诺说我一到北京就给他写信。（用同位语从句）
5. 他已经负债很久了，如何谋生成了大问题。(in debt; earn one’s living)
课文填空。以下是两篇课文选段，请任意选择一篇，并根据课文，在文中划线处填上适当单词，每空一词， (共10小题，计10分)
1). Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to ___1_____ the ancestors, who might return _____2__ to help or to do ____3____. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in ____4____ of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think this will __5_____ the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November. _6____ this important feast day, people eat food in the _7____ of skulls and cakes with “ bones” on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had its ___8______in old _____9_ about the return of the spirits of dead people. It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. If neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a __10____ on them.
2) According to a widely ____1___ theory, the universe began _____2__ a “Big Bang” that threw matter in all _____3____. After the “Big Bang”, the earth was still just a cloud of dust. ___4____ it was to become was uncertain until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust _____5___ into a solid _____6__. The earth became so _____7___ that it was not clear ____8_____ the shape would last or not. It ____9______ loudly with fire and rock. They were in time to produce carbon, nitrogen, water vapour and other gases, which were to make the earth’s ___10______.
