______ only 20 minutes to go before the train left, I felt uneasy in the taxi to the railway station.
A. For B. With C. As D. Because
If you can make what the teachers teach ________, you’ll make rapid progress.
A. yours B. yourself C. you D. your
_______ has recently been done to provide more buses for the people, a shortage of public vehicles remains a serious problem.
A. What B. Though what C. In spite of what D. However what
When a giraffe has ______ drink, it has to stand with its front legs wide apart in order to reach ______ water easily.
A. 不填；不填 B. a; the C. the; 不填 D. 不填；the
高三阶段，你校成绩排名进入前20％的同学都有保送上大学的资格，但保送的大多是语言类的专业。不少同学并不喜欢这类专业，但他们因惧怕参加竞争激烈的高考而宁愿选择保送。你觉得这些同学应该放弃保送参加高考吗？请按下列要点写一篇120-150词左右的文章阐述你的观点：
简要说明事由
你的观点
持此观点的理由
New words:
保送上大学 be recommended for admission to university
语言类专业 language majors
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加上一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
A British woman was caught on camera dumped a cat into a rubbish bin. Mary Bale, the 45-year-old bank worker, is now accused of causing unnecessary suffering to the animal, as well as failing to provide for the cat with a suitable environment. Bale will appear before magistrates（地方官员）in Coventry, central England, in October 19, 2010 to answer the charges. Both offence can carry a prison sentence and a lifetime ban from keeping animals. The cat, Lola, believed to have been stuck in the plastic bin for 15 hours until her owners Darryl and Stephanie Mann hear her miaowing（喵喵叫）. They found out that happened after checking footage from a camera she had installed at their house. The video was then posted on the video sharing site YouTube but a campaign was launched with some contributors making death threats against Bale.
