一、选择题：

　　1.The boy’s new bike was______envy of his friends.

　　A.a　 　　　 B.the

　　C./　 　　　 D.an

　　解析 考查冠词。本句中envy为of his friends所限制，表特指。

　　答案 B

　　2.How I______him the pleasure he had during the vacation!

　　A.envy B.admire

　　C.appreciate D.enjoy

　　解析 句意：我多么忌妒他在假期间的快乐。admire“羡慕”后接for;appreciate欣赏;enjoy喜欢。

　　答案 A

　　3.I was about to______the phone when it was______.

　　A.reply;rung off B.receive;rung up

　　C.answer;rung off D.answer;rung up

　　解析 answer the telephone“接电话”;ring off“挂断电话”。句意：我正要接电话，这时电话挂断了。

　　答案 C

　　4.We feel sympathy______the deaths in the earthquake.

　　A.in B.for

　　C.with D.on

　　解析 feel sympathy for“对某人深感同情”。

　　答案 B

　　5.Out of______for the homeless children，he gave them shelter for the night.

　　A.pity B.shame

　　C.sympathy D.mercy

　　解析 考查sympathy的用法。句意：出于对无家可归的孩子们的同情，他给他们提供了住处。out of sympathy for是固定短语，意为“出于对……的同情”，符合句意。pity“怜悯;惋惜”;shame“可惜;羞愧”;mercy“仁慈”;三者皆不合句意。

　　答案 C

　　6.Many couples______to adopt the baby which survived the earthquake.

　　A.are desiring B.have been desiring

　　C.have desired D.desire

　　解析 考查时态。desire“想要，渴望”，不用进行时，分析句子可知，此处不表示动作的先后，所以选项D合适。

　　答案 D

　　7.Try to ______ at least an hour each day for learning new vocabulary.

　　A.set off B.set out

　　C.set aside D.set down

　　解析 句意：争取每天至少抽出1小时时间学习新词汇。set aside为某种目的留出、拨出(金钱、时间)等，符合句意。

　　答案 C

　　8.Tomorrow the mayor is to______a group of Canadian businessmen on a tour of the city.

　　A.coordinate B.accompany

　　C.cooperate D.associate

　　解析 从“a tour of the city”，“the mayor”和“Canadian businessmen”可确定答案为accompany陪伴，陪同。coordinate调和，协调;cooperate合作;associate联合。句意：明天市长将陪同加拿大商人游览本市。

　　答案 B

　　9.At 3：30 p.m.the chairman______the meeting closed.

　　A.decided B.declared

　　C.announced D.informed

　　解析 考查动词的基本意思。根据句子意思，应该为“宣布”会议闭幕。

　　答案 B

　　10.Gathering clouds______the coming storm.

　　A.declared B.turned out

　　C.connected D.announced

　　解析 announce此处表示“显示，预告”。

　　答案 D

　　11.______that______;you might break it.

　　A.Leave;off B.Leave;out

　　C.Leave;alone D.Leave;over

　　解析 leave off“停止，结束”;leave out“忘掉，漏掉”;leave alone“不管，不打扰”;leave over “留下;剩下”。句意：别动它，否则你会把它弄坏的。

　　答案 C

　　12.It’s unnatural for a mother to leave her child______to enjoy herself.

　　A.alone B.lonely

　　C.lone D.loneliness

　　解析 leave...alone表示“丢下……不管”，是一个固定短语。

　　答案 A

　　13.The escaped prisoner，______，looked up and stared in the direction where the noise came from.

　　A.alarming B.alarmed

　　C.having alarmed D.to be alarmed

　　解析 由语境可知，这里描述的是越狱的囚犯听到声音的样子，所以应该用alarmed，意思是“惊恐的”。

　　答案 B

　　14.If asked，I ______ his opinion of going abroad for further study.After all，it is a good chance to train himself.

　　A.declared for B.declared against

　　C.agreed on D.protected against

　　解析 考查短语辨析。由下文的After all，it is a good chance to train himself可推知，“我”是赞成他出国留学的，故选择declare for，其意为“宣布赞成”。declare against表态反对，声称反对;protect against“使……免受……”。

　　答案 A

　　15.At the bad news，she was so sad ______ I had to stay here keeping her ______.

　　A.that;companion B.then;companies

　　C.that;company D.and;accompany

　　解析 考查结果状语从句及固定搭配。句意：听到这个不好的消息，她如此悲伤以至于我得留下来陪她。此句采用了“so...that”结构，that引导的是结果状语从句;keep sb.company为固定表达，意思是“陪伴某人”或“为某人作伴”。

　　答案 C