Part I: Vocabulary and Structure (10 × 3′)
A:Mother.you promised to take me out. B:Well_____
The additional work will take _____ weeks.
It's getting late. I'd rather you _____ now.
After____ seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel manager's office.
The priest made the ________ of the cross when he entered the church.
This sort of rude behavior in public hardly ______a person in your position.
I’d like to have a ____ word with his parents.
Outside my office window there is a fire ____ on the right.
Fool ____ Jerry is, he could not have done such a thing.
The research requires more money than ________.
As she walked round the huge department store, Edith reflected how difficult it was to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wishes that he was as easy to please as her mother, who was always delighted
with perfume. Besides, shopping at this time of the year was a most disagreeable experience; people trod on your toes, poked you with their elbows and almost knocked you over in their haste to get to a bargain ahead of you.Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter where some attractive ties were on display. "They are real silk," the assistant assured her, trying to tempt her. "Worth doubles the price." But edit knew from past
experience that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father. She moved on reluctantly and then quite by chance, stopped where a small crowd of man had gathered round a counter. She found some good quality pipes on sale-----and the prices were very reasonable. Edith did not hesitate for long; although her father only smoked a pipe occasionally,she knew that this was a present which was bund to please him. When she got home, with her small well-chosen present concealed in her handbag, her parents were already at the supper table. Her mother was in an especially cheerful mood, "Your father has at last to decide to stop smoking." She informed her daughter.
Edith's father _______.
The assistant spoke to Edith because she seemed_______.
Edith stopped at the next counter_________.
Edith's father smoked a pipe_______.
The sun was shining quite brightly as Mrs. Grant left her house, so she decided not to __1__an umbrella with her. She got on the bus to the town and before long it began to rain. The rain had not stopped __2__the bus arrived at the market half an hour later. Mrs. Grant stood up and absent-mindedly picked up the umbrella that was __3__on the seat in front of her. A cold voice said loudly, “That is mine, Madam! “Suddenly remembering that she had come out without her umbrella, Mrs. Grant felt __4__for what she had done, trying at the same time to take no notice of the unpleasant __5__the owner of the umbrella was giving her.When she got off the bus, Mrs. Grant made straight for a shop where she could buy an umbrella. She found a
pretty one and bought it. Then she _ 6 _to buy another as a present for her daughter. Afterwards she did the rest of her__7__and had lunch in a restaurant. In the afternoon she got on the homeward bus with the two umbrellas under her arm, and sat down. Then she _ 8 _ that, by a curious coincidence, she was sitting next to the woman who had made her feel _ 9 _that morning. That woman now looked at her, and then at the umbrellas. “You’ve had quite a good __10__,”she said.
Part IV: Translation (10× 2′)
Of course,alcohol and tobacco were forbidden.
The crowds melted away.
Their power increased with their number.
Every life has its roses and thorns.
Jane does not work hard for earning money.
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