Learning-about-Language.doc

Learning about Language
I. 根据下列各句句意及所给单词的汉语提示，写出该单词的正确形式。
1. It is known to us that they ______ (贡献) to the development of computers in our country.
2. We love the performance of ______ (烟火) at New Year’s Eve.
3. In order to ______ (建设) the new countryside, he gave up his comfortable life to settle down in the countryside.
II. 用方框内所给短语的适当形式填空。
come to an end, make one’s way to, apart from,
make faces, make up one’s mind
1. I’ve finished all the questions ________ the last one because it’s so difficult.
2. It’s already 12:00 a.m. and the meeting seems to ________.
3. David was ________ at me through the window.
4. He couldn’t ________ about what to do with the money.
5. Don’t worry. I can ________ the beach.
III. 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. Caroline heard that some lawyers can get ______ over $400 an hour, so she wanted to study law at university.
A. pay B. paying
C. paid D. to pay
2. The Emperor’s New Clothes is an ______ text. All of us are ______ about it.
A. exciting; exciting B. excited; excited
C. excited; exciting D. exciting; excited
3. There are many new English words ______ to the new edition of the dictionary.
A. add B. to add
C. added D. adding
4. The eight pandas ______ to Beijing tomorrow will live in the Beijing Zoo.
A. to take B. taken
C. to be taken D. taking
5. My teacher suggested the dictionary ______ be bought in three days.
A. refer to B. referring to
C. referred to D. to refer to
6. It remains ______ when we’ll have the next meeting.
A. to decide B. to be decided
C. deciding D. decided
7. —I’m very ______ with my cooking. It looks nice and smells delicious.
—Mm. It does have a ______ smell.
A. pleasant; pleased B. pleased; pleased
C. pleasant; pleasant D. pleased; pleasant
8. The man ______ just now was found driving after drinking two weeks age.
A. set free B. was set free
C. to set free D. having set free
Answers:
I. 1. contributed 2. fireworks 3. construct
II. 1. apart from 2. have come to an end 3. making faces
4. make up his mind 5. make my way to
III. 1-5 CDCCC 6-8 BDA