二、单项填空(每小题1.5分，满分15分)

16. There’s a bird _______in the tree.

A. sing   B. sings   C. singing   D. to sing

17. The girl wasn’t _______to carry the basket of bananas.

A. too strong  B. enough strong C. strong enough  D. so strong

18. Please be quiet. Our teacher doesn’t allow _______much noise in the classroom.

A. make   B. to make  C. making    D. to making

19. As we all know, sheep feed _______ grass.

A. in   B. on   C. at     D. out

20. In the modern city it was difficult for the old woman from the countryside _______a job.

A. find    B. to find   C. look     D. to look for

21. My sister wants to _______a company when she grows up.

A. give up  B. look up  C. set up    D. pick up

22.In order to _______the sunrise, today all the children got up very early.

A. see   B. saw   C. seeing    D. sees

23. When Robert was a small boy, he _______playing the piano.

A. was interested in     B. was good for

C. was good with     D. was strict with

24. If farmers _______the land, the animals won’t have any places to live in.

A. took away   B. put up   C. took off    D. put on

25. The American dance made me _______my aunt in Canada.

A. look up   B. looked up  C. think of   D. thought of