1. A. mind  B. favor C.abandon D. appreciate

2. A. content B. product C. individual  D. style

3. A. strange B. common C. amusing D perfect

4. A. description  B. decision C. discussion  D permission

5. A. stupid B. funny C. impressive D. ridiculous

6. A. customers B. colleagues C. consumers  D. employees

7. A. expensive  B. valueless C. popular D. meaningless

8. A. grand  B. difficult C. unique  D. secure

9. A. refer to B. serve as C. stand for  D. keep off

10. A. location  B. business-hours   C. salary D. details

11. A. unbelievably  B. consequently   C. accidentally D. occasionally

12. A. speech  B. sport  C. debate  D. performance

13. A. . differently B. vividly C. exactly  D. skillfully

14. A. production  B. friendship  C. management D. business

15. A. spreads B. exists   C. increases D . works

第二节  语法填空 (共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为l6—25的相应位置上。

It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas .A poorly dressed man  __16__(hurry) walked into a bar and asked for a glass of water. All of a sudden, the girl behind the counter pulled out a gun and shot him___17___(death). Hearing the gunshot, all the customers ___18___(flee)from the bar. Why? The reader is asked to give ___19___ reasonable explanation for the strange happening. All kinds of suggestions are made: she recognized him ___20___ a dangerous criminal on the run; she thought he was about to attack her; she misheard __21___ he said; asking for a glass of water had a special secret for ___22___ and so on. All the explanations suppose that the gun was used in order to harm the man.It is very easy ____23___( block) by this obvious idea. In fact, the explanation is that the man had a bad attack of hiccups(打嗝), ___24__ is why he asked for a glass of water. The girl behind the bar was in fact trying to help him, ___25____ she knew that a sudden fight could cure hiccups. Unknown to her, the gun happened to have been put bullets in that day.

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