二.请从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语并用其正确形式填空。

agriculture, decorate, energy, religion, society, play tricks on, in memory of

look forward to, day and night, as though, dress up, took place, in the shape of

1. You don’t need to ________, just to go to the pub — jeans and a T-shirt will do.

2. The police may never discover what ________ that night, because Mr Smith, the only eyewitness, died last night.

3. I hate the smell of paint when I’m ________.

4. Luckily, help arrived ________ a police officer.

5. It’s acceptable to ________ your friends on April 1st.

6. The government set up a monument ________ the heroes who died in the war.

7. I’m ________ hearing from you.

8. He behaved ________ he hadn’t known anything about it.

9. Those workers worked ________ to finish the task.

10. The country’s economy is mainly ________ and depends on crops like coffee.

11. Most British schools organize ________ events for the students.

12. I tried aerobics (有氧运动) but it was too ________ for me.

13. He’s deeply ________ and goes to church twice a week.

三.完形填空.

Mr.West intended to buy his wife a Christmas present,but he was always very busy,so he was never  21  to find time to go to the shops.At last,when it was the week   22  Christmas,and the shops were very crowded,he  23  that he could not wait any longer.He worked in an office,and     24   had lunch in a restaurant,but one day he bought some sandwiches,ate them quickly and went out to a big shop near his office during his lunch   25  .The shop was full of women,who were also buying presents during their lunch hour.

Mr.West stood politely at the edge(边)of a crowd of women who were    26   forward to try to get to the people who were  27  necklaces and earrings.He tried to move forward slowly,taking his turn with the others,but more and more women were   28  into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly past him.

After half an hour,he was just as far from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been   29  he came in,and his lunch hour was coming to an end,so he decided to change his     30  of doing things:he put his head down,  31   a sudden loud shout and started to push his way towards the  32  of the crowd as hard as he could.

The women around him became very   33  when they saw what he was doing,and began to scold him.“Why can’t you behave like a gentleman?”they shouted.

“Ladies,”he   34  them,“I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half hour,and it has done me no   35  ,so now I am starting to behave like a lady!”

1.A.sure    B.certain    C.able   D.possible

2.A.before   B.after    C.till   D.within

3.A.promised   B.decided   C.agreed   D.insisted

4.A.never   B.sometimes   C.seldom   D.usually

5.A.hour   B.moment   C.minute   D.second

6.A.pulling   B.pushing   C.gathering  D.managing

7.A.selling   B.buying    C.choosing  D.seizing

8.A.going   B.entering   C.fetching  D.coming

9.A.where   B.until    C.when   D.even if

10.A.habit   B.way    C.action   D.sign

11.A.caught   B.made    C.blew   D.gave

12.A.center   B.end    C.front   D.back

13.A.patient   B.angry    C.surprised  D.nervous

14.A.hated   B.waved    C.explained  D.answered

15.A.treasure   B.good    C.respect   D.present