—What is Mr.White, do you know?

—I don’t know exactly．But I think he can be_______but a doctor．

A．anybody                 B．something          C．anything                 D．everybody

Those books ______ in brown paper are for the kids so that the kids will not easily tear them

up．

      A．to do with        B．done up                  C．being done             D．having done over

Deserts, dry areas with _____ no vegetation, cover more than one-third of the Earth's land surface.

   A. surprisingly    B. eventually

   C. permanently     D. virtually

A successful scientist needs _____ if he wants to make hypothesis (假设) of how processes work and how events take place.

   A. permission     B. penetration

   C. imagination    D. convention

 John always tries to _____ people who are useful to him professionally.

A. develop B. provoke C. correspond  D. cultivate

[答案]D. cultivate.

[注释]cultivate sb.结识（有地位的人），培养与......的友谊：He always tries to cultivate rich and famous people.(他总是极力结识有钱的知名人士。)

本题译文：约翰总是力图结识在职业方面对他有用的人。

. He _____ the place where he had been bitten by an insect.

A. snatched B. scratched  C. squeezed  D. stretched

This watch is _____ to all the other watches on the market.

A. superior  B. advantageous  C. super D. beneficial

 Everything he said then was _____ by what happened later.

A. identified  B. signified C. noticed   D. verified

Too many hotels have been built and this has _____ prices, making holidays cheaper.

   A. cut short                    B. cut out                    C. cut off                    D. cut down

The ship was _____ in a storm off Jamaica.

        A. drowned                    B. sunk                   C. wrecked           D. submitted