The mother often tells her son to be a good boy， warning him to ______ trouble.

    A. hold back fromB. keep out of

C. break away from D. get rid of

“Mike is not coming to the football game this afternoon.” “It’s a shame！ He _______！”

    A. promises B. promised

C. will promise  D. had promised

They won’t buy any new clothes because they _____ money to buy a new car.

    A. save                 B. were saving

C. have saved           D. are saving

“Hey, look where you are going！” “Oh, I’m terribly sorry. _____.”

    A. I’m not noticing       B. I wasn’t noticing

    C. I haven’t noticed      D. I don’t notice

Ⅲ.完形填空（每小题1分，共20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D、）中，选出最佳选项。

We all know something about Thomas Edison. He was a great American   21   .He was in school for only a short time.  22  , he had to leave the school and   23  himself at home and learned a lot. When Edison grew up, he had his own lab. He worked hard and hardly   24   to have a rest.

One day a friend of his brought a young man into his lab. He   25  the young man to Edison. He said the young man had studied in a famous university in Germany and had a lot of   26   of physics and maths. Edison was glad to work with a man like him and   27   him as a helper. A few weeks later, the young   28   about Edison’s past. He began to look down on him. Edison   29   about it, but he said   30   .

Once the young man came into the lab while Edison   31   an important experiment. He stood near the table   32   he didn’t help him. Edison stopped   33   out a bottle and said, “Go to calculate (计算)its volume(容积)and tell me the   34   in two hours.”

At first the young man thought it easy to do it. Soon he   35   it difficult. Two hours later Edison went into his office and saw a lot of paper and books on his desk. Of course he couldn’t compute the volume in the time   36   .

“Why not pour some   37   into the bottle?” said Edison. “Then you’ll   38   calculate its volume!” Having heard this, the young man’s   39   turned red, and he knew Edison was really    

  40  than him!

21.A. doctor          B. player               C. writer               D. inventor

22.A. Soon            B. After                C. Later on            D. Soon after

23.A. teach            B. play with           C. study                D. enjoy

24.A. forgot          B. remembered      C. wanted             D. hoped

25.A. showed         B. pushed              C. introduced         D. threw

26.A. news            B. books                C. knowledge         D. dictionaries

27.A. employed     B. asked                C. made                D. watched

28.A. beard           B. learned              C. read                  D. told

29.A. told              B. was told            C. said                  D. was said

30.A. something     B. everything         C. nothing             D. all

31.A. did               B. had                   C. was doing          D. was having

32.A. but              B. and                   C. as                    D. while

33.A. bringing              B. to bring             C. taking               D. to take

34.A. result           B. way                 C. idea                  D. opinion

35.A. knew            B. saw                   C. learned              D. found

36.A. given           B. followed           C. said                  D. taken

37.A. oil               B. salt                   C. water                D. food

38.A. carefully       B. slowly               C. easily                D. quietly

39.A.head              B. face                  C. eyes                  D. ears

40.A. more polite   B. stricter                     C. more kind-hearted     D. cleverer

Their problem today is somewhat similar to _____ they faced many years ago.

A. that                       B. which      C. that which                 D. it

Luckily, we’d brought a road map without ______ we would have lost our way.

A. it                  B. that      C. this                D. which

They put forward a lot of plans at the meeting, but none of _______ were carried out in their work.

    A. which               B. them      C. what                D. that

_____ is mentioned above, the number of the students in senior school is increasing.

A. Which                  B. As      C. That                   D. It

_____ of you comes first will get the ticket.

A. Which       B. Whichever

C. Who   D. Whatever