（2010·黑龙江省哈九中高三三模）   22．------ What do you think of the concert?

   ------ I really enjoy it．I didn’t expect it was ______ wonderful．

A．more       B．very   C．most     D．as

（2010·海南省高三五校联考） 26．---Does Rita feel better today?

   ---Her condition has        improved, but it will be some time before she returns to school．

       A．sooner or later  B．more or less

       C．now and then   D．once in a while

（2010·山东淄博高三二模）    34. Nowhere else, as his mother told us, __________ except the cabin in the backyard.

A. did he go   B. he did go           C. went he             D. he went

（2010·黑龙江省哈九中高三三模） 25．----- It appears that your relationship with Mike is not normal, doesn’t it?

----- I thought of him as a trustworthy friend _____, to my shock, he gave me away to the boss．

A．unless      B．since        C．for        D．until

（2010·上海黄浦区、嘉定区高三高考模拟）    26.   There is only one dress of this kind left here. I wonder if you still want to buy _____.

A. it               B. one            C. some          D. any

（2010·山东潍坊高考模拟训练A）      25. The police have issued a detailed       of the missing boy.

A. direction    B.expression          C.description         D.instruction

However, there was one band that started in a different way. It began as a TV show. The musicians of   31________ the band was formed played jokes   32___________    each other as well as played music. Their music and jokes were based loosely on the band called “The Beatles”. The TV organizers  33      (look) for four musicians who were lively and who could make good music. They put an advertisement in a newspaper  34      (look) for rock musicians, but they could only find one that was good enough. They had to use actors for the other members of the band. Actors may not be able to sing so at first other musicians sang the songs for the programme   35       the band pretended to sing them.

Their attractive performances  36      (copy) by other groups and their fans supported them fiercely. Each week the group that was called “The Monkees” would play a song or two written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became   37        (serious) about their work, “The Monkees” started to play their own instruments and write their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. They became even more popular than “The Beatles” in the USA and sold even more records. However, the band broke   38          in about 1970, but  39        (unite) in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, which was a  40         (celebrate) of their time as a real band.

When I was in Germany, one day at Christmas time I went to a post office to send a letter. (1)      my surprise. I found people queuing some paces away (2)___   the person at the savings deposit (存款)window. Why so? Each did his business in turn (3)     the line never moved a step nearer. I was very curious, so I walked to the window to find out the (4)_____. There was a notice on (5) ____ was written “Thank you for your respect for others’ privacy”, a polite warning to keep people away from nosing into(干涉)others’ affairs. Money matters are (6)___as privacy in Western countries.  I was deeply impressed by the sight and stayed a while to watch: they were waiting so calmly at a distance that they seemed quite used to the practice .The same thing happened at a public telephone box. Those waiting for their turns always kept their distance enough to be out of hearing.  It’s another typical example!

From then on, I took care to watch their ways of doing things, manners, and treatment shown towards others. I found the Germans always (7) ___________ (mind) of others’ privacy. They avoided putting others in an embarrassing situation. For instance, they never asked about age, incomes or the place to buy such a coat, nor (8)______ ______ they comment on the clothes or jewelry others wore. Their laws forbid reading diaries (9)___ __________opening letters without (10)______ ______ (permit). That shows personal matters are not allowed to be disturbed.

巩固强化二十三篇

语法填空（每篇共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请根据上下文填入适当的词语，

或使用括号中的词语的适当形式完成语法填空，并将答案填写在相应的位置上。

     In the United States, there were 222 people __1.______ (report) to be billionaires(亿万富翁) in 2003.  The __2._______ (wealth) of these is Bill Gates, worth at least $ 41 billion, who made his money __3.______ starting the company Microsoft. Mr. Gates was only 21 years old __4._______ he first helped to set up the company in 1976. He was a billionaire __5.______ the time he was 31.

     __6._________, there are still some other people who have made lots of money at even __7.__________ (young) ages. Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple. __8._________ of these child actors made over a million dollars __9.____________ (act) in movies before they were 14. But __10.__________ youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited (继承) a billion dollars when he turned 18 !           

基础训练篇（6）

I attended a birthday party in 1991. My teacher was then 59 years old. (1)__________ her fellow teacher said that we (2)_____________(celebrate) her 39th birthday! We were all (3)____________ (surprise) and puzzled.

After the party I was told by the fellow teacher that American women have a special saying about (4)___________ (birth). If a woman is (5)________ 40, or even if she is 80, her birthday is always the 39th. If she is in her thirties, her birthday will be the 29th. And in her (6)____________, it’s the 19th. They usually have their “real” birthday when they are (7)__________ 20.

This shows that American women, (8)_________________ (special) elderly women, are very sensitive about their ages. But my teacher always says, “We want to be (9) ______________. ” so about the age of Western women, my advice is (10)_____________ if you don’t know it, don’t ask about it; if you really know it, don’t mention it.