I just can’t________this life any more. Let’s do something for a change.

   A. suffer      B. design      C. stand      D. support

I hurried to the airport, but_________, the flight had taken off.

   A. absolutely    B. seriously     C. badly      D. unfortunately

They stole everything in my wallet,__________my credit card.

   A. included     B. to include      C. was including      D. including

The plane________off at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning.

   A. takes     B. took     C. is taking      D. has taken

 Sandy remains very thin________she always eats a lot.

   A. as if     B. since     C. even if     D. if

The professor lives a very simple life. We found the only_______in his room was a picture on the wall.

   A. decoration     B. invitation      C. envelope     D. entrance

----Next Monday I’m going to take part in an English oral contest.

-----__________!

A. Good luck to you　　　 B. Well done　　

C. You lucky thing　　　 D. Congratulations

As a child, he hoped to be a doctor. When he was fifteen,________, he changed his mind and wanted to be an engineer.

　 A. however　 B. otherwise　　 C.besides　　 D.therefore

---An important football match is said________in our town tomorrow.

----Really? Then let’s go and watch it.

　 A. to hold　　 B. holding　 C. being held　 D. to be held

This happened in a third-grade classroom. Jim sat  1  his desk and all of a sudden, there was a puddle(一滩水) between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He felt his heart was going to stop. He knew   2   would happen when his classmates found out. He looked up and there came the teacher with   3   look in her eyes that said he   4  (discover).

As the teacher was walking towards   5  , a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water to her desk. Suddenly, Susie tripped(绊倒) and,   6  (strange), dumped the whole bowl of water in Jim’s lap. He pretended to be angry, but all the while he was saying deep in his heart, “Thank you!”

Jim became the object of sympathy instead of ridicule(嘲笑). The teacher brought him gym shorts to put on. All the others crawled(爬) on their hands and knees,   7  (clean) up around his desk. But  8  life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred(转移) to Susie. She tried to help,   9  they told her to leave the room   10  school was over, Jim walked over to Susie and whispered, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?”

Susie whispered back, “I wet my trousers once, too!”