2170] He is always picking up very heavy things just to _____ his strength.

[译文] 他老是搬起很重的东西来炫耀他的力量。

　 A. show around 　 B. show off

　 C. use up 　 D. train

[答案及简析] B。 show off炫耀。

2169] The young mother was _____ that her baby would be _____.

[译文] 年轻的母亲担心他的孩子会成为病人。

　 A. afriad; an ill man 　 B. fear; a sick man

　 C. fearful; a man sick 　 D. afraid; a man ill

[答案及简析] D。 a sick man = a man ill 病人；an ill man 坏人。

2168] In spite of a _____ day’s work, he still studied _____ late into the night.

[译文] 尽管一天的艰苦学习，他仍然努力学习到深夜。

　 A. hard; hardly 　 B. hardly; hard

　 C. hardly; hardly 　 D. hard; hard

[答案及简析] D。 hard作为形容词表示“艰苦的，艰难的”；作为副词意为“努力地”。

2167] They haven’t got enough time to see _____ films.

[译文] 他们没有足够的时间，只看了一些电影。

　 A. a lot of 　 B. a great deal of

　 C. a few 　 D. many

[答案及简析] C。 a lot of不能用于否定句；根据本句话的逻辑应该选a few。

2166] In the old days, my grandparents had no money and no place to _____.

[译文] 在旧社会，我的爷爷奶奶没有钱也没有地方居住。

　 A. live 　 B. live in

　 C. living 　 D. being lived

[答案及简析] A。 一般说来不定时作定语时，如果是不及物动词要加介词，但被修饰的名词是way, place,time就可以省略介词。

2165] _____ we shall attend the meeting hasn’t been decided yet.

[译文] 我们是否出席会议还没有决定。

　 A. Whether 　 B. If

　 C. What 　 D. That

[答案及简析] A。 if 在句首不能引导名词性从句；that 从句不缺成分，没有意思；whether 表示是否；what必须在从句中充当句子成分。

2164] When he entered the room, he found Mary _____ at the desk, reading.

[译文] 他走进屋子，发现玛丽坐在书桌边读书。

　 A. seating 　 B. sat

　 C. seated 　 D. sitting knself

[答案及简析] C。 find sb. + 及物动词的过去分词，表示状态。

2163] -----Well, here I am at last.　-----Good, I _____ worried _____ you couldn’t be back on time.

[译文] --好了，我终于到了。　--嗯，我还为你担心呢，怕你不能准时回来。

　 A. got; about that 　 B. was; that

　 C. am; whether 　 D. am; why

[答案及简析] B。 be worrie that…　担心….。

2162] Why don’t you bring _____ to his attention that you are too busy to do it?

[译文] 为什么你不引起他的注意呢，让他知道你太忙不能做这件事。

　 A. this 　 B. that

　 C. it 　 D. what

[答案及简析] C。 it 是形式宾语，代替that从句。

2161] You look _____ in blue while red clothes are nice _____ her.

[译文] 你穿蓝色的衣服很好看，而她穿红色的好。

　 A. well; for 　 B. good; on

　 C. well; to 　 D. good; at

[答案及简析] B。 look 连系动词，后跟形容词。