6.       A．worriedly   B．hurriedly                   C．anxiously             D．nervously

5.       A．similar              B．nice                   C．difficult               D．different

4.       A．must                 B．would                C．should                  D．could

3.       A．shopping    B．working                    C．advertising           D．waiting

2.       A．salesmen    B．managers                  C．advertisers            D．businessmen

1.       A．on                    B．up                     C．down                   D．off

20. ― I hear that Brian can’t afford his schooling this fall.

― ___________, let’s do something for him.

A. If so        B. Where possible          C. When necessary    D. What a shame

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The holidays are just around the corner The Christmas decorations are all  1  at the mall， and  2  everywhere are bombing us with their latest jingles and telling its we’d better get working on our lists．There are only 65  3  days before Christmas and our orders for it  4 have been placed last week．

How 5   things are when I was young! When I was a kid，I was always waiting    6 for the day after Thanksgiving when the stores would take on their festive Christmas  7  ．And from there to Christmas was a manageable and exciting 32 days．We had a calendar on the wall and we  8  each day with a big X，waiting excitedly for the morning when，among other things，we found a big beautiful apple in our mother’s old nylon   9  ．

Now advertisers are encouraging my grandkids to begin  10  in October, and frankly young kids can’t count to 65， 11  they certainly can’t be excited about something for 65 days．They can，however, begin to drive Mom and Dad  12  ．telling them about all the girls they want，which they have seen on TV．And kids have over two whole months to succeed．

The commercialization of holidays isn’t   13    to Christmas only．Businesses try to convince us that gifts are  14   on Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays， wedding anniversaries，retirement－almost any  15  ．And on TV at least，there is always the suggestion that the more we  16  ，the more meaningful our gifts will be．

But buried  17  all these holiday advertisements，there is one thing that we can still be   18  for, one holiday we give thanks for, and that is Thanksgiving． 19  has yet managed to turn it into a gift-giving occasion．The only thing we give on thanksgiving is  20  ．Let it always be so．

19. So __________ that all the living things died out gradually .

A. serious polluted the lake is                    B. serious polluted is the lake

C. seriously polluted the lake is            D. seriously polluted is the lake

18. Our class _________ all fond of singing English songs and we can sing ________ than others.

A. is; many more     B. are; many more         C. is; much more    D. are; much more

17. Health problems are closely connected with bad eating habits and a ________ of exercise.

A. limit         B. lack            C. need       D. demand