40．He stopped_________ when he was ill．

  A．to smoke    B．smoke    C．smoking    D．to smoking

  Some English words have some   41   behind them．The word“sandwich”is very   42   in England．Do you know the story behind it？You must know something about an Englishman    43   sandwich．He lived in the    44    century．

    Sandwich was rich，but he    45   cards for money．He often played for 24 hours and he didn’t    46   to have his meals．He asked his men    47   him some meat between two pieces of bread   48    his left hand when he was playing with his right hand．People liked his idea and began to eat bread and meat   49   ．

    From the name of Sandwich，we   50   the word“sandwich”today．

39．---Did you mend your bike this afternoon?

    ---Yes，I spent at least three hours_________ it．

  A．finish doing    B．to finish doing    C finish to do    D．finishing doing

38．Wang Ling_________ the first prize in the 1000-meter race．

  A．had    B．won    C．received    D．made

37．He is always the first_________ to school．

A．to get    B．get    C．getting    D．got

36．If he doesn’t want to do the job，does_________ want to?

A．everybody else  B．else everybody  C．else anybody    D．anybody else

35．The girl was_________ afraid_________ she threw the bag away．

 A．too，to    B．so，that    C．too，that    D．such，that

34．---In your English study，reading is more important than speaking，I think．

    ---I don’t agree．Speaking is_________ reading．

A．as important as  B．so important as    C more important    D．the same as