英语单项选择

一
1. When the audience cried "Encore", the singer was overjoyed with the _________ from the audience.
A. answer
B. reply
C. response
D. return

2. In 1781, he left for Vienna, where he was in great ________ as both a performer and a composition teacher.
A. necessity
B. need
C. want
D. demand

3. Although Mozart lived only a short life, he _______ over 600 works.
A. composed
B. composed of
C. composed in
D. was composed of

4. In 1916, Patty took legal action ________ Mr. Coleman.
A. over
B. against
C. with
D. for

5. His music from the next decade was not very popular, and he eventually fell back on his teaching jobs ______ a living.
A. for
B. to
C. on
D. with

6. From that time _____, Mozart was performing in concerts and writing music.
A. ahead
B. forth
C. on
D. down

7. We sometimes danced _____ the music in a karaoke bar.
A. at
B. for
C. with
D. to

8. Let's go for ______ before we go to _________.
A. lunch ... concert
B. the lunch ... the concert
C. lunch ... the concert
D. the lunch ... concert

9. Before the age of four, Mozart ______ great musical talent.
A. has shown
B. had shown
C. had been shown
D. have showed

10. After Patty Hill became the head of the Department of Kindergarten Education, a gentleman ________ Robert Coleman published the song.
A. called the name of
B. at the name
C. by the name of
D. in the name of







二
1. The film The Pianist is _____ in the Second World War.
A. put
B. settled
C. set
D. laid

2. The film is about three native girls, who ____________ their families by the racist police.
A. separate with
B. are separated with
C. are separated from
D. are separated off

3. However, for the movie Lifeboat in 1944, he __________ with a difficult problem.
A. was facing
B. was faced
C. faced
D. being faced

4. After I see movies, I like to ______ them.
A. comment on
B. comment in
C. commend on
D. commend in

5. I hope to see the movie ______ DVD with captions.
A. in
B. on
C. with
D. at

6. The actor had a difficult time ______ his lines.
A. to remember
B. to have remembered
C. remembering
D. remembered

7. The pianist ____________ without unusually good luck long ago.
A. will die
B. would be died
C. would have died
D. would have been died

8. The director skillfully builds tension around _____ will happen when the characters finally learn the truth.
A. that
B. which
C. how
D. what

9. That's exactly ______ I feel about my favorite films.
A. how
B. when
C. that
D. where

10. Before the play he practiced his line ___________.
A. again and over again
B. again and again over
C. over and over again
D. over and again and again





三
1. Why did you ask if Sarah is coming with us? Why is your face _______ red?
A. firing
B. flaming
C. changing
D. exchanging

2. Ah, someone has a ______ on Sarah, doesn't he?
A. click
B. clash
C. crush
D. crash

3. I love her, but I don't have the guts to ask her ________.
A. out
B. outside
C. go out
D. go outside

4. The minister looked the man _____ the eye and said, "Will you please promise to kneel before her?"
A. by
B. with
C. into
D. in

5. In spite of himself, he said ___ a low voice, "Yes, I will."
A. at
B. over
C. through
D. in

6. The priest whispered back, "She made me ____________________."
A. much better offer
B. better much offer
C. a much better offer
D. a better much offer

7. Traditionally unmarried women __________ there after the wedding.
A. gather
B. together
C. integrate
D. combine

8. The bride throws her bouquet ______ the women standing there.
A. for
B. towards
C. to
D. at

9. After casual dating, a pattern of steady dating gradually develops in __________.
A. the late teen
B. the late teens
C. late teen
D. late teens

10. My ____________ just didn't work with that girl. She simply ignored me.
A. pick words
B. picking words
C. pick line
D. pickup line





四
1. Dad, I need some new shoes. My old ones look ______ funny.
A. kind
B. a kind
C. kind of
D. a kind of

2. They probably give Yao Ming millions of dollars to wear those shoes. But if you bought me the shoes, I'd wear them ________.
A. nothing
B. with nothing
C. in nothing
D. for nothing

3. In the States, advertisers are not allowed ________ young people smoking cigarettes.
A. show
B. showing
C. to show
D. to be shown

4. Cigarette manufacturers need to keep _______ new customers.
A. bringing about
B. bringing to
C. bringing forward
D. bringing in

5. Manufacturers often spend large _______ of money on the advertisements.
A. volumes
B. numbers
C. sums
D. dollars

6. "Don't _____ think about it!" is an expression commonly used in the United States when a person emphatically denies another person something.
A. so
B. really
C. even
D. ever

7. It is _____________ for us to specify what kind of people we want.
A. too only natural
B. only too natural
C. too natural only
D. only natural too

8. Advertisers keep finding ways _____ the law.
A. over
B. about
C. round
D.

around

9. Our student union should ___________ against smoking on campus.
A. make some publicity
B. do some publicity
C. make some publication
D. do some publication

10. We have everything you need. Stereos, video machines, refrigerators, dining room tables. _______; we have it.
A. Naming it
B. To name it
C. You name it
D. You put a name on it








五
1. The husband went upstairs to chase the cat __________.
A. out
B. go out
C. come out
D. get out

2. Nothing worked. Finally, John got __________ and he yelled at the parrot.
A. fed up
B. fed up with
C. fed off
D. fed off with

3. My dog is __________ well trained __________ he's almost human.
A. so...so
B. such...that
C. so...that
D. as...as

4. The dog licked her hand and wagged its tail, and she ________.
A. hooked
B. was hooked
C. hooks
D. was hooking

5. It has something to do with the dog's __________. It's very keen.
A. feeling of smell
B. smell feeling
C. sense of smell
D. smell sense

6. The dog finally fixed his eyes on the lamb chops and barked, __________ that he wanted to buy some.
A. showed
B. shown
C. being shown
D. showing

7. The smart animal surely doesn't __________ this kind of treatment.
A. reserve
B. deserve
C. preserve
D. observe

8. Your dog will have to __________, or you will have to leave the cinema.
A. behave
B. behave him
C. behave himself
D. be behaved

9. I find it relaxing to sit down and watch tropical fish at the end of a ________ day.
A. tiring
B. tired
C. tiresome
D. tireless

10. The parrot apologized, "I believe I may have _______ you with my rude language. I'm truly sorry."
A. offended at
B. offended to
C. offended against
D. offended











六
1. Once dressed, the models ________ in order by the door.
A. queued in
B. queued over
C. queued up
D. queued down

2. The models __________ photographers, turned, and walked back.
A. posed to
B. posed for
C. positioned to
D. positioned through

3. Mom, everything I have is _________.
A. out of date
B. out of the date
C. out of dates
D. out of the dates

4. Everyone else will be wearing the latest Levis, and I will look stupid _______ the same old skirts.
A. wearing
B. to wear
C. to be wearing
D. having worn

5. Maybe I could get a part-time job to help _______ the new clothes.
A. pay
B. pay with
C. pay to
D. pay for

6. The emphasis on thinness and an ideal female body shape gives rise to _______ dieting.
A. extensive
B. excessive
C. exclusive
D. expressive

7. The middle-aged

woman is ________. That style went out last year.
A. after the times
B. after time
C. behind the times
D. behind time

8. Oh, come on. Don't laugh at the old woman for her dress as long as it looks good _____ her.
A. in
B. with
C. over
D. on

9. You're right. I'm out of style. ______?
A. So what
B. What so
C. What then
D. Then what

10. It is in those sewing rooms that fashionable clothes are copied and made up _______.
A. with a large number
B. with large numbers
C. in large numbers
D. in a large quantity









七
1. If you postpone the payment, you owe the credit card company _______ the amount that you do not pay.
A. interest for
B. interest on
C. interest rates on
D. interest rates for

2. Life has been good to me, and I'd like to _____ some of my good luck.
A. share
B. share with
C. share for
D. share in

3. Hey, you gave the beggar some of your _______ cash?
A. hardly-earned
B. hardly-earning
C. hard-earned
D. hard-earning

4. Robert is always so careful _____ his money.
A. in
B. at
C. over
D. with

5. Helen is generous and likes to help when someone is in _______.
A. need
B. needs
C. necessity
D. demand

6. Hey, Mike, where are you _________?
A. of to
B. off to
C. away to
D. away for

7. I'm going to talk to a banker about a ________.
A. borrow
B. lend
C. lending
D. loan

8. You need money? I thought you were the _________.
A. keeping type
B. save type
C. saving type
D. reserving type

9. As you know, property values have been _____________.
A. going into the roof
B. going in the ceiling
C. going through the roof
D. going to the ceiling

10. When you receive the bill from your credit card company, you can choose _____ pay the bill in full _____ only to pay a minimum amount of the money to wait until later to finish paying.
A. either...nor
B. neither...or
C. either...or
D. neither...nor








八

1. I was walking home from work when this woman ______ me right ____ my feet.
A. knocked...away
B. knocked...off
C. hit...away
D. struck...of

2. I'll just take off my left shoe _________ I walk through the park.
A. every time
B. every time when
C. in every time
D. in every time when

3. Many months had ______ and the border guard met the young man again.
A. gone off
B. gone away
C. gone by
D. gone through

4. The border guard asked the young man, "Just ____________, what were you smuggling?"
A. between me and you
B. between you and me
C. to tell me
D. from you to me

5. Blake wiped his hands ______ his clean jeans

before shaking hands.
A. in
B. at
C. on
D. through

6. He told the police that Pete lived _____ away.
A. two doors
B. in two doors
C. at two doors
D. for two doors

7. The officer could see that Kenny's yard _____ the victim's.
A. commanded
B. commanded over
C. looked over
D. overlooked

8. The 91-year-old man was accused of _______ the bank.
A. robbing
B. robbing from
C. robbing in
D. robbing with

9. In 1999 the old man ____ a three-year sentence for bank robbery in Florida.
A. served for
B. served
C. serviced for
D. serviced

10. A witness ______ the criminal's license number of his car.
A. took on
B. took over
C. took in
D. took down






九


1. Italian investigators are trying to discover what caused a small private plane to _________ a tall building Thursday.
A. crash into
B. crash with
C. clash into
D. clash with

2. The government said they had no evidence of a link to terrorism. ___________ official in Washington told the media that there was no information of a possible terrorist attack.
A. An intelligent
B. An intelligence
C. A data
D. A library

3. The chances of being injured in a car accident have risen to one in 75. I think that is worth ___________ seriously.
A. thought about
B. thought of
C. thinking out
D. thinking about

4. From now on I will _____ my seatbelt.
A. fasten
B. hook with
C. fasten with
D. tie up

5. The aircraft hit the 26th floor of the tower in an apparent accident 18 minutes after ______.
A. taking up
B. taking in
C. taking off
D. taking over

6. Yesterday a house fire ______ the lives of six firefighters.
A. took
B. claimed
C. cost
D. lost

7. The traffic light was red, but the driver ______ through it.
A. speed
B. sped
C. speeds
D. speeded

8. To avoid fire, you should keep all flammable things ______ a foot away.
A. at most
B. at best
C. at large
D. at least

9. "Well," said the driver, "my mom might be coming __________."
A. the other way
B. in the other way
C. through the other way
D. at the other way

10. Required by the police, the diver opened the trunk, _________ nothing but an empty trunk.
A. concealing
B. appealing
C. repealing
D. revealing








十
1. Mary, some of us in the Outdoor Club are going _____________ this weekend. You interested?
A. camp
B. to camping
C. camping
D. under camp

2. I won't go with you to the mountain top. I'm scared _____________ of heights.
A. stiffly
B. stiff
C. stick
D. sticky

3. I know you're afraid of heights. But come anyway. You can __

___________ the climbing.
A. skip
B. skip over
C. skip by
D. skip across

4. If I just stay in the camp and cook and clean up for you, it doesn't _____________ like much fun.
A. hear
B. listen
C. listen to
D. sound

5. The burglar must have heard me, and he rushed out of the window _____________ he came in.
A. the way
B. in the way
C. through the way
D. by the way

6. If you _____________ an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers was responsible for the flight control software, would you get off?
A. boarded on
B. boarded in
C. boarded up
D. boarded

7. With my team's software, the plane would probably not even be able to taxi as far as the runway, _____________ take off.
A. leave alone
B. let away
C. let alone
D. let along

8. The drowning man held _____________ the overturned boat.
A. tight with
B. tight on to
C. tightly over
D. tightly with

9. Sue, I haven't seen you for a while. Where have you been _____________?
A. hidden
B. hiding
C. concealed
D. concealing

10. When I fly, three things happen: my stomach _____________, my face goes pale and I break into a cold sweat.
A. turns
B. upturns
C. overturns
D. return