1. Most people in Manila speak English, which means there is ______ chance of a communication breakdown. A. little B. some C. much D. a little 2. --- Can you teach me how to ______ between homework and hobbies? --- I think you should focus more on homework. A. achieve a balance B. receive a balance C. tell the difference D. make a difference 3. A life spent ______ mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent ______ nothing. A. to make; to do B. to do; to make C. making; doing D. doing; making 4. Don’t rely on electronic copies. Make a paper copy, just in case. Accidents happen, but by keeping a copy you can ______ an accident from becoming a disaster. A. prevent B. protect C. produce D. present 5. It is not what you do______, it is what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. A. constantly B. every day C. repeatedly D. once in a while 6. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get ______ if you just sit there. A. running over B. run over C. to run over D. to be running over 7. You should ______ like a man of action and ______ like a man of thought. A. act; act B. think; think C. think; act D. act; think 8. I am a giver. My giving always creates more. So I ______ others to give and like doing it. A. hope B. insist C. have D. inspire
9. People don’t have bad memories. They have perfect memories. They just have a poor system for ______ what is already there. A. explaining B. accessing C. possessing D. storing 10. There is now global competition for growth, which means the US has to constantly ask itself what other countries are doing well and ______. A. what it might adapt B. how it might adapt C. what it might adopt D. how it might adopt 11. Most people hate meetings. At the end of a meeting people often ______ they feel tired. A. imply B. complain C. announce D. declare 12. When you are seeking new information, you’ll soon discover that you have a lot ______ with your close relations. A. in need B. in deed C. in thought D. in common 13. Bad habits are like a ______ bed, easy to get into but hard to get out of. A. comfortable B. convenient C. changeable D. considerable 14. Listen to slow music while eating, and your meal will take longer to eat and ______ your eating less. A. result from B. result in C. turn out D. turn in 15. You wouldn’t expect a car ______ well if you left it in the garage for twenty years and then tried ______it. A. to function; driving B. functioning; to drive C. functioning; driving D. to function; to drive
二、完形填空：(共20小题，每题1分；满分20分) 请认真阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的 A 、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Rush was raised 30 miles outside Detroit, not far from her grand¬parents and their Ontario reservation. When the teenage Rush visited the reservation for the first time, she was __16__ by the poverty and lack of hope. “I really wanted to make a __17__,” she says. She __18__ from the University of Michigan in 1982 and took a nursing job. But she was dismayed by the low pay, and within a year she was __19__ an MBA. That summer, she worked part time at an airfreight company, where the __20__ of package pickups and deliveries drove profits. “I __21__ I could do that better,” Rush says. She maxed out her credit cards and borrowed $5,000 from her __22__ to buy a van and two used pickups. She persuaded clients, __23__ every delivery job that came her way, and worked nursing shifts on __24__. Within six months, Rush had ten __25__, and clients like Ford and GM were paying her to fetch small packages from the airport. Ford was the first to offer her a job trucking parts between its plants and suppliers. Rush __26__ drivers who lived near the suppliers. She also went to church and played baseball with them. They all __27__ each other. “If extra loads or services were __28__, we were right there,” she says. Rush also kept a single-minded focus on __29__ deadlines—no matter what. In the wake of 9/11, when increased security delayed traffic for hours on Detroit’s largest __30__, she hired barges to get her trucks across the Detroit River. By 2001, many of Rush’s 1,000 employees were Native Americans, working alongside people of every __31__. But she felt she hadn’t done enough. So she joined forces with a Canadian parts maker to __32__ and assemble auto components, such as the dashboard instrument panels that go into Chrysler minivans. She __33__ the plants near reservations, creating opportunities where they were needed most. By 2009, her auto parts business was generating $370 million in revenue(收入). She’s come a long way from the __34__ 23-year-old who thought “the cash would just roll in.” But Rush wouldn’t change a thing: “I love my job,” she says. “I like the fact that you can start to get some momentum and keep __35__ yourself—and then suddenly you lift your head and it’s been 25 years.” 16. A. excited B. satisfied C. surprised D. struck 17. A. promise B. difference C. decision D. plan 18. A. suffered B. learnt C. came D. graduated 19. A. pursuing B. marketing C. designing D. evaluate 20. A. design B. function C. speed D. amount 21. A. insisted B. thought C. claimed D. proved 22. A. employer B. employees C. clients D. parents 23. A. accepted B. received C. found D. declined 24. A. holiday B. display C. call D. weekends 25. A. accountants B. managers C. employees D. suppliers 26. A. trained B. hired C. treated D. fired 27. A. ignored B. helped C. charged D. blamed 28. A. finished B. supported C. valued D. needed 29. A. meeting B. missing C. setting D. extending 30. A. airport B. market C. bridge D. square 31. A. shape B. education C. age D. background 32. A. design B. sell C. ship D. purchase 33. A. decorated B. located C.
