奥鹏作业网20春《高级写作》作业4
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 25 道试题,共 100 分)
1.What do you mean, there are only ten tickets? There ____ be twelve.
A.would
B.will
C.should
D.shall
2.According to the air traffic rules, you ____ switch off your mobile phone before boarding.
A.would
B.should
C.may
D.can
3.Although this ____ sound like a simple task, great care is needed.
A.should
B.shall
C.must
D.may
4.Unlike Americans, who seem to prefer coffee, ____ a great deal of tea.
A.the English drinks
B.the English drink
C.English man drink
D.English drink
5.____ she was very tired, she went on working.
A.In spite of
B.Even
C.As
D.Although
6.The manager, ____ it clear to us that he didn’t agree with us, left the meeting room.
A.who has made
B.making
C.made
D.having made
7.It is ____ today than yesterday.
A.more colder
B.many colder
C.colder
D.cold
8.____ the end of last term, every student in the school, I think, has taken at least five maths tests.
A.Since
B.In
C.From
D.By
9.He grabbed me ____ and pulled me onto the bus.
A.the arm
B.by the arm
C.an arm
D.a arm
10.I am in favor of his proposal that a special committee ____ set up to examine the problem.
A.will be
B.were
C.is
D.be
11.I draw ____ and my handwriting is ____.
A.well/well
B.well/good
C.good/well
D.good/good
12.A great deal of ____ was done to crops.
A.ruin
B.damaging
C.damages
D.damage
13.If there ____ a very sharp frost last night, we ____ able to go skating today.
A.hadn’t been/wouldn’t have been
B.hadn’t been/would be
C.didn’t have/would have been
D.didn’t have/would be
14.Last week, only two people came to look at the house, ____ wanted to buy it.
A.one of whom
B.none of them
C.neither of whom
D.both of them
15.The book was written in 1946, ____ the education system has witnessed great changes.
A.when
B.snce then
C.since when
D.during which
16.____ comparison with my boyhood, my undergraduate years in Oklahoma were paradise.
A.With
B.To
C.In
D.From
17.He never fails to give you ____ when you are in trouble.
A.the helping hand
B.his helping hands
C.helping hands
D.a helping hand
18.They will never succeed, ____ hard they try.
A.when
B.since
C.however
D.because
19.Nobody knows how people first came to these islands. They ____ from South America on rafts.
A.should have sailed
B.must have sailed
C.might have sailed
D.can sail
20.— Do you remember ____ he came? —Yes, I do, he came by car.
A.when
B.that
C.if
D.how
21.Sorry, I can’t work out this problem.Try again, please. It’s only ____ difficult.
A.very
B.much too
C.a lot
D.a bit
22.I find reading comprehension the hardest in learning a foreign language. Well, ____ you’d better practise reading short passage every day.
A.with that
B.so that
C.now that
D.for that
23.Please be ____ next time.
A.the most careful
B.more careful
C.carefulest
D.carefuler
24.Ms. Jones does not like shopping, ____.
A.or does she like gardening
B.nor she does like gardening
C.nor does she like gardening
D.and she does like gardening
25.Seldom ____ any mistakes during my past five years of teaching in this university.
A.would I make
B.should I make
C.did I make
D.I did make
