_______ has limited technical knowledge, the old worker has a lot of experience.

A. Since                  B. Unless                 C. As                      D. Although

Although my grandfather is in his eighties, he is still as ________ as a young man and hates sitting around doing nothing all day.

A. enthusiastic           B. intelligent               C. energetic                 D. sensitive

David has won the first prize in singing; he is still very excited now and feels ________ desire to go to bed.

A．the most              B．more                   C．worse                 D．the least

—Can Lihua help me with my English?

—I regret to tell you her English is________ yours.

A. as good as               B. no more than

C. not better than         D. as much as

_____ as the most excellent student in her university, as most classmates had expected, made her parents very happy.

    A. Mary was chosen 

    B. Mary chosen

    C. Mary being chosen 

    D. Mary’s being chosen

New ideas sometimes have to wait for years before _____.

    A. being fully accepting  

    B. fully accepting  

  　C. having fully accepted  

    D. fully accepted

He looked around and caught a man _____ his hand into the pocket of a passenger.

   A. put       B. to be putting        C. to put       D. putting

He ______ articles for our wall-newspaper these three years, and he ______ about forty articles.

    A. has been writing; has written

    B. has been writing; wrote

    C. is writing; has been writing

    D. has written; has written

--- Why? Tom, your shirt is so dirty!

    --- Mum, I ______ my storeroom downstairs.

    A. cleaned                   B. have cleaned

    C. was cleaning              D. have been cleaning

The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3—old—daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became angry when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. However, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, ”This is for you, Daddy.”

The man was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger burst again when he found out the box was empty. He yelled at her, stating, “Don’t you know when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be something inside?” The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They are all for you, Daddy.”

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl and begged for her forgiveness.

Only a short time later, an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

The man yelled at his daughter because ____.

A. he was unsatisfied with the present his daughter gave him

B. the box his daughter gave him was empty

C. he had expected what was in the box

D. nobody gave him an empty box before

The underlined word “crushed” can be replaced by ____.

A. discouraged      B. pressed      C. defeated      D. shocked

According to this passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. The little girl wanted to show her father that she had no money.

B. The little didn’t think the box wrapped with gold paper was beautiful.

C. The little girl was misunderstood by her father at first.

D. The little girl wanted to play a joke on her father.

What does the underlined sentence “Only a short time later, an accident took the life of the child” mean?

A. After a short time, the child lost her life in an accident.

B. After a short time, the child was hurt badly in an accident.

C. The accident was caused by the girl.

D. Soon the child killed herself because of her dissatisfaction with her father.