19. The motion picture is only a series of still photographs which are ______ and viewed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement and continuity。

　　A. split        B. spilt         C. spun        D. spliced

　　20.There was a very interesting remark in a book by an Englishman that I read recently _____ what he thought was a reason for this American characteristic。

　　A. giving        B. gave        C to give      D given

　　21. As a politician, she has to have the _____  of inspiring confidence in her listeners。

　　A. fluke         B. knack      C. frenzy        D. venison

　　22. Vanity is his Achilles' _________ 。

　　A .heel             B .ankle             C. arm              D. leg

　　23. Bad office planning will ________ both the employee and the employer and affect the performance of their duties。

　　A. increase        B. extend      C augment         D. stretch

　　24. A tree squirrel characteristically has long, plume-like tail that helps slow _____whenever it falls from high places。

　　A. it descends         B. its descent     C. to descend   D. it is descending 

　　25. If you ______ the bottle and cigarettes, you’ll be much healthier。

　　A. take off     B. keep off     C. get off     D. set off

　　26. Peter was ______ the football with him but he had forgotten。

　　A. to have brought      B. to bring      C. to have been brought     D. to be bringing

　　27. Cynic believe that people who _______ compliments do so in order to be praised twice。

　　A. bask in            B. give out       C. gloat over        D. shrug off

　　28. The individual TV viewer invariably sense that he or she is ________ an anonymous, statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience。

　　A. everything except    B. anything but   C. no less than   D. nothing more than

　　29. ________when she started complaining。

　　A. Not until he arrived        B. No sooner had he arrived      

　　C. Hardly had he arrived      D. Scarcely did he arrived

　　30. Someone must have_______ about among my papers, for my drawer is in a mess。

　　A. rampaged   B. rehearsed   C. rummaged  D. researched

　　(2) Directions: There are ten sentences in this part with one word or phrase underlined in each sentence. From the four choices given, choose one that best explains or defines the underlined part in each sentence。(10 points)

　　1. The findings of the two archaeologists threw light on the burial customs of the ancient Egyptians。

　　A. paid attention to       B. gave faith to

　　C. helped to make clear of     D. gained insight into

　　2. After realizing that their daughter was incurably ill, the Reynolds family changed their minds about euthanasia

　　A. penalty      B. capital sentence      C. degradation      D. mercy killing

　　3. A judicious parent encourages his children to make their own decisions。

　　A. judicial      B. illustrious          C. wise           D. precarious

　　4. John boasted that he could finish the job all by himself in no time。

　　A. very rapidly   B. in time         C. on time        D. at any moment

　　5. Just as work and educational opportunities for women were limited in the 1800’s, their legal rights were also circumscribed。

　　A. reserved      B. preserved      C. perverted       D. restricted

　　Ⅱ. Identify errors in the following sentences and correct them. (20 points)

　　(1) Mrs. Jackson saw the helicopter raise into the sky。

　　(2)Nobody besides little John thinks that a trip by bus is exciting。

　　(3)The Great Wall is the famous tourist site in world。

　　(4)A severe illness when she was just nineteen months old deprived the well-know writer Joseph Kate both her sight and her hearing。

　　(5)I regret having left my daughter at home; I should bring her with me。

　　(6) Football and baseball, which played in the United States today, are basically modifications of games that originated in England。

　　(7)Much though he needed money for a new car, he decided not to borrow it from the bank。

　　(8)David Singer, my friend’s father, while raised and educated in New York, lived and lectured in Africa most of his life。

　　(9) I forgot doing it。

　　(10) This is marvelous, isn’t it?

　　Ⅲ. Cloze Test (20 points)