二、 用下列单词的适当形式填空：

insist, , suggest, , forbid, frustrated, express, exact, emotional, merely, regular, solve

1. Learning to drive can be a very _________experience for the residents of crowded cities.

2. Growing up means one has to become both financially and _________ independent.

3. Some common feelings of teenagers are very well_________ in this pop song.

4. Thank you very much for the good __________ on the running of this club.

5. This is _________ what I’m looking for.

6. Smoking is ____________ in this building.

7. We offer technical __________ in the field of e-commerce.

8. We will stay with the programme for one more week if you_______.

9. It’s a _________ five minutes’ walk from my home to the school.

10. The patient has to rely on medicine to _______ his heart beat.

三、 完形填空

Yard sales do not have to be huge. One family, or even one person, can hold a yard sale. People simply collect some things they no 1 want and put them in the yard outside their home. They might also place handmade signs on nearby streets to direct people to the sale. And, as simple as that, they have a yard sale -- or a garage sale or a moving sale.

2 people call it, the activity is the same. Such sales are 3 on the idea that an object that is useless, broken or ugly to one person can be a bargain to 4 .

Some people go to yard sales to find a special thing that they collect. They might look for things 5 stamps, dolls, old money, bottles, baseball cards, toys or advertising signs. Yard sales can also provide people 6 a new computer or sound system ... new to them, at least.

Or there might be some exercise 7 that looks new because no one ever really used it. People never know what they might find. They might even find a snake skin -- the perfect gift for a science teacher.

People who go to yard sales often are not looking for anything 8 . They are 9 looking for something that appeals to them. Or they might enjoy negotiating(商谈) 10 prices. Later, if necessary, they can hold their own yard sale to sell all the things they have bought.

1. A. more B. wonder C. less D. longer

2. A. However B. Whatever C. Whoever D. Whenever

3. A. based B. working C. discussed D. held

4. A. other B. the other C. another D. others

5. A. as B. like C.for example D. with

6. A. with B. for C. by D. from

7. A. machines B. facilities C. equipment D. equipments

8. A. cheap B. valuable C. strange D. special

9. A. simply B. especially C. hardly D. nearly

10.A. for B. over C. with D. low

【参考答案】

一、DADBC, DBCDA, DCDAD

二、1. frustrating 2. emotionally 3. expressed 4. suggestions 5. exactly

6. forbidden 7. solution 8. insist 9. mere 10. regulate

三、DBACB, ACDAB