1. The pen I ____ I ____ is on my desk, right under my nose.
A. think; lost
B. thought; had lost
C. think; had lost
D. thought; have lost
2. We ____ each other the best of luck in the exam.
A. hoped
B. wished
C. expected
D. wanted
3. ---Can I join your club, Dad?
---You can when you ____ a bit older.
A. get
B. will get
C. are getting
D. will have got
4. I don’t think Jim saw me. He ____ into space.
A. was just staring
B. just stared
C. has just stared
D. had just stared
5. The volleyball match will be put off if it ____.
A. will rain
B. rains
C. rained
D. is raining
6. I first met Lisa 3 years ago. She ____ at a radio shop at the time.
A. has worked
B. was working
C. had been working
D. had worked
7. I don’t like him. He always talks as though he ____ everything.
A. knew
B. knows
C. had known
D. has known
8. I’m Chinese. Where ____ from?
A. you’re coming
B. you come
C. do you come
D. are you coming
9. Don’t talk so loudly. The baby ____.
A. sleeps
B. slept
C. has slept
D. is sleeping
10. Hurry up, John. The train ____ at 8 a.m.
A. is starting
B. has started
C. would start
D. started
11. We’d better do our Christmas shopping now. Time ____.
A. runs out
B. ran out
C. has run out
D. is running out
12. Cook! Here ____ the first bus.
A. come
B. comes
C. will come
D. is coming
13.
She ____ lovely when she ____.
A. look; smile
B. looks; smile
C. looks; smiles
D. look; smiles
14. You ____ what I said? I ____ the truth.
A. don’t believe; am telling
B. aren’t believing; told
C. didn’t believe; tell
D. don’t believe; was telling
15. The topic of the computer ____ always interested me.
A. have
B. are
C. has
D. is
16. Now that you ____,why not join us?
A. return
B. returned
C. have returned
D. are returning
17.
I insisted that he ____ there alone.
A. go
B. went
C. goes
D. has gone
18.
It ____ that the tourists will pay a visit to our school.
A. reports
B. reported
C. is reported
D. was reported
19. Those people ____ to die rather than surrender.
A. prefered
B. were preferred
C. preferred
D. has preferred
20.
I’m sorry I ____ know you ____ here.
A. don’t are
B. didn’t; were
C. don’t; were
D. didn’t; are
21. What a ____ day we are having today!
A. lovely
B. likely
C. lively
D. interestingly
22. John is two years ____ than I.
A. smaller
B. less
C. elder
D. younger
23. He is said to be the best-known musician ____.
A. alive
B. living
C. live
D. lively
24. Have you got any ____ information for us?
A. further
B. farther
C. far
D. farer
25. We found a ____ hotel at the end of the road.
A. new-built
B. new-building
C. newly-building
D. newly built
26. I saw Joan running along the road, ____fear.
A. full with
B. filling with
C. filled of
D. full of
27. Open your mouth ____ and say “Ah”.
A. wide
B. widely
C. more wide
D. larger
28. I’m afraid the box is ____ heavy for the boy.
A. too very
B. very too
C. too much
D. much too
29. I know I am short, but he is ____ than I.
A. less taller
B. more tall
C. no taller
D. the taller
30. Wang Lin is ____ a worker, He writes novels.
A. more than
B. not more than
C. no more than
D. less than
31. Tong is the tallest ____ the three boys.
A. from
B. in
C. between
D. of
32. Tommy is taller than ____ in his class.
A. any girl
B. any student
C. any other girl
D. any students
33. It’s ____ faster to travel by air ____ by water.
A. much; than
B. much more; as
C. more; than
D. very more; than like
34. John can’t play football well. Tom does even ____.
A. more badly
B. more bad
C. worse
D. more worse
35. With his friends gone, he felt ____.
A. alone
B. even more alone
C. still lonely
D. even more lonely
36. The sitting room is ____ the bedroom.
A. twice the size as
B. the size twice than
C. twice the size of
D. the size twice of
37. He put on his clothes ____ and ran out.
A. quickly
B. fast
C. soon
D. rapidly
38. The top of the Great Wall is ____ for five horses to go side by side.
A. wide
B. so wide
C. enough wide
D. wide enough
39. ____ you want besides this pen?
A. Other anything
B. Anything other
C. Anything else
D. Else anything
40. Jack’s uncle sent him a ____ bike as a birthday present.
A. red sports new
B. sports new red
C. new sports red
D. new red sports
41. I come here ____ to tell you that our team has won.
A. particularly
B. specially
C. generally
D. especially
42. Sorry I can’t give you an answer yet, I’d like ____ some tine to consider about it.
A. quite
B. fairly
C. hardly
D. pretty
43. ____ music will make the heart feel better.
A. Delighted
B. Merry
C. Fond
D. Pleased
44. ---How did you like the lecture?
---It was ____ than I had expected.
A. even very interesting
B. so more interesting
C. much interesting
D. far more interesting
45. If there were no examinations, we should have ____ at school.
A. the happiest time
B. a more happier time
C. much happiest time
D. a much happier time
46. ---How was your stay in Qingdao?
---Great. We visited some friends and spent the ____ at the seaside.
A. few last sunny
B. last few sunny
C. last sunny few
D. few sunny last
47. How beautifully the girl sings! I have never heard ____.
A. the better voice
B. a good voice
C. the best voice
D. a better voice
48. The population in some of the cities has ____ doubled in the past thirty years.
A. as great as
B. quite a bit
C. larger than
D. more than
49. We decided not to climb the mountains because it was raining ____.
A. badly
B. hardly
C. strongly
D. heavily
50. Wait till you’re more ____. It’s better to be sure than sorry.
A. inspired
B. satisfied
C. calm
D. certain
51. ____ does he go in for sports.
A. Seldom
B. Once
C. Certainly
D. Sometimes
52. It was hot last summer, but it is ____ hotter this year.
A. just
B. only
C. even
D. still
53. Color TV sets are ____ expensive than black and white ones.
A. very
B. much
C. very more
D. much more
54. We should work ____ at English.
A. hard as possible as we can
B. as hard as possible
C. as we can hard possible
D. as possible as we can hard
55. Mr. Li is ____ as Mr. Wang.
A. a good teacher
B. an as good teacher
C. as good a teacher
D. as a good teacher
56. Things never went ____ as we’ll expected.
A. smooth
B. smoothly
C. so smooth
D. so smoothly
57. What? He has arrived here ____?
A. already
B. yet
C. still
D. however
58. Jack can play the violin ____ well but I’m ____ poor at it.
A. fairly; fairly
B. rather; rather
C. fairly; rather
D. rather; fairly
59. His parents seat him to a ____ school.
A. far away
B. nearby
C. nearly
D. near
60. I’m afraid he ____ the job.
A. doesn’t fit for
B. isn’t fit for
C. isn’t fitted
D. fits for