单选专题训练(一)

单选专题训练（一）

1. China has ______ long history and she is the first country to invent printing in ______ history.

A. a; the

B. /; /

C. a; /

D. /; the

2. In Martin Luther King’s time, the money spent on educating a black child was just

one fourth of ____ on each white child.

A. that spent

B. what to be spent

C. it had been

D. which was spent

3. After 20 years in an African country, I returned home and found it changed ______recognition.

A. over

B. beyond

C. more than

D. out of

4. Do you know the of the saying I just referred to?

A.resource

B.source

C.course

D.cause

5. ______criticize my son, I______ help him find a more effective way to learn English.

A. Rather than; prefer to

B. Other than; would rather

C. Rather than; would like to

D. Better than; had better

6．By the end of this year, 160 new students ___ in the English Department of this world famous university．

A．have enroll B．will have enrolled

C．have been enrolled D．will have been enrolled

7. The handbook gives ________ details about the functions of this washing machine.

A. steady

B. secure

C. potential

D. precise

8. Parents and their children often disagree about the amount of freedom and responsibility that young people ______.

A. would have

B. are having

C. are to have

D. are about to have

9. All flights ________ because of the snowstorm, many passengers could do nothing

but take the train .

A. had been canceled

B. was canceled

C. having been canceled

D. being canceled

10.After the meeting, Premier Wen Jiabao walked onto the platform, _____ himself

in a chair and prepared for answering questions.

A. seating

B. seated

C. being seated

D. had seated

11.Not having finished his homework, _____ to watch TV.

A. mother forbade him

B. so he was forbidden

C. he forbade

D. he was forbidden

12. The magician picked some persons from the audience _____ and asked them to

help him with the performance．

A．by accident B．in vain C．at random D．on average 13. That is the only way we can imagine ______ the overuse of water in students’

bathroom.

A. reducing

B. to reduce

C. reduced

D. reduce

14. Before I buy a car, I would like to have a mechanic, whom I truly trust, ______.

A. look it over

B. looking it over

C. to look it over

D. looked it over

15. ______ on his father’s shoulders made it possible for Victor, a boy of five, to

watch the show.

A. Having carried

B. Carrying

C. Being carried

D. Carried

16. ------I’m afraid I can’t finish the book within this week.

------______.

A．Please go ahead B．That’s right

C．Not at all D．Take your time

17. Though ______ of danger, he still went swimming in the river, which cost his

life.

A. was warned

B. warned

C. warning

D. to be warned

18. ____ that witnessed the emergence of and the ongoing debate over Genetically

Modified Food.

A.During the first 10 years in the 21st century

B.That it was in the first ten years of the 21st century

C.It was in the first ten years of the 21st century

D. It was the first ten years of the 21st century

19. In that newly-built computer centre, there are a great number of modern

computers, with six experts _______ questions that users may ask.

A. answering

B. answer

C. answered

D. being answering

20. The problem of carbon emissio ns ______ in society now has aroused the public’s

wide concern again.

A. to be discussed

B. being discussed

C. having discussed

D. having been discussed

21. He ___ away before we arrived, since the house was deserted．

A．shall have gone B．should have gone

C．could have gone D．must have gone

22. Many factors contribute to____, but the most destructive is the role that humans

have played.

A. animals to die

B. dying animals

C. animals died out

D. animals dying out

23. —Jack, this is the third time that you have been late this week.

—Sorry, sir, but I was _____ for 15 minutes on the way.

A. held up

B. put up

C. taken up

D. given up 24．______all by herself for many years, the old lady is sometimes very difficult______.

A. Having lived; to be got along with

B. Living; to get on well with

C. Having lived; to get along with

D. Living; to get along

25. The new movie____________ to be one of the biggest money-makers of all time．

A promises B．agrees C．pretends D．intends

26. I have promised that my daughter _______ get a new electronic dictionary on her

next birthday.