（2010·山東淄博高三二模）       23. A lot of tents, drinking water and food __________ to the homeless earthquake survivors in the past several weeks.

A. are sent      B. were sent    C. have been sent   D. had been sent

（2010·山東淄博高三二模）      31. —I think I should wear a dress instead of this jeans.

—It’s just a small informal party, so you don’t have to ___________.

A. warm up           B. put up        C. dress up     D. keep up

（2010·海南省高三五校聯(lián)考）34．---Rose, mind your step! Aunt Jane slipped over on the wet floor and broke her leg yesterday．

   ---  ___        ．

A．It’s none of your business      

B．It doesn’t matter to me

C．Thank you for your reminding      

D．I will remember your words

（2010·福建省漳州市漳浦達(dá)志高三高考模擬試卷）    22. --Hi, King, I heard you went to see the parrots instead of traveling to Calgary yesterday.

    --Yes, I did. You see, I'm ________ a bird watcher than a traveler.

A. less       B. more        C. better       D. worse

（2010·安徽師大附中高三二模）    33.   The health official said ______ 12 suspected cases of influenza A (H1N1) were tested negative and ______, so far, this city has reported no case of the virus.

 A. what; that           B. that; what                  

C. 不填; that          D. that; 不填

（2010·上海黃浦區(qū)、嘉定區(qū)高三高考模擬）    25.   This is the latest attempt to find a peaceful solution _____ the troubles in this area.

A. of       B. to              C. for      D. about

（2010·安徽合肥高三第一次教學(xué)質(zhì)量檢測(cè)）    21. To tell       truth, his coming is really       big surprise to most people present at the party.

A. / ; a         B. the ; /        C. the ; a       D. / ; /

    We may be very     31       (please) with the rapid progress we have made in every field of study, but we have almost done nothing to improve our present examination systems    32         focus on testing the students’ memory instead of their   33    ______ (able). As soon as a child begins school, he enters a world of examination   34 _________ will decide his future of job. In fact, a good examination system should encourage students to think  35 _________ themselves. But the examination now does nothing but that. It forces the students to remember        36       is taught to get high marks. Thus the students who come out first in the examination often many be the   37         (good) in their studies. In addition, such an examination system often   38  _____ (drive) teachers to cram all the time and forces them to train students what to do with the  39  ____  (come) examination.

There must be a better way to test a   40          (student) true ability as well as their knowledge.

Although anyone can do it, storm chasing is extremely dangerous. The power of a big storm 31         throw a cow into the air 32         destroy a whole house in seconds. Storm chasers are also often hurt in accidents 33          (cause) by driving in 34         heavy rain. If you are a 35         (begin), it is much safer to join a group for storm-chasing vacations 36____________ the storm season.

    However, for storm chasers, it is all worth it . “37                   you get 38            (close)to a storm, it is the most 39             (excite) sight you will 40             see in your life,” says Jasper Morley. “Every storm is an example of the power of nature. It is the greatest show on Earth.”

     We often think of future. We often wonder __1________ the world will be like in a hundred years’ time.

     Think ___2_____ space. Perhaps a permanent station on the moon ___3_____ (set up). Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as __4______. Cheap rockets for space travel will have been developed, __5______ (permit) long journeys through the solar system. When that time comes, people will be taking holidays in space and visiting __6_______ planets. Great progress will have been made _____7___ medicine, too. Pollution will have been controlled in a hundred years’ time.

    __8________ the world will have been developed — even Antarctica. We will have used up most of the earth’s land to build our cities; __9_______ floating cities will have been built. The Japanese have already had plans of this kind. And there will be cities __10______ the sea.