课程代码：00831
请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。
选择题部分
注意事项：
1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。
2. 每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。
一、单项选择题（本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）
Choose the best answer from the choices given and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. At the sight of a cute kitty, the baby gave a loud ______.
A. laugh B. laughter
C. laughing D. laugher
2. As it is a freezing cold day, the people that used to bank fish from ______ side of the river are nowhere to be found.
A. either B. both
C. any D. neither
3. It is true that ______ people living in today’s Shanghai are still fascinated by ______ Shanghai described in Eileen Chang’s novels.
A. the; / B. /; the
C. the; the D. /;/
4. The HR manager will have already finished her meeting before the new recruit ______ to her office.
A. shall come B. came
C. is coming D. comes
5. If she ______ you, she would be happy to take two days off and have a good rest.
A. is B. were
C. was D. had been
6. The economist’s suggestion for the country was that it ______ on the development of an educational system available to everyone.
A. focused B. focuses
C. focus D. would focus
7. The criminal ______ finally in a house abandoned for years.
A. has located B. was located
C. had been located D. had located
8. The umbrella I put here just now is gone. Someone ______ it up by mistake.
A. might have picked B. must pick
C. could pick D. need have picked
9. I really appreciate ______ such comfortable shoes for me.
A. on your finding B. you to find
C. for you to find D. your finding
10. Rather than ______ the new and more powerful drugs, the scientist managed to persuade people to reduce their intake of antibiotics.
A. invent B. inventing
C. to invent D. invented
