( ) 1.______recent report stated that the number of Spanish speakers in the U.S .would be higher than the number of English speaker by_____ year 2090.
A. A, the B. A, / C. The ,/ D. The, a
( ) 2.If you go by ______train ,you can have quite a comfortable journey ,but make sure you get _____fast one.
A. /, / B./, a C. the, a D./,/
( ) 3. It is often said that ____teachers have _______very easy life.
A /,/ B. /,a C. the,/ D. the, a
( ) 4.I can’t remember when exactly the Robinsons left _____city ,I only remember it was ______ Monday.。
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( ) 5.If you grow up in ______large family ,you are more likely to develop _____ability to get on well with ______others .
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( ) 6.Mrs ,Taylor has ___8-year-old daughter who has _____gift for painting –she has won two national prizes.
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( )7.Afetr dinner he gave Mr. Richardson ________ride to ________Capital Airport.
A .the, a B. a the C. /, a D. /, the
( )8.On May 5,2005,at ___World Table Tennis Championship ,Kong Ling hui and WangHao
won the gold medal in men’s with ____score of 4:1.
A. a ,a B. / the C. a ,/ D. the ,a
( )9.I knew ______John Lennon ,but not ____famous one.
A. /,a B. a ,the C. /,the D. the, a
( )10.The book tells ____life story of John Smith ,who left _______school and worked for a newspaper at the age of 16.
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( )11.When you come here for your holiday next time, don’t go to _____hotel ; I can find you ______bed in my flat.
A. the ,a B. the,/ C. a ,the D. a,/
( )12.If you buy more than ten, they will knock20pence off________.
A. a price B. price C. the price D. prices
( )13.____on-going division between English –speaking Canadians and French-speaking Canadians is _______major concern of the country.
A. The ,/ B. The ,a C. An ,the D. An,/
( )14.When he left _____college ,he got a job as ______reporter in a newspaper office .
A. /, a B /, the C .a the D .the, the
( )15The most important thing about cotton in history is ___part that it played in ____Industrial Revolution.
A. /,/ B. the,/ C. the , the D. a ,the