--- ________ have you been in China? --- For about two years

A. How long B. How often C. How soon D. How far

Thanks for _______ to my party.

A. coming B. come C. comes D. came

There _______ two concerts in our school next month.

A. have B. is going to be C. will have D. will be

--- Can I help you? ---_________.

A. Yes, please. B. I like it. C. I’d like some noodles. D. Both A and C.

--- Is that Lucy?

--- No, that’s Lily. Lucy has __________ hair than Lily.

A. long B. longer C. longest D. the longest

He was born __________ a cold winter morning.

A. on B. at C. in D. for

Mom bought two T-shirts. One is for Dad, __________ is for me.

A. the other B. any C. another D. other

He was seriously ill, __________ he kept on working.

A. and B. although C. but D. instead

Our neighborhood used to be very quiet. However, these days _____ things are happening in our neighborhood and everyone is unhappy. Zhou Gu, the local school teacher, is ____ worried. When he _____ by the local newspaper, he said, “Every night we hear strange noises outside our window. My wife thinks that it could be an animal, but my friends and I think it must be teenagers having fun. My parents called the police, but they can’t find anything strange. They think ____ might be the wind.”

Everyone in our neighborhood is worried, ____ everyone has his or her own ideas. There must be something visiting the homes in our neighborhood, but what is it?

1.A. happy B. exciting C. strange D. amazing

2.A. extremely B. too C. possibly D. too much

3.A. interviewed B. was interviewed C. told D. was told

4.A. she B. he C. they D. it

5.A. because B. and C. or D. so

I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in ____ for 17 years, I had no doubt about my ability to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “____!”

The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat ______ about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness(尷尬) was over, I quickly regained my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect--- perhaps _____ their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a sense of achievement.

My students kept diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually replaced by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. ____her next lecture will be better. Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a ____theme(主題). “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical(哲學的) framework of Western thought and laid the historical _____ for all the works we’ll study in class.” I complained. “How should they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

It was a long term, and it gradually became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as those of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise ____ questions and provide enough background so that students could draw their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide exact information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!

____, I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a ____American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.

1.A. the UK B. the US C. China D. Australia

2.A. Attention B. Look out C. At ease D. Stand up

3.A. puzzled B. sure C. curious D. worried

4.A. more B. even C. yet D. still

5.A. Naturally B. Perhaps C. Fortunately D. Reasonably

6.A. different B. strong C. similar D. usual

7.A. happenings B. characters C. development D. background

8.A. difficult B. interesting C. ordinary D. unusual

9.A. Therefore B. However C. Besides D. Though

10.A. normal B. happy C. good D. better