Listening
The word “sport”first meant something that people did in their free time. Later it often meant hunting wild animals and birds. About a hundred years ago, the word was first used for __11___ games. This is the common meaning of the word today. People spend a lot of their time playing basketball, football, tennis and many other sports. Such people play sports because they want to. A few people are ___12___ for the sports they play. These people are called professional sportsmen. They may be sportsmen for only a few years, but during that time the best ones can earn __13___ money. For example, a professional footballer in England earns more than 30,000 dollars a year. The sports stars earn a lot more. International golf and tennis ___14___can make more than ___15___ dollars a year. Of course, only a few sportsmen can earn as much as that.
11. A. organizers B. organized C. all organics D. all organizations
12. A. pay B. paying C. obeyed D. paid
13. A. a large sum of B. large some of C. a large sum D. large and some
14. A. champions B. chips C. championships D. champagnes
15. A. 50,500 B. 550,000 C. 500,000 D. 5,000, 000
vocabulary and grammar
The professor required that all the essays _____ ready by next Monday.
A. to be
B. be
C. being
D. are
I’d rather you _______ anything about it for the time being.
A. do
B. won’t do
C. didn’t do
D. hadn’t done
______ a rainy day, we’d better put the picnic off and stay at home.
A. It was
B. It is
C. It being
D. It has been
Color blind people find it difficult to_______ shades of colors.
A. distinguish
B. pick
C. identify
D. recognize
There were more than 500 paintings shown in the international arts exhibition last week, _____ came from masters.
A. some of whom
B. some of which
C. whom of some
D. some of them It was to save the child from drowning ______ he jumped into the icy water.
A. as
B. which
C. when
D. that
The girl who was on her way home from the night shift kept looking back because she was
afraid of _______.
A. having been followed
B. following
C. being followed
D. having followed
I would never have ______ a court of law if I hadn’t been so desperate.
A. sought for
B. accounted for
C. turned up
D. resorted to
I think she hurt my feeling_____ rather than by accident as she claimed.
A. virtually
B. deliberately
C. literally
D. appropriately
Pentagon studies have shown that women have only 55 percent the muscle strength and 67 percent the endurance of their male _____.
A. partners
B. counterparts
C. colleagues
D. fellows
Many doctors frown ______ a diet which contains a lot of fat.
A. upon
B. down
C. at
D. to
“We have to decorate the kitchen and the hall.”--- “I’d rather do the______ first.”
