单选题
1. When we talk about “parts of speech”, we know that a describing word we use to describe a noun is a/an ______; a word that can be used instead of a noun is a/an _______; a word used in front of a countable or uncountable noun is a/an ___________.
A、pronoun, article, adjective
B、article, adjective, pronoun
C、adjective, article, pronoun
D、adjective, pronoun, article
答案与解析：D TB Task 3, p 6 本句直接出自课本，考查“词性”的定义。
2. The new secretary is quick and _____. Since she came, the ______ of the department has been increased.
A、efficient, efficiency
B、efficiency, efficient
C、effective, effect
D、efficient, effect
答案与解析：A 这句主要考查了词类和近似词的区别。Efficient是形容词，意思是“效率高的”；而efficiency是名词，意思是“效率”。Effect是名词，“效果，结果”。Effective, “有效的”，一般是某物做主语，或者修饰“物”，比如：The new medicine is very effective in treating cough.
3.
The following sentence has four underlined parts marked with A, B, C, and D. Please choose the one that is not appropriately used.
It pays off to spend time and money on physical exercises.
A B
C
D
A、pays off
B、spend
C、on
D、exercises.
答案和解析：A It pays to do sth. 意为“做…是有益的”，是较为固定的说法。而pay off 表示“还清、做成功”，比如：He finally paid his overdraft off. (他最后终于还清了透支额。) Teamwork paid off. (团队合作很有成效。)
4.
The following sentence has four underlined parts marked with A, B, C, and D. Please choose the one that is not appropriately used.
A group of volunteers is going to swim cross the English Channel tomorrow to raise money
A
B
C
for the blind people.
D
A、is
B、swim cross
C、raise
D、the blind people
答案和解析：B cross可用作动词或者名词，这里应该用介词across（穿过，越过），本句把二者混淆在一起。raise money是“募款”的意思。
5. I found it _______ to concentrate on my work at the weekend. I _______ had an
idea when the phone rang. Then I decided to work ______ in the following week.
A、hardly, hard, hard
B、hard, hardly, harder
C、hard, hard, harder
D、hardly, hardly, hard
答案与解析：B 这个题考查的是hard词性的变化。Hardly是副词，意思是“几乎不…”；而hard可以是形容词也可以是副词。做形容词时基本意思是“困难的，坚硬的”；作副词时是“努力地、费劲地”。这道题第一个空应该填形容词；第二个空应该填副词；第三个空应该填副词的比较级形式。
6. While __________ the play show, the students had to refer to the scripts for details __________, for they ________ their lines only two days ago.
A、getting ready for, for now, look up
B、preparing for, as well, read through
C、getting ready for, from time to time, look up
D、preparing for, from time to time, read through
答案与解析：D be preparing for表示“在准备”，而“getting ready for”表示“已经准备好了”。但是get prepared for也表示“已经准备好了”。scripts, 剧本。read through 通读一遍。
7.
The following sentence has four underlined parts marked with A, B, C, and D. Please choose the one that is not appropriately used.
I decided to carry on with taking that course, although it required lots of work and the professor was
A
B
C
