13. The bridge shows the _________of the ancient people.
A. wise B. wisdom C. wiseman D. wiser
14. He has the _________ to do heavy work for hours, but he has no _________ to control anybody.
A. power, strength B. power, power
C. strength, power D. strength, strength
15. I can answer this _________, but I can't solve that _________.
A. question, question B. question, problem
C. problem, problem D. problem, question
16. Soon after the _________ the _________ ended.
A. battle, war B. war, war C. war, battle D. battle, battle
17. What's _________like today?
A. weather B. climate C. the weather D. the climate
18. You can take as many as you like because they are free of _________ .
A. price B. charge C. value D. sense
19. The firemen fought bravely with the fire, giving no thought to their own _________.
A. happiness B. sadness C. safety D. danger
20. I would like to open an _________ in your bank.
A. account B. accordance C. advance D. agency
21. Please fill in your name and _________here, so that I can contact you easily.
A. apartment B. answer C. alphabet D. address
22. Muslims don't eat _________.
A. pork B. beef C. milk D. butter
23. Sam Adams is a _________ who cuts men's hair.
A. barber B. hairdresser C. postman D. butcher
24. I'd like to take a _________ after a day's work.
A. swim B. bath C. bathroom D. vapor
25. As a _________ of fact, he is a kind man.
A. matter B. thing C. affair D. business
Unit 10
1. If you are to apply for a job, you need to write an _________first.
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A. arrangement B. application C. appointment D. announcement
2. One hundred years is a _________.
A. century B. cassette C. center D. cancer
3. We are required to give a thorough _______ to our dormitory every Friday afternoon.
A. cleaning B. cleaned C. clear D. circulate
4. While reading English, you should pay attention to your pronunciation and ______ as well.
A. introduction B. improvement C. indifference D. intonation
5. Chinese is my native _________ .
A. word B. tone C. language D. tune
6. Would you please tell me the _________ between these two words?
A, different B. difference C. differ D. differently
7. The _________of her husband aged her greatly.
A. die B. died C. death D. dying
8. It's very _________to live in such a small room. We can hardly breath.
A. uncomfortable B. comfortable C. comfort D. comfortably
9. Karl Marx gave us some _________ on how to learn a foreign language.
A. advise B. advice C. advices D. advisable
10. School education should go first before the _____ of modern industry and agriculture.
A. develop B. development C. developed D. developing
11. It is my _________ to talk to you.
A. please B. pleasant C. pleasure D. pleased
12. They told us _________ that they had won the match.
A. happy B. happily C. happiness D. unhappy
13. Excuse me for _________you. May I borrow your dictionary?
A. bother B. bothering C. bothered D. to bother
14. Both these two trees are of the same _________.
A. height B. high C. highly D. higher
15. It is _________to take a walk after supper.
A. enjoy B. enjoyable C. enjoying D. enjoys
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16. His heart stopped beating. There is no _________of his survival.
A. possible B. impossible C. possibility D. possibilities
17. We went to the station _________in order to catch the train.
A.: hurriedly B. unhurriedly C. hurry D. unhurry
18. You' 11 surely get_________,. if you break the traffic rules.
A. punish B. punished C. punishment D. punishing
19. Benjamin Franklin is one of the greatest _________ in the world.
A. inventor B. inventors C. invent D. inventing
20. Please give him my _________ for not coming to his party.
A. apology B. apologize C. apologizing D. apologized
21. My friend is the _________ of the match.
A. win B. winner C. winning D. won
22. The bat tried to _________ the beasts.
A. fool B. foolish C. foolishly D. fooling
23. Good _________ tastes bitter in the mouth.
A. medical B. medicals C. medicine D. medicines
24. He was always poor and _________during his short life.
A. ill B. illness C. illnessless D. ills
25. Xinmin Evening News has the largest number of _________ .
A. reader B. readers C. reading D. read
Unit 11
1. They fought _________ against the enemies during the war.
A. brave B. bravery C. bravely D. braverily
2. You must be _________ while father is asleep.
A. quiet B. quietly C. quite D. quietly
3. Can you ______ that the silk shirts will be delivered in time?
A. insure B. ensure C. assure D. secure
4. The teacher asked the students to give _________ answers to practice their listening speaking.
A. quick B. quickly C. quickness D. quicken
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and 5. The parents were very _________ to the policeman who had saved their son.
A. thank B. thankful C. thanks D. thankfully
6. He plays inside on_________ days.
A. rain B. raining C. rainy D. rainless
7. Many animals are so _________ to human beings.
A. help B. helpful C. helpfully D. helpless
8. Is it _________ to collect stamps?
A. use B. useful C. useless D. used
9. We are _________ to each other at school.
A. friend B. friends C. friendly D. friendship
10. The sky is _________ , and it is going to rain.
A. cloud B. cloudy C. clouds D. cloudless
11. He hoped it would be a _________ day.
A. beauty B. beautiful C. beautify D. beautifully
12. You can _________ find the answer in the text.
A. easy b. uneasy C. easily D. easier
13. The little girl was _________ at the sight of a big dog.
A. terrible B. terribly C. terrify D. terrified
14. I'm sorry that I'll be _________ to attend the meeting.
A. able B. unable C. ability D. inability
15. The railway has been _________ .
A. electricity B. electronic C. electrified D. electrical
16. The rapid progress she made greatly _________ her to work harder than ever.
A. courage B. courageous C. encouraged D. discouraged
17. I wish I could pass the _________ examination.
A. enter B. entry C. entering D. entrance
18. The students all listened _________ to the teacher.
A. attentive B. attentively C. attention D. attend
19. You should learn from all the men with _________ experience.
A. practice B. practise C. practical D. impractical
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20. Our _________ conditions have improved greatly in the past 20 years.
A. live B. life C. living D. alive
21 The flood came _________, and it damaged the crops.
A. expect B. expectation C. expected D. unexpectedly
22. She is the _________ who is going to take care of your baby.
A. servant B. serve C. serving D. serves
23 Go and buy this wonderful flat, and it is your best _________to the value of the money.
A. choose B. choice C. chose D. chosen
24. Any of us can enjoy _________of speech.
A. free B. freely C. freedom D. freed
25. As we know, _________ comes from practice.
A. know B. knowing C. knowledge D. unknown
Unit 12
1. He will come here much _________ than he did yesterday.
A. early B. earlier C. earliest D. earliness
2. Do you know the _________of the box?
A. weigh B. weight C. weighs D. weighing
3. Switzerland is a _________ country.
A. mountain B. mountains C. mountainless D. mountainous
4. I left home on a _________ day.
A. sun B. sunshine C. Sunday D. sunny
5. My mother_________ the trousers by two inches for me.
A. short B. shorts C. shorten D. shortened
6. His late _________disappointed his father.
A. arrive B. arriving C. arrival D. arrives
7. There was loud _________ as the man fell off the ladder.
A. laugh B. laughter C. laughing D. laughed
8. He is now middle-aged, but he still looks quite _________ .
A. young B. younger C. youth D. youngest
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