专项练习

I. 单句改错。（仅限1处）

1. We have made greatly progress with the help of the teacher.

2. Now I’m improving my English great. And I’m getting more and more interested in learning it.

3. While waiting for the ambulance, I took off my coat to keep the old man warmly.

4. Talking with your parent more frequent, as far as I’m concerned, is good for you.

5. Your sister doesn’t look good today. Maybe she is ill.

6. The population in and around San Francisco is now ten times more than it was in 1906.

7. When they came into the room, they checked the rooms as carefully as possibly.

8. The children were exciting at the news that their parents would return from abroad.

9. The tomatoes I picked are much more redder than yours.

10. He pushed the stick deeply into the mud.

II. 在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

11. There was an accident at the corner. ______（lucky）, the girl wasn’t ______（bad）hurt.

12. The Yellow River is the second ______（long）river in our country.

13. He knows nothing about the matter, so he can’t tell us ______ important, I think.

14. Most of the students think a lion is much ______（dangerous）than a bear and it is the ______（dangerous）animal in the world.

15. All the students in the classroom were ______（deep）touched by his story.

16. They stayed in the snow for several days, cold and ______（tire）.

17. My uncle’s house in the downtown area is much smaller than ours, but it is twice ______ expensive.

18. Not all the customers are ______（interest）in financial details.

19. ______（fortunate）, I was in time for the interview.

20. These ______ children looked at the ______ tsunami with ______ eyes.（frighten）

Ⅲ. 单项选择。

21. The ukulele is a ______ instrument, which resembles a guitar.

A. Hawaiian musical small

B. small musical Hawaiian

C. Hawaiian small musical

D. small Hawaiian musical

22. —The film is, I have to say, not a bit interesting.

—But I think it’s ______ than the films I have ever seen.

A. far more interesting

B. much less interesting

C. no more interesting

D. any less interesting

23. After the long journey, the Smiths returned home, ______.

A. safe but tired

B. safely but tired

C. safe and tiring

D. safely and tiring

24. I don’t care if a hunting dog smells ______, but I really don’t want him to smell ______.

A. well; well

B. bad; bad

C. well; badly

D. badly; bad

25. When you study the local map, you’ll find this town is ______.

A. twice the size of that one

B. twice as a large town as that

C. twice as larger as that one

D. twice as larger a town as that

26. —Did you enjoy yourself at the party?

—Yes. I’ve never been to ______ one before.

A. a more excited

B. the most excited

C. a more exciting

D. the most exciting

27. Let’s make it at seven o’clock on Tuesday morning at my office if ______.

A. you’re convenient

B. it is convenient for you

C. you feel convenient

D. it is convenient with you

28. ______, I managed to get through the game and the pain was worth it in the end.

A. Hopefully

B. Normally

C. Thankfully

D. Conveniently

29. Playing on a frozen sports field sounds like a lot of fun. Isn’t it rather risky, ______?

A. though

B. also

C. either

D. too

30. Studies show that people are more ______ to suffer from back problems if they always sit before computer screens for long hours.

A. likely

B. possible

C. probable

D. sure

IV. 阅读下列短文，在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

As the labor market becomes more 　31　 （attract）, more companies are sending their employees to school. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is the latest company 　32　 （use）tuition assistance for employees. And while the impact of such programs has yet to be 　33　 （full）assessed, many see it as a positive—although gradual—movement.

“For workers, it gives them a 　34　 （good）opportunity for development,” says Colleen Flaherty Manchester, a professor. Largely driving the trend are Millennials, who happen to be the fastest-growing people in the US workforce today and to whom the idea of tuition support from employers is 　35　 （especial）appealing.

Employers are 　36　 （absolute）adapting to Millennials in the workplace. They recognize that they need 　37　 （much）experience, more knowledge, more mentoring to be 　38　 （success）. And they’re asking for it.

Of more than 140,000 Starbucks employees, only about 4,000 have signed up for the company’s College Achievement Plan. What the long-term effects such programs might have for companies’ retention and turnover rates remain unclear. 　39　 , the pluses（优点，益处）of these programs are 　40　 （important）than the minuses（不利之处）. We’re going to see a lot more of this in the future.