1 . I can’t ______ any more work at the moment because I’m as busy as a bee.

A．take away

B．take down

C．take on

D．take off

2 . ________ at poverty, the measures like highlighting rural tourism have been taken to improve residents incomes, ________ better jobs and new farm produce for many once­poor farmers.

A．Targeted; having brought	B．Targeting; bringing
C．Targeted; bringing	D．Targeting; to bring

3 . Most of the goods ________in this store are made by our company.

A．sell

B．sold

C．selling

D．be sold

4 . He ________me his name, but I can’t remember it now.

A．tells

B．will tell

C．told

D．is telling

5 . They spent the night, and then took a coach         north through the Canadian Rockies to Jasper.

A．pleasant

B．awesome

C．bound

D．spectacular

6 . Australia is generally divided into the following three topographical regions EXCEPT        

A．the Great Western Plateau.

B．the Outback

C．the Eastern Highlands.

D．the Central Eastern Lowlands.

7 . In the United States, Halloween is a night-time         holiday.

A．men’s

B．women’s

C．children’s

D．old men’s

8 . What is the first English colony in America?

A．Chicago

B．Boston

C．Virginia

D．Mississipi

9 . Who is the leading character in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?

A．Tom Sawyer

B．Santiago

C．Oliver Twist

D．Manolin

10 . Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare's Four Great Tragedies?

A．Romeo and Juliet

B．Macbeth

C．Hamlet

D．King Lear