1 . — What’s your plan for the holidays?
— Well, while you are enjoying yourself on the beach, I ________ on my couch, watching Young Sheldon.

A．am sitting

B．will be sitting

C．will have sat

D．would sit

2 . Which of the following sentences is COMPLETELY CORRECT?

A．Those writers who beg a chance to get published can't even make sure to use proper spelling and grammar in writing.

B．The night before the concert, the young pianist lay awake in the bed, staring at the ceiling and playing the tunes in his head.

C．Shooting the movie Leap was in honor of the Chinese women's volleyball team and its legendary leader Lang Ping nicknamed "The Iron Hammer".

D．It turned out for the painter's bold and imaginative uses of colors to result from her childhood experiences.

3 . Dee ________ a healthy lifestyle. He also wanted to ________ that health should always come first.

A．took to; get it across	B．took up; figure it out
C．took off; bring it up	D．took down; work it out

4 . We hope the trend continues, until such aural excursions become a regular happening rather than a rare________.

A．career

B．relief

C．treat

D．hustle

5 . Man may disappear________ other creatures who became too specialized to survive their environment.

A．as

B．just as

C．as if

D．as have

6 . Adults, ________overly concerned with fame and fortune, sometimes fail to see the joy in simple things ________ children do not.

A．unless … but	B．although … and
C．when … where	D．even if … unless

7 . In 1985, the idea of dropping out of Harvard came to Bill Gates, while ______ on a basic interpreter for the platform of microcomputers.

A．devoting a lot of energy to working	B．devoted to work
C．devoting to work	D．he was devoted to working

8 . The fact that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as do _______ of another does not mean that they do not experience emotions.

A．it

B．one

C．that

D．those

9 . Without gravity（重力), we ________ walk on the ground as freely as we do now.

A．couldn't

B．mustn't

C．shan't

D．needn't