1 . Travellers on a tight ______ might prefer ______ .

A．bill; calculating

B．change; catering

C．budget; backpacking

D．cash; bargaining

2 . Eye contact is important because wrong contact may create a communication ______.

A．barrier

B．bar

C．blame

D．blank

3 . What the expert has said and done will be _______ to the department managers.

A．value

B．benefit

C．of valuable

D．of benefit

4 . She was about to cry out      she heard her father urgently telling her to keep quiet.

A．while

B．when

C．before

D．after

5 . ----How is your life in the countryside?
---It is           but sometimes I feel a bit          .

A．interesting;boring	B．interesting;bored
C．interested;bored	D．interested ;boring

6 . Many buildings ______ on both sides of the street the next year.

A．will build	B．were built
C．are to be built	D．will be built

7 . The fire started on the second floor and it wasn’t long ______ the whole building was burned down.

A．while	B．when
C．after	D．before

8 . Jeo, don’t___________ now; you’re improving all the time. It won’t be long ___________ you can speak English well.

A．give in; until	B．give up; before
C．give in; when	D．give up; after

9 . Someone called me up in the middle of the night,but they hung up________I could answer the phone.

A．since	B．until
C．before	D．as

10 . Who________ for the pollution of our earth?

A．should blame

B．is to blame

C．is blame

D．is to be blame