1 . 短语选变填

go through     go over        make a detour       take advantage of       throw light on     due to in addition     make sense   off the coast          quite something        date from          adapt to

1. You’d better give reasons ____________ to your arguments.
2. Our Chinese civilization, ___________ thousands of years ago, remains uninterrupted.
3. How shameless of you _____________ such a poor man!
4. After ___________ such a disaster, they had to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.
5. A major accident is blocking the northbound carriageway of the M1. Drivers going north have to _____________.
6. Please ____________ these lessons before the final examination so that you can do a better job in the test.
7. There are hundreds of tiny islands ___________ of the European continent.
8. Jerry has stayed in China for two decades. It takes him time _____________ life in his own native country.
9. It was ____________ that man landed on the moon. It was really a giant leap for mankind.
10. Don’t give up. Your ongoing investigation will definitely ____________ the truth.

2 . 选择方框中的单词或短语的适当形式完成下列句子，其中一项为多余选项。

1. The failure has caused the lack of _________ in himself.
2. The world will be different, and we will have to be prepared to _________ the change.
3. He _________ your help very much and what you have done means something to him.
4. This program was set up with a/an _________ of providing help to homeless people.
5. Years of fighting have left the area _________.
6. He has too much work _________ to go picnicking with us.
7. I’ll make _________ for you to be met at the airport.
8. All of them have _________ in the letter that they will attend the meeting.
9. The police said that the accident was _________ the driver’s careless driving.
10. He found that the words he wrote often didn’t _________.

3 . 选词填空

millions of；　make sense；　even if；　fair play；　come along； by the way；　agree with；　fall down；　work out；　make it

1. He likes to help others ______ he is very busy.
2. The sentence just doesn’t ______, no matter how you read it.
3. We are all going to the games. Why don’t you ______?
4. Look out! The roof is going to ______.
5. In the matches, ______ is very important.
6. I’m afraid that I don’t ______ what you said.
7. ______ , what do you think about this football team?
8. We should ______ every day to keep fit.
9. The Great Wall was made not only by earth and stone, but also the flesh and blood of ______ men.
10. Though it is hard, I will try my best to ______ to the top of the mountain.

4 .
1. The president spoke at the business meeting for nearly an hour without ___________ his notes.
2. It’s said that all the teachers and students ____________ the new computer lab for free in the near future.
3. Plastic bags and boxes which ___________ “white pollution” have become a serious problem which has caused a great concern among the public.
4. The board ___________ two foreigners and two Chinese all used English to communicate with the job hunters in the interview.
5. Teachers should encourage their students _____________ different opinions in group discussion, which helps to develop their critical thinking.
6. Her health ____________ under the pressure of working over the last two years.
7. His house ___________ last night but the strange thing was that the burglar alarm didn’t go off.
8. After ____________ my daughter from school, we drove to my sister’s home to attend her 10th wedding anniversary.
9. The teacher __________ the whole class into 6 small groups and assigned different tasks to them in her demonstration class.
10. It ____________ to plan so far ahead because a lot of things will have changed dramatically by next year.