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A.living;wondering

B.lived;wondering

C.lived;wondered

D.living;wondered

解析句意为：29岁时，大卫是一名工人，居住在波士顿附近的一座小公寓里，对于他的未来还一片茫然。根据句意及句式结构，live 和wonder的逻辑主语都是Dave,所以要使用现在分词短语作定语。

2.Do you remember a time people were a little nicer and gentler with each other? A.that B.which C.when D./

解析 a time作先行词，在定语从句中作时间状语，相当于during a time，因此选C项。

3. from heart trouble for years, Professor White has to take some medicine with him wherever he goes.

A.Suffered

B.Suffering

C.Having suffered

D.Being suffered

解析此题考查分词作状语。suffer与Professor White构成主动关系，故排除A、D；又因两个动作有明显的先后顺序，故用完成时，答案应选C项。

4.Broadly speaking,I would agree with Shirley, though not . A.widely B.thoroughly C.entirely D.extensively

解析本题考查在特定的语境中正确使用副词的能力。widely广泛地；thoroughly彻底地，透彻地；entirely完全地，类似于completely;extensively 广泛地；广阔地。根据题意，C为正确选项。

5.The exhibition hall, many times,became the second largest in the world and could hold 100,000 people at a time.

A.added to

B.adding to

C.added

D.adding

解析add to在此表示“增添，扩建”，与the exhibition hall是被动关系，故用过去分词形式。即A，句意为：这个展览厅，在多次被扩建后，规模之大排名世界第二，一次能够容纳十万人。

6.She’ll never forget her stay there she found her son who had gone missing two years before. (四川高考)

A.that

B.which

C.where

D.when

解析stay在此处的意义与a period of staying相同，故用when引导定语从句，且when在从句中作时间状语。

7.I’m sorry you’ve been waiting so long, but it’ll still be some time Brian gets back.

A.before

B.since

C.till

D.after

解析考查从属连词的辨析。句式“It will be +一段时间+before...”意为“要过……（时间）才……”。句意为：很抱歉让你等了这么久，但仍要过一段时间Brian才会回来。选C。

12.It was in this very lab was in the charge of Professor Smith they did the experiment.

A.where;that

B.which;that

C.which;where

D.that;where

解析此句强调地点状语in this very lab,而this very lab之后跟了一个关系代词which引导的定语从句which was in the charge of Professor Smith。句意为：他们就是在由史密斯教授负责的这间实验室做的实验。选B

13.Is this the reason at the meeting for his carelessness in his work?

A.he explained

B.what he explained

C.how he explained

D.why he explained

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14.—I thought you didn’t mind. —Well,as a matter of fact,I ,but you first.

A.didn’t;shouldn’t let me know

B.don’t;should let me know

C.didn’t;should have let me know

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15.When into a warm house,a piece of ice becomes smaller and smaller,until in the end it disappears completely.

A.takes

B.taking

C.took

D.taken

解析考查省略知识。when引导的时间状语从句所省略的主语与主句的主语相同，与动词take之间是被动关系，故选D项。句意为：当把一块冰放进温暖的房间时，它变得越来越小，直到最后完全消失。

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