第46题 __________，the workers continued their work in the open.
A. Heavy as was the rain
B. As the rain was heavy
C. As heavy was the rain
D. Heavy as the rain was
【正确答案】D
【解析】本句中让步状语从句的表语部分提到句首，形成部分倒装句，以表示强调，如Late as it was, we continued the experiment.尽管时间不早了，我们仍然继续做实验。
第47题 __________does Mr.Robinson go to London on business
A. How many
B. How long
C. How often
D. How usually
【正确答案】C
【解析】A.How many多少(一般后跟名词); B.How long多长时间(指连续时间，常用在完成时中); C.How often隔多久一次(指间隔时间，常用在一般时态中); D.How usually一般没有这种搭配。
第48题 Doctors say drinking water will help the pain __________after the body has the right amounts of water and salt.
A. disappear
B. disappearing
C. disappeared
D. disappears
【正确答案】A
【解析】根据语法规则：在help后面动词不定式作宾语补足语时，可以省略to， 也可以不省略，可判定A项disappear为正确答案。
第49题 When a fire__________ at the National Exhibition in London, at least ten priceless paintings were completely destroyed.
A. broke off
B. broke out
C. broke down
D. broke up
【正确答案】B
【解析】A.break off折断，断开; B.break out发生，爆发; C.break down击倒，失败; D.break up打碎，结束。
第50题 __________a big stone on the road, the truck stopped.
A. Seeing
B. Having seen
C. Seen
D. The driver seeing
【正确答案】D
【解析】有时分词或分词短语作状语时，可以带自己的动作主体，一般用名词或代词表示，放在分词前面，这种结构就是分词独立结构。例如：Time permitting, they will start to do a new job.(独立结构作条件状语)The experiment finished, we left the lab and went home.(独立结构作时间状语)
三、Cloze (20 points)Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰ.
It was a quarter past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work.Her bus moved slowly along through __________51 morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job.She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.
Once inside the hall she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes__________52 she could get on one to go to the sixth floor.When she finally reached the office marked “King Enterprises,” she knocked at the door nervously and waited.There was no answer.She knocked again, but still there was no reply.__________53 inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in.
Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had had the interview with Mr.King, it looked quite different now.In fact, it __________54looked like an office at all.The employees were just standing around __________55.At the far end of the room, somebody__________56 have just told a good joke, she thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in.For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her.
Then one of the men looked at his watch, __________57 his hands and said something to the others.Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of seconds, everyone was hard at work.No one paid any attention to Marie.Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office.Hardly __________58from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr.King, who would arrive __________59.Then Marie realized that the day’s work in the office began just before Mr.King arrived.Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the __________60 train every morning, arriving in the office at 9∶35 a.m., so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.
第51题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. light
B. heavy
C. strong
D. serious
【正确答案】B
第52题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. since
B. until
C. after
D. before
【正确答案】D
第53题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. From
B. Through
C. At
D. Over
【正确答案】A
第54题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. much
B. somewhat
C. hardly
D. roughly
【正确答案】C
第55题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. chatting and smoked
B. chatting and smoking
C. chatted and smoking
D. chatted and smoked
【正确答案】B
第56题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. should
B. could
C. might
D. must
【正确答案】D
第57题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. clapped
B. touched
C. felt
D. shook
【正确答案】A
第58题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. looking up
B. looking for
C. looking down
D. looking out
【正确答案】A
第59题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. at one moment
B. at the last moment
C. at the moment
D. at any moment
【正确答案】D
第60题 请选择最佳答案()。
A. busy
B. long
C. same
D. empty
【正确答案】C