Test Eight???
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It is the first time +that?分句

  在“It is/was/will be the first time+that?分句”结构中，当主句动词为is/will be时，that?分句动词一律用现在完成体，引导词that可以省略。例如：?
It is the first time I’ve been here.?
Don’t forget, it’ll be the first time I’ve spoken in public.?
当主句动词为was时，that?分句动词通常用过去完成体。例如：?
It was the first time she’d been at a summer school and she thoroughly¹ enjoyed it.??
近义词辨析?
?fast, hasty, quick, rapid, speedy, swift?
这组词均含有“迅速的”，“快捷的”的意思。?

fast
强调速度快，且保持不变；又指钟表的时间超过准确的时间。?
We took a fast train to Beijing.我们坐快车来北京。?

hasty
指匆忙、急促，涉及因此而引起的慌乱、疏漏。?
Don’t arrive at hasty conclusions.别匆忙下结论。?

quick
强调动作、行为发生得突然且持续时间短。指人时，暗示聪明、领悟快。?
The tiger took a quick leap at the sheep.老虎猛地向羊扑去。?

rapid
指就整个过程来讲速度快，但并不一定指这一过程的速度始终均匀不变。?
The growth of the economy has been rapid in recent years.近年来，经济增长速度很快。?

speedy
指人处理问题迅速或物体运转速度快。?
His accusations² brought a speedy denial.他的指控马上遭到了否认。?

swift
与fast和quick同义，但带有文学色彩。?
Eagles are swift in flight.鹰飞得很快。??

全真模拟试题?
  1. It was requested that all of the equipment ?____?
 in the agreed time.?
A. erected³   B. would be erected ?
C. be erected   D. will be erected ?
2. The man sitting opposite me smiled dreamily, as if ?____?
 something pleasant in the past.?
A. to remember B. remembered?
C. having been remembered D. remembering?
3. I ?____?  him the Christmas gift by mail because he c
ame home during the Christmas holidays.?
A. ought to have sent    B. couldn’t have sent   ?
C. must have sent    D. needn’t have sent?
4. It turned out that the children were not ?____? for t
he accident.?
A. to blame  B. to be blamed?
C. to be blaming    D. to have been blamed?
5. The desegregation was achieved through a number of struggles, ?____?
 been mentioned in previous chapters.?
A. a few of which    B. a few of them  ?
C. a few of those   D. a few of that?
6. Setting up a committee might be a way ?____? the proj
ect more efficiently⁴.?
A. to be doing  B. doing     C. to do     D. being done?
7. It ?____? to see so many children in that mountainous
 area cannot even afford  elementary education.?
A.pains her B. makes her pain?
C. is paining D. is pained?
8. Our boss, Mr. Thompson, ?____? a raise in salary for 
ages, but nothing has happened yet.?
A.was promising⁵    B. has been promising?
C. promised D. has promised?
9. He was determined⁶ to sail around the world ?____? his
 illness and old age.?
A. given  B. although     C. despite  D. in spite?
10. The board deemed it’s urgent that these invitations ?____?
 first thing tomorrow morning.?
A. had to be put in the mail  ?
B. must be put in the mail?
C. be put in the mail?
D. should have been put in the mail?
11. ?____? drills that have no real topic have to remain
 as they are.?
A. Manufacture B. Manipulative?
C. Manipulate D.Manifest?
12. This book has been in the works so long that I have lost ?____?
 of most of the sources found for me by the staff of the library.?
A. trace   B. trail   C. track     D. touch?
13. The elbows on your coat have worn thin, so I must ?____?
 them.?
A. mend   B. patch  C. repair     D. pitch?
14. ?____? and wage increases have not kept in step.?
A. Production  B. Product?
C. Produce  D. Productivity?
15. People under stress have performed ?____? feats⁷ of s
trength, like lifting an automobile⁸ off an accident victim.?
A. specific  B. extraordinary       C. abrupt  D. abnormal?
16. Modern appliances ?____? us from a good deal of hous
ehold work.For instance, the dryer⁹ frees us from hanging the laundry.?
A.escape     B . benefit  C. liberate     D. comfort?
17. The audience waited in ?____? silence while their ag
ed speaker searched among his note for the figures he could not remember.?
A. respective     B. respect     C. respectful  D. respectable
18. The disappearance¹⁰ of her paper has never been ?____?
A. counted for B. looked up   ?
C.accounted for    D. checked up?
19. When he was asked about the missing briefcase¹¹, the man ?____?
 ever seeing it.?
A. refused     B. denied  C. opposed  D. resisted?
20. Communication between a young couple is a(n) ?____? 
business.?
A. sharp   B. dreadful    C. intense     D. delicate?
21. After so many weeks without rain, the ground quickly ?____?
 the little rain that fell last night.?
A. skipped    B. soaked   C. retrieved  D. absorbed?
22. We’ll ?____? you as soon as we have any further info
rmation.?
A. notify B. signify?
C. communicate    D. impart?
23. The fox fell into the ?____? the hunters had set for
 it.?
A. bush   B. trap  C. trick  D. circle?
24. I don’t know you want to keep the letter. I’ve ?____?
 it up.?
A. torn     B. given     C. broken     D. disposed?
25. The old lady ?____? and fell from the top of the sta
irs to the bottom.?
A. slided   B. slipped     C. split   D. spilled?