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　　1. We ______ play on the town square when we were children.

　　A. are used to B. were used to C. used to D. use to

　　2. He ______ dangers that doesn’t exist.

　　A. forever imagines B. is forever imagining

　　C. imagines forever D. forever is imagining

　　3. The point is worth ______.

　　A. being mentioned B. mentioning C. to mention D. mentioned

　　4. The firm decided after a board meeting that the old machinery in the factories ______ with.

　　A. do away B. should be away C. should do away D. should be done away

　　5. I got a headache. Otherwise I ______ to the lecture.

　　A. would go B. would have gone C. went D. have

　　6. It’s high time that the girl ______ sent to school.

　　A. were B. was C. be D. is to be

　　7. They have all got up, and ______.

　　A. Jack has too B. so has Jack C. also has Jack D. Jack hasn’

　　8. Never before that night ______ the extent of my own power.

　　A. did I feel B. had I felt C. I had felt D. I did felt

　　9. This depends on the purpose ______ the electronic device is used.

　　A. on which B. at which C. where D. for which

　　10. Jackson is not ______ as you imagine.

　　A. so a big fool B. so big a fool C. such big a fool D. a such big fool

　　11. It was when he took a job in a company ______ he began to learn English.

　　A. when B. that C. which D. what

　　12. It was president of the union ______ the students elected him.

　　A. who B. whom C. which D. what

　　13. Nancy is so poor that even fifty dollars ______ a big sum to her.

　　A. is B. are C. add D. equal

　　14. Truth and honesty ______ always best policy.

　　A. are B. is C. have been D. be

　　15. They found the conditions there ______.

　　A. much improve B. much to improve

　　C. much improved D. be much improved

　　There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves set aside for them in bookshops , along with the health-diet and home-repair paperbacks . Some of them are so 1 with detailed information and step-by-step instructions for performing the function , that you ' d think this was a new sort of skill which all of us are now required to learn . The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary ， 2 an exotic experience , something only the specially trained can do .

　　Furthermore , you could be led to believe that we are the only 3 capable of being aware of death , and that when the rest of nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying , one generation after 4 ，it is a different kind of process , done automatically and trivially , or more “natural”, as we say .

　　An elm in our backyard 5 the blight (枯萎病)this summer and dropped stone dead , leafless , almost overnight . One weekend it was a normal-looking elm , maybe a little bare in spots but 6 alarming , and the next weekend it was gone , passed over , departed , taken . Taken is right , for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his crew of young helpers and their cherry picker , and took it down branch by branch and carted it off in the back of a red truck , everyone 7 .

　　The dying 8 a field mouse , at the jaws of an amiable household cat , is a spectacle I have beheld many times . It 9 to make me wince . However , early in life I gave up throwing sticks at the cat to make him drop the mouse , 10 the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway .

　　1. A. contained B. embraced C. packed D. littered

　　2. A. and B. even C. yet D. but

　　3. A. races B. creatures C. people D. human

　　4. A. the other B. another C. the next D. the following

　　5. A. caught B. held C. took D. picked

　　6. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything

　　7. A. siings B. sang C. sung D. singing

　　8. A. to B. in C. for D. of

　　9. A. was B. was used C. used D. was about

　　10. A. but B. because C. while D. in order that