21、The workers could hardly       the boss’s bad temper but under his supervision they had to

      themselves to working harder.

A．tolerate; contribute                             B．bear; dedicate

C．stand; resign                          D．put up with; invest

20、Deeply      his unhappy childhood, the boy’s       seemed quite odd and strange.

A．relating to ; characters                                 B．associated with; personality

C．linked by; virtues                            D．connecting to; morality

19、A warm thought suddenly came to me         I might substitute her son to buy some flowers for her 50th birthday.

A．if           B．when           C．that           D．which

18、The boy began to pick up after a treatment of surgery, radiation and drugs.

Which can replace the underlined word?

a. look up       b. recover                c. mend                  d. turn up

A．all are correct                                            B．none are correct

C．all are correct except d                    D．none are correct but c

17、It is impossible to live in society and independent of society; and therefore it is difficult to  

     society        unequality as well as corruption.

A．remove; from           B．rid; of             C．substitute; with          D．simplify; by

16、What idiom will be used according to the Bible story when we say that a person is good and

honest.

A．a little bird told me                             B．kill the fatted calf

C．the salt of the earth                       D．apple of their parents’ eye

15、Having been trained for one and a half years, she managed to get a professional qualification

       a first-degree nurse.

A．consist with                      B．agreed with        

C．corresponding to                  D．corresponding with

14、        his high social status, it is really hard for us to        his joining us in going west

to teach children there.

A．Considered; prevent from                            B．Considering; oppose

C．To consider; persuade                     D．Being considered; object to