—How was your life in England?

—Quite different from here. ________ ，people there drink tea with milk.

A. In my opinion

B. To my surprise

C. At the beginning

D. At the same time

B 【解析】句意：-你在英国的生活怎么样?—与这里很不同。令我惊奇的是,人们喝茶加牛奶。A. In my opinion依我看来、据我看来，表达观点；B. To my surprise令我惊奇的是，表示说话者的对事情认为很奇怪；C. At the beginning起初，指事件的开始；D. At the same time同时，表示同时发生。根据语境可知，“喝茶加牛奶”认为“奇怪”。故选：B...

This passage just doesn't make any________，no matter how you read it.

A. meaning B. importance C. value D. sense

D 【解析】句意：不管你怎么读，这篇文章都没有任何意义。A. meaning名词，意思；B. importance 名词，重要性；C. value名词，价值；D. sense名词，感觉、意识；固定搭配make some sense，有点道理, 有意义。故选：D。

Emily has________the flowers from Peter, but she doesn't want to________them.

A. accepted; receive

B. received; accept

C. refused; accept

D. taken; refuse

B 【解析】句意：艾米丽收到了彼得的花，但她不想接受。accept动词，接受；receive动词，接收；refuse动词，拒绝；take拿，取。根据语境可知是“收到与接受”之意；receive 指“收到”、“接到”，表示一种被动的行为；而accept 指“接受”，表示的是一种主动的行为，并伴随有一种满意或允诺的意味。故选：B。

Seeing the teacher walking into the classroom, they stopped ________ at once.

A. telling B. to speak

C. to tell D. talking

D 【解析】句意：看到老师走进教室，他们立刻停止了谈话。A. telling动名词，告诉；B. to speak动词不定式，说；C. to tell动词不定式，告诉；D. talking动名词，谈话。stop to do停(某事)下来做(另外的)某事，表示要去做某事；stop doing停止做某事，表示停止正在做的事情。根据语境可知，停止正在做的的事情“说话”。故选：D。

Classes begin at 8：00. So you________get to the classroom by 7：55 at the latest.

A. are thought to B. are supposed to

C. thought to D. supposed to

B 【解析】句意：八点钟开始上课。所以你应该最迟7点55分到教室。A. are thought to被想到...;B. are supposed to理应、应该...；C. thought to想到...；D. supposed to料想。不能迟于上课时间，因而本处意为“理应、应该”之意。故选：B。

When the police came, the thieves had ________．

A. run into B. run away

C. run with D. run after

B 【解析】句意：当警察来时，小偷们已经逃跑了。A. run into 快速进入…、 碰撞; B. run away逃跑；C. run with和...一起跑，后跟宾语；D. run after追赶，后跟宾语。此处为贼“逃脱”之意。故选：B。

—________ do you like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

—Very interesting.

A. How B. Who C. What D. When

A 【解析】句意：-你觉得《汤姆历险记》怎么样？-非常有趣。根据答语Very interesting可知，本句询问对这本书The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 的看法。询问对事物的态度与看法的句型：How do you like...?或what do you think of...? 故选：A。

The foreign guest gave us some flowers as gifts, but we didn't know what to give them ________ .

A. in turn B. in pieces C. in return D. in fact

C 【解析】句意：外宾送给我们一些鲜花作为礼物，但我们不知道给他们什么作为回报。A. in turn依次; B. in pieces成碎片；C. in return作为报答、反过来；D. in fact事实上。根据语境可知，此处为“回报”前文“礼物”之意。故选：C。

She opened her hand and was surprised to find the bird was ________ .

A. death B. died C. dead D. die

C 【解析】句意：她张开手，惊奇地发现那只鸟已经死了。A. death名词，死；B. died 动词过去式，死；C. dead 形容词，死的；D. die动词死。本句有be动词was, 后跟形容词，在句中构成系表结构，形容词作表语，表状态。故选：C。

（题文）My ________ homework usually takes me about one and a half hours.

A. every day B. each day

C. everyday's D. everyday

D 【解析】句意：我每天的家庭作业通常要花一个半小时。A. every day每天，副词短语，作状语，修饰句子；B. each day每天, 副词短语，作状语，修饰句子；C. everyday's 表达错误；D. everyday形容词，每天的, 可以修饰名词homework，在句中作定语。故选：D。