3. 好像我们除了等待别无选择。

It seems that we have________________________ .

2.为了提高服务，这家宾馆的服务员正积极学英语。

__________________________ ， the waiters and waitresses of this hotel are active in learning English.

根据中文意思使用恰当的句式完成句子

1.他许诺无论什么时候我们遇到麻烦都会帮我们。

He________________________ us whenever we were in trouble.

5.It's a pity that I can't go to the party______________________ (hold) in Jane's home tomorrow evening. I am too busy these days.

4. When I returned to Beijing from Shanghai, the sandstorm had just ended.
My friends all said I was lucky____________________ (miss) it.

3. Although it is a hard task to protect our environment, we can't help but ______(go) ahead.

2. All through the morning, Mary did nothing but ______________    (sit) on the sofa, watching TV.

用所给动词的正确形式填空

1. The weather seems___________________ (improve) now. Let's go for a picnic.

M: Hello?

W: Hello, Carl? It's Kate Taggart here.

M: Kate! How have you been?

W: Great. Actually, 35.  (offer) a job as news announcer at KGN， I want to ask you a few questions.

M: That's wonderful. What do you want to know?

W: Well, what's it like to be a news announcer at a big station like that?

M: Well -. you know, there are good points and bad points. Announcers are very 36.   (good) paid

W: Yeah, the salary is a lot 37.     (high).

38.   tell me some of the bad points.

M: Hmm. Well, stress is one. 39.  (be) an announcer is a really high-stress job.

W: And I guess the working hours are pretty long

M: That's 40.      sure. But you'd get to travel a lot. I know you love to travel.

W: I sure do. And also I'd get to interview some pretty important people.  That would 41.  (definite) be 42.     plus.

M: Yeah, it would. One other thing, as an announcer, you just have to be very confident and aggressive. The competition is tough. Everyone 43.     (compete) with you to get your job.

W: Hmm. Well, thanks, Carl! You 44.  (help) me a lot.

Red is used in many American expressions. It can be used to show 25.     (happy) ， as in "a red-let-ter day". This is a day 26.   something special happens. The expression is probably based on church customs. For almost six hundred years, church calendars (日 历) 27.     (mark) with red to indicate special holidays. Today's calendars are still marked that way with the 28.    (mean) of holidays and spe-

cial days printed in red.

The expression "a red-letter day" is often heard in everyday life. "A red-letter day" is 29.       day that people are feeling quite happy. It may be a day lhat

you've long waited for, a wedding day, for example.

30.   it may be a day with a happy surprise.

You might tell your friend that yesterday was a red-let-ter day, 31.     you won some money in the state lottery (彩票）.

"Rolling out the red carpet" is another 32.  (common) heard expression, which 33.       (represent) a warm welcome of any kind. A city may "roll out the red carpet ，， for its baseball team when the team arrives home after winning the championship.

Red is also used in some expressions that are not happy. "Red-handed" is one. To be caught red-handed is to be caught 34.      (perform) a wrong act.