25、---Are you a member of the club?

---          .It’s years since I        a member of the club.

A．Yes; was                             B．No; became

C．Yes; had been                        D．No; was

24、You can imagine            a surprise when they told me the news.

A．there is     B．what it was  C．what D．how

23、      in convenient locations, chain stores are usually next door to people’s homes and close to the bus stops or underground stations.

A．Opening  B．Having opened    C．Being opened D．Opened

22、When we were young, we had few books to read and used to read     books we could find.

A．no matter what   B．which    C．whatever D．whichever

21、So absorbed        in the program that he didn’t notice it was already 1:00 a.m.

A．he had been  B．was he   C．he was   D．had he been

20、We     with $75,000， but fortunately, the proceeds of that day finally        twice that amount.

A．would be satisfied, came to         

B．would have been satisfied, came to

C．were satisfied, would come to   

D．were satisfied, would have come to

19、A NASA experimental jet, the X—43A, flied at a world—record speed—11,260 kilometers an hour on November 17. Its speed is         as sound.

A．as ten times fast                    B．ten times so fast

C．ten times as fast                   D．so fast ten times

18、Every time the record comes to that part of the music, the needle          .

A．jumps    B．skips    C．leaps    D．hops

17、As everybody knows, heat is a form of            .

A．energy   B．force    C．power    D．vigour

16、We can’t          the fact that there is still a long way to go before we can get rid of pollution.

A．ignore             B．neglect

C．realize            D．recognize