16. --__________?

　　--It depends on what it is.

　　A. Will you buy me some stamps

　　B. Would you please do me a favour

　　C. How about going shopping with me

　　D. Remember me to your family, will you

　　17. The old woman is sitting_____________ her daughter.

　　A. near to B. next

　　C. next to D. next by

　　18. He felt rather __________ that she should drive the car at such a____________ speed.

　　A. frightening, frightening

　　B. frightened, frightened

　　C. frightening, frightened

　　D. frightened, frightening

　　19. --It starts raining outside.

　　--Oh, ____________!

　　A. so it is B. so does it

　　C. it does so D. so it does

　　20. Can you imagine what a girl will look like___________ she comes across a rat in her room?

　　A. now that B. though

　　C. in case D. if

　　21. The train was__________ to arrive at 11:30,but was an hour late.

　　A. about

　　B. likely

　　C. certain

　　D. supposed

　　22. Collecting stamps as a hobby___________ increasingly popular during the past fifty years.

　　A. becomes

　　B. became

　　C. has become

　　D. had become

　　23. To everybody's surprise, the fashionable young lady ___________ to be a thief.

　　A. found out

　　B. proved out

　　C, put out

　　D. turned out

　　24. America was____________ was first called" India" by Columbus

　　A. that B. where

　　C. what D. the place

　　25. In Switzerland, six miles west of Geneva,___________ a collection of laboratory buildings.

　　A. lie B. are lying

　　C. lies D. lays

　　26. With summer coming on, the weather gets hot _________.

　　A. day after day

　　B. day and night

　　C. day in and day out

　　D. day by day

　　27. I would have come to see you earlier, but I__________too busy.

　　A. had been B. were

　　C. was D. would be

　　28. --Thank you very much.

　　--Not at all , I was____________ glad to help.

　　A. too B. only too

　　C. not so D. much

　　30. The British are not so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things, ___________ is often the case in other countries

　　A. as B. that

　　C. so D. it