[填空题]Thanks to your stupidity, we lost the game.

[单项选择]（）for your help we could not have finished it in time.
A. In spite of
B. But for
C. Because of
D. As for

[简答题]Many thanks for your hospitality during my visit to Manchester. It was very kind of you to give me so much of your valuable time, especially when you have such a lot to do.

[单项选择]（）if you had lost your watch
A. Weren’t you upset
B. Wouldn’t you be upset
C. Hadn’t you been upset
D. Wouldn’t you have upset

[单项选择]

M: What a beautiful house
F: Thanks. We have just moved in.

Who is the owner of the house（）
A. The man.
B. The woman.
C. Neither of them.

[单项选择]Not only (we lost) all our (memory), but we (also) came close to (losing) our lives.
A. we lost
B. memory
C. also
D. losing

[简答题]Humans have lost the evolutionary race. We are born without wings. It’s a crucial omission and we are making the environment pay for it.
We like to think we’re the bee’s knees of the natural world but we’re nothing more than bumbling flatfoots. That’s why kookaburras laugh and midges torment us. We are grounded for life and, in our frustration, we’re wrecking the planet.
Wings might seem just fun and frippery, but they would also save the environment. If we could fly, we would not be trampling ecosystems underfoot. Natural habitats that now get bulldozed would flourish because we wouldn’t need roads. There would be no demand for cars, so there wouldn’t be emissions problems.
The common housefly travels 300 times its body length in one second. (1) If in a few generations we could match that, we would reach 2,000 kilometres per hour, which would make ozone-destroying aircraft and land-gabbing airports unnecessary:
Society would benefit enorm

[单项选择]We have looked for the lost sheep almost everywhere, but nowhere ______.
A. we can find it
B. can we find it
C. can find we it
D. we can it find

[填空题]

June 8, 2009
Dear Sirs,
Many thanks for your offer (报价) dated May 26th for leather shoes and for the illustrated catalogues you very kindly sent us.
We appreciate the high quality of your goods, but unfortunately we are not in a position to accept the offer on your terms. Your prices appear to be on rather high side and they will leave us little or no margin of profit. As you may know, this is an area in which the principal demand is for goods in the medium price range, and leather shoes of the same quality from some other suppliers are now available in this market at much lower prices than yours. Some suppliers even offer a special discount of as high as 20% on orders exceeding $15 000.
Much as we would like to do more business with you, it is rather difficult for us to accept the prices you offered. Unless you can reduce your prices by 10%, we will have no choice but to satisfy our requirements elsewhere.
It is highly appreciated if you w

[填空题]We got lost coming home from the leisure centre. way We couldn’t ____________________ from the leisure centre.

[填空题]Thanks to modern technologies, we now have the solutions to most eyesight problems. Doctor can use different (26) —PRK, Lasik, Lasek and Intraocular lenses—to solve all types of eyesight problems while limiting the side effects. Most eye (27) are about as safe and effective as surgery can be. However, for an Industry that promises (28) , many centers have kept their patients in the dark about (29) . Government are of no help either as there are no (30) on who can buy medical instruments. But most hospitals insist that doctors have some form of (31) before performing eye surgery.
Despite a good record of the surgery, thousands of people around the world get an eye operation that goes wrong. A consumer advocate website posts a series of unhappy endings— (32) corneas (角膜), and permanently damaged eyesight. The message boards are full of people who came out of Lasik with far better vision but still in misery, <