1. and applause.

A. It were not B. It had not been

C. Were it not D. Had it not been.

2. Office furniture like chairs and sofas should be attractive as well as comfortable.

A. manually B. visually C. physically D. securely

3. many Chinese holidays are directed towards services remembering ancestors, the Ching Ming Festival is beyond doubt the largest.

A. Unless B. Since C. Once D. While

4. More and more people prefer to live in the countryside, appeal for them lies in the quiet and slow-paced life.

A. who B. which C. whose D. what

5. The infrastructure project has consumed so much money that we can't find any financial support and have to .

A. pull out B. pull through C. catch up D. catch on

6. Though our football boys are faced with four goals behind, they are still struggling hard in the field to .

A. face the music B. save face

C. cost their arm and leg D. land on their feet

第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　At 15, I had started a band with three mates I'd met at the local rehearsal ( 排 练 ) rooms. We played our first performance at a pub in Bolton. We were 16 , but the crowd didn't seem to mind, and after a few more local concerts, we recorded some songs and we started to 17 . We sent out hundreds of demo ( 样 本 ) tapes in 18 of our favourite band, the Manics. After finishing my high school, we drove to London to play at the Dublin Castle. Only five people 19 .

　　But we persevered ( 坚 持 ) and slowly things began to 20 . Two years after our first performance, we 21 a record deal. We 22 endlessly for the next two years and built up a small but 23 following. At the end of 2002, the Manics 24 us to play with them. My teenage dreams had come true; the band I looked up to seemed to 25 of us.

We 26 performing in New York, and to 5,000 people at the Fuji Rock festival in Japan.