解析：选D。句意："--你认为他们的乒乓球队在即将到来的亚运会上会获得冠军吗？--绝对不会，我们的球队比他们的球队要强大得多。Of course当然可以；It depends视情况而定；Don't mention it 不用谢；By no means绝对不会，绝不。根据句意可知答案为D项。

2．众所周知，电话是一种有用的通讯工具。

As is known to us，the telephone is ________ ________ ________ ________ ________.

答案：a useful means of communication

2 .majority　n．　大多数；大半

(回归课本P2)Of the first Spanish to go to California，the majority were religious men，whose ministry was to teach the Catholic religion to the natives.

在首批移居加州的西班牙人中，大部分是宗教人士，他们的职责是向原居住人民传授天主教。

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①The majority of students find it quite hard to live on the amount of money they get.

大多数学生认为靠他们挣得钱生活很难。

②(牛津P1220)In the nursing profession，women are in a /the majority.

女性在护理行业中占大多数。

【温馨提示】　(1)单独用作主语，谓语动词用单数、复数均可。

③(牛津P1220)The majority was/were in favour of banning smoking.

大多数人支持禁烟。

(2)单独用作主语，如果后面的表语是复数，那么谓语动词也用复数。

④The majority who attended the meeting yesterday are students.

昨天参加会议的大多数是学生。

⑤The majority of the damage is easy to repair.

这次的损失大部分容易补救。

⑥The majority of people seem to prefer computer to TV.

多数人喜欢电脑胜过电视。

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3．完成句子

(1)Don't worry about the present situation in the world；________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ (大多数人喜欢和平而不是战争)．

答案：the majority of people prefer peace to war

(2)Among the members of the committee those who are in favour of the plan are ________ ________ ________(占大多数)．

答案：in a/the majority

3 .occur　vi.　发生；出现

(回归课本P5)Yes.It didn't occur to me that...

是的，我没想到......

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