14. 动身去某地

15. 一封非正式的信

二. 单项选择（共15分，每小题1分）

1. It's time for us to ________ to some work. We ought to do something every day.

A. get doing B. get up C. get down D. get in

2. Tom sat in class with his eyes ________ on the flowers outside the windows.

A. fixing B. fixed C. looking D. looked

3. Taking his advice will ________ you a lot of trouble.

A. take B. avoid C. waste D. save

4. I suppose this book will ________your taste for music.

A. add B. add up C. add to D. add up to

5. Hearing the news, he hurried home, ________ the book ________on the table.

A. leaving, lying open B. leaving, lie opened

C. left, lay opened D. left, lain opened

6. He has written a ________ composition recently.

A. two-thousand-word B. two-thousand-words

C. two-thousands-word D. two-thousands-words

7. Could you please ________his telephone number in the telephone book?

A. look for B. look at C. look on D. look up

8. I know he is dishonest, but, _________ I must say he is a good worker.

A. at the same time B. at that time

C. as a result D. however

9. Does he feel like _________ advertisements _________ the newspapers?

A. to read, in B. reading, in C. reading, on D. to read, in

10. It's clever ________ you to avoid ________ him.

A. to, meeting B. of, to meet C. to, to meet D. of, meeting

11. He asked me to give you _______ that he wanted some _______ about business.

A. a message, informations B. a message, information

C. message, information D. message, informations

12. During the years ________, he worked as a doctor in the hospital.

A. followed B. to follow C. following D. that followed

13. Taking photos _______ people without asking them first is not good.

A. of B. with C. in D. on

14. It was _______ that a hundred people looked lost in it.

A. so large a room B. so a large room

C. such large a room D. a such large room

15. They ________ for Shanghai tomorrow.

A. are starting B. start C. started D. have started

三. 阅读理解（共10分，每小题5分）

Britain was a rich country a hundred and fifty years ago. There were a few very rich people who received money from land or investment (投资), and did not need to work. They used to have large numbers of servants to look after them. There were also many middle-class people, who worked as businessmen or as doctors or lawyers. They usually had several servants to clean their houses and cook their meals. But there were also many poor people, and there was a big gap