1. I hate _________ when people talk with their mouths full.

　A. it B. that C. these D. them

2. This land is three times _________ that land .

　A. the size of B. larger than C as large as D. all of them

3. A storm is __________ to happen.

　A. possible B. probable C. likely D. surely

4. When he came back to life , he found himself ____ in the woods and everything he had ____.

A. lay, stolen B. lying ; had stolen C lying ; stolen D. lay; had been stolen

II. 完形填空

　　In Europe, men do not usually wear skirts. 1 the Scottish national costume(服装) for 2 is a kind of skirt. It is called a kilt. The Scottish like to be 3 . They are also proud of their country and its 4 , and they feel that the kilt is part of that history. That's why the men still wear kilts at old -style 5 and on national holidays. They believe they are wearing the same clothes as Scottish men 6 to wear. That's what they believe. 7 , kilts are not really so old. 8 1730, Scottish men wore a long shirt and 9 around their shoulders. These clothes got in the way when the men started to work in 10 .

　　So, in 1730 a factory owner changed the blanket into a shirt: the kilt. That's 11

the first kilt was made. Then, in the late 1700s Scottish soldiers in the 12 Army began to wear kilts to be different from British soldiers. The Scottish soldiers 13

very hard and became famous. The kilt was part of that 14 , and in the early 1800s men all around Scotland began to wear kilts.

　　These kilts had 15 stripes(条纹) going up and down and across. At first, the color of the stripes had no 16 meaning. But later the colors became important to the Scottish 17 . Each had their special colors.

　　This is not the 18 you will hear today if you are in Scotland. Most Scottish people still believe that kilts are as 19 as Scotland and that the colors are as old as the Scottish families. Sometimes feelings are stronger than 20 .

1. A. And B. But C. So D. Although

2. A. women B. girls C. men D. boys

3. A. different B. same C. important D. beautiful