课程代码：00831

请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。

选择题部分

注意事项：

1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。

2. 每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。

一、单项选择题（本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）

Choose the best answer from the choices given and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.

1. At the sight of a cute kitty, the baby gave a loud ______.

A. laugh                                                     B. laughter

C. laughing                                                  D. laugher

2. As it is a freezing cold day, the people that used to bank fish from ______ side of the river are nowhere to be found.

A. either                                                           B. both                       

C. any                                           D. neither

3. It is true that ______ people living in today’s Shanghai are still fascinated by ______ Shanghai described in Eileen Chang’s novels.

A. the; /                                                            B. /; the                       

C. the; the                                         D. /;/

4. The HR manager will have already finished her meeting before the new recruit ______ to her office.

A. shall come                                       B. came                        

C. is coming                                        D. comes

5. If she ______ you, she would be happy to take two days off and have a good rest.

A. is                                                                B. were

C. was                                       D. had been

6. The economist’s suggestion for the country was that it ______ on the development of an educational system available to everyone.

A. focused                                         B. focuses                   

C. focus                                         D. would focus

7. The criminal ______ finally in a house abandoned for years.

A. has located                                                   B. was located

C. had been located                                        D. had located

8. The umbrella I put here just now is gone. Someone ______ it up by mistake.

A. might have picked                                        B. must pick

C. could pick                                                   D. need have picked

9. I really appreciate ______ such comfortable shoes for me.

A. on your finding                                            B. you to find

C. for you to find                                             D. your finding

10. Rather than ______ the new and more powerful drugs, the scientist managed to persuade people to reduce their intake of antibiotics.

A. invent                                                    B. inventing   

C. to invent                                                      D. invented