24. The foreign visitors said that they wouldn’t mind _____ for the night.
A. having a hard bed
B. have a hard bed
C. to have a hard bed
D. they had a hard bed

25. The goods will be shipped this afternoon _____ it rains.
A. until
B. till
C. if
D. unless

26. We’d better not _____ through that field. There’s a sign saying “Private Property”.
A. walk
B. to walk
C. walking
D. walked

27. We were awfully late and everyone turned their eyes to us, which was very _____.
A. embarrassing
B. embarrassed
C. being embarrassing
D. being embarrassed

28. He is said _____ five trips to Beijing in the last ten years.
A. to make
B. to have made
C. to have been making
D. to be making

29. He gave up _____ on medical advice.
A. drinking
B. to drink
C. drink
D. to be drinking

30. I seized him _____ the arm.
A. to
B. on
C. with
D. by

二、改错（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
下面句子中有 A,B,C,D四个划底线部分，其中有一个是错误的，选出错误部分的字母，无需改正错误。
31. People liked these facial tissues immediately and begin asking for them when they went into different stores.
A B C D
32. Overcrowding in large cities, traffic jams and competition for jobs may be stress.
A B C D
33. The number printing below the vertical bars identifies the manufacturer and the anufacturer’s item.
A B C D
34. You must have noticed that the average person does not give their undivided attention to someone he has just met.
A B C D
35. But no matter what frightening it may be to visit a steel mill, we see steel in use all around us.
A B C D
36. When travel and exploration became widespread, but especially when ships were able to sail far out on the Atlantic, the vision of a flat earth had to change.
A B C D
37. The United States Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, permit foreign trade zones in the United States.
A B C D
38. I hope you don’t mind my ask you to arrange everything; I’ve got nobody else to turn to.
A B C D
39.If business will continue to boom, we will have to take on more staff.
A B C D
40. Like water transportation, pipelines are slow in term of overall delivery time.
A B C D

三、完形填空（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）
选择最佳答案完成句子，错选、多选或未选均无分。
Insurance is the sharing of risks. Nearly everyone is 41 to risk of some sort. The house owner, for example, knows that his property can be 42 by fire; the ship owner knows that his vessel may be lost at sea; the breadwinner knows that he may die at an early age and 43 his family poorer. On the other hand, not every house is damaged by fire, nor every 44 lost at sea. If these persons each put a small sum into a pool, there will be 45 to meet the needs of the few who do suffer loss. 46 , the losses of the few are met from the contributions of the many. This is the basis of insurance. Those 47 pay the contribution are known as “insured” and those who administer the pool of contributions 48 “insurers”.
Not all risks can be 49 by insurance. Broadly speaking, the ordinary risks of business and speculation cannot be covered. The risk that buyers will not buy goods