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:
1. A:“I hope you will be ready to leave on time. ”
B:“Don't worry. I'll be ready by the time the taxi (      ). ”
A. arriving      B. arrives      C. will arrive      D. will have arrived

2. When I reached the peak, the sun (      ).
A. shone      B. shines      C. has shone      D. was shining

3. The task force is supposed (      ).
A. to be getting reinforced      B. that to be getting reinforced
C. to being got reinforced       D. that been got reinforced

4. A new hypothesis (      ) before it can be put into practice.
A. must be tested       B. be tested   C. can be tested      D. to be tested

5. I don't think she meant (      ) you.
A. hurt      B. to hurt      C. hurting      D. be hurt

6. I keep fit (      ) playing tennis every day.
A. by      B. on      C. for      D. in

7. ___arrived ___ she started complaining. (      )
A. Hardly had he… when      B. Hardly he had... when
C. He hardly ...than        D. Hardly had be... than

8. A:“(      ) did she see the doctor?”
B:“She saw the doctor twice a month. ”
A. How        B. How many times
C. How long   D. How often

9. __gone to sleep __ the telephone rang once more.
A. No sooner he had... than      B. No sooner had he... when
C. No sooner had he... than      D. No sooner he had... when

10. A:“What will you be doing in the summer?”
B:“”(      ) English in a high school.
A. To learn      B. Learning
C. Will be learning      D. Will learn

11. Is this the first time you (      ) Tokyo?
A. have visited      B. would visit      C. visited      D. have been visiting

12. The information was later admitted (      ) from unreliable sources.
A. to be retrieved      B. to have been retrieved
C. that it has been retrieved      D. that it was retrieved

13. For a child to give up his less mature idea for a more sophisticated one, it requires that the child (      ) psychologically ready for the new idea.