大学英语语法试题及答案(2)

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题目：1.More people visit the Air and Space Museum honoring men and women who have pioneered flight and the exploration of space than _____ any other monument or museum in the entire country.

A) visit B) to visit C) visited D) visiting

题目：2.I work in a little room off the main entrance _____ museum, checking coats and other articles which people do not want to carry around as they tour the building.

A) to B) of C) at D) for

题目：3.What apparently had happened, three years ago, was that Kate _____ to a different building.

A) went B) has gone C) had gone D) would go

题目：4.She had waited at another museum for days and had spent all her money _____ to find Sidney.

A) tried B) trying C) to try D) try

题目： 5.Without facts we cannot form a worthwhile opinion for we need to have factual knowledge _____ our thinking.

A) which to be based B) which to base upon

C) upon which to base D) to which to be based

题目：6.Helen believes if a man robs her of five dollars it is the same as if he _____ a hundred.

A) takes B) will take C) took D) has taken

题目：7.He had a cottage which consists _____ three rooms, a bathroom and kitchen.

A) of B) with C) in D) by

题目：8.Behind him Paul could hear the angry man _____ to break the door open.

A) trying B) to try C) tried D) try

题目：9.Some companies have introduced flexible working time with less emphasis on pressure _____.

A) than more on efficiency B) and more efficiency

C) and more on efficiency D) than efficiency

题目：10.The gardener is taking care of the place, no one _____ there at present.

A) living B) lives C) lived D) to live

题目：11.The City Bank will pa fifty pounds to _____ who helps the police to catch the man. A) someone B) nobody C) anyone D) somebody

题目：12.When Paul Carson saw the big red American car coming towards him, he stopped his won car at the side, _____ room for it to pass.

A) to make B) made C) making D) make

题目：13.What bothers me is _____ I paid for all this stuff that we don't want anymore.

A) what B) that C) which D) who

题目：14.A hinge joint is _____ permits forward and backward movement of a door.

A) the B) whose C) what D) those

题目：15.Garage sales in the United States serve many purposes _____ cleaning out unwanted items and making money.

A) besides B) except for C) except D) apart from

题目：16.This is _____ the most difficult job I have ever tackled.

A) by rights B) by itself C) by oneself D) by far

题目：17.It was imperative that I _____ as close as possible.

A) be B) will be C) was D) am

题目：18.Everything was white and I remembered _____ all kinds of ladies dressed up in funny white things with all their hair covered with some sort of cloth.

A) seeing B) see C) to see D) seen

题目：19.Physics is _____ to the science which was called natural philosophy in history.

A) alike B) equivalent C) likely D) uniform

题目：20.People speak _____ him as the best known humorous writer of all times.

A) to B) of C) with D) for

题目：21.As a boy Mark Twain used to play practical jokes _____ all friends and neighbors. A) on B) of C) with D) at

题目：22.Quite often I've gone to a man who didn't tell me _____ Adam.

A) from B) with C) to D) of

题目：23.Until then, his family _____ from him for six months.

A) didn't hear B) hasn't been hearing

C) hasn't heard D) hadn't heard

题目：24.Instead of trying to imitate reality in their works, many artists of the early twentieth century _____ their feelings and ideas in abstract art.

A) in the beginning to reveal B) began to reveal

C) revealed the beginning D) to begin revealing

题目：25.You can guess that there's not a man, woman or child that I don't know _____ sight. A) with B) in C) by D) through

题目：26.The next thing _____ happened was that something hit me terribly hard on the back of the head.

A) that B) what C) which D) there

题目：27.It took him several months to _____ the wild horse.

A) tend B) cultivate C) breed D) tame

题目：28.They prefer to repeat their success, rather than _____ failure.

A) risk B) risking C) to risk D) risked

题目：29.Richard Nixon has always been regarded _____ a man of great talent and strong will.

A) as B) like C) for D) of

题目：30.I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into _____ when judging my examination.

A) regard B) counting C) account D) observation

题目：31.One way in which both Franck and Hannah did show their love was in their willingness to make sacrifices _____ their children.

A) to B) with C) for D) of

题目：32.The making of the early mind of Richard Nixon owed most _____ his mother.

A) to B) by C) for D) in

题目：33.The residents, _____ had been damaged by the flood, were given help by the Red Cross.

A) all their homes B) all whose homes

C) all of whose homes D) all of their homes

题目：34.If her marriage had not cut short her college education she _____ a teacher.

A) would have been B) would be