()1. I am strongly ______ building a new zoo as I think zoos are terrible places for animals to live.
A.against
B.on
C.in
D.for

()2. Mrs Yang felt so tired that she fell asleep ______ she lay down on the bed.
A.ever since
B.till
C.as soon as
D.until

()3. ______ I go to see him, he is busy working on his lessons.
A.However
B.Whoever
C.Whatever
D.Whenever

()4. He stayed up very late that night. ______ he woke up in the morning, the sun was already high up in the sky.
A.Since
B.As
C.While
D.Until

()5. It's more than ten years since I ______ a teacher.
A.become
B.became
C.has become
D.was becoming

()6. They will try their best in the dragon boat race ______ they may fail.
A.if
B.although
C.until
D.so

()7. — Wait for me at the bus stop ______ I come back, will you? — No problem.
A.if
B.till
C.while
D.although

()8. My father likes reading a newspaper ______ he is having breakfast.
A.until
B.because
C.while
D.though

()9. — The plane won't take off (起飞) ______ the thick clouds move away. — Let's wait patiently for the announcement from the airport.
A.since
B.though
C.while
D.until

()10. Whenever a person ______ difficulties, he or she ______ two choices. One is to give up, and the other is to face them bravely and try to overcome (战胜) them.
A.meets; had
B.meets; will have
C.will meet; has
D.will meet; will have

()11. — Why didn't you stop him? — He had rushed out ______ I could realize it.
A.before
B.after
C.if
D.since

()12. It was the middle of night ______ my husband woke me up and told me to watch the football game.
A.while
B.until
C.when
D.if

二、词汇检测
1. The job offer was (简直) too good to refuse. I will take it.
2. Jane is helpful. She will come to help us (无论何时) she is needed.
3. You can improve your English (发音) by talking with the people whose mother language is English.
4. English has a history of over 1 500 years, the first English dictionary didn't appear until the 17th century.
5. Most of us are the decision because we think it's useless and meaningless.

三、短文填空
Have you ever heard of Wang Zhenyi? Perhaps most of us didn't know this great name until she was 1.______ ().
Wang Zhenyi was 2.______ great Chinese scientist. She was born in the Qing dynasty. At that time, girls had no chance to get formal (正规的) education. However, her father and grandfather were open-minded. They thought 3.______ () education was the right of girls. They 4.______ () her to read the books in their home library. Wang Zhenyi taught 5.______ () and read a lot about astronomy (the study of the stars, planets, etc.), maths, geography as well as medicine.
In her time, many people expected 6.______ () to tell what was going to happen. They thought certain events in the sky, such as lunar eclipses (月食) happened when gods were angry. But Wang Zhenyi thought 7.______ (). She believed in facts. In order to explain those "strange" events, she did some experiments. In one, she used a round table as the Earth, a lamp as the Sun and a mirror as the Moon. She moved them around to show what actually happens during a lunar eclipse: When the Earth is passing directly 8.______ the Sun and the Moon, the sunlight cannot reach the Moon and the Moon "disappears (消失)".
Throughout her short life, Wang Zhenyi wrote many articles about her research. In her articles, she explained difficult ideas in clear and simple ways 9.______ that people could understand science more easily. She helped make science much 10.______ () to more people. She made a great contribution to astronomy at that time.