全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。

Ⅰ. 语法、词汇。用适当的词填空。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个正确答案，并填入答题纸相应位置。(本大题共25小题，每小题1分，共25分)

Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer. (25 points)

1. I don't think ______ possible to master a foreign language without much hard work.

A. this                                     B. that

C. its                                      D. it

2. Tuition in some western universities runs ______ twenty thousand dollars a year.

A. so high as                                B. as high as

C. so high to                                D. as high to

3. The beauty of the Yellow Mountains is ______ I can describe in words.

A. more than                               B. not any more than

C. no more than                                    D. more rather than

4. Since Jack ______ take up the job, we might as well ask Richard to do it.

A. shouldn't                                 B. mustn't

C. wouldn't                                 D. needn't

5. The streets are all wet.  It ______ during the night.

A. must rain                                B. must have rained

C. must be raining                                   D. must have been raining

6. The tennis finals will be put off if it ______ tomorrow afternoon.

A. rains                                    B. will rain

C. were to rain                                      D. was to rain

7. My house is full of dust because the old house just opposite ______.

A. will be pulled down                          B. has to be pulled down

C. has pulled down                            D. is being pulled down

8. The audience stared open-mouthed as the acrobat walked on the steel wire ______ high above the ground.

A. being fixed                                B. has fixed

C. fixed                                    D. having fixed

9. The workers on the construction site downed tools, demanding that they ______ medical care and social security insurance.

A. provide for                               B. provided with

C. should provide with