(  ) 1.______recent report stated that the number of Spanish speakers in the U.S .would be higher than the number of English speaker by_____ year 2090.

A.     A, the  B. A, /  C. The ,/  D. The, a

(  ) 2.If you go by ______train ,you can have quite a comfortable  journey ,but make sure you get _____fast one.

    A. /, /   B./, a  C. the, a  D./,/

(  ) 3. It is often said that ____teachers have _______very easy life.

    A /,/     B. /,a     C. the,/   D. the, a

(  ) 4.I can’t remember when exactly the Robinsons left _____city ,I only remember it was ______ Monday.。

A.     the , the  B. a ,the C. a, a D. the, a

(   ) 5.If you grow up in ______large family ,you　are more likely to develop _____ability to get on well with ______others .

A. /,an the B. a, the ,/ C. the ,an ,the D. a, the ,the

(   ) 6.Mrs ,Taylor has ___8-year-old daughter who has _____gift for painting –she  has won two national prizes.

A.             a,  a  B. an ,the  C. an ,a  D. th

(  )7.Afetr dinner he gave Mr. Richardson ________ride to ________Capital Airport.

     A .the, a  B. a  the C. /, a  D. /, the

(  )8.On May 5,2005,at ___World Table Tennis Championship ,Kong Ling hui and WangHao

     won the gold medal in men’s with ____score of 4:1.

   A. a ,a  B. / the C. a ,/  D. the ,a

(  )9.I knew  ______John Lennon ,but not ____famous one.

    A. /,a  B. a ,the C. /,the  D. the, a

(  )10.The book tells ____life story of John Smith ,who left _______school and worked for a  newspaper at the age of 16.

  A. the, the B. a , the  C. the./ D. a,/

(  )11.When you come here for your holiday next time, don’t go to _____hotel ; I can find you ______bed in my flat.

A.      the ,a  B. the,/ C. a ,the D. a,/

(  )12.If you buy more than ten, they will knock20pence off________.

A. a price B. price   C. the price D. prices

(  )13.____on-going division between English –speaking Canadians and French-speaking Canadians is _______major concern of the country.

A.     The ,/  B. The ,a  C. An ,the  D. An,/

(  )14.When he left _____college ,he got a job as ______reporter in a newspaper office .

A. /, a   B   /, the  C .a the D .the, the

(  )15The most important thing about cotton in history is ___part that it played in ____Industrial Revolution.

A. /,/  B. the,/ C. the , the D. a ,the