第I卷（选择题，共115分）

第二部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）

单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，共15分）

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

例：It’s so nice to hear from her again. ____, we last met more than thirty years ago.

A. What’s more

B. That’s to say

C. In other words

D. Believe it or not

21. John plays basketball well, ___his favorite sport is badminton.

A. so     B. or     C. yet    D. for

22. You may use the room as you like ___ you clean it up afterwards.

A. so far as     B. so long as   C. in case   D. even if

23. Scientists have many theories about how the universe ___ into being.

A. came      B. was coming

C. had come   D. would come

24. For breakfast he only drinks juice from fresh fruit ___ on his own farm.

A. grown

B. being grown

C. to be grown

D. to grow

25. One of the few things you ___ say about English people with certainty is that they talk a lot about the weather.

A. need    B. must    C. should   D. can