二、知识运用(共两节, 满分45分)第一节:单项填空(共15小题,每小题1分,满分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。21.Besides the others, there was still____third one who said he was second to reach the end. A.a; a B.a; the C.the; the D.the; a
The young man helped the company recover, so his boss gave him an apartment __________.
—The journey was not as nice as we had expected. —__________. The weather was awful and the timewas short.
—What are you reading, Tom? —I'm not really reading, just __________ the pages.
—The English exam is not difficult, is it? —__________ Even Tom __________ to the top students failed in it.
At the meeting place of the YangtzeRiver and the Jialing River __________. one of the ten largest cities in China.