第二部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分30分)第一节:单项填空:(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)16. — Manager, I’d like to take a week’s holiday.— ________. We’re too busy nowadays, you know.
According to scientists, our mental abilities begin to____ from the age of 27 after reaching the highest level at 22.
You can’t predict everything. Often things don’t_____ as you expect.
—What do you think of Thomas? —Well, he is good, warm-hearted, hard-working and intelligent; _______, I can’t speak too highly of him.
With new technology, pictures of underwater valleys can be taken ____ color.
The young dancers looked so charming in their beautiful clothes that we took ____pictures of them.