A. was about to

　　B. is about to

　　C. was to

　　D. is to

　　17. She entered the room quietly in order not to __________ others.

　　A. woke up

　　B. waking up

　　C. being woken up

　　D. wake up

　　18. She was the only one ________ the crash.

　　A. survived

　　B. surviving

　　C. to survive

　　D. survive

　　19. ________ religion used to have a strong hold on people.

　　A. The

　　B. A

　　C. An

　　D. O

　　20. I understand you need some money. How ________ do you want？

　　A. many

　　B. any

　　C. some

　　D. much

　　IV. 在下列短文的空格内填入适当的词，每格只能填一个词。 （每空格0.5分，共10分）

　　Cars are ____1 important part of life in the United states. Without a car most people feel that they are _____2. And _____3 if a person is poor he doesn't feel really poor when he ______4 a car.

　　There are three main reasons that the car became popular in the United States. First of ____5 the country is a huge one and Americans like to move around in it. The carprovides the ______6 comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. With a car people can go any place ______7 spending a lot of money.

　　The ____8 reason that cars are popular is the falt that the United States developed and efficient and inexpensive form of _____9 transportation. Long - distance trains have never been _____10 common in the United States as they are in other parts of the ______11. Nowadays there is a good system _____12 air - service providing planes. But it is _____13 expensive to be used frequently. The ____14 reason is the most important one， though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars ______15. Americans don't like to wait ______16 a bus， or a _____17 or even a plane. They don't like to have _____18 follow an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule their _____19 time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to _____20.