5.Her boss told her to take a week ________ before the big job.

6.He turned the newspaper ________ and a strange personal ad caught his eye.

7.He was leaning ________ the wall,turning the matter over in his mind.

8.The more the mother expects ________ her good-for-nothing son,the more disappointed she is.

9.Parent,almost ________ exception,hope that their children will grow up to make something of themselves.

10.All your friends are concerned ________ your health and want you to recover soon.

Ⅴ .Cloze:(20%)

Complete the passage by putting in the blanks the corrtect choice.Write your right letter on the answer sheet:

About 485 years ago,a man stood alone on the coast of Spain.He looked toward the west and said to himself.The earth cannot be flat.If I sail westward,     1      ,I shall hit land,India perhaps,and the queen will have a new and shorter     2      to the riches of that country.

Christopher Columbus told his idea to Queen Isabella of Spain.She gave    3     men and three ships.And Columbus sailed westward for many weeks,through     4     seas.

  5   ,he saw land:a group of islands now called the West Indies.Columbus was sure it was India,and he called the natives “ Indos".

Stories of what Columbus found quickly    6     across Europe.His word “ Indos" became “ Indians" to the English.     7     all the natives of the West Indies and Central America became known as “ Indians".

Christopher Columbus     8      four trips to the New World.Yet,he died in Spain without knowing where he had been.He died     9       he had sailed to India.

It was soon learned that Columbus had made a mistake.     10      the word “ Indian" was well established in Europe.

The first     11      who arrived in North Carolina and Virginia in the early 1600's called the natives Indians.This name spread north    12     the colonies of Maryland,New York,Pennsylvania and New England were settled.

Today the word is used to     13      the descendants of the first peoples of North and South America.In the far north they are called Eskimos.And in the far south     14      are the Patagonians and the Fuegians.