一、单项选择题(共20题，合计10分)
1.George Ernest Morrison, an Australian, traveled the "five-foot roads," or foot paths, from Shanghai to Rangoon in 1894, ______ China before it was engulfed in a century of revolution, war and political tumult.
A. witness
B. witnessed
C. witnessing
D. to witness
2.To have a computer without being connected to the Web is like having an old radio when everybody else has a color TV. That helps explain ______ businesses are setting up Net sites even though profits are nowhere to see.
A. reasons
B. the reason for
C. why
D. why that
3.Teenagers in the 1950s, who had to ______ an increasingly atomized family life and domestic and international tensions, scorned the sterile version of American life.
A. injure
B. conjure
C. confront
D. inflow
4.He lived in a ______ house, and for this reason he was easily accepted into his money-worshiping society.
A. shabby
B. ragged
C. dingy
D. decent
5. Jack's ______ of black music and performers into a mainstream art form contributed in crucial but not often noted ways to desegregation.
A. transformation
B. assimilation
C. deviation
D. diversion
6.Nobody in the company pays attention to his opinion, because what he has said is always mere ______.
A. commonplace
B. common
C. ordinary
D. homely
7. The patient says he dreads ______ neighbors to carry him and his wheelchair up the stairs to his tenth-floor apartment when the elevator goes out.
A. asking
B. to ask
C. being asked
D. to be asked
8.An ______ test is a rough measure of a child's capacity for learning, particularly for learning the kinds of things required at school.
A. proficiency
B. intelligence
C. psychology
D. speed
9.The most familiar headache comes from ______ tightness in the back, head and neck, which might be caused in turn by exertion, or worry or stress.
A. monopoly
B. muscle
C. murmur
D. monster
10.The project will be a ______ plan to build more than 100 town homes, restaurants and retail space around the city.
A. 34 million dollar
B. 34 millions dollar
C. 34 million dollars
D. 34 millions dollars
