41. Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition：

That strange idea is ___________ belief.

42. Fill in the blank with an appropriate coordinator or subordinator：

Work hard ___________ you are told to stop.

43. Fill in the blank with an appropriate relative pronoun：

You must return the book to ___________ it belongs to.

44. Fill in the blank with an appropriate relative pronoun：

We talked a long while about our boyhood days, after ___________ we had a good dinner.

45. Fill in the blank with an appropriate adverb：

Only one boy was absent, ___________ Harry.

46. Fill in the blank with an appropriate conjunct：

You say you want to marry her. ___________, you shouldn’t be quarrelling with her all the time.

四、改錯(cuò)題 (本大題共8小題, 每小題1分, 共8分)

Correct errors in the following sentences.

47. We must hurry, otherwise the seminar will start when we get there.

48. He suddenly saw the answer to the problem that has occupied his mind for the last two years.

49. The company has promised a rise to salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.

50. I believe youngsters read too many love stories these days to be realistic.

51. Please do not use your mobile phones until after the plane lands.

52. As she is fed up with working as a secretary, she thinks of finding another job.

53. Francis Bacon wrote that reading made a full man.

54. Go and get some fresh air！ You were sitting here all morning.

五、改寫句子題 (本大題共15小題, 每小題2分, 共30分)

Rewrite the following sentences as required.

55. Rephrase these sentences so as to begin each with the existential “there”：

a. A small, grey monkey was wearing my best silk tie.

b. Many citizens believed that the fire had been caused by foreigners.

56. In answering the question below, use (a) the information given in brackets, and (b) the passive voice as a means of achieving end-focus.

Were Christopher Columbus and his men the first Europeans to discover America？ (Norsemen landed on the coast of North America in the 10th or 11th century)

57. Turn the following statement into an exclamation：

These old men are very nice people.

58. Turn the following statement into an exclamation：

They are working with great enthusiasm.

59. Turn the following statement into a negative imperative：

Put the box somewhere in the storeroom.

60. Turn the singular noun or noun phrase into plural forms wherever possible with other necessary changes：

He was anxious to increase his knowledge.