单选题 We were late as usual. My husband had (21) watering the flowers in the garden by himself, and when he discovered that he couldn't manage, he asked me for (22) at the last moment. So now we had only one hour to get to the airport. Luckily, there were not many cars (23) buses on the road and we were (24) to get there .just in time. We checked in and went straight to a big hall to wait for our flight to be called. We waited and waited (25) no announcement was made. We asked for (26) and the girl there told us the plane hadn' t even arrived yet. In the end, there came an announcement telling us that those (27) for flight No. 108 could get a free meal voucher and that the plane hadn't left Spain (28) technical problems. We thought that meant (29) it wasn' t safe for the plane to (30) We waited again for a long time until late evening when we were asked to report again. This time we were (31) free vouchers to spend the night in a nearby hotel.
The next morning after a (32) night because of all the planes taking off and landing, we were reported back to the airport. Guess (33) had happened while we were asleep. Our plane had arrived and taken off again. All the other (34) had been waken up in the night to catch the plane, but for some reasons or other we had been (35) You can imagine how we felt!

单选题 A. stopped B. insisted on C. finished D. given
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] A、B、C三项都可以跟v-ing形式，但此处意为我找丈夫坚持自己浇花园里的花”，故可排除A、C两项，故选B。
单选题 A. food B. advice C. praise D. help
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 自己不能完成，当然是要求他人帮助了。help帮助。
单选题 A. and B. but C. or D. since
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 此处表示“路上既没有很多小轿车也没有很多公共汽车”，or用于否定句中，表示“也不”，符合题意。
单选题 A. impossible B. necessary C. able D. unable
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] be able to do sth．能够做某事，符合题意。
单选题 A. so B. but C. otherwise D. if
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 前后表示转折关系，故but(但是)符合题意。
单选题 A. time B. advice C. help D. information
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 此处表示“我们询问消息”，故information(消息，信息)符合题意。
单选题 A. coming B. sitting C. Waiting D. working
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 此处表示“等飞机的人”，wait for等待，符合题意。
单选题 A. for B. since C. because D. from
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] for，since，because都可以表示原因，但since，because后要跟句子，for为介词，可直接跟名词，符合题意。
单选题 A. when B. which C. what D. that
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] that引导宾语从句且在从句中不作任何成分，符合题意。
单选题 A. repair B. sell C. fly D. telephone
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] repair修理；sell卖；fly飞行；telephone打电话。此处意为“飞机飞行会不安全”，故选C。
单选题 A. giving B. given C. offering D. taken
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 此处表示被动，故用过去分词形式，可排除A、C两项；根据句意，可排除D项。故选B。
单选题 A. bad B. quiet C. sweet D. pleasant
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 由于飞机起飞和着陆时引起的噪音，这使他们度过了糟糕的一晚。
单选题 A. what B. where C. it D. that
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] what在从句中作主语，符合题意。
单选题 A. workers B. planes C. passengers D. flights
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 此处表示所有别的“乘客”都被叫醒了。passenger乘客。
单选题 A. woken B. announced C. lost D. forgotten
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 此处表示“由于某种原因我们被忘记了”。forget忘记。