第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节：语法和词汇知识（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Mr. Smith owns collection of coins than anyone else I have ever met.
A．larger B．a larger C．the larger D．a large
He likes to help others ________ he is very busy.
| A．because | B．if | C．even | D．even if |
Have you seen Jack recently? I wonder ______ with his classmates.
| A．how is he getting along | B．that he is getting along well |
| C．what he is getting along | D．if he is getting along well |
.Ten minutes later，a bus ______ and everybody got on it.
| A．came up | B．added up | C．looked up | D．put up |
How I was _______when I heard the _______ news!
| A．excited; excited | B．exciting; exciting. |
| C．excited; exciting | D．exciting; excited |
The number of people in the party _____fifty, but a number of them ____ absent for different reasons.
| A．were; was | B．was; was | C．was; were | D．were; were |