, you’ll never be able to persuade him.
| A．However hard may you try | B．Try however hard you may |
| C．However hard you may try | D．Try hard however you may |
I suggested to my mother that she_______a drawing club after her retirement form teaching.
| A．join | B．joins | C．joined | D．would join |
--- Did you telephone Uncle Sam our plan for the Christmas holidays on his farm?
--- Yes, he was happy about our arrival, and he eagerly asked when ______.
| A．has we arrived | B．we had arrived |
| C．were we arriving | D．we were arriving |
When I got New York, I had to attend a school for students_____first language was not English.
| A．who | B．which | C．whose | D．where |
第二部分：知识运用（共两节, 45分）
第一节：单项填空（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。
More than five________doctors and rescuers have got to Yushu County up to now.
A．thousand B．thousands C．thousand of D．thousands of
Beijing took steps to limit the kinds of high-risk of borrowing money from the banks that can create the high price of housing, ______ happened in the United States．
a．as B．that C．how D．while