（届安徽省合肥市高三第二次模拟考试英语试卷）
How can you expect to get ahead in your life ______ you even live to yourself from time to time?
| A．though | B．until | C．before | D．when |
____I admire David as a poet, I do not like him as a man.
| A．Much as | B．Only if | C．If only | D．as much |
______the photos of the coastal city, I have no desire to visit it,it’s crowded all year.
| A．To see | B．To have seen | C．Seeing | D．Having seen |
.When I go out in the evening I use the bike ____the car if I can.
| A．rather than | B．regardless of | C．in spite of | D．other than |
_____is known to us all is that the old scientist, for____ life was hard in the past,still works very hard in his eighties.
| A．As; whom | B．What; whom | C．It; whose | D．As; whose |
I try to make him understand that I’m not interested in him, but he never gets the ____.
| A．information | B．news | C．message | D．word |