二、英语知识运用(共两节,满分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,并在答题卡上将该项的标号涂黑。
21. ---What do you see when you think of ______ forest?
   ---Of course,_______ trees.
A. a;/        B.the;the       C. /;/         D. a;the
22. Music can be very enjoyable, but _______ can be appreciated unless you like it.        
A. nothing        B. something       C. everything        D. anything
23. It was a nice house, but _______ too small for a family of five.
A. rarely             B. fairly         C. rather         D. pretty
24. ---Hi, what did our monitor say just now?
   ---Every boy and every girl as well as teachers who are to visit Water Cube ____ asked to be at the school gate before 6∶30 in the morning.
   A. is              B. were         C. are           D. was
25. It was ten years ______ Miss Green returned to Canada.
A. that         B. when      C. before          D. as
26. I _____ in London for many years , but I’ve never regretted my final decision to move back to china.   
A. lived           B. was living     C. have lived        D. had lived
27.Our game of basketball ______ . We had been playing for about half an hour when it started to rain heavily.