[单项选择]He was much more thorough in his studies than the rest of his class and it was for this reason （）he made such great progress.
A. why
B. how
C. that
D. for

[单项选择]Our new teacher is much younger than his（）
A. successor
B. predecessor
C. colleague
D. workmate

[简答题]
Remember to indicate your position clearly, support yourself with sound, reasons and sufficient evidence, and bring it to a natural solution. A logical organization benefits your essay in every possible way. Your essay should contain about 400 words.

[填空题]短文2（25分） The Microsoft lab is much more than a showcase for how far China has come in computer technology. It also illustrates how innovation is an increasingly global game. It can involve a worldwide research and development operation like that of Microsoft, or IBM, which has major labs in China, Israel, Switzerland, Japan, and India. Or innovation can be the product of a much more amorphous structure, something that consultants call global innovation networks. These often consist of in-house engineers, contract designers and manufactures, university scientists, and dozens of technology suppliers big and small — all pulled together for a particular product. Such blending of technologies will become even more common as innovation networks extend their reach. Many corporations have been obsessed with improving quality in the 1980s, boosting productivity in the 1990s, and slashing costs in the wake of the 2000 tech bust. Now, companies are zeroing in on how to innovate more efficiently

[填空题]Why does he work much harder than he did in the office or in the factory Because __________.

[单项选择]He owed his success to luck more than to capacity.（）
A. 他的成功有运气成分，但更有能力因素。
B. 把自己的成功归因于运气而不是能力。
C. 他赢得成功是幸运的，运气大于能力。
D. 他成功是靠能力而不是运气。

[填空题]______ (来年的教育预算大约是四十亿美元，这是) much more than what people expected.

[简答题]Americans are much more likely than citizens of other nations to believe that they live in a meritocracy, i.e. Government by people selected according to merit. But this self-image is a fantasy: America actually stands out as a the advanced country in which it matters most who your parents were, the country in which those born on one of society’s lower rungs have the least chance of climbing to the top or even to the middle. 　　And if you ask why America is more class-bound in practice than the rest of the Western world, a large part of the reason is that our government falls down on the job of creating equal opportunity. 　　The failure starts early: in America, the holes in the social safety net mean that both low-income mothers and their children are all too likely to suffer from poor nutrition and receive inadequate health care. It continues once children reach school age, where they encounter a system in which the affluent send their kids to good, well-financed public schools o

[单项选择]Society is now much more diverse than ever before.
A. colorful
B. attractive
C. flexible
D. varied

[填空题]The test was much more difficult than we had (expect) ______

[单项选择]Some days go by much more quickly than others. Some hours seem as if they （　）
A. never end
B. would never end
C. would have ended
D. had ended

[单项选择]He asked the question not so much because of his curiousity as because of his desire for knowledge.
A. 他问这个问题不是出于求知欲而是出于好奇心。
B. 他提出这个问题与其说是出于好奇心不如说是出于求知欲。
C. 他问这个问题不是出于好奇心而是出于对知识的渴望。
D. 因为对知识的渴望与好奇，他问了这个问题。

[单项选择]He wanted to read more, so he asked his friend if there was （　） to read.
A. something easy enough
B. something enough easy
C. enough easy something
D. easy enough something

[填空题]Jack learns English well. He is better than his classmates.
Jack learns English ______ in his class.