第二部分．英语知识应用
第一节： 单项选择: （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。
21．After the 8．0－magnitude（八级） earthquake, a lot of people lost _____ with their relatives．
A．content B．context C．contact D．contest
22．--- Tobby, it appears that we won’t be ______ after all．
--- Oh, but I am tired of working here anyway．
A．put off B．sent off C．laid off D．seen off
23．---The accident hung up the traffic for several hours．
--- This kind of thing ______ happen every now and then．
A．must B．should C．can D．will
24．---Jenny owed her failure in fulfilling her task to the old equipment in the company．
---I don't think so _____．
A．A bad tree does not yield good apples
B．A bird in hand is worth two in a bush
C．A bad workman blames his tools
D．A man is known by the company he keeps
25．Unfortunately, when I dropped in, Doctor Li _____for Beijing, so we only had time for a few words．
