第一节：单项填空（共15小题，满分15分）

 从A、B、C及D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21. ----He wants to have _________ word with you.

----I know ________ word has come that I am the next person he wants to talk to.

A. /; the                        B. a; the                      C. a; /                          D. the; a

22. The sudden attack _____ about five minutes after the Japanese planes ______ at Pearl Harbor.

A. would begin; arrived                             B. was beginning; had arrived          C. began; had arrived                   D. has begun; arrived

23. Each boy and girl as well as some teachers who ______ to visit Hengshui Middle School in Hebei Province ______ asked to be at the bus station at 6:30.