One third of the workers in this city ______ now on strike.
A.is to be | B.is | C.are to be | D.are |
In such dry weather, the flowers will have to be watered if they ________.
A.have survived | B.are to survive | C.would survive | D.will survive |
E-mail, as well as telephones, ________ an important part in daily communication.
A.is playing | B.have played | C.are playing | D.play |
35.—Do you like the material?
—Yes, it ___________ very soft.
A.is feeling | B.felt | C.feels | D.is felt |
33.Bread and butter____________ for breakfast in many Chinese homes nowadays.
A.serve | B.servers | C.is served | D.are served |
27.I would have come to see you earlier, but I __________ too busy.
A.had been | B.were | C.was | D.would be![]() |
25.In Switzerland, six miles west of Geneva,___________ a collection of laboratory buildings.
A.lie | B.are lying | C.lies | D.lays![]() |
22.Collecting stamps as a hobby___________ increasingly popular during the past fifty years.
A.becomes | B.became | C.has become | D.had become |
18. My mother ____ for Beijing in a few days. I wonder when the earliest plane ____ on Monday?
A.leaves; takes off | B.is leaving; takes off |
C.is leaving; is taking off | D.leaves; is taking off |
10.–Don’t put the waste on the ground, young man.
--Oh, I’m sorry. I ____ the dustbin there.
A.didn’t see | B.hadn’t seen | C.can’t see | D.wasn’t seeing |
17.—Hi, Nancy, I didn't know you had come back. So have you graduated from college?
—Yes. I______French for 5 years in Nanjing.
A.have studied | B.studied | C.had studied | D.am studying |
15.The population of China_______to many times what it was in 1949, and most of its population
farmers.
A.have grown; are | B.have grown; is |
C.has grown; is | D.has grown; are |
14.Panda Mei Lan returned to China yesterday. She_____in US since she was born.
A.had been living | B.is living |
C.will have been living | D.has been living |
27. A: What’s the matter, Sara? You wear a sad look on your face.
B: Oh, nothing much. As a matter of fact, I _______ of my friends back home.
A.just thought | B.have just been thinking |
C.was just thinking | D.have just thought |