Many students signed up for the _______ race in the sports meeting to be held next week.
A.800-metre-long | B.800-metres-long |
C.800 metre length | D.800 metres length |
If we ________ this speed, we will finish the task ahead of time.
A.hold up | B.break up |
C.keep up | D.take up |
Neither my wife nor I myself______ able to persuade my daughter to change her______.
A.is; thought | B.am; mind | C.are; decision | D.am; brain |
Hearing she failed again, the student ________ her face in her hands and cried.
A.bent | B.sheltered | C.buried | D.trapped |
Why not get some work experience first ______ go straight on to university?
A.other than | B.rather than | C.more than | D.less than |
He could see the tall chimneys(烟囱) of the factory ______.
A.from distance | B.in distance | C.in the distance | D.to a distance |
The company was named Gates Hall ______ a man named James Gates.
A.in need of | B.in search of | C.in praise of | D.in memory of |
——Why are the tax collectors so busy?
——Many people prefer to have their tax forms completed by a professional rather than ___.
A.do it themselves | B.doing it themselves |
C.to do it themselves | D.done by themselves |
—These days,he has stayed up late into night in order to get good marks in the following monthly test.
—It's no ________ that he seems tired and asleep in class every day.
A.wonder | B.problem |
C.doubt | D.question |
He is _________ to have gone abroad,for I haven’t seen him for weeks.
A.possible | B.likely | C.probable | D.certainly |
The boy was very sick, but he managed to ______.
A.pull off | B.pull out | C.pull through | D.pull up |
Hannah was busy with work then but she still tried her best to some time from her tight schedule to visit her mother.
A.cut out | B.squeeze out | C.leave out | D.dig out |
This picture was taken a long time ago. I wonder if you can my mother.
A.find out | B.pick out | C.look out | D.speak out |
The happiest people don't have the best of everything.They just ________ everything.
A.get away from | B.make the best of |
C.fix attention on | D.catch up with |
When the book,Twilight,was first ________,it was immediately well received by readers.
A.brought up | B.brought down |
C.brought about | D.brought out |