Arriving at the party in a great hurry, we were disappointed to find that the band ______ playing.
A.stopped | B.will stop |
C.has stopped | D.had stopped |
— Come on, please give me some ideas about the project.
— Sorry. With so much work ______ my mind, I almost break down.
A.filled | B.filling | C.to fill | D.Fills |
I don’t allow ______ in my office and I don’t allow my family ______ at all.
A.smoking; smoking | B.to smoke; to smoke |
C.smoking; to smoke | D.to smoke; smoking |
Tom is really ______! Working with him in the same office, I don’t think I’ll get ______.
A.amusing; boring | B.amusing; bored |
C.amused; bored | D.amused; boring |
— What do you do, Lucy?
— I’m a secretary in a foreign company now, but I ______ English in a high school for 10 years.
A.teach | B.am teaching |
C.have taught | D.taught |
— Have you seen ______ film before?
— Yes. I saw it on ______ Christmas Day, but I can’t remember the exact year.
A.a; a | B.a; the | C.the; a | D.the; the |
—Oh, it’s you! I ______ you.
—I’ve just had my hair cut and I’m ______my glasses.
A.don’t recognize; having on |
B.didn’t recognize; wearing |
C.haven’t known; putting on |
D.didn’t know; dressing |
—It’s so near to the station. We could have walked.
—Yes, we ______ a taxi.
A.didn’t need to take | B.needn’t have taken |
C.needn’t take | D.mustn’t take |
It was with great joy ______ he received the news ______ his lost son would soon return home.
A.because; that | B.that; that |
C.because; which | D.that; / |
As is known to us all, success usually ______ hard work while laziness can ______ failure.
A.results from; lie in | B.results in; result from |
C.leads to; lie in | D.results from; lead to |
She sat at her desk, with her eyes ______ on the book, ______ in its plot.
A.fixing; absorbing | B.fixed; absorbed |
C.fixed; absorbing | D.fixing; absorbed |
The young man rushed out of the room, ______ into his car and started it hurriedly, ______ to get home as soon as possible.
A.got; hoped | B.getting; and hoped |
C.got; hoping | D.getting; hoped |
______ is known to all is that the old scientist, for ______ life was hard in the past, still works very hard in his eighties.
A.As; whom | B.What; whom | C.It; whom | D.As; whose |
The number of people present at the meeting ______ about one thousand, a large number of whom ______ experts from abroad.
A.was; was | B.was; were |
C.were; were | D.were; was |