1. –Why doesn’t he take notes? --He has no pen _______. He seems _______ it.
A. to write/to forget bringing
B. to write with/to forget to bring
C. to use with/to have forgotten to bring
D. to write with/to have forgotten to bring
2. She likes to use words ________ is clear to hear.
A. of which meaning
B. of which the meaning
C. whose of meaning
D. meaning of which
3. Kindle has the advantage over books ______ it is easy to carry and take up very little space.
A. in which
B. of which
C. in that
D. so that
4. ______ you read through these two books you would surely make great progress in both grammar and vocabulary.
A. If only
B. Only if
C. Unless
D. Even if
5. ______ the students suggested was ______ more free time to arrange their studies.
A. That; that they must be given
B. What; that they be given
C. Whether; that they should be given
D. How; what they should be given
6. ______ did he say ______ with those old tuber boots?
A. How; he would do
B. What; that he would do
C. Which; he had done
D. What; he would do
7. ______ as much as one-fourth of the instruments in the labs are not used proved to be false.
A. The estimate
B. The estimate that
C. They are estimated
D. It is estimated that
8. The government was believed to be considering ______ a law ______ it a crime to develop any kind of chemical weapons.
A. to pass…to making
B. to be passing…to make
C. passing…making
D. having passed…made
9. What is the best way Mike can think of ______ Jane with her experiment?
A. to help
B. helping
C. help
D. to be helping
10. Sara never dreamed of ______ a chance for her to be admitted to Harvard University without taking any exam.
A. there being
B. being
C. there would be
D. there to be
11. The wallet was returned to him without anything ______.(miss)
12. It seems you have been refused a thousand times. Do you consider it any good ______ again? (try)
13. _____(tremble) with fear, a hungry fox hid himself in a small cave, ______(expose) his tail to the rain.
14. The people’s government does its best to have the living standard of the people _______.(raise)
15. The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain ______(seat) as the plane was making a landing.
16. This company was the first _______(produce) portable radios as well as cassette tape recorders in the world.
17. An officer told Albert he had been caught on camera ______(cross) the border illegally.
18. When I got back home I saw a message pinned to the door _______(read) “Sorry to miss you: will call later.”
19. The old man seems different from ______ he used to be.
20. _______ the case may be, we must always be ready for the worst.
21. It is well understood ______ controls the flow of carbon dioxide in and out the atmosphere.
22. Quite a lot of skyscrapers have sprung up in ______ was a farmland decades ago.
23. Almost every matter, ______ it is a gas, a liquid or a solid, expands with the temperature rising.
24. The shopkeeper took back the china vase from me ______ I had time to look at it carefully.
25. Since there is no tap water in this remote village, it looks _____ _____ we shall have to fetch water from the well two miles away.
26. ______ knows about ______ “organic food” means can stand up and tell us about it.
27. --Do you know where my dictionary is? –I saw somebody walking off with one, but I don’t know ______.
28. Life would be short, ______ hope makes it longer.
29. ______ wrong he does to me, I have faith in our friendship.
30. The higher income tax is harmful ______ it may discourage people from trying to earn more.
31. Tom is a stunning example of ______ a kid with a dream from an orphanage in which his teenage was spent can enable with hard work, persistence, and strong determination.
32. The book will show you _______ what he has learned in his school with painstaking efforts for the purpose of broadening his scope of knowledge can be combined with practice to produce a better effect admired by others.
33. In Sydney, one of the world’s most beautiful cities and one of the best shopping meccas, _____ your taste, style, age and budget you are sure to find many things that excite you, and which you won’t want to leave without.
34. The key given in haste to the problem by Mr. Li, an experienced teacher, _______ correctness we students took for granted, turned out to be wrong.
35. The news released from the police station _______ all the passengers must have their shoes taken off and checked before boarding the planes has not been confirmed yet.
36. Japan’s future is clouded by slowing growth, and one major reason for this conclusion presented in Mr. Yang’s report run in today’s newspaper _______ the current policy fails to stir the public desire for consumption remains to be proved.
37. I share your opinion that ________ a movie is intended to be entertaining, thought-provoking or educational, the story is the basis of everything.
38. Can you tell me ______ what I have learned through the accumulation of my hands-on activities can be applied?
39. As Chicagoan, I am afraid that we have become so accustomed to bad news, crooked politics, ethnic clout and political deals _______ we tend to take these things for granted and assume that it will never end.
40. What I have to tell you, though I hesitated, is that _______ he is a fool, which you may not agree to, has been known to us all.