1. If the information in the reading material is unfamiliar _______ you, you are not likely to feel _______ ease.
2. _______ situation---falling short of or run over the time---makes the audience lose interest in your speech.
3. Early to bed and early to rise _______ a man healthy and wealthy. (make)
4. It is hard for spoilt children to learn to move from the focus of his parents to _______ about parents. (care)
5. It won’t be long _______ he knows the result of the experiment.
6. When I asked her when she would come to see me, she looked _______ ________she would cry.
7. It only takes a minute to give someone a compliment or to notice _______ well they have done.
8. When activities _______ _______ the relationships are based end, the relationship stops.
9. I don’t think it any good ______________ too many sweets. (eat)
10. As its name indicates, the “American Host Family” program gets American families _______ in foreign students’ lives in America and offers homes for them. (involve)
11. The shop manager always says to his assistants, “We can never be _______ polite to our customers.”
12. Mr. Wang made up his mind to devote all he could to ____________ his oral English before going abroad. (improve)
13. _______ you can think of someone who deserves an apology from you, someone you have wronged or judged too roughly, do something about it right now.
14. Not far from the club there was a garden, _________ owner seated in it playing bridge with his children every afternoon.
15. It’s not challenging to detect the differences in the two pictures _______ ______ ______ they are observed closely.
16. Which do you enjoy ________ your spare time, playing cards at home or taking a walk in the park? (spend)
17. It was the bravery of William Tell _________ encouraged the Swiss people in their fight against the enemies.
18. He said French is the beautiful tongue in the world and _______ he was determined to learn it well.
19. Yesterday Mrs. Green went to the market, _________ some bananas and visited her cousin. (buy)
20. Everyone here will thank the firefighters for the things they have done to prevent fires _________ the environment safer. (make)
21. They could only read such stories _______ had been rewritten in simple English.
22. It is essential that these application forms _______ back as early as possible.
A. must be sent
B. will be sent
C. are sent
D. be sent
23. We have done what we _______, so people believe that we will win.
A. suppose to be done
B. are supposed to be done
C. suppose to do
D. are supposed to do
24. Beneath our feet _______ that our life depends on for food and clothing.
A. the earth lay
B. the earth lies
C. lies the earth
D. does the earth lie
25. We planned _______ the work before lunch, but we didn’t.
A. we will have finished
B. to finish
C. we would finish
D. to have finished
26. _______ a large audience, you should speak clearly and loudly.
A When addressing
B When you addressing
C When to address
D If to address
27. The little boy came riding full speed down the motorway on his bicycle. _______ was!
A. What a dangerous scene
B. What dangerous a scene
C. How a dangerous scene
D. How dangerous the scene
28. ---- Do you have any idea what Tom did yesterday afternoon? ---- I know he spent at least as much time playing football as he __________.
A. did writing
B. wrote
C. spent to write
D. was writing
29. The professor has written another book, ________ of great importance to computer science.
A. which I think it is
B. I think it is
C. which I think is
D. I think is
30. Thinking of his son, who had been away for twenty years, __________.
A. the old man’s eyes were filled with tears
B. you could see the old man bursting into tears
C. tears came down from the old man’s face
D. the old man burst into tears
31. __________, she could hardly have any time to play with her little daughter.
A. Busy as she was
B. As was she busy
C. She was as busy
D. As she was busy
32. ________ either you or I to look after her?
A. Am
B. Is
C. Are
D. Should
33. They need to reserve the restaurant and select the menu months before their father’s birthday party, __________.
A. don’t they
B. needn’t they
C. mustn’t they
D. need they
34. ______________ is the center of our planetary system was a difficult concept to grasp in the Middle Ages.
A. It is the sun and not the earth
B. Being the sun and not the earth
C. The sun and not the earth
D. That the sun and not the earth
35. ________ both of them should be employed needs _________.
A. If … considering
B. What … to consider
C. That … to consider
D. Whether … considering
36. At the meeting they discussed three different _____ to the study of maths.
A. approaches
B. means
C. methods
D. ways
37. The parrot, the bird which can be taught to talk, can create a (n) _____ atmosphere anywhere.
A. living
B. natural
C. artificial
D. lively
38. A teacher is _____ to be patient and not to lose his temper whatever mistakes his students make.
A. supposed
B. meant
C. claimed
D. suggested
39. Shortly after the small country gained its independence, it was _____ by most of the countries in the world.
A. committed
B. admitted
C. recognized
D. trusted
40. Any passenger who has booked the plane ticket must _____ it three days before the departure date.
A. claim
B. confirm
C. declare
D. replace