1.My pain ___apparent the moment I walked into the room, for the first man I met asked sympathetically: ” Are you feeling all right?”
[A] must be
[B] had been
[C] must have been
[D] had to be
2.Mary ____my letter; otherwise she would have replied before now.
[A] couldn’ t have received
[B] ought to have received
[C] has received
[D] shouldn’ t have received
3.You needn’ t have come over yourself. As it turned out to be a small house party, we____ so formally.
[A] needn’ t dress up
[B]did not need have dressed up
[C] did not need dress up
[D] needn’ t have dressed up
4.Do you enjoy listening to records? I find records are often ____, or better than an actual performance.
[A]as good as
[B]as good
[C]good
[D]good as
5.The number of registered participants in this year’ s marathon was half ____.
[A] of last year’ s
[B]those of last year’ s
[C]of those of last year
[D] that of last year’ s
6.Smoking is so harmful to personal health that it kills people each year____ than automobile accidents.
[A]seven more times
[B] seven times more
[C]over seven times
[D] seven times
7.“Do you regret paying five hundred dollars for the painting?” “No, I would gladly have paid____ for it. ”
[A] twice so much
[B] twice as much
[C] as much twice
[D] so much twice
8.Their watch is____ to all the other watches on the market.
[A] superior
[B] advantageous
[C] super
[D] beneficial
9.The chief reason for the population growth isn’ t so much a rise in birth rates ____a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in medical care.
[A] and
[B] as
[C]but
[D] or
10.The heart is ____intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlled by the brain.
[A] not so
[B]not much
[C]much more
[D] no more