16. Frankly speaking, _______ your timely help, I couldn’t have dealt with that problem all by mysel
17. It is reported that many people in that area have died from drinking _______ water.(A) contamina
18. Even though I’ve been living in the city for years, I find it hard to _______ to city life.(A) a
19. Tom was _______that he won the respect of every teacher who had taught him.(A) a such good stude
20. Over the past 20 years, basketball _______ more popular than baseball in that country.(A) had be
21. I don’t trust Peter because what he does hardly ever _______ what he says.(A) results in (B) get
22. You may give this prize to anyone _______ you think is the best.(A) whom (B) who (C) what (D) wh
23. Jane was in such a hurry to get to the station that I _______ had a chance to talk to her.(A) de
24. Unless economic conditions _______ next year, there will be widespread unrest across the world.(
25. Quarrels often _______ from trifles; they can be avoided if we can all learn to be open-minded.(
25.Last Sunday when I visited London I _____ from places to places seeing things that I had never se
28.Millions of Asian and Northern American tourists, _____ by the beauty of the architectures, visit
29.Basketry is the art of _____ plant fibers into containers or tools.(A) weaving (B) moving (C) syn
30.The increase in the student population has forced the university to construct temporary dormitori
31.Because the hospital emergency room was clearly _____, the patients in the waiting room knew they
32.The _____ failure surprised the researchers who had expected a successful outcome to confirm thei
33.__________ arrived in the airport terminal than the plane departed.(A) Once I have (B) As soon as
34.The relative size of an insect’s wing is much greater than __________.(A) of a bird’s wing (B) th
35.Many animals use odors for identification, __________, sexual attraction, alarm, and a variety of
36. Laissez faire is a French phrase that means “to let alone.” The idea was that the government sho