18. There wasn't much snow last winter so people couldn't go ____ except in the mountains.
A. skiing B. skied C. to ski D. having skied
19. You've got to be on top _____ to do well in a competition like that.
A. condition B. form C. shape D. training
20. Your behavior was shocking. You should be ashamed _____ yourself.
A. of B. at C. to D. on
21. I suppose you couldn't let me borrow your car this evening, _____?
A. couldn't I B. don't I
C. could you D. will you
22. _____ five hundred people are believed to have drowned.
A. As many as B. As much as
C. So many as D. So much as
23. I chose a small room with the window _____ the street.
A. faces B. faced C. facing D. to face
24. _____ the rain we would have had a nice holiday.
A. But that B. Despite C. But for D. In spite of
25. "It's too bad Rhonda is moving to Arizona."
"I wish it _____ so far away."
A. weren't B. couldn't be C. won't be D. isn't
26. _____ I don't like are the long, dark nights of winter.
A. That B. What C. Which D. This
27. The receptions, _____ job was to answer the phone, had laryngitis(喉炎).
A. whose B. who C. who's D. that
28. The suggestions put forward by the workers to improve their working conditions were _____ by the factory owner.
A. turned away B. turned down
C. turned over D. turned through
29. With apples at 25 cents a pound, we couldn't resist _____ four pounds.
A. to take B. took C. taking D. have taken
30. Well-mannered children have usually been properly _____ by their parents.
A. raised up B. borne up
C. brought up D. got up
31. Tom's father, as well as his mother, _____ in New York for a few days more.
A. asks him to stay B. asks he stays
C. ask he to stay D. asks he would stay
32. If we had known that she had planned to go abroad today, we _____ at the airport.
A. will see her off B. would have seen her off
C. would see her off D. must have seen her off
33. Living in the central Australian desert has its problems, _____obtaining water is not the least.
A. of which B. for what C. as D. whose
34. He burned all the important papers _____ that should fall into enemy's hands.
A. unless B. so C. lest of D. for fear
35. Literature and art have a great influence _____ people's ideology.
A. to B. on C. for D. onto
