_____, tears came down.
| A．Hearing the bad news | B．Heard the bad news |
| C．when to hear the bad news | D．When he heard the bad news |
___________ to give up drinking, my daddy threw away all his ________ bottles of wine last night.
| A．Determined; remained | B．Determined; remaining |
| C．Determining; remaining | D．Determining; remained |
There seemed no end to their troubles; nowhere _________ upon a path.
| A．they could come | B．could come they |
| C．come they could | D．could they come |
It’s a common _______ that a person will be sentenced to death if he or she commits murder in China.
| A．habit | B．tradition | C．custom | D．practice |
I dislike _______ when people use money to buy themselves out of trouble.
| A．that | B．it | C．them | D．one |
— I heard that as many as two thousand people were killed in the earthquake.
— Yes. I think __________ news came as _________ shock to us.
| A．the; the | B．the; a | C．\; \ | D．\; a |