2. A good storyteller must be able to hold his listeners’ curiosity ________ he reaches the end of the story.
| A．when | B．unless | C．after | D．until |
You only had meat and fish yesterday. If you had eaten vegetables, theyeasily.
| A．would digest | B．digested | C．will digest | D．would have digested |
The telephone _______, but by the time I got indoors, it stopped.
| A．had rung | B．was ringing | C．rings | D．has rung |
Unluckily, we missed the train. weearly.
| A．must have set out | B．had set out |
| C．should have set out | D．set out |
—It’s cloudy outside. Please take an umbrella.
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| A．Yes, take it easy | B．Well, it just depends |
| C．OK, just in case | D．All right, you’re welcome |
Ten years ago the population of our village was that of theirs.
| A．as twice large as | B．twice as large as |
| C．twice as much as | D．as twice much as |