——Were you busy last weekend?
——Very. Rather than ____ time playing cards as usual, I devoted every effort to ____ an advertisement.
| A．wasting; making | B．waste; make | C．to waste; make | D．a waste of; making |
French author Le Clezjo, a brilliant novelist ______ as a child of all continents, won the Nobel Prize in literature in October, 2008.
| A．honored | B．honoring |
| C．being honored | D．having honored |
-- Has Nancy gone back to her home in the UK?
--Yes. She ______ here only for three days with her friends.
| A．stayed | B．had stayed |
| C．has stayed | D．was staying |
A good teacher must be able to help his students learn the subject with great interest ______ he reaches the last minute of the class.
| A．when | B．unless | C．until | D．after |
--I’m exhausted. I ______ on a design day and night.
--You’d better have several days off after finishing it. Otherwise you might break down.
| A．work | B．worked |
| C．had worked | D．have been working |
-But for your timely warning, we ______ into great trouble.
--You know we’re friends.
| A．would get | B．must have got |
| C．would have got | D．couldn’t have got |