. ______ smoking, he would not have got cancer in the lung.
| A．Was he given up | B．Had he given up |
| C．Did he give | D．If he gave up |
good service, the restaurant offers different kinds of traditional Fujian dishes.
| A．In addition | B．Apart from | C．Instead of | D．Except for |
______ that we all went out, lying in the sun.
| A．So the weather was fine | B．So fine was the weather |
| C．So fine the weather was | D．So was the fine weather |
I found him sitting in his chair, completely _____a magazine.
| A．absorbing | B．being absorbed in |
| C．absorbed in | D．absorbing in |
The new stadium being built for the next Asian Games will be_______the present one.
| A．as three times big as | B．three times as big as |
| C．as big as three times | D．as big three times as |
The director’s new film turned out to be ____ failure, but as we know, success often comes after _____failure.
| A．a; a | B．x; x | C．a; x | D．x; a |