—So you missed the meeting.
—____. I got there five minutes before it finished.
| A．Not at all | B．Not exactly | C．Not especially | D．Not really |
He told me the news_____, believe it or not, he had earned $1 000 in a single day.
| A．that | B．which | C．as | D．because |
In that month, he earned as much as, if ____ than, $40 000.
| A．no more | B．not more | C．no much | D．not much |
The research is so designed that once _____ nothing can be done to change it.
| A．begins | B．having begun | C．beginning | D．begun |
If _____ carefully, the experiment will be successful.
| A．do | B．does | C．done | D．doing |
He is a man of few words, and seldom speaks until _____ to.
| A．spoken | B．speaking | C．speak | D．be spoken |