The air holds the feather back more than it ___ the stone.
| A．holds | B．do | C．has | D．does |
It was _____ terrible earthquake and ______ number of people who were killed reached more than 20,000.
| A．a; the | B．the; a | C．the; the | D．a; a |
------My daughter came first in the English speech contest.
------Did she? __________.
| A．Cheer up | B．Good luck | C．Best wishes | D．Congratulations |
The stranger shook me by the hand warmly ___ he were to say he knew me well.
| A．even if | B．when | C．if | D．as if |
The reason _____ he refused to attend the meeting was that they didn’t give him an invitation earlier.
| A．how | B．which | C．why | D．because |
It is _______ he had to send his brother to hospital _______ he was late.
| A．that; so | B．for; that | C．because; so | D．because; that |