23. While shopping, people sometimes can’t help ____into buying something they don’t really need.
| A．to persuade | B．persuading | C．being persuaded | D．be persuaded |
The new secretary has written a remarkably _____ report only in a few pages but with all the details.
| A．concise | B．clear | C．precise | D．elaborate |
. More than one-third of the Chinese in the United States live in California, _____ in San Francisco.
A. previouslyB. predominantly C practicallyD. permanently
No one has _____ been able to trace the author of the poem.
| A．still | B．yet | C．already | D．just |
The ship was _____ in a storm off Jamaica.
| A．drowned | B．sunk | C．wrecked | D．submitted |
She was afraid that unless the train speeded up she would lose her _____ to Scotland.
| A．ticket | B．place | C．seat | D．connection |