29．High up in the mountains _____ a quiet small village, with only 20 households．
| A．surrounds | B．locates | C．lies | D．Lays |
The novel is so badly written that I can hardly ________what the writer is trying to say.
| A．turn out | B．make out | C．let out | D．try out |
It can’t be a (n) ______ that four jewelry stores were robbed in one night.
| A．coincidence | B．chance | C．incident | D．circumstance |
— Hi, Jack, would you like to join us in the sightseeing this weekend?
—Thank you, but I regret ______ you that I can’t, for I’m going to visit my grandparents.
| A．to tell | B．having told |
| C．telling | D．to be telling |
With his eyes ______ the family album, he thought of the fun he had when he lived with his parents.
| A．fixed on | B．fixing on |
| C．to be fixed on | D．being fixed on |
None of us expected that the chairman ______ at the party. We thought he was still in hospital.
| A．made up | B．held up | C．turned up | D．put up |