. No one except two students ______ the meeting.
| A．has been late for | B．have been late for | C．was late for | D．were later for |
His job is to sell the ____ carvings in the ____ department of the company.
| A．wooden; sales | B．wood; sales | C．wood; sale | D．wooden; sale |
I smoke out of ____ habit, not for ____ pleasure; for I have been in the habit for twenty years.
| A．a; the | B．the; a | C．x; the | D．x; x |
So many uses have been discovered for this wood ____ the supply of white pine is becoming smaller and smaller.
| A．then | B．what | C．that | D．which |
The truth, Sir, is that the old man____ across the street when my car hit him.
| A．was to walk | B．had been walking | C．walked | D．was walking |
I wrote to my parents once a week,____ I was too busy with my teaching work.
| A．it | B．unless | C．when | D．as |