This is the best way _____ the river from _____ .
| A.to prevent; being polluted | B.preventing; polluting | 
| C.preventing; being polluted | D.to prevent; polluting | 
— Why do you want the book so much?
  — ____, sir.
| A.Studying | B.Studied | C.Studies | D.To study | 
I hear Mr. Smith was writing a story last year and he still ____.
| A.do | B.does | C.is | D.am | 
You have made a few spelling mistakes in your composition, but ____, it is fairly good.
| A.on the whole | B.generally speaking | 
| C.above all | D.on one hand | 
— Would you like to go to the cinema with me this evening?
 — I’d like to, but I won’t be free tonight. Let’s make ____ some other day.
| A.it | B.them | C.you | D.this | 
Help has already come from them, but the aid is ____ near what we expected.
| A.everywhere | B.somewhere | C.anywhere | D.nowhere |