______ the danger from enemy action, people had to deal with a severe shortage of food, clothing, fuel, and almost everything.
| A．As soon as | B．As long as | C．As far as | D．As well as |
Had she her promise, she would have made it to Yale University.
| A．lived up to | B．looked up to | C．kept up with | D．come up with |
his bookishness, curiously little is known about the worldview of Gordon Brown, the first British Prime Minister said to be a real intellectual in decades.
| A．Though | B．As | C．In spite that | D．Despite |
----The cake is delicious.
----Well, at least it is the one I baked last week.
| A．as bad as | B．no better than |
| C．no worse than | D．not better than |
After the long journey, the three of them went back home, .
| A．hungry and tiredly | B．hungrily and tired |
| C．hungrily and tiredly | D．hungry and tired |
Not far from the school there was a garden, owner seated in it playing chess with his little grandson every afternoon.
| A．its | B．whose | C．which | D．that |