--- Could you bring me that novel you _____________ me about when I dropped in on you?
--- Sorry, I can’t. I have given it to a friend.
| A．told | B．would tell | C．had told | D．had been telling |
________ nearly all our money, we couldn’t afford to stay at a hotel.
| A．Having spent | B．To spend |
| C．Spent | D．To have spent |
His advice was not adopted, for the manager thought it was not quite ________.
| A．in case | B．in return |
| C．in place | D．in common |
James doesn’t have a gift for music, but he ________ it with hard work.
| A．breaks away from | B．makes up for |
| C．catches up with | D．gets away with |
New plans for the college entrance examination in Zhejiang are ________ students have to be tested on Chinese, math, English and the other three subjects as they prefer.
| A．what | B．when | C．which | D．that |
Life is full of expectations; it is impossible to ________ what will happen in the future.
| A．predict | B．possess | C．quit | D．investigate |