The number of women dying from breast cancer has fallen to its lowest level ____ records began in 1971.
| A．when | B．before | C．since | D．after |
Awarded ______ 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo Yan, ______ productive contemporary Chinese writer, has published dozens of short stories related to the countryside.
| A．a; a | B．the; a | C．/; a | D．a; the |
---How did he ______ the punishment he was given for his cruel conduct?
---No reaction at all. He knew unkindness often reacts upon the unkind person.
| A．respond with | B．react to |
| C．respond for | D．react with Mrs. Jones |
As the prisoner had been ______from the outside world for twenty years, he had no idea what the outside world was like.
| A．cut off | B．cut away |
| C．cut out | D．cut short |
It makes little _____now to tell our children that their grandparents once boiled leather shoes to stop their hunger on their way to the northeast.
| A．idea | B．meaning |
| C．sense | D．use |
If you don’t know that _____ is the mother of success, you are sure to be _____ in life.
| A．failure; failure | B．a failure; a failure |
| C．a failure; failure | D．failure; a failure |