An online survey at sina.com suggested more than four in five said the present rules would not be effective _______ the rising housing prices.
| A．to control | B．to have controlled |
| C．in having controlled | D．in controlling |
---What made him so upset?
-----_________
| A．Failing in the test | B．He failed in the test |
| C．Because he failed in the test | D．To fail in the test. |
31. Americans eat _______________ vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.
| A．more than twice | B．as twice as many | C．twice as many as | D．more than twice as many |
He kept putting his dream to the test –even though it meant ____________ with uncertainty and fear of failure.
| A．living | B．to live | C．to be living | D．having been lived |
---Were you busy last weekend?
---Very. Rather than __________ time playing cards as usual, I devoted every effort to________ an advertisement.
| A．wasting; making | B．waste; make | C．to waste; make | D．a waste of; making |
He argued __________ smoking, and insisted that it was ____________ argument that
smoking is harmful to health.
| A．for; beyond | B．against; over | C．for; over | D．against; beyond |