-Where's Tom? --He's left a _______ saying that he has something to do.
| A.excuse | B.sentence | C.news | D.message | 
(2013·安徽高考压轴题) , his idea was accepted by all the people at the meeting.
| A.It might sound strange | 
| B.As it might sound strange | 
| C.As strange it might sound | 
| D.Strange as it might sound | 
—Have you known each other for long?
 —Not very long,    we started to work in the company.
| A.after | B.before | C.when | D.since | 
He was about to tell me the secret someone patted him on the shoulder.
| A.as | B.until | C.while | D.when | 
Hardly our walk when it began to rain.
| A.we began | B.we had begun | 
| C.had we begun | D.has we begun | 
you told me in secret, I had heard nothing about it.
| A.While | B.Until | C.After | D.Since |