At the end of the meeting, it was announced that an agreement ______.
| A．has been reached | B．had been reached | C．has reached | D．had reached |
Busy and successful as he was, the novelist was willing to _____ any promising young man and give him all the help he could.
| A．take up | B．pick up | C．make up | D．look up |
When there's doubt the examiner's decision is _____.
| A．right | B．final | C．definite | D．fixed |
After dinner the minister made a short _____ to the guests.
| A．delivery | B．pronunciation | C．conversation | D．speech |
Deserts, dry areas with _____ no vegetation, cover more than one-third of the Earth's land surface.
| A．surprisingly | B．eventually |
| C．permanently | D．virtually |
All too _____ it was time to go back to school after the glorious summer holidays.
| A．often | B．fast | C．soon | D．late |