My friend Tom stays at Internet bars above 8 hours every day ______, really a netter(网虫).
| A．on average | B．in charge | C．up close | D．for free |
Instead of answering, she ______ smiled.
| A．merely | B．barely | C．almost | D．scarcely |
The patient suffering from cancer looked dead but the faint pulse proved that he was still________.
| A．live | B．life | C．alive | D．lively |
The continuous rain ______ the harvesting of the wheat crop by two weeks.
| A．set back. | B．set off | C．set out | D．set aside |
In 1989, a(n) _______law was passed by the United Nations to stop people putting waste into sea.
| A．national | B．local | C．internet | D．international |
Whenever a big company ______ a small one, the product almost always gets worse.
| A．gets on with. | B．cuts down | C．takes over | D．puts up with |