While shopping, people sometimes can’t help ____ into buying something they don’t really want.
| A．to persuade | B．persuading | C．being persuaded | D．be persuaded |
----- Does the new teaching method work?
----- Yes. The students find it easier to ______ what is being taught.
| A．take off | B．take up |
| C．take in | D．take on |
Nowadays many parents complain that they can’t ______ their children’s different kinds of expenses and that they don’t know how to make themselves understood.
| A．cover | B．contain |
| C．include | D．satisfy |
The old black woman sat under the pine tree, her grandsons, ____ around her, ____ to an old story.
| A．seating; listening | B．seated; listened |
| C．seating; listened | D．seated; listening |
Mr. and Mrs. Scott prefer a trip in a small town to _____ in so large a city as New York.
| A．this | B．one | C．it | D．that |
----We’ll put on the play but we can’t find suitable clothes.
---- Of course. Such clothes are out of ______ now.
| A．sight | B．use |
| C．date | D．reach |