If I ____ here earlier, I ______the English speech competition .
| A．had come; wouldn’t have missed | B．came; wouldn’t have missed |
| C．have come; would not miss | D．come; will not have missed |
.Returning from Italy, he told us a lot of _______ about the Leaning Tower of Pisa, especially some tales about it and the present government’s efforts to save it from collapse.
| A．interests | B．anecdotes | C．rumors | D．assessments |
While having lunch with a friend recently, we got into a _____ that is pretty frequent in China about morning greeting.
| A．conversation | B．conservation | C．reservation | D．criterion |
While in London, we paid a visit to the hospital founded__________the nurse Florence Nightingale.
| A．in need of | B．in favor of | C．in honor of | D．in place of |
He has been in high spirits, for pieces of exciting news came to him __________.
| A．one after another | B．one by one | C．little by little | D．step by step |
He arrived home very late last night, __________in the early hours this morning.
| A．or else | B．or rather | C．rather than | D．more than |