Jack doesn’t smoke now, but he ______ for almost twenty years.
| A．smoked | B．was smoking | C．has smoked | D．had smoked |
29. Realizing ______ I had been able to accomplish, my fears of failure grew rapidly.
| A．so little | B．such little | C．how little | D．what little |
28. In Australia’s New South Wales, a group of animals are at risk of losing their home with a new logging program soon ______.
| A．starts | B．to start | C．starting | D．Started |
27. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, ______ not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic.
| A．though | B．unless | C．if | D．as if |
26. In the book, Newton is shown as a gifted scientist with very human weaknesses who stood at the point in history ______ magic ended and science began.
| A．what | B．which | C．that | D．Where |
25. Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples ______ two major language groups.
| A．belonged to | B．belonging to | C．were belonged to | D．were belonging to |