_____ people are generally better off, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened.
| A．Despite | B．Whereas | C．However | D．Although |
— busy homework ,the children also have to take arts, music and sports classes in their free time.
— I wonder what they will become.
| A．Rather than | B．Expect for | C．Apart from | D．Owing to |
One of the most important questions the government had to consider was _____ of public health.
| A．what | B．this | C．that | D．which |
No matter how I tried to read it , the sentence didn’t to me .
| A．make out | B．make up | C．make sense | D．make a difference |
So the man left France, ______ to give up the fortune that would one day come to him,
______ to live in England.
| A．to prefer; went | B．preferring; had gone |
| C．preferred; going | D．preferring; and went |
Living in the central Australian desert has its problems, _____ obtaining water is not the least.
| A．of which | B．for what | C．as | D．whose |