________ children whose parents had died in the earthquake________ sent to live with families in other cities.
| A．A great number of ; was | B．The great number of ; was |
| C．A great number of ; were | D．The great number of ; were |
I prefer a house in beautiful surroundings in the countryside to ________ in such a noisy street in Shanghai.
| A．it | B．that |
| C．this | D．one |
He is so young and short a man that I think he is ________ but a professor of Northwest University.
| A．anything | B．something |
| C．everything | D．nothing |
They have done much of the work; when will ________ be finished?
| A．the rest | B．the other |
| C．another | D．the others |
Mum, I need a new schoolbag. Could you buy ________ for me tomorrow?
| A．it | B．that |
| C．one | D．another |
The fact that she can't talk makes ________ difficult for her to communicate with her new classmates.
| A．so | B．much |
| C．such | D．it |