The wild flowers looked like a soft orange blanket the desert.
| A．covering | B．covered | C．cover | D．to cover |
All the passengers were _______ wounded in the road accident.
| A．more and more | B．by and by | C．more or less | D．little and little |
Both of my parents prefer _______ news to foreign news when they listen to the radio..
| A．local | B．latest | C．international | D．global |
Instead of answering, she ______ smiled.
| A．merely | B．barely | C．almost | D．scarcely |
The patient suffering from cancer looked dead but the faint pulse proved that he was still________.
| A．live | B．life | C．alive | D．lively |
The continuous rain ______ the harvesting of the wheat crop by two weeks.
| A．set back. | B．set off | C．set out | D．set aside |