His first book ________ next month is based on a true story.
| A．published | B．to be published |
| C．to publish | D．being published |
--- I’ll come to see your performance at 9:00 tomorrow evening.
-- I’m sorry, but by then my performance ____ and I ____ reporters in the meeting room.
| A．will have ended; will be meeting |
| B．will end; will meet |
| C．will be ended; am going to meet |
| D．is to end; will meet |
--- ____ busy schoolwork, 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 |
When young, work with every fiber of your being and when old, you’ll have little left _____ about.
| A．to complain | B．complaining |
| C．having complained | D．to have complained |
Nothing is _____ to defeat you when you often assess yourself negatively.
| A．easy | B．more easily | C．much easier | D．the easiest |
Cancer claimed the life of Steve Jobs at the age of 56, _____ spirit will live on forever in Apple.
| A．who | B．whose | C．which | D．that |