The secretary worked late into the night, ______ a long speech for the president.
| A．to prepare | B．prepared |
C．preparing | D．to be prepared |
The next morning Mr. Smithson spoke his mind to his wife in a very straightforward _______.
| A．route | B．method | C．manner | D．pattern |
The world has twice as much shipbuilding _______ as it needed in the 1980s.
| A．capacity | B．potential | C．ability | D．possibility |
A(n) _______ will be paid to anyone who brings back the money Mr. Brown lost, according to the advertisement.
| A．award | B．prize | C．reward | D．profit |
.What a _______ that dress makes! She looks very pretty now.
| A．transplant | B．transportation | C．translation | D．transformation |
He lay in bed, listening to the rain _______ the window.
| A．hitting | B．defeating | C．beating | D．striking |