The number of people invited __________ fifty, but a number of them __________ absent for different reasons.
| A．were ； was |
| B．was ； was |
| C．was ； were |
| D．were ； were |
There was no news;____, she didn’t give up hope.
| A．moreover | B．besides | C．but | D．nevertheless |
—It is said that the number of Chinese characters you can type on your mobile phone is the total number of Chinese characters.
—I know. That is because the character input systems are made by foreign cell phone producers.
| A．much than 25 percent | B．25 percent as less as |
| C．25 percent less than | D．25 percent as much |
I’m not a little tired today after giving the room a thorough cleaning and I have never had ____ today.
| A．as tiring a day as | B．as a tiring day | C．tiring as a day as | D．day as a tiring as |
—You’re not worried about your English, are you?
—No, certainly not. Not Chinese, not math and _____ English.
| A．as far as | B．at the least | C．best of all | D．least of all |
It took ______ building supplies to construct these energy-saving houses. It took brains, too.
| A．other than | B．more than | C．rather than | D．less than |