__________ Before they together against their common enemy in 2000，they __________ from the government.
| A．banded；have been banned |
| B．have banded；had been banned |
| C．banded；had been banned |
| D．would band；have been banned |
This heat is ___. If only we’d gone to the beach instead.
| A．bearable |
| B．understandable |
| C．unbearable |
| D．confortable |
He took off his wet clothes and ___ the water out.
| A．squeezed |
| B．pushed |
| C．forced |
| D．wiped |
The teacher was angry that all of them arrived late for a(an) ___ of reasons.
| A．range |
| B．variety |
| C．series |
| D．amount |
When the boy was nine years old, his father ___ by enemies.
| A．was poisoning |
| B．was poisoned |
| C．was to poison |
| D．was being poisoned |
He kept running on and on, telling me the same story ___.
| A．once again |
| B．once in a while |
| C．over and over again |
| D．by and by |