28. With credit cards ________ available, it is more frequent to see consumers pay for their purchases or bills by card instead of by cash.
| A．occasionally | B．merely |
| C．relevantly | D．abundantly |
______ his poor handwriting, he practises writing Chinese characters with a Chinese writing brush every day.
| A．Improving | B．Improved | C．To improve | D．Improve |
— What's wrong with her? Look at her ______ eyes.
— Yes, she must have been ______.
| A．surprised; surprised | B．surprised; surprising |
| C．surprising; surprised | D．surprising; surprising |
He reads newspapers every day to keep himself _______ about what's going on in the world.
| A．inform | B．informing | C．informed | D．being informed |
He wrote a letter to me _______ that his trip to Japan had been put off because of the bad weather.
| A．inform | B．informing | C．informed | D．being informed |
_______ a satisfactory operation, the doctor believed the patient would recover from his illness very soon.
| A．Having been given | B．Having given | C．Giving | D．Being given |