（2010·湖南省高三模拟测试卷B卷）22. Color TV was first shown in 1929. It took more than two decades,        _______, until 1951, for color broadcasts to begin in the USA.

A. though   B. therefore      C. otherwise   D. anyway

（2010·上海黄浦区、嘉定区高三高考模拟）    26.   There is only one dress of this kind left here. I wonder if you still want to buy _____.

A. it               B. one            C. some          D. any

（2010·山东潍坊高考模拟训练A）      25. The police have issued a detailed       of the missing boy.

A. direction    B.expression          C.description         D.instruction

（2010·浙江余杭高级中学高三上第二次月考）    3. Male and female students are quite different from each other______ the age at which they begin to develop an intellectual self-discipline.

A. with regard to     B. in the light of     

C. in honor to         D. on account of

（2010·山东兰山高考补习学校高三形成性检测） 25. On ______ side of the street ______ numbers of palm trees.

A. each; grows             B. both; lie          

C. every; stand     D. either; grow

（2010·山东兰山高考补习学校高三形成性检测） 23. Many of them turned a deaf ear to his advice, ______ they knew it to be valuable.

A. as though B. even though       C. so that       D. if only

（2010·浙江鼓山中学高三第一次月考） 24. Occasions are quite rare ______I have the time to spend a day with my kids.

A. who          B. which         C. why        D. when

（2010·湖南湘潭市外国语学校届高三第二次月考）      27. Before the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them ____ from colonial days.

A. was dated   B. is dated     

C. is dating     D. dating

（2010·福建厦门杏南中学高三10月月考）     31. In that big fire all their houses were______, so they had to build new ones.

A. hurt           B. harmed      C. injured       D. destroyed

（2010·吉林实验中学高三第二次模拟）   10. He was proud and was not used ______ to like that.

A. to be spoken   B. to being spoken       

C. being spoken          D. to speaking