——Were you busy last weekend?

     ——Very. Rather than ____ time playing cards as usual, I devoted every effort to ____ an advertisement.

A、wasting; making  B、waste; make  C、to waste; make   D、a waste of; making

——Are you content with her lecture?

     ——Nowhere near that. It ____.

A、may have been good   B、couldn’t have been worse    C、can’t be better D、must be better

—Look! He’s running so fast!

  —Hard to ____ his legs were once broken.

A. know    B. imagine    C. realize    D. find

—Didn’t you have a good time at the party?

  —Of course I did. As a matter of fact, I had such fun that time seemed to ___ so quickly.

A. go by    B. go away    C. go out    D. go over

The open-air celebration has been put off _______ the bad weather.

A. in case of    B. in spite of    C. instead of   D. because of

. Leaves are found on all kinds of trees, but they differ greatly ________ size and shape.

A. on      B. from   C. by      D. in

There were some chairs left over _____ everyone had sat down.

   A. when        B. until         C. that       D. where

These plastic flowers look so _____ that many people think they are real.

A. beautiful    B. natural    C. artificial    D. similar

Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true ____ it comes to classroom tests.

A、before   B、since    C、when D、after

Jim sold most of his things. He has hardly ____________ left in the house.

  A. anything    B. everything    C. nothing      D. something