（2010·湖南湘潭市外国语学校届高三第二次月考）    31. The disease outbreak had infected 65 people by last Monday,       19 ______ have died.

A. with which        B. of whom             

C. for whom          D. in which

（2010·吉林实验中学高三第二次模拟） 31. Has the boy who was made use of _____ realized his mistakes?

A. stealing   B. stolen       C. to steal     D. for stealing

（2010·山东兰山高考补习学校高三形成性检测）   36. By the time he realized he ______ into a trap, it would be too late for him to do anything about it.

A. walked       B. was walking        C. has walked    D. had walked

（2010·吉林实验中学高三第二次模拟）   30. Playing with fire can be very dangerous, or to ___ it another way , don’t try it like this.

A. address   B. speak     C. talk           D. put

（2010·吉林实验中学高三第二次模拟）   18. He showed signs of exceptional skill at chess, but _____ enough, maths is not his thing.

A. naturally      B. strangely     C. foolishly          D. badly

（2010·天津蓟县下营中学高三第一次模拟）   5.—I saw no more than one motor car in that shop. Will you go and buy _____?

—No, I’d rather find _____ in other shops.

A. it; one B. it; it           C. one; it D. one; one

Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into 1.__________ very difficult problem. It seemed impossible to get the thread to run 2.__________ (smooth) around the needle.

Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He 3.__________ that he had been caught by terrible savages 4.__________ king wanted to kill him and eat him 5.__________ he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears 6.__________ (raise). But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a 7.__________ in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, 8.__________ (realize) that he had just found the answer 9.__________ the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make 10.__________ run through a small hole in the centre of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practical sewing machine.

——It will be terrible to see the nuclear war happen.

    ——That’s right. Nuclear science should be developed to benefit the people   _____   harm them.

   A. more than      B. rather than     C. other than      D. better than

One of the best ways for people to keep fit is to     _____   healthy eating habits.

    A. grow   B. develop        C. increase     D. raise

It ___ how long the shock that explosions hit London transport system will stay in people's hearts.

A. abandons       B. considers      C. matters.  D. minds