________, I could not memorize the text.

     A．However hard did I try                B．However hard I tried

     C．However I tried hard                 D．However I had tried hard   

 The boy burst into tears ________ he saw his mother.

     A．at the moment    B．in a moment      C．for a moment   D．the moment

 Mount Wuyi is such an attractive place of interest ________ everyone likes to visit.

     A．that             B．as               C．which        D．what   

 The letter was so badly written that I couldn’t _________ it． 

     A．make sense       B．make sense of     C．make sense in      D．take sense of

 ________, he also had a son in college who had taken a bank loan to pay for his studies.

     A．Make matters worse                   B．What worse

     C．To make matters worse                D．To make thing worse  

 As far as I see, ________ is no possibility ________ he will win the tennis match this time.

     A．it; that               B．there; that         C．it; whether         D．there; whether 

 ________ lack of interest, Tom kept trying hard to catch up with others.

     A．Although         B．In spite           C．Though           D．Despite  

 In China, shaking hands with each other is a common________ when people meet for the first time.

     A．sense          B．practice          C．scene             D．rule

 —Tom has passed the final exam.

—______! He never really worked hard before.

      A．Congratulations                                 B．What a good news

      C．What a good surprise                          D．How exciting the exam

 ________ the help of her teacher, Mary ________ in the past few months.

     A．With; has made progress            B．Under; has made a progress

     C．With; had made progress            D．Under; had made a progress