What the man said at the meeting made us all ________．

A．surprise

B．to surprise

C．surprised

D．surprising

Because of my ________ Russian, I can't make myself ________．

A．broken…understood

B．broken…understand

C．break…understood

D．breaking…understanding

We were told to have our reading room ________ next Saturday．

A．clean

B．to clean

C．cleaning

D．cleaned

I suggested that we ________ a box to gather feedback from our customers．

A．should use

B．would use

C．used

D．could use

John ________ a similar point of view at the meeting last week．We'll discuss it tomorrow．

A．put forward

B．looked into

C．linked to

D．made sense

This garden has the best collection of native plants．________, it contains numerous trees and flowers from overseas．

A．In addition

B．Apart from

C．In all

D．First of all

It is known to all that teachers, ________ the methods and materials they may use, are central to improving English language teaching．

A．except for

B．apart from

C．every time

D．at times

Once swallowed, anti-HIV drugs pass through the body where they are the blood stream．

A．exposed to

B．controlled by

C．absorbed into

D．attended by

That night when I got home, I made the conclusion ________ I was the one in control and was going to do everything to never let this happen again．

A．in which

B．which

C．what

D．that

The first text books ________ for teaching English as a foreign language came out in the 16th century．

A．having written

B．to be written

C．being written

D．written