The number of people invited ______ fifty, but a number of them ______ absent for different reasons.

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How many years ______ he ______ Mary?

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I need one more stamp before my collection ______.

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He will have learned English for eight years by the time he ______ from the university next year.

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--How long ______ at this job?

--Since 1990.

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A．were you employed

B．have you been employed

C．had you been employed

D．will you be employed

When and where to go for the on-salary holiday ______ yet.

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A．are not decided

B．had not been decided

C．is not being decided

D．has not been decided

By the end of last year, another new gymnasium ______ in Beijing.

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A．would be completed

B．was being completed

C．has been completed

D．had been completed

--What happened to the priceless works of art?

--______.

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A．They were destroyed in the earthquake

B．The earthquake was destroying them

C．They destroyed in the earthquake

D．The earthquake destroyed them

I'm afraid the three-hour flight is ______ for an eighty-year-old lady.

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The result was not made ______ until Thursday.

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