What surprised me a lot was that he didn’t know ________ the difference between “tell” and “ask” lay．

A．what

B．that

C．where

D．which

－Are you feeling better today?

－________．But I still feel too weak to walk around．

A．Much better, thanks

B．Not very well

C．Very good, thank you

D．Pretty good, thanks a lot

He is ________ a writer than a reporter．

A．more

B．rather

C．not so much

D．not such

________ with the picture, Mary tore it to pieces．

A．Dissatisfying thoroughly

B．To dissatisfy thoroughly

C．Thoroughly dissatisfied

D．To be thoroughly dissatisfied

So little ________ about mathematics that the lecture was completely beyond me．

A．I know

B．I knew

C．do I know

D．did I know

________ seems like science fiction is not completely unlikely．

A．It

B．Which

C．What

D．That

－I’m not feeling well today．

－Why ________ a doctor?

A．not go and see

B．not going and seeing

C．to go and to see

D．do you go and see

________ a great leader that cannot be easily replaced, Arafat’s death leaves Palestine ________ an uncertain future．

A．Like; in

B．As; with

C．With; in

D．As; to

The population in some parts of the world has ________ doubled in the past ten years．

A．more than

B．as many as

C．larger than

D．so much as

Bakeoff has found animals sometimes try not to hit or bite, especially ________ they are playing with a weaker partner．

A．if

B．before

C．unless

D．when