About 40 ________ of the population of that country ________ on farms．

A．percent, lives

B．percent, live

C．percents, live

D．percents, lives

He played on the ________ for 2 hours and when he returned he found half his goods ________ stolen．

A．sand, were

B．sand, was

C．sands, were

D．sands, was

Yesterday the League secretary and monitor ________ asked to make a speech at the meeting．

A．is

B．was

C．are

D．were

“All ________ present and all ________ going on well．”our monitor said．

A．is, is

B．are, are

C．are, is

D．is, are

He left ________ with my secretary that he would call again in the afternoon．He said he would keep ________．

A．words, his words

B．word, his word

C．word, word

D．the word, his word

The apartment isn’t within ________ of the subway station as its advertiser has claimed it is．

A．a stone’s throw

B．the throw of a stone

C．stone’s throw

D．a stone throw

I called at ________ several times this morning, but nobody answered the door, where would she have gone?

A．Mary

B．Mary’s

C．the Mary

D．the Mary’s

It was estimated that the thieves had stolen ________ worth of jewelry from the shop．

A．one-million-dollar

B．one million dollar’s

C．one million dollars’

D．one million dollars

In this research, two are ________, and the others are ________．

A．Swisses, Germans

B．Swiss, Germen

C．Swisses, Germen

D．Swiss, Germans

The 1930s were the year when he wrote one ________ after another, and when his first collection of ________ was published．

A．poem, poetry

B．poetry, poem

C．poem, poem

D．poetry, poetry