When ________ for his views about his teaching job, Philip said he found it very interesting and rewarding．

A．asking

B．asked

C．having asked

D．to be asked

A lot of language learning, ________ has been discovered, is happening in the first year of life, so parents should talk much to their children during that period．

A．as

B．it

C．which

D．this

The athlete's years of hard training ________ when she finally won the Olympic gold medal．

A．went on

B．got through

C．paid off

D．ended up

The limits of a person's intelligence, generally speaking, are fixed at birth, but ________ he reaches these limits will depend on his environment．

A．where

B．whether

C．that

D．why

In order to find the missing child , villagers ________ all they can over the past five hours．

A．did

B．do

C．had done

D．have been doing

You can change your job, you can move house, but friendship is meant to be ________ life．

A．of

B．on

C．to

D．for

I remembered ________ the door before I left the office, but forgot to turn off the lights．

A．locking

B．to lock

C．having locked

D．to have locked

Interest is as ________ to learning as the ability to understand ,even more so．

A．vital

B．available

C．specific

D．similar

Carl is studying ________ food science at college and hopes to open up ________ meat processing factory of his own one day．

A．/;a

B．/; the

C．the; a

D．the; the

It is generally considered unwise to give a child ________ he or she wants．

A．however

B．whatever

C．whichever

D．whenever