The new movie ________ to be one of the biggest money-makers of all time．

A．promises

B．agrees

C．pretends

D．declines

A s we all know, no one is perfect, and everyone has his own ________．

A．mistakes

B．weakness

C．limit

D．belief

You're quite a free person now, I think. ________ , I have tons of things to do．

A．On the contrary

B．On average

C．On the other hand

D．On condition

My aunt is good at bargaining and she always buys things at a ________．

A．discount

B．cost

C．price

D．benefit

The photos on the wall ________ my mother of those happy old days when a large family lived together．

A．inform

B．approve

C．remind

D．retell

Sir, you are not allowed to enter the building if you don't get our manager's ________．

A．permission

B．connection

C．instruction

D．introduction

We should follow the ________ in a foreign country we are visiting．

A．habit

B．customs

C．tradition

D．things

The sisters decided to hold a family party to ________ their parents’ silver-marriage．

A．celebrate

B．memorize

C．congratulate

D．welcome

Having taken our seats, ________．

A．the professor began the lecture

B．the lecture began in no time

C．we were attracted by the lecture immediately

D．the bell announced the beginning of the lecture

With the country's population ________ to 1.3 billion, many of China's rivers including the legendary Yellow River, are drying up．

A．to increase

B．increased

C．being increased

D．increasing