In this university a medal with ten thousand dollars ________ they say gains success in science and technology every two years．

A．is given to whoever

B．are given to anyone who

C．is given to whomever

D．are given to everyone

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

A．will graduate

B．will have graduated

C．graduates

D．is to graduate

________the telephone number several times, but he couldn't learn it by heart．

A．He had been told

B．Having been told

C．Although he had been told

D．Having told

Kathy ________ a lot of Spanish by playing with native boys and girls．

A．picked up

B．took up

C．made up

D．turned up

Studies show that people are more ________ to suffer from back problems if they always sit before computer screens for long hours．

A．likely

B．possible

C．probable

D．sure

This passage discussed some human-cantered ________ to the problem of finding useful information．

A．means

B．approaches

C．methods

D．ways

Don't be rude to your father．Never in his life ________ that way．

A．has he spoken to

B．he has spoken

C．has he been spoken to

D．he has been spoken to

High-speed trains travel at 300 kilometres an hour, which is about ________ normal trains．

A．four times the speed of

B．the speed four times of

C．four times as the speed of

D．four times the speed as

I don't doubt ________ our country will play a more and more important role in the world affairs．

A．that

B．if

C．whether

D．how

________ to reach them on the phone, we sent an email instead．

A．Fail

B．Having failed

C．To fail

D．Failed