-----Excuse me, but could I trouble you ...

—Were you hurt in the accident?

—I was shocked, but wasn’t hurt at all. My car was damaged, ______.

A.instead B.otherwise C.anyway D.though

—Have you finished your research essay?

—I haven’t started yet. I ________ relevant materials the whole of last week.

A.have collected B.was collecting

C.would collect D.had collected

You can’t imagine how excited we were ________ that our schoolmates had won the first place in National Robot Competition.

A.learning B.having learned

C.to be learning D.to learn

To ______ the turkey, people often prepare other things, such as cornbread, mashed potatoes (土豆泥), and pumpkin or apple pie.

A.come across B.go with C.search for D.figure out

Thanks to Li Ziqi’s efforts, many Chinese cultural heritages that ________ in written records now appear before our eyes.

A.were existing B.had existed C.would have existed D.existed