Part of the reason Charles Dickens loved his own novel, David Copperfield, was _____ it was rather closely modeled on his own life.

A. what             B. that         C. why          D. whether

That is the only way we can imagine _____ the overuse of water in students’ bathrooms.

A. reducing         B. to reduce        C. reduced     D. reduce

Don’t phone me between 7:00 and 8:00 in the evening. We _____ dinner then.

A. are having           B. had          C. would have    D. will be having

Life in the 21^st century is much better than_____ used to be.

A. that                 B. it               C. what             D. one

I’ve _____ all my papers but I still can’t find the contract.

A. looked into          B. looked up    C. looked through       D. looked after

It ___ to me that she didn’t know I had moved into the new house.

  A. appeared     B. occurred      C. happened     D. broke

It was three o’clock in the afternoon _____ a villager telephoned to tell me the surprising discovery of an ancient tomb.

A. that             B. which        C. where       D. when

I have been living in the town for nearly thirty years, but seldom _____as lonely as I do now.

A. have I felt          B. I had felt      C. I have felt      D. had I felt.

Thousands of years ago people discovered the phenomenon by chance, and this was _____ the idea of the compass first came from.

A. how                B. what         C. where        D. that

The little girl has been in a poor _____ of health since she was born, which has made her parents very worried.

A. position          B. situation        C. state        D. condition