I don’t like to go to the concert. I have no interest in it; _______, I have lots of work to do.
A. however B. beside C. therefore D. besides
I bought a dress for only 10 dollars in a sale; it was a real _______.
A. exchange B. bargain C. trade D. business
I was enjoying my dinner and talking to my American friend Janice at the table _______ I noticed people staring at us.
A. until B. as C. when D. while
It’s really unbelievable! Can you _______ her swimming across the English Channel?
A. imagine B. suppose C. mind D. think
There was _______ time _______ I hate to go to school.
A. a, when B. a, that C. /, when D. the, that
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Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I 1.______ ________ a _______ ________in France in 1642. Although I was young I 2._______ ________ ________ ________. I developed very slowly and 3._______ _______ ______ two hundred years ______I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an 4. ______ _________used cards_____ ______, I could think logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a 5.______ _ _______and the start of my “________ _________”. In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a universal machine to solve any difficult mathematical problem…
Daisy smiled. “That’s good news. It 6._____the _________of_________ ______, but I’d like to help as the WWF suggests.” The carpet rose again and almost at once they were in a thick rainforest. A monkey watched them as it rubbed itself…“When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It 7. _______a _______ ______which ________mosquitoes. You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and appreciate how the animals live together. No rainforest, no animals, no drugs.
As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to 8. ______ _______ _______ ______ to help them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended to sing. Anyhow their performances were humorous 9. ______ ________ _______ _________by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a year or so 10. _______ ________they became more ________ ________their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band.
