The celebration started at ten in the morning and____ about two hours.
A.lasted |
B.kept |
C.continued |
D.finished |
. I asked Peter and ____ of his two sisters, but none of them knew when their uncle came back.
A.either |
B.both |
C.one |
D.Neither |
. — You could have turned to the soldiers for help.
— Yes, but we ____ to manage it on our own. Who would think we would fail?
A.would hope |
B.hoped |
C.had hoped |
D.have been hoping |
. I first met Mr Zhao nine years ago. He ____ at a chemical college at that time.
A.had worked |
B.has worked |
C.was working |
D.had been working |
. I’m sorry to have known my train arrives in New York at eight o’clock tonight. The plane I would like to take from there ____ by then.
A.will have left |
B.would leave |
C.had left |
D.has left |
. She ought to stop work; she has a headache because she ____ all day long.
A.has been reading |
B.had read |
C.is reading |
D.Read |