This new-type machine____________  little room.

A. takes up                           B. is taken up    

C. has been taken up                  D. is taking up

Nobody noticed the thief slip into the house because the lights happened to__________.

A. put up            B. give in     C. be turned on     D. go out

Mary is short__________ her brother is very tall.

A. still        B. nor             C. while         D. when

The fire started in the basement and quickly____________ to the first floor where it destroyed all the______________ in the language lab.

A. was spreaded;furniture and equipments

B. was spreaded ;furniture and equipment

C. spread;furnitures and equipments

D. spread ;furniture and equipment

In the middle of the room stands a__________ table.

A. beautiful wooden round         B. round wooden beautiful

C. accepted     D. received       D. beautiful round wooden

. To everybody's surprise, the fashionable young lady ___________ to be a thief.

A. found out     B. proved out     C, put out     D. turned out

Bread and butter____________ for breakfast in many Chinese homes nowadays.

A. serve          B. servers      C. is served     D. are served

--I heard that as many as 4 000 people were killed in 9

--Yes. __________ news came as __________shock to us.

A. the ; the      B. the ; a      C, / ; /      D. / ; a

The amount of money for the seriously sick child was soon collected.

A. to need     B. needed     C. needing     D. which needed

Why didn't you tell me there was no meeting today? I all the way here through the heavy snow.

A. needn't have driven            B. can't have driven

C. mustn't have driven            D. shouldn't have driven