29. What a delicious joke! This sentence means _____.

A. The joke is very interesting.                B. The joke is about delicious food.

C. The joke is not interesting at all.                    D. No one laughed at the joke.

9. Some girls are _____; a few, but very few, are _____.

A. beautiful; pretty                            B. handsome; beautiful 

C. pretty; beautiful                           D.pretty; handsome

84. They’d like to see her daughter ____________, get married and have kids.

A.settle on                B. settle up               C. settle for               D. settle down

64. Why did you ask him for help instead of Jim? He is_______helpful than Jim.

A. no more               B. any more              C. not more              D. some more

44. The soldier gave _____ the secret when they punished him.

A. up                        B. back                     C. out                       D. Away

24. China Construction, an edition de luxe is not a weekly or bimonthly magazine but it comes _____ every season (quarterly).

A. over                        B. about                 C. out                         D. Of

4. When Mary finally got there, Tom had left an hour _____.

A. before                 B. ago                    C. later                           D. After

114. How ________ you to remember my birthday!

A. sweet for          B. sweet of           C. kind for            D. nice for

94. You are late again. To be________is one of the essential qualities we Moderners should possess.

 A. polite            B. punctual           C. fair               D. Honest

74. --- Have you ever read that article?

   --- Yes, But I think there is nothing _______ in it.   Which of the following is wrong?

difficulty               B. new                       C. interesting              D. Important