______ seems to be a strong competition in China for senior high students to enter college or university.

A. It                    B. There                       C. What                 D. That

What a pity! I _______ in Hainan two more days, but something urgent needed to be dealt with back home.

A. must have stayed                                      B. needn’t have stayed   

C. could have stayed                       D. may have stayed

As a result of our serious staffing shortages, the situation has arisen _____ we have to hire graduating college students for help.

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

We grew up in ________ countryside, surrounded by the beauties of ________ nature.

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

I’m sure you’d rather she went to school by bus, ________?

A. hadn’t you     B. wouldn’t you      C. aren’t I      D. didn’t she

Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China ________the Women’s doubles trophy(獎(jiǎng)杯)after winning  the final at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne January 27，2006.

A．held   B．were holding    C．a(chǎn)re holding       D．had held

There was a sense of _________ when She Xianglin, who was wrongly sentenced to 11 years in prison, was given 200,000 yuan as a compensation.

A. urgency            B. security                  C. achievement           D. relief

The Olympic Games are being___________ live to many countries.

A. conveyed        B. transmitted      C. transferred     D. demonstrated

Young lovers shouldn’t live too_____ so as to__________ some money for their future marriage.

A. waste, draw on       B. high, set aside      C. rich, put away        D. well, put aside

Children are________ with their studies because they are expected to do far better than they can.

A. caught up       B. given up    C. fed up     D. put up