Mathilde and her husband turned the whole room upside down ________ the lost necklace.

   A. in favor of                     B. in want of     C. in charge of        D. in search of  

 ________ the help of her teacher, Mary ________ in the past few months.

   A. With; has made progress                            B. Under; has made a progress

   C. With; had made progress                            D. Under; had made a progress   

 —Tom has passed the final exam.

—______! He never really worked hard before.

   A. Congratulations                   B. What a good news

   C. What a good surprise              D. How exciting the exam

 In China, shaking hands with each other is a common________ when people meet for the first time.

   A. sense             B. practice         C. scene        D. rule

 ________ lack of interest, Tom kept trying hard to catch up with others.

   A. Although       B. In spite                         C. Though         D. Despite  

 As far as I see, ________ is no possibility ________ he will win the tennis match this time.

   A. it; that                        B. there; that    C. it; whether         D. there; whether 

 ________, he also had a son in college who had taken a bank loan to pay for his studies.

   A. Make matters worse             B. What worse

   C. To make matters worse                              D. To make thing worse  

 The letter was so badly written that I couldn’t _________ it.  

   A. make sense                      B. make sense of   C. make sense in   D. take sense of

 Mount Wuyi is such an attractive place of interest ________ everyone likes to visit.

   A. that          B. as           C. which           D. what  

 The boy burst into tears ________ he saw his mother.

   A. at the moment                   B. in a moment     C. for a moment   D. the moment