She ________ someone, so I nodded to her and went away.
A. phoned B. had phoned
C. was phoning D. has phoned
I think _______ is no need for us to comment on his action: it speaks for itself.
A. it B. that C. there D. this
----- It’s too strange that these people should laugh when their relatives die.
----- That is the local custom ______ the seventeenth century.
A. dates back to B. dated back to
C. dating back to D. had dated back to
I lent him ten magazines, ____ are more wonderful than you can imagine.
A. most of which B. most of them
C. and most of which D. most of that
It is silly of me _____ all eggs in one basket. That is the worst mistake I have made.
A. to put B. to have put C. put D. putting
_________ to give up smoking, he threw away his _______ cigarettes.
A. Determined, remained B. Determined, remaining
C. Determining, remaining D. Determining, remained
