We never dreamed of there _______ such a quiet place in the noisy city.
A. had been B. was
C. being D. to be
International communications have led to ________.
A. using English widely. B. English having used widely.
C. English to be used widely. D. English being used widely
Principal White has been working in the school for about 20 years, ____all his energy to teaching and researching as well as the running of a healthy school.
A．devoted B．devoting
C．to devote D．devote
---What do you think of his talk on Information Technology?
---Oh, excellent. It's worth ________．
A．listening to B．being listened to
C．listening of D．to be listened to
Beijing announced its bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, hoping to be the first city ______ the Winter Games after playing host to the summer.
A. to stage B. staging
C. to be staged D. having staged
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A couple had been married for over 60 years. They shared everything, talked about everything and kept no secrets 1. each other except that the woman had a box in a drawer 2. she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.
He'd never thought about it ever since. One day 3. woman got very sick and the doctor, said she wouldn't recover. To sort out their affairs, the husband took down the box and 4. (bring) it to his wife's bedside. She agreed it was time that he should know 5. was in the box.
6. (open) it, he found two small table mats and a sum of money totaling $ 25,000.He asked her about the contents. “When we were to be married，” she said, “my grandma told me the secret of a happy 7. (marry) was never to argue, and I should just keep quiet and make a mat 8. I got angry with you.”
The man was so 9. (move) that he had to fight back tears. She had only been angry with him twice in all those years of living and loving! “Honey，” he said, “that explains the mats, but what about the money? Where did it come from？”
“Oh，” she said, “that's the money I made from selling 10.．”
