—Henry told me that he _____ to return you the book the next day.
—Yes. He _____ it to me yesterday.
A. would have come; has returned
B. would have come; returned
C. would come; returned
D. would come; has returned
One of the many _____ of my foreign travel is that I have learnt how to solve unexpected problems.
A. benefits B. experiences
C. difficulties D. arguments
Those successful deaf dancers think that dancing is an activity _____ sight matters more than hearing.
A. when B. where
C. which D. whose
It is widely believed that children should drink enough milk, which can _____ their healthy growth.
A. strengthen B. improve
C. control D. promote
—Actually not all ads play tricks on customers.
—_____. PSAs serve the public.
A. You can say that again B. You must be joking
C. I can’t agree D. It counts for nothing
Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words or the proper forms of the given words.
The tale of Shangri-La is among the most interesting myths. Not 1. (surprise), then, modern people have been drawn to the dreamland 2. the ruin of time and history has been held back, human beings live in harmony with nature, and the wisdom of the planet is saved for future 3. (generation).
Lost Horizon was a tale for4. (it) times. The story of Shangri-La itself is a modern one, told by the English novelist James Hilton in his novel Lost Horizon (1933). Set in the troubled years before World War Two, the book tells of a community in a lamasery (喇嘛庙), in the lost Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, cut off from the world and from time. All the wisdom of the human race 5. (contain) in this place, in the stored cultural treasures, and in the minds of the people 6. have gathered here in the face of the war.
The book enjoyed great 7. (popular). And when the novel was turned into a Hollywood movie by Frank Capra, it was 8. instant success. These days, the name is part of the language, used everywhere from Nepali airlines and Chinese hotel chains to holiday cottages in Florida and Torquay.
In the 1930s, 9. Western civilisation seemed bent on a path to self-destruction — and when, as Carl Jung put it, “the smell of burning was in the air” — the story had a great charm. And Tibet in the 1930s was still a land of mystery, one of the last unmapped places. Nowadays, of course, the choice of the location of the tale seems more 10. (attract).
