—Here you are! Two pounds of meat and a dozen eggs.

—Thank you. How much do you ________ for them?

A. owe    B. offer   C. charge    D. cost

My uncle from Hongkong has changed so much that I could hardly ________ him at the airport.

A. understand B. realize  C. recognize       D. know

“Susan, go and join your sister cleaning the yard.” “Why ______? John is sitting there doing nothing.”

A. him    B. he  C. I     D. me

There he pointed to _____ looked like a stone and said that’s ______ you had to carry home.

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

The students _______ busily when Miss Brown went to get a book she _______ in the office.　

A. had written, left　    B. were writing, has left C. had written, had left　     D. were writing, had left

High unemployment _____ the government billions of pounds in lost taxes.

A. spends       B. takes   C. uses  D. costs

They often go to the restaurants for meals. They _____ be very poor.

A. mustn’t      B. can’t   C. may not   D. needn’t

. The government has _______ the parents to work with teachers in the education of their children.

A. asked for    B. called for   C. looked for       D. paid for

—How is your plan getting along?

—I can’t carry on ________ any longer. Someone must help me.

A. single        B. simply C. alone  D. lonely

—Be careful not to drop the Ming Dynasty vase.

—Yes, we can’t be ________.

A. too careful        B. very careful  C. too careless    D. careless enough