--- I will come to attend your lecture at 10:00 tomorrow.

    --- I’m sorry, by then my lecture will have ended and I ______ my guests in my office.

    A. is being met              B. will meet

    C. will be meeting           D. will have met

The ____ is that the new machine will arrive tomorrow.

A. chance     B. luck       C. happening    D. accident

In order to ____ the debt, the couple has worked hard for years with little food and only a small room to live in and never a moment's rest.

A. pay for   B. pay back  C. pay   D. return back

If you are able to talk to a friend over the telephone, you feel that you are close _____ the actual distance is not shortened.

A. even if       B. so long as      C.if           D. as

Knowing how long the test would last, the students who finished ____ back and waited until the end of the exam.

A. settle     B. settled    C. settling    D. to settle

However, at times this balance in nature is disturbed, ____ a number of possibly unforeseen effects.

A. lying in    B. calling in C. taking in  D. resulting in

The rescue team ______to help but failed to get there in time.

A. had wanted  B. have planned C. were expecting  D. hoped

—Were you busy last weekend?

 —Very. Rather than ____ time playing cards as usual, I devoted every effort to ____ an advertisement.

 A. wasting; making        B. waste; make

 C. to waste; make        D. a waste of; making

—Are you content with her lecture?

     —Nowhere near that. It ____.

     A. may have been good     B. couldn’t have been worse

     C. can’t be better           D. must be better

Is ___ possible for us to be invited too?

   A. that   B. this    C. it     D. he