-- What are you reading, Tom?

--- I’m not really reading, just ___ the pages.

A. turning off    B. turning around   C. turning over   D. turning up

Such sewing machines are supposed to _______ only skilled operators.

A. operate      B. be operated on      C. operate on   D. be operated by

 The year 1849 ______ a great war in Hungary, when the great poet Petőfi Sándor lost his life.

A. witnessed       B. happened       C. took place   D. came about

 Joe, as well as Ann _____ bound to find nobody there, for the staff ____ gone for their lunch. 

A. is; have         B. is; has         C. are; have     D. are; has

Advertisements ___ people to buy products.

A. urge            B. promote        C. attack       D. talk

 The teacher has gone out, and there was a moment of ___ silence.

A. enough          B. adequate       C. abundant     D. complete

---- I had thought I would miss the flight.

---- ______ you wouldn't have arrived on time.

  A. Otherwise       B. So           C. but          D. that

Certain trains _________ called off due to the terrible accident on July 23rd, they had to go there by plane.

    A. were           B. having been   C. being        D. had been

---- Is it good to look up every new word when I come across it in reading?

---- No. You ________, because you are likely to guess the meaning from the context.

  A. can’t           B. mustn’t      C. don’t have to  D. shouldn’t

Though Typhoon Muifa didn’t strike Wenzhou in the end, it still caused great _______ to the local economies.

A. injury          B. destroy      C. ruin         D. damage