55. A. hoped                  B. had               C. planned                 D. happened      

54. A. for                                B. and                   C. so             D. but         

53. A. certain                B. possible             C. bad            D. proper         

52. A. alone                     B. away               C. along              D. abroad

51. A. thought                        B. advice                    C. favor                      D. view

50. This is the reason ________ at the meeting for his carelessness in his work.

A. he explained                                     B. what he explained

C. how he explained                              D. why he explained

It was Tom’s first visit to England, and he was looking forward to his first journey, on London’s Underground Railway. And against his friends’_51___, he was determined to travel __52__.

He entered the station shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon. This is a __53___time to travel in London, _54__crowds of people go home from work at this hour. He _55___ to join a long line of people waiting for tickets. When at last his _56__ came, he had some difficulty in making himself understood by the ticket seller.  __57___, he got the right ticket in the end and, by asking people the way, he also found the right _58___. It was __59___ tight with people. He did not _60___ to get on the first train, but he was able to move nearer to the edge of the platform so as to be in a better _61____ to get on the next one. When this train came in, Tom was _62_____ forward onto the train by the _63____ of people from behind. The doors closed and the train moved off. He was unable to see the _64___ of the stations where the train _65____, but he knew that the station he wanted was the sixth _66____ along the line. When the train reached the sixth station, Tom got off, feeling _67___ that his journey had been so easy. But he suddenly realized that he had come to a station he had never _68____. He explained his __69___ to a man who was standing on the platform. With a _70____ on his face, he told Tom that he had caught a train going in the opposite direction.

49. The boy pointed to the direction ________ he would run.

A. in which             B. to which        C. that                    D. which

48. She decided to write about Chaplin, one of ______ films she had seen years before.

A. whose                    B. whom             C. which              D. that

47. The poor man, ________ lost his money just now, is called John.

A. that                B. which              C. who                D. whom

46. ________ is known to all, China will be an ________ and powerful country in 20 or 30 years’ time.

A. That; advancing                                B. It; advanced         

       C. As; advancing                                    D. As; advanced