______on his past mistakes, Ted realized that he had stayed around the wrong people.

A．To reflect      B．Reflecting

C．reflected         D．being reflected

Recently,  many parents choose to rent a house near schools and ______their children during their school years.

A．inspire            B. recognize         C． accompany      D．protect

In our city, almost everyone is _______bringing down the housing price because it is too high for them to buy one.

A．in honor of       B．in search of

C．in need of D．in favor of

She had a computer at home, and her parents desired that she _____all her work at home.

A．do   B．does               C．must do                D．would do

They _______ drinking although they are drivers, which is very dangerous both to them and the passengers.

A．give up             B．devote themselves to

C．quit          D．abandon themselves to

---Do you work in this office?

---No, as a clerk in this office is on vacation, I’m just ____ here for about a week.

A．hanging out       B．working out

C．turning out    D．helping out

Though ____ the dangers of smoking to their health, smokers still find it hard to give up smoking.

A．aware              B．aware of    C．are aware of      D．be aware of

_____unemployment and crime are high, it can be assumed that the latter is due to the former.

A．Before           B. Where       C．Unless            D．Until

The new schoolbags and books _____by some warmhearted people arrived at the village school the day before yesterday.

A．to be donated  B．donating         C.  being donated   D.  donated

---Did he say something in the lecture that ______you?

----Not really, Actually I felt sleepy over his speech.

A．adjust to     B．attached to

C．appealed to      D．referred to