---Do you mind my smoking here?

 --- __________. Look at the sign! It says, "No smoking!"

  A. Never mind.     B. Of course.       C. You'd better not.   D. No, I don't. 

This book will show you ________ can be used in other contexts.

A. how you have observed            B. how what you have observed

C. that you have observed           D. how that you have observed

Great changes have taken place in that school. It is no longer ___ it was 20 years ago, ___ it was so poorly equipped. 

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

Please put on more clothes. It is ___ that it will be a bit colder this afternoon.

  A. likely             B. sure             C. certainly    D. perhaps

The poor man stood there, with his hands ____, ____ his eyes upon the dark cave.

  A. crossed, fixing   B. crossing, fixing  C. crossed, fixed   D. crossing, fixed

---Mary looks down today. What is up?

   ---Well, ____ happened between Mary and me is none of your business.

  A. wherever       B. whoever         C. whatever      D. no matter what

As the life they were used to _____ changed by the terrible earthquake, the people in the earthquake-stricken area are doing all they can ______ their new life.

A. have now been, build       B. having now been, to build

C. has now been, to build      D. is now, build

____was expected, only five people turned up at the party, ___disappointed the hostess very much.

  A. As, which      B. As, that       C. It, that       D. It, which

___, all the quarrels came to an end.

   A. The lost money was found          B. Was the lost money found

   C. Because the lost money found      D. The lost money found

Alone in a deserted house, he was so busy with his research work that he felt ___but lonely.

   A. nothing   B. anything  C. all  D. everything