21. I suppose you couldn't let me borrow your car this evening, _____?

A. couldn't I B. don't I

C. could you D. will you

22. _____ five hundred people are believed to have drowned.

A. As many as B. As much as

C. So many as D. So much as

23. I chose a small room with the window _____ the street.

A. faces B. faced C. facing D. to face

24. _____ the rain we would have had a nice holiday.

A. But that B. Despite C. But for D. In spite of

25. "It's too bad Rhonda is moving to Arizona."

"I wish it _____ so far away."

A. weren't B. couldn't be C. won't be D. isn't

26. _____ I don't like are the long, dark nights of winter.

A. That B. What C. Which D. This

27. The receptions, _____ job was to answer the phone, had laryngitis（喉炎）.

A. whose B. who C. who's D. that

28. The suggestions put forward by the workers to improve their working conditions were _____ by the factory owner.

A. turned away B. turned down

C. turned over D. turned through

29. With apples at 25 cents a pound, we couldn't resist _____ four pounds.

A. to take B. took C. taking D. have taken

30. Well-mannered children have usually been properly _____ by their parents.

A. raised up B. borne up

C. brought up D. got up

31. Tom's father, as well as his mother, _____ in New York for a few days more.

A. asks him to stay B. asks he stays

C. ask he to stay D. asks he would stay

32. If we had known that she had planned to go abroad today, we _____ at the airport.

A. will see her off B. would have seen her off

C. would see her off D. must have seen her off

33. Living in the central Australian desert has its problems, _____obtaining water is not the least.

A. of which B. for what C. as D. whose

34. He burned all the important papers _____ that should fall into enemy's hands.

A. unless B. so C. lest of D. for fear

35. Literature and art have a great influence _____ people's ideology.

A. to B. on C. for D. onto