53. The thing that _____ is not whether you succeed or fail, but that you at least try.
A. minds
B. cares
C. matters
D. plays
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54. We _____ down when she _____ plates of food for us.
A. had hardly sat, had brought
B. hardly sat, brought
C. hardly sat, had brought
D. had hardly sat, brought
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55. _____ the silkworm produces a fluid internally and then forces it out through tiny holes in its body.
A. It makes silk and
B. Making silk
C. To make silk
D. Silk is made by
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56. _____, we went swimming.
A. The day being hot
B. It was a hot day
C. Being a hot day
D. Owing to a hot day
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57. _____ in a recent science competition, three individuals were awarded scholarships totaling '36,000.
A. Judged the best
B. Judging for the best
C. Judging the best
D. Having judged the best
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58. Some days go by much more quickly than others.    Some hours as if they _____.
A. would never end
B. should never end
C. will never end
D. might never end
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59. John would never have gone to the hospital _____ that Tom would be there, too.
A. he did not know
B. if had he known
C. had he known
D. he would have known
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60. _____ he suggested was the sharing of the cost among all the five.
A. That
B. Which
C. What
D. Whatever
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61. The village _____ my mother grew up in is not far from the city.
A. what
B. where
C. which
D. wherever
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62. Someone must have left the tap running, _____ the water was running over and flooding the bathroom.
A. therefore
B. for
C. nevertheless
D. moreover
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63. When she arrived, she found _____ the aged and the sick at home.
A. none but
B. nothing but
C. none other
D. no other than
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64. The forces of socialism are formidable.    To them _____.
A. the future belongs
B. belongs the future
C. that the future belongs
D. the future will belong
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65. Preston Blair, _____ born in Kentucky, lived and practiced law in Missouri.
A. was
B. he was
C. although
D. who he was
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