53. Foreign mutton is _____ to home-grown in flavor.
A. worse
B. indifferent
C. inferior
D. subordinate
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54. I _____ work last week, but I changed my mind.
A. were to start
B. was to start
C. was to have started
D. had started
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55. The children went there to watch the iron tower _____.
A. to erect
B. be erected
C. erecting
D. being erected
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56. After the Arab states won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys _____ to go to school.
A. to be encouraged
B. been encouraged
C. being encouraged
D. be encouraged
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57. _____ such a good chance, he planned to learn more.
A. To be given
B. Having been given
C. Having given
D. Giving
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58. -- Has Mary finished writing his article?
-- No, and it _____ two days ago.
A. should be finished
B. should finish
C. should have finished
D. ought to have been finished
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59. I had better _____ the problem.
A. leave them to settle
B. to leave them to settle
C. to leave them settling
D. leave them settling
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60. _____ it is necessary to study the proposals for several more months before making a decision is to be debated.
A. Whether
B. If
C. What
D. That
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61. _____ is well-known to all, too much stress can cause disease.
A. Which
B. It
C. That
D. As
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62. _____ to speak when the audience interrupted him.
A. Hardly had he begun
B. No sooner had he begun
C. Not until he begun
D. Scarcely did he begun
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63. As is generally agreed, a family without love is not _____ a family as a body without soul in a man.
A. such
B. as much of
C. so much of
D. much of
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64. _____, I couldn't understand what is meant by that.
A. As I try hard
B. Hard as I might try
C. I might try hard
D. I tried hard
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65. "What will you be doing tomorrow evening?"    "_____ the students' papers."
A. Correcting
B. Will be correcting
C. To correct
D. Will correct
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