--- Are you returning to your hometown this winter holiday?

---- Yes. By the way, have you any message ____ to your family?

  A. taken                 B. to take               C. to be taken      D. taking

 As the Spring Festival is drawing____, people are getting busier and busier.

  A. near                         B. closely                  C. back              D. far

____the fact that she is still young, she is a remarkable fast runner.

  A. Give                   B. Given              C. Giving            D. Gave

The argument remains extremely heated ____it is worthwhile for China to open its door to foreign cars.

  A. that                    B. which             C. if                    D. whether

---What do you think of Andrew?

----There are some things that are not easy to ____, and this coldness is one.

  A. put aside            B. get along with    C. think of         D. put up with

You can do it ____you like; it really doesn’t matter.

  A. whatever                  B. however            C. whoever         D. whichever

On ____ the flight would be delayed, we made other arrangement.

  A. being informed        B. informed            C. informing     D. having informed

As the popular saying____, “Laugh and the whole world laugh with you. Cry and you cry alone.”

  A. speaks                B. goes               C. tells                D. talks

--What has happened _______ you so excited?

---Yes, nothing could be funnier.

A. made                  B. to make           C. making           D. makes

---- Aren’t you cold?

----____. I’m boiling.

  A. Take it easy.       B. That’s all right.   C. Not a little.    D. Far from it.