57 _______ difficulties we may come across, we’ll help one another to overcome them.
A) Wherever B) Whatever
C) However D) Whenever
58 So many directors _______, the board meeting had to be put off.
A) were absent B) been absent
C) had been absent D) being absent
59 On New Year’s Eve, New York City holds an outdoor _______ which attracts a crowd of a million or more people.
A) incident B) event
C) case D) affair
60 American football and baseball are becoming known to the British public through televised _______ from the United States.
A) transfer B) deliveries
C) transportation D) transmissions
61 He will surely finished the job on time _______ he’s left to do it in his own way.
A) in that B) so long as
C) in case D) as far as
62 If this kind of fish becomes _______, future generations may never taste it at all.
A) minimum B) short
C) seldom D) scarce
63 The bank is reported in the local newspaper _______ in broad daylight yesterday.
A) being robbed B) having been robbed
C) to have been robbed D) robbed
64 Agriculture was a step in human progress _______ which subsequently there was not anything comparable until our own machine age.
A) in B) for
C) to D) from
65 The same factors push wages and prices u together, the one _______ the other.
A) emphasizing B) reinforcing
C) multiplying D) increasing
66 No one had told Smith about _______ a lecture the following day.
A) there being B) there be
C) there would be D) there was
67 Operations which left patients _______ and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable.
A) exhausted B) abandoned
C) injured D) deserted
68 I was halfway back to the cottage where my mother lived ___ Susan caught up with me.
A) when B) while
C) until D) though
69 _______ the temperature falling so rapidly, we couldn’t go on with the experiment.
A) Since B) For
C) As D) With
70 The bed has been _______ in the family. It was my great-grandmother’s originally.
A) handed out B) handed over
C) handed down D) handed round