He didn't _____ what I read because his mind was on something else.

　　A. hold on    B. catch on    C. take in    D. get over

Our Party has always devoted great attention to raising the living _____ of the working people.

　　A. cost    B. situation    C. level    D. standard

The storm sweeping over this area now is sure to cause _____ of vegetables in the coming days.

　　A. rarity   B. scarcity  C. invalidity  D. variety

Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, if not more expensive than, _____ at the other store.

　　A. anyone    B. the others    C. that    D. the ones

There are three basic ways of _____ language to writing, and all known graphic systems use one or a combination of these.

　　A. committing  B. attaching  C. comparing  D. relating

High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

　　A. discourage   B. decrease   C. disturb   D. disgust

The man we followed suddenly stopped ad looked as if______whether he was going I the right direction.

A. seeing         B. having seen      C. to have see    D. to see

You must keep the news a secret and don’t put it ______ anybody else.

 A. in possession of   B. in the possession of   C. in charge of       D. in the charge of

My brother was still studying______into the night while I was_________asleep.

  A. late; sound      B. lately; wide   C. deeply; far      D. far; far

It is partly _____ the summer day is longer that everything has a larger time to warm up.

A. for   B. that    C. the reason    D. because