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【题目】To our relief, at last the opening ceremony of the sports meeting we had been looking forward to __________ on time.

A. had started

B. starting

C. started

D. being started

【答案】C

【解析】句意：使我们欣慰的是，我们期待已久的运动会开幕式终于准时开幕了。the opening ceremony 为主语，we had been looking forward to 为定语从句，修饰句子主语；空格处为句子谓语，由定语从句的时态可知，用过去时。

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【1】What can be inferred from Paragraph2?

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