“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence in an American friend’s e-mail, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect ___36___ of Chinglish.

  Obviously, it is a word―for―word literal translation of the Chinese greeting with ___37___ English grammar and structure. Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American ___38____. I was too amazed to believe her. Her words could not ___39___ me at all. So I did a ____40___ on www.google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages ___41___ “Long time no see”. This sentence has been ____42___ used in e-mails, letters, newspapers, books, and all other possible places. Though it is ____43____ informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily. ____44___, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the ____45___ will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

   Nobody knows the ___46___ of this sentence. Some people believe that it comes from Charlie Chan movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully ____47___ a world famous Chinese detective named Charlie Chan on the wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans Chinese wisdom____48___ quoting Confucius (). “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after the first Charlie Chan movie was released, “long time no see” became a (n) ____49___ phrase in the real world ____50___ the popularity of these movies.

   Some people ____51___ America to a huge melting pot. All kinds of cultures are ____52___ in the pot, so the color and taste of them all is ____53___. Chinese Americans, though a minority ethnic group in the United States, also ____54___ to these changes! Language is usually the first thing to be ____55___ in the melting pot.

--Waiter!

--________

--One more coffee, please.

  A. What?           B. Yes, sir?         C. All right?          D. Pardon?

______ is reported in the newspapers, talks between the two countries are making progress.

  A. It               B. As              C. Which              D. What

 I wonder who was the last ______ the classroom yesterday.

  A. leaving           B. left              C. to leave           D. leave

What he has written in Book Two is the same as _______ written in Book One.

  A. it               B. one            C. that              D. those

 My teacher told me that 70% of the surface of the earth _______ covered with water.

  A. was             B. were            C. has been          D. is

The villager didn’t want to sell the vegetables for _______ he thought was not enough.

  A. what             B. which           C. that           D. how

Kite made of paper ______ easily in the weather with rain and strong wind in the sky.

  A. is torn           B. tears            C. is being torn        D. tear

It will take us about an hour to get to the airport, _______ possible traffic delay.

  A. allowed for       B. allowing        C. allowed           D. allowing for

The desks and chairs in the lab can be _______ to the height of any child.

  A. arranged         B. admitted         C. allowed           D. adjusted