272. Because of the role he played in freeing the African-American from slavery, Abraham Lincoln is ______ as one of the _______ of all American presidents .

260. The lazy boy pretended ______ homework when his parents came to check him.

249. Weather _____, we’ll go boating in the West Lake tomorrow.

248. --- How do you plan to spend this weekend?
--- I’d like to listen to the music _______ by Li Ming.
perform                 B. performing               C. performed             D. to perform

227. It is necessary that the question _______ at once.

223. It was so       a story that quite a few children were __________to tears.

221. John complained(埋怨) to the bookseller that there were several pages      in the dictionary.

197. A       candle was on the table. It________up the small room.

174. An American Indian was badly _______ in the road accident, and now she is still in hospital.

173. I can hardly imagine Peter _______ across the Atlantic Ocean in five days.