Thanks to the timely treatment, the patient _______ people all thought would die slowly recovered.

There is an obvious _______ between children spending too much time playing computer games and their bad grades at school.

A. possibility               B. connection       C. chance                      D. cause

Looking at a situation in a new way will make _______ easier to find new solutions.

A. us           B. this                       C. one               D. it

_______ you don’t have much experience in this field, why don’t you ask Professor Wang for advice?

Mary _______ be in the hospital. I saw her play basketball a minute ago.

— How is everything going?

— It couldn’t be _______, for I lost my wallet this morning.

A. worse         B. bad                  C. good             D. better

Can you recommend a novel that is _______reading to me?

A.worthy         B.worthy of        C.worth         D.worth of

The criminals were _______ with breaking into the civilians’houses.

A. congested       B. charged         C. called         D. arrested

—Have you been wasting time on computer games again?

—        . I’ve been studying a lot and I need a break.

A. Not really       B. No way        C. I don’t agree   D. I couldn’t agree more