26. The college students urged that the library ______ open during the winter holidays. A. keeps B. was keeping C. was kept D. be kept 27. This kind of training seems ______ helpless; it proves, in fact, very worthwhile. A. anything but B. no more C. all but D. nothing but 28. By the time Jane gets home, her uncle ______ for London to attend a meeting. A. will leave B. will have left C. had left D. leaves 29. For most Americans, their 18th birthday ______ the end of one part of their life and the beginning of another. A. predicts B. tells C. marks D. signs 30. —Pardon me, Sir, is it time for us to set off now? —______. We’ll have to wait for another two hours. A. Certainly, it is B. That’s all right C. Sorry, I am afraid not D. Sorry, it’s too long 31. The good situation came at last ______ we had been expecting in the past two years. A. where B. that C. when D. in which 32. —How did it ______ that he knew where we were? —Maybe he had been following us. A. come about B. come across C. come off D. come round |