Just as the soul is a part of the earth, ___ the atmosphere.

A. as it is
B. the same is
C. so is
D. and so is

I have ___ interesting books on natural science.

A. much
B. a lot
C. many a great
D. a great many

___ I accept that he is not perfect in many respects, I do actually quite like him.

And
B. While
C. Either
D. As

It is impossible for people to avoid ___ by advertisements in a modern society.

A. being influenced
B. to influence
C. to be influenced
D. influenced

In spite of my poor English, I managed to make myself ___ .

A. to be understood
B. understand
C. being understood
D. understood

Tom and John have arrived, but ___ students in the class aren’t here yet.

A. other
B. the others
C. others
D. the other

Ten years had elapsed. I found she had ___ .

A. a little white hair
B. a few white hair
C. a few white hairs
D. some white hair

“How was the movie?” “To tell you the truth, it was rather ___ .”

A. disappoint
B. being disappointed
C. disappointing
D. disappointed

Prof. Lee’s book will show you ___ you have observed can be used in other contexts..

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

choose the right word for each blank from the list given below. Make changes, if necessary.In 1837, to the age of seventeen, Florence Nightingale decided to become a nurse, 1 horrified her whimsical mother. In those days, nurses were little more than doormen, and hospitals were places of 2 and neglected. Nightingale pressed on and in 1853 she became 3 of a small London hospital. She went on to the Crimea when war broke out there 4 Britain and Russia. She 5 the first of what we now know as war hospitals: sanitary, safe, and stocked with supplies. Her tireless ministrations(照料) to the 6 soldiers made her famous all over the world. Following the war, Nightingale 7 fame and continued to train nurse, even battling 8 what she herself declared “a commonly received idea ... that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love, or incapacity in other things, to 9 a woman into a good nurse.”Since 1921, her birthday 10 the centerpiece of National Hospital Week, observed in British and American hospitals with special exhibitions, workshops, and publicity drivers.