1. If you sleep less than 7 hours, you are three times            to catch a cold.

  A. possible                B. certainly                   C. probable                   D. likely

2. Having been left in the kitchen for several days, the watermelon          .

  A. went good            B. went bad                  C. went badly               D. went worse

3. Being poor, he couldn’t          to buy the house.

  A. effect                   B. affect                       C. afford                      D. appoint

4. ―The cars give off a great deal of waste gas into the streets.

  ―Yes. But I’m sure something must be done to    air pollution.

  A. reduce                  B. remove                    C. collect                    D. increase

5. Rather than         everything to the last minute, he always prefers           early.

  A. leave; start            B. leaving; start             C. leave; to start          D. to leave; starting

6. I’m moving to the countryside because the air there is much fresher than           in the city.

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

7. The notice came around two in the afternoon          the meeting would be postponed.

  A. when                    B. that                        C. whether                    D. how

8.          his composition carefully, he will find some spelling mistakes.

  A. If he check           B. If he will check     C. If checking        D. If to check