(   )12. Steve used to be quiet, but now he is      .

      A. outgoing B. more quickly  C. noisy  D. quieter

(   )11. My grandfather     us stories when I was young.

A. was used to tell       B. is used to telling 

C. used to tell           D. used to telling

(   )10. Jane is so shy that she is afraid of       in front of a group.

      A. speak   B. speaks   C. spoke   D. speaking

(   )9. If you don’t know how to spell a new word, you’d better      .

A. look up a dictionary   B. look up an dictionary

      C. look it up in a dictionary  D. look it up in

(   )8. It is impolite to       those persons in trouble.

     A. laugh to  B. laugh with C. laugh of   D. laugh at

(   )7. When we practice speaking English, we often end up       in Chinese.

      A. to speak  B. speaking  C. spoken   D. speak

(   )6. Jack likes playing     soccer, but he doesn’t like playing       piano.

      A. /, /   B. the. /   C. the, the   D. /, the

(   )5. All of us were       at the       news.

      A. frustrating, frustrating B. frustrating, frustrated  

C. frustrated, frustrating D. frustrated, frustrated

(   )4.       seems that Jane has known the bad news.

      A. She   B. It   C. This   D. That

(   )3. I got an A this term, so my teacher was      .

      A. to impress   B. impress 

 C. impressing   D. impressed