59. On New Year’s Eve,New York City holds an outdoor _______ which attracts a crowd of a million or more people.
A) incident B) event C) case D) affair

60. American football and baseball are becoming known to the British public through televised _______ from the United States.
A) transfer B) d, eliveries C) transportation D) transmissions

61. He will surely finish the job on time _______ he’s left to do it in his own way.
A) in that B) so long as C) in case D) as far as

62. If this kind of fish becomes _______, future generations may never taste it at all.
A) minimum B) short C) seldom D) scarce

63. The bank is reported in the local newspaper _______ in broad daylight yesterday.
A) being robbed B) having been robbed
C) to have been robbed D) robbed

64. Agriculture was a step in human progress _______ which subsequently there was not anything comparable until our own
machine age.
A) in B) for C) to D) from

65. The same factors push wages and prices up together, the one _______ the other.
A) emphasizing B) reinforcing C) multiplying D) increasing

66. No one had told Smith about _______ a lecture the following day.
A) there being B) there be C) there would be D) there was

67. Operations which left patients _____ and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and
comfortable.
A) exhausted B) abandoned C) injured D) deserted

68. I was halfway back to the cottage where my mother lived ______ Susan caught up with me.
A) when B) while C) until D) though

69. _______ the temperature falling so rapidly, we couldn’t go on with the experiment.
A) Since B) For C) As D) With

70. The bed has been _______ in the family.It was my great-grandmother’s originally.
A) handed out B) handed over C) handed down D) handed round