5. Though we all think the plan should be changed, the manager still ___ his own ideas.
139. habit/ custom
1. He has a ____ of getting up early.
2. It is the ___ with Japanese to bow when they meet their acquaintances.
3. Smoking isn’t a ____ with me.
4. Don’t be a slave to ____.
5. He never read them, for he had long lost the ___ of reading.
140. hardly/ almost no/ almost not
1. He is ____ always late for the meeting.
2. ____ nobody believed his story.
3. There was ___ a cloud in the sky in the morning.
4. ____ does he know about it.
5. He was ____ run over by a car.
141. speak of/ speak about
1. They were ___ their boss.
2. You mustn’t ____ it.
3. Think the matter over, and we’ll ____ it in the morning.
4. I’ve never ___ the things to any human being.
5. The book ____ the writer’s childhood.
142. used to do sth/would
1. On Sundays he ____ go to the countryside to work with the peasants.
2. Sometimes the old man ____ sit sown on a chair in the park for hors
3. My little brother ____ like the picture-books.
4. Xiao Li ____ be a model worker. He is now a university student.
5. He said he ____ sit up at night.
143. start / begin
1. The child ____ to cry.
2. She is ____ to cook the dinner.
3. We ____ for Shanghai tomorrow.
4. How do you ____ the washing machine?
5. The car won’t ____.
144. far away/ faraway
1. Now the computer touches the lives of everyone, even people in ___ villages.
2. The factory where his cousin works is __.
3. His uncle worked in a town ____.
4. It is said that the famous doctor lives ___ from the town.
5. The university isn’t so ___ from here.
145. far / a long way
1. We walked ____.
2. I live ___ from the center of town.
3. How __ did you walk?
4. You’ve gone too ___.
5. I haven’t had any problems so ___.
146. still/ quiet/ silent
1. He lived in a ___ town neat the sea.
2. He is ___ about that.
3. The strong man stood there ___, even a hard push couldn’t make him move.
4. How ___ everything is! There’s not a sound to be heard.
5. The shades of evening had by this time fallen upon the ___ city.
147. get tired/ be tired of
1. The old man ____ after a ling walk.
2. I ___ boiled eggs.
3. You’ll ___ him.
4. I ___ it. But my mother expects me to stay here a little longer.
5. They ____ listening to his complains.
148. congratulate/ celebrate
1. We ___ the New Year with a party.
2. I ___ you on your success.
3. He ___ us on getting married.
4. The whole country ___ the return on Macao.
5. His contributions were ___ by poets.
149. persuade/ advise
1. I tried to __ my father to give up smoking, but in vain.
2. I ____ my father to give up smoking, but in vain.
3. He wanted to ___ his wife to see his cousin, but failed.
4. He ___ that they should start at once.
5. Finally she ___ him into going to the hospital
