2.It looks ____ a stone.
  3.____ you know, he got into lots of bad habits.
  4.You are just ____ what I expected.
  5.He ought to do ____ I tell him.
13. a number of / the number of
  1.There were _____ people out this afternoon.
  2.Do you write down _____ my telephone?
  3._____ of trees planted is never under 200 in our village every year.
  4.We have lived here _____ years.
  5._____ of jobless people grow in the country at present.
14. get( be ) ready / prepare / prepare for
  1.Mother is busy _____ us lunch in the kitchen.
  2.The doctor told the nurses to ____ the operation at once.
  3.We all ____ to do anything for the people.
  4.Will you help me ____ the party?
  5.Please _____ by seven tomorrow morning.
15. ever before/ ever since/ ever after
  1.The flowers grew more beautiful than_____
  2.I haven’t written home_____ Christmas.
  3.i have known here _____ she was a baby.
  4. They lived happily _____.
  5. I lost my money and I have been worried ____.
16. information/ news/ message
  1. I have a ____ for you from my teacher.
  2.There is much new ____ in this book.
  3.They were listening to the ____ over the radio
  4.Will you take this ____ to your brother ?.
  5.They have no _____ about where she has gone.
17. complete/ finish / end
  1.The term will _____ in July
  2.When can you _____ reading this novel?
  3.They haven’t ____ the house yet.
  4.They ____ the evening with a few songs.
  5.We started off immediately after we had __ our lunch.
18. the same… as / the same… that
  1.The girl has ___ hair ___ her mother had.
  2.He was about ___ age ____ Tom.
  3.China is not ____ the country ____ she was.
  4.The computer costs ______ mine.
  5.He teaches English in the ____ school _____ my brother does
19. learn/ study
  1.She is ____ to drive a car.
  2.The subject he ____ was chemistry.
  3.Why don’t you _____ from my mistakes?
  4.- What is he ___here? – Law. He is a law student.
  5.The old and the young should __from each other.
20. but/ however/ while
  1.I like the film, _____ I have no time to see it.
  2. It’s raining hard. ____ , I think we should go out.
  3. He said that it was so; he was mistaken _____.
  4. ____ I’m not going to argue with you tonight.
  5. She listened to me closely ____ he read something.
21. remaining / left
  1.There’re no books ____ in the room.
  2. You may have the ____ ones.
  3. There is but one chance _____.
  4. He used his _____ one dollar and twenty cents to buy her a comb.
  5. It’s about the only thing ____ for me to do.
22. center/ middle
  1. Point O is the _____ of the circle.
  2. There is a double writing table in the ____ of the room.
  3. She likes to be ____ of attention all the time.
  4. Chile lies in the ___ America and Iraq is in the ___ East.
  5. After that I walked around the ___ of the town.