I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase (A, B, C or D) to complete each sentence.
1. My parents ........ they will move to the seaside when my father retires next year.
2. I couldn't resist reading the book even ....... I was very sleepy.
3. ......... that the hope for cancer control may lie in the use of vaccine.
4. I went to ........ some pictures by a new painter the other day.
5. My roommate's handwriting was very bad, so he had me ........ his paper for him last night.
6. The book is so interesting that I can't ........ .
7. Would you be ........ to hold the door open?
8. What do you mean, he's watching television? He's ........ to be washing the car.
9. Children are ........ in watching cartoon films.
10. The ........ thing about travelling by train rather than by car is that you can sleep or read during the journey.
11. I wonder who drank all the milk yesterday. It ........ have been Jane because she was out all day.
12. Books in the home are a wonderful ....... of knowledge and pleasure.
13. Reviewers describe books ....... "hard-to-put-down", or "hard-to-pick-up-again".
14. Books are still a cheap ........ to get knowledge and entertainment.
15. A fine tomb, .........., marks the grave of the poet Chaucer.
