III. Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence.
1. In the past, the trip...................very rough and often dangerous, but things..........a great deal in the last hundred and fifty years.
2. Why did Tom keep making jokes about me? – I don’t enjoy........................at.
3. If we took the 10:30 train, ....................................
4. ...................then what I know today, I would have saved myself a lot of time and trouble over the years.
5. They told their parents that they ..................... their best to do the test.
6. Melanie was the only person .................. a letter of thanks.
7. I wonder who drank all the milk yesterday. It can’t have been Susan ................ she was out all day.
8. “Main Market is a nice place.”
“They have ............ we recommend it to all our friends.”
9. In spite .................., the basketball game is not cancelled.
10. He advised me to take an English course. I ................ it early.
11. He was so ................ that he had an accident.
12. Would you mind ...................... me how .............. the lift?
13. Thanks ............... the inventions .................. labor-saving devices, women have more free time to take part ............ social work.
14. We ........... have gone away if we had enough money.
15. Tommy and Mary were mischievous children. They ........ tricks on their teachers, which always got them into alot of trouble.
