57 _______ difficulties we may come across, we’ll help one another to overcome them.

　　A) Wherever B) Whatever

　　C) However D) Whenever

　　58 So many directors _______, the board meeting had to be put off.

　　A) were absent B) been absent

　　C) had been absent D) being absent

　　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) deliveries

　　C) transportation D) transmissions

　　61 He will surely finished 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 u 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