[单项选择]The outcome of the football match was not as what we had_________ .
A. expanded
B. expensed
C. expired
D. expected

[单项选择]Why was the football match called off
A. held up
B. put off
C. ended
D. cancelled

[单项选择]The football match is scheduled to be televised ______.
A. live B. lively C. alive D. life

[单项选择]Trouble was expected at the football match, so the police had to be there （）
A. in plenty
B. in full
C. in number
D. in force

[单项选择]I don’t want to watch the football match. Can you __________ Channel 9
A. change in
B. change over
C. change to
D. change into

[单项选择]There ______ a football match next Wednesday.
A. will have
B. will be
C. is having
D. will give

[单项选择]The football match was televised ______ from the worker's stadium.
A. alive
B. alike
C. lively
D. live

[单项选择]The speech which he made ______ the football match bored a lot of fans to death.
A. being concerned
B. be concerned
C. concerned
D. concerning

[单项选择]Five minutes left, the outcome of the match was still in doubt.
A. result
B. judgment
C. decision
D. event

[单项选择]I ______ to watch the football match yesterday, but I could not get a ticket.
A) would hope C) had hoped
B) was hoping D) hoped


A. I ______ to watch the football match yesterday, but I could not get a ticket.
B. would hope
C. was hoping
D. had hoped
E. hoped

[填空题]Weather______(permit)，the football match will be played on Wednesday.

[单项选择]I wanted to go to the football match, so I ______ from the office. Unfortunately, the boss found out and told me to get his permission in future.

[单项选择]Who won the World Cup 1994 football game What happened in the United Nations How did the critics like the new play Just (1) an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets to (2) the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to (3) the news.
Newspapers have one basic (4) , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (5) it. Radio, telegraph, television, and (6) inventions brought competition for newspapers. (7) did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (8) , this competition merely spurred the newspapers (9) . They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (10) and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are (11) and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch ou
A. accordance
B. terms
C. according
D. means