A. more

B. very

C. quite

D. even

15. If you drink too much, your health will get even ______.

A. bad

B. poor

C. worse

D. not well

16. No sooner ______ his speech than a young woman stood up to ask a question.

A. the chairman finished

B. did the chairman finish

C. the chairman had finished

D. had the chairman finished

17. No sooner ______ the question than the answer came to him.

A. had he asked

B. he had asked

C. did he ask

D. he asked

18. The student doesn’t work ______ he used to.

A. so hard as

B. so harder than

C. as harder as

D. as hard like

19. I pulled the handle ______ I could.

A. so hardly as

B. as hardly as

C. so hard as

D. as hard as

20. The new model costs twice ____ last year’s.

A. more than

B. as much as

C. as many as

D. than

21. The more he tried to please her, ____ she seemed to appreciate it.

A. less

B. lesser

C. the less

D. the lesser

22. The trousers are ______, but Tom does not care a bit.

A. too a little small

B. a little too small

C. a too little small

D. a small too little

23. Although the medicine tastes ______, it seems to help my condition.

A. bad

B. badly

C. too much bad

D. too badly

24. When she got her first month salary, Diana bought herself ______ dress.

A. a cotton, blue, expensive

B. an expensive, blue, cotton

C. a blue, expensive, cotton

D. a cotton, expensive, blue

25. It is ______ that I would like to go to the beach.

A. so nice weather

B. such nice weather

C. so nice a weather

D. such a nice weather

26. If you get a monkey’s skin and put it on, you’ll look ______like a monkey.

A. very

B. very much

C. very more

D. more much

27. The jacket doesn’t fit Terry, as he has ______ huge body and the jacket is ______ small.

A. such a , such

B. such a , so

C. so, so

D. so, such a

28. There must be something ______ with the machine.

A. wrong serious

B. serious wrong

C. seriously wrong

D. wrong seriously

29. That is the ______ interesting book that I’ve read this year.

A. few

B. less

C. lesser

D. least

30. Of the two compositions, the first one was ______.

A. the better

B. the best

C. best

D. better