52. The workers produced more steel, and all of fine quality _____.
A) at it
B) at this
C) for that
D) at that
53. The thing that _____ is not whether you succeed or fail, but that you at least try.
A) minds
B) cares
C) matters
D) plays
54. We _____ down when she _____ plates of food for us.
A) had hardly sat, had brought
B) hardly sat, brought
C) hardly sat, had brought
D) had hardly sat, brought
55. _____ the silkworm produces a fluid internally and then forces it out through tiny holes in its body.
A) It makes silk and
B) Making silk
C) To make silk
D) Silk is made by
56. _____, we went swimming.
A) The day being hot
B) It was a hot day
C) Being a hot day
D) Owing to a hot day
57. _____ in a recent science competition, three individuals were awarded scholarships totaling '36,000.
A) Judged the best
B) Judging for the best
C) Judging the best
D) Having judged the best
58. Some days go by much more quickly than others. Some hours as if they _____.
A) would never end
B) should never end
C) will never end
D) might never end
59. John would never have gone to the hospital _____ that Tom would be there, too.
A) he did not know
B) if had he known
C) had he known
D) he would have known
60. _____ he suggested was the sharing of the cost among all the five.
A) That
B) Which
C) What
D) Whatever
61. The village _____ my mother grew up in is not far from the city.
A) what
B) where
C) which