1 . The reason ____________ he hasn’t come is ___________.

A．that; because he is ill

B．that; because of his illness

C．why; for he is ill

D．why; that he is ill

2 . I don’t know the reason       you were absent from the meeting.

A．that

B．because

C．which

D．why

3 . Is this the reason _______ he was late for the meeting?

A．why

B．when

C．where

D．what

4 . The reason _______ he felt frustrated was ______ he lost his MP4.

A．why/that

B．that/why

C．why/because

D．that / because

5 . The reason ____ he was late for school was _____he had to send his mother to a hospital.

A．that; why

B．why; because

C．why; that

D．that; because

6 . The reason _____ he refused to attend the meeting was that they didn’t give him an invitation earlier.

A．how

B．which

C．why

D．because

7 . I don’t know the reason ________ you were absent from the meeting, but I’m sure someone will tell me the reason ________ you haven’t told me.

A．why; that	B．that; why
C．Because; which	D．of which; that

8 . Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact     1    she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished    2    a driving mistake.
Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without     3    （stop).
When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason     4    she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak     5    old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished     6    he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she     7    choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.
When she had     8    （success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts     9    your eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary     10    (dismiss解雇), and her record remained unbroken.