PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) Xf]d. :
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. ;%9 |k U
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D: anxiously OU_gdp
2. In fear for their lives and in ______of their freedom, thousands of enslaved women and children fled to the Northern States on the eve of the American Civil War. 13=AW
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B. view '3fu
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. E6ElNgL
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B. ponder osAd1<EIC
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. i%]EEVmN
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. x2\qXN/R
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." m n X2a
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience h]} wp;Z
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9. Whatever the questions he really wanted to ask at the reprocessing plant, though, he would never allow his personal feelings to ______ with an assignment. #r\4sVg
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. ~H sJUro
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. z46~@y%k
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12. Some of the words employed by Shakespeare in his works have become______ and are no longer used in the present days. {_p_%;
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D. oblique <R=Zs[9M1
13. One of the main ways to stay out of trouble with government agents is to keep a law______ away from those situations wherein you call attention to yourself. s9DYi~/,
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. cU!vsdR3
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D. potential BuXqd[;K%
15. As the core of the management hoard, he can always come up with ______ ideas to promote the corporation's marketing strategies. 6q.Uhe_B
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D. ingenious a~y'RyA
l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. ":QZ y8f9%
A. in pace w@w(-F!%l
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C. in step @*KZ}i@._
D. out of tune &`2)V;t
17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. lA8`l> I
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D. approves of V1B5w_^>h'
l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. >(t6.=
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. - m~#Bq
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C. inside and out T1=fNF
D. now and then 1o{Mck
20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. _KAQ}G 3
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