PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) c|wCKn}`
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. 2?i\@r@E|
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D: anxiously i|2$8G3
2. In fear for their lives and in ______of their freedom, thousands of enslaved women and children fled to the Northern States on the eve of the American Civil War. ^/KfH &E
A. Way ^JhFI*
B. view ,zgNE*{Y"4
C. vision oW'PO Ar
D. pursuit 5}< [[}(
3. If I could ensue a reasonably quick and comprehensive solution to the crisis in 'XfgBJ F=
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. _ @prm Sc
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B. ponder ##~!M(c
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. G.ud1,S#
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. `cO|RhD @
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." CXa Ld7nMX
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience =SL^>HS.fo
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9. Whatever the questions he really wanted to ask at the reprocessing plant, though, he would never allow his personal feelings to ______ with an assignment. /gX%ABmS
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. v'$yk Z!Z
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. .;j"+Ef
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D. hostile WE7>?H*Ro
12. Some of the words employed by Shakespeare in his works have become______ and are no longer used in the present days. VJGwd`qo*A
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C. obvious nWd:>Ur
D. oblique $F<%Jl7_Z
13. One of the main ways to stay out of trouble with government agents is to keep a law______ away from those situations wherein you call attention to yourself. 9B&
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. #V,LNX)
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C. sentimental iz,]%<_PE
D. potential 5R& x{jf$
15. As the core of the management hoard, he can always come up with ______ ideas to promote the corporation's marketing strategies. :LU"5g
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B. instinctive {H/8#y4qp&
C. intangible <aD'$(N5
D. ingenious {(8U8f<'=y
l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint.
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D. out of tune ]t8 {)r
17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. $1:}(nO,
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B. asks for [1t\|v
C. consists of oHv{Y
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. ahK?]:&QO
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. My'9S2Y8nv
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C. inside and out [u!p-
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. ?0 KiR?
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