PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) NY
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. N<1u,[+
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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. 7e[3Pu_/X
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. L'(ei7 Z
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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. f/"? (7F
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. eMT}"u8$A
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. {zNF p#z
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. ]DJ] L=T7
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. p E56CM
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. >XU93 )CX
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it.
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