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PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) d%EUr9~?
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. 3=
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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. 8NUVHcB6
A. Way Ed>Dhy6\r
B. view O^L#(8bC
C. vision X9S`#N
D. pursuit cU[^[;4J<
3. If I could ensue a reasonably quick and comprehensive solution to the crisis in oZ!1^o3V
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A. Instant en?J#fz
B: Inverse FD*)@4<o
C. Insoluble ;WqWD-C
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. ..=WG@>$+
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. f7y3BWOi]
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. iKVJ
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." p\).zuEf.
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience O+w82!<:
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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. "+sl(A3`U
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. ,u@Vi0
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. 'Z}3XVZEN
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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. S(ky:
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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. 6^VP
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. wmDO^}>ZP
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15. As the core of the management hoard, he can always come up with ______ ideas to promote the corporation's marketing strategies. ;km
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. +[2ep"5H
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. ,B1
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. L>&9+<-B
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. I~Q
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. #z =$*\u
PART II CLOZE TEST (15 minutes, 15 points) r2m&z%N&
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There is a closer relationship between morals and architecture and interior decoration______21, we suspect. Huxley has pointed out that Western ladies did not take frequent baths ______22 they were afraid to see their own naked bodies, and this moral concept delayed the______23 of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand, ______24 in the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little consideration for human______ 25 only when we realize the Confucian atmosphere in which people moved about. Chinese redwood Furniture was designed for people to sit______26 in, because that was the only posture approved by society. t!\B6!Fo
Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a (n) ______27 on which I would not think of______28 for more than five minutes, and for that matter the English kings were just as badly off. Cleopatra went about______29 on a couch carried by servants, because______30 she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have struck her shins with a stick, as he did______31 one of his old disciples, Yuan Jiang, when the latter was found sitting in an______32 posture. In the Confucian society in which we lived, gentlemen and ladies had to______33 themselves perfectly erect, at least on formal______34 , and any sign of putting one's leg up would be at once considered a sign of vulgarity and lack of______35. uj@d {AQ
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PART III READING COMPREHENSION M_-L#FHX
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Section A (60 minutes, 30 points) &xhwOgI