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A:off
B:aside
C:out
D:down
The chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.
A:compelled
B:posed
C:pressed
D:tempted
Modern sonar makes it possible to ____ an underwater submarine.
A:communicate
B:sink
C:search
D:locate
It may be necessary to stop ______in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.
A:at case
B:at length
C:at intervals
D:at a distance
____ the success of the product depends on its good quality.
A:Objectively
B:Ultimately
C:Absolutely
D:Relatively
She hit the chair and ____ the coffee.
A:spoiled
B:poured
C:spilled
D:splashed
_________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.
A:Although he is a socialist
B:Even if he is a socialist
C:Being a socialist
D:Since he is a socialist
Equipment not______ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.
A:conforming to
B:consistent with
C:predominant over
D:providing for
He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.
A:accord
B:assist
C:confirm
D:comply
His contribution to the program was ____ because 99 percent of the work was completed by his colleagues.
A:invisible
B:negligible
C:appreciable
D:considerable
Each individual is requested to state the ____ on which his judgments are based.
A:requirements
B:measures
C:legislations
D:criteria
To speed up the ______of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.
A:treatment
B:transmission
C:departure
D:delivery
He is planning another tour abroad ,yet his passport will ______ at the end of this month.
A:expire
B:exceed
C:terminate
D:cease
Mr. Smith had an unusual _______ : he was first an office clerk , then a sailor , and ended up as a school teacher.
A:profession
B:occupation
C:position
D:career
The students showed ____when solving the difficult maths problems.
A:validity
B:purity
C:ingenuity
D:reliability
Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance in the atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very ____.
A:disputed
B:discarded
C:dismissed
D:distorted
Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.
A:them
B:/
C:it
D:theirs
A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.
A:automatic
B:deliberate
C:beneficial
D:customary
I don’t know if the story is true, but I’ll try to ____ it.
A:verify
B:reinforce
C:identify
D:conform
The meaning of this poem is very ____; I really do not understand it.
A:conspicuous
B:intelligible
C:obscure
D:dim
The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once______ .
A:thrived
B:swelled
C:prospered
D:flourished
The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________too much work last week.
A:take away
B:take out
C:take to
D:take on
To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming ____.
A:sensational
B:sensitive
C:sentimental
D:sensible
For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost______ as microorganisms.
A:precisely
B:instantly
C:initially
D:exclusively
The bank refused to ______him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.
A:loan
B:borrow
C:lease
D:credit
Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have
to install _________ solar heating device in our home.
A:some type of
B:some types of a
C:some type of a
D:some types of
I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemed to have
____.
A:vapoured
B:vanished
C:vibrated
D:reduced
Some people believe that since oil is scarce, the ____of the motor industry is uncertain.
A:estimate
B:terminal
C:fate
D:benefit
The more a nation‘s companies _______factories abroad, the smaller that country‘s recorded exports will be.
A:lie
B:locate
C:spot
D:stand
At first, the _____ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible ,but , with the painstaking efforts and at great expense ,it became a reality.
A:transaction
B:transmission
C:transformation
D:transition
I saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.
A:concentration
B:endeavor
C:tolerance
D:absorption
Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.
A:displacement
B:elimination
C:exclusion
D:exception
A square is a flat area having four sides, any adjacent two sides of which ____ a right angle.
A:make
B:advocate
C:adjoin
D:shape
As he failed to win the first prize in the badminton match, he had to ____ the second.
A:settle in
B:settle for
C:settle up
D:settle with
The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.
A:objected having
B:were objected to having
C:objected to have
D:objected to having
Mr.Smith asked his secretary to ______a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.
A:invade
B:install
C:insert
D:inject
If you know what the trouble is, why don’t you help them to ________ the situation?
A:simplify
B:modify
C:verify
D:rectify
The defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ______of the murder committed last month.
A:witnesses
B:audiences
C:viewers
D:observers
I can’t ________ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.
A:figure out
B:draw out
C:look out
D:work out
You don’t have to install this radio in your new car . It’s an _______ extra.
A:excessive
B:optional
C:additional
D:arbitrary
If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise
you much better than I can.
A:would be
B:will have been
C:was
D:were
Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could _____ .
A:descend
B:decline
C:deteriorate
D:depress
James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.
A:will come
B:was coming
C:had been coming
D:came
I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.
A:something but
B:anything but
C:nothing but
D:not but
The local people were joyfully surprised to find the price of vegetables no longer ______ according to the weather.
A:altered
B:converted
C:fluctuated
D:modified
These overseas students show great ______ for learning a new language.
A:faith
B:authority
C:enthusiasm
D:convention
The party will ____their leader very determinedly.
A:adhere to
B:coincide with
C:cling to
D:depend on
Preliminary estimation puts the figure at around $110 billion, _____ the $160 billion the President is struggling to get through the Congress.
A:in proportion to
B:in reply to
C:in relation to
D:in contrast to
It was no _____ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery .
A:coincidence
B:convention
C:certainty
D:complication
The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is____80 percent.
A:consequently
B:roughly
C:comparatively
D:incidentally
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