PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) /tc*jXB
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. H!4!1J.=xw
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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. C 6B h[:V&
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D. pursuit Q mOG2
3. If I could ensue a reasonably quick and comprehensive solution to the crisis in <>A:Oi3^
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. X |.'_6l.
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D: reflect 8U/q3@EC
5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. A,W- =TC
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. ::g"dRS<v
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." N6c']!aM@
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience COOazXtW
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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. HW|c -\tS
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D. intervene iv?'&IUfK
10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. P0Ds7xh ]h
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D. obsession j$Vv'on
11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. ld M [ 8
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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. tRS^|??
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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. L:`|lc=^
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D. station !.+iA=K{
14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. -v&Q 'a
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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. 5WO!u:!'
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C. intangible ;)83tx
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D. ingenious ~NpnRIt
l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint.
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. I4m)5G?O2
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D. approves of m1 \>v?=K
l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. "N4c>2Q
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. IdzF<>;W
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B. upside and down
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. Q{>9Dg
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