PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) \
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1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. -
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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. 4>fj @X(3
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. aO9\8\^
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. ?V_v=X%w
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." Yx ;j
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. z]O>`50Q
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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. ['0^gN$:e
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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. 6r,zOs- I]
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. 6IM:Xj
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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. 1)
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. :y[tZ&*<_?
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. T?FR@.
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. *l^%7W rk
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