PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) $MPh
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1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. y53f73Cg
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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. w,/&oe5M+
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. Kq. MmR!gl
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. gr%!<2w
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. x<-n}VK\
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." :vqfWK6mv
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience 2d`:lk%\
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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. z
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. ;T6x $e
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. 2!Mwui;%
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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. D~;hI t*
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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. 09f:%!^u
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. Cmq.V@
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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. #?xhfSgr
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. Md \yXp
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. Do7&OBI~
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. 6! } @vp![
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. JcEPw F.
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. `;-K/)/x
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