PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) %jy$4qAf%
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. 9GH5
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. B#S8j18 M
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world.
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." q-<DYVG+
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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. "sN %S's
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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. "] V\ Y!
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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. qf x* a88
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. [q?RJm B]
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. i O$87!
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. 5sT3|yq
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______.
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