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PAPER ONEPAPER ONE aGr(djD
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PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) GLv}|>W
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. k(3s^B
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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. H]mY 6D51"
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. t1n'Ecm(
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. b3#c0GL
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. !CPv{c`|qg
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." r1}7Q7-z
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience yc_(L-'n
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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. 0EPF;
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. @B7;
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. *5*d8;@>
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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. A' dt
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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. gmJJ(}HVz
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. y$4,r4cmR|
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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. KY2xKco
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. |W\CV0L2
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. )1H]a'j
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. "qQU ^FW
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. Y @pkfH
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. CF =#?+x
PART II CLOZE TEST (15 minutes, 15 points) 9OXrz}8C
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There is a closer relationship between morals and architecture and interior decoration______21, we suspect. Huxley has pointed out that Western ladies did not take frequent baths ______22 they were afraid to see their own naked bodies, and this moral concept delayed the______23 of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand, ______24 in the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little consideration for human______ 25 only when we realize the Confucian atmosphere in which people moved about. Chinese redwood Furniture was designed for people to sit______26 in, because that was the only posture approved by society. ]<W1edr
Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a (n) ______27 on which I would not think of______28 for more than five minutes, and for that matter the English kings were just as badly off. Cleopatra went about______29 on a couch carried by servants, because______30 she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have struck her shins with a stick, as he did______31 one of his old disciples, Yuan Jiang, when the latter was found sitting in an______32 posture. In the Confucian society in which we lived, gentlemen and ladies had to______33 themselves perfectly erect, at least on formal______34 , and any sign of putting one's leg up would be at once considered a sign of vulgarity and lack of______35. X3X~`~bAD
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22. A. if B. when C. because D. though -"!V&M
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