PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) K&)a3Z=(.
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. \B}W(^\wg;
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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. /6q/`vx
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. 2ga}d5 lu
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. l3afuD :
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. R:xmcUq}
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." ^~aSrREo
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience ^pjez+
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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. +i^s\c!3;
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. fh_
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. kYB
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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. JP4Moq~r
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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. p'uz2 /g
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. U"+ ry.3`
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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. 5\0.[W{^
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. OgN1{vRFx
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. $SzCVWS
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. 3{4/7D cX
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. + %#MrNM'
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