PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) $VJE
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. | $ `I1
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. Z$ 6yB
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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. 7; e$ sr
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. at-+%e
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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. Lm{qFu
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. v?=y9lEH@%
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. Lq6 R_ud p
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. b?kY`L C
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. Rl/5eE8
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. Mm)yabP
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