PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) V?G%-+^
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. F09%f"9
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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. 9XDSL[[
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. 5ta;C G
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. #P}n+w_@
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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. DS
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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. #k &#d9}
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. x}WP1YyT~
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint.
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it.
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. (LXYx<
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. 2_M+o]Z^
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