PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) e@L?jBj8m
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. H#B97IGT
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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. g BV66L
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering.
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. OjBg$f~0F
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." O`Ge|4
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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. KI~M.2pk
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. 1*u i|fuK
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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. L5-Kw+t
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. C`LHFqv
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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. 9yt)9f
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. K[~fpQGbV1
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. B
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. vkgAI<
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