PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) 6zh<PETa03
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. x;) bp7
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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. * p:`F:
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. ^?PU:eS
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. M
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. M|!^ #!a(
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." k N3 T/96
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8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of one's one’s experience ,w ~0U
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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. M=[ /v/M=
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. VlKy6PSIg
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them.
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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. -oq!zi4:
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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.
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. "@B! 5s0
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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. V5rnI\:7
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. OxEl vbM#
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. ;TSnIC)c
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. e"r'z
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. 8e\a_R*(|
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it.
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