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I was speaking to Jane on the phone when suddenly we were___.

A. cut off

B. cut down

C. cut back

D. cut out

Peter complained to the owner of the book store that there were some pages ___ in the dictionary.

A. losing

B. missing

C. dropping

D. falling

The shop-assistant was straightforward with her customers. If an article was of __ quality she’d tell them so.

A. miserable

B. minor

C. subordinate

D. inferior

With all its advantages, the laptop is by no means without its__.

A. limitation

B. boundaries

C. restraints

D. confinements

Look at the photo and you will find Diana __ her father.

A. takes to

B. takes after

C. takes for

D. takes over

I want to buy a new tie to __ this brown suit.

A. go into

B. go after

C. go by

D. go with

He __ his lessons about Italy with photographs of the people who live there.

A. illustrate

B. cited

C. quoted

D. explained

In addition to rice, we need to __ our diet with fish, meat and vegetable.

A. replace

B. supplement

C. replenish

D. mix

What he has done is __ the doctor’s orders.

A. subject to

B. opposite

C. resistant to

D. contrary to

The survival __ of some wild animals is not high because they are ruthlessly hunted for their skins.

A. ratio

B. degree

C. rate

D. scale

Tim is good, smart and hardworking. __, I can’t speak too highly of him.

A. As a result

B. In a word

C. By the way

D. On the contrary

What he told me about the affair simply doesn’t make any .

A. idea

B. sense

C. meaning

D. significance

The lawyer’s question was a __ that cause the defendant to admit his guilty. A. plan B. trap C. tap D. plot

Why can’t you do this small __ for me I’ve helped you often enough in the past.

A. demand

B. request

C. favor

D. requirement

I know you think I’m talking nonsense, Tom, but __ you will realize that I was right.

A. at one time

B. in time

C. at times

D. on time

____ the dog was the first anima to be domesticated is generally agreed upon by authorities in the field.

A. Until

B. It was

C. What

D. That

My father didn’t go to New York; the doctor suggested that he __ go there.

A. not

B. won’t

C. does not

D. not to

If the work __ completed by the end of the year is delayed, the construction company will be fined.

A. being

B. to be

C. will be

D. has been

He sat there dong nothing else __.

A. but to laugh

B. than laughing

C. but laughed

D. than laugh

Who __ has read S hakespeare’s great plays can forget their fascination.

A. that

B. which

C. who

D. ever

There is no mother __ loves her own children.

A. who

B. that

C. but

D. who not

I would just as soon __ rudely to the child.

A. you not speak

B. you won’t speak

C. you not speaking

D. you didn’t speak

I admit I have made a mistake, __ I deny the serious consequence it may have. A. so will B. so C. nor will D. how can

Most parents encourage their children to take an active part in social events, __ those events do not interfere with their studies

A. so that

B. lest

C. unless

D. provided

In no circumstances can more work be got out of a machine than__

A. to put into it

B. be put into it

C. is put into it

D. that is to be put into it

Everyone congratulated the captain, __ whom the team could not have won,

A. without

B. beyond

C. besides

D. except

He often sat in small pub drinking considerately more than __.

A. was good for his health

B. his health was good

C. was in good health

D. his good health

The dressing- table was bare, __ a pair of ivory hair brushes.

A. in addition to

B. except

C. except for

D. besides

____, if he doesn’t learn he knows nothing.

A. A man is ever so clever

B. Be a man ever so clever

C. So clever as a man ever is

D. No matter how a man is clever

Five minutes earlier, __ they could have caught the last bus.

A. but

B. so

C. and

D. or

The discovery of new facts___ the rational thinker to reexamine the adequacy of his previous generalization.

A. compelled

B. repelled

C. expelled

D. constrain

The change in government is a(n) ________ event of our time.

A. historic

B. historical

C. permanent

D. eternal

She came to my office to ask me for advice _____ how to write an essay.

A. as for

B. as to

C. as on

D. as about

Only when capitalism has been ________will it be possible to ________poverty, unemployment and war.

A. abolish … abolish

B. abandoned …abate

C. annihilated … ban

D. extinguished … extinguish

To call the music of another music-culture “primitive” is ____ one’s own standards on a group that does not recognize them.

A. putting

B. emphasizing

C. forcing

D. imposing

I could see that my life was________ having that fur coat, whether I approved of it or not.

A. adequate for

B. intent on

C. short of

D. deficient in

The government is trying to do something to ______ better understanding between the two countries.

A. raise

B. promote

C. heighten

D. increase

A desire to go to medical school ______ her to study hard everyday.

A. motivates

B. inspires

C. stimulates

D. encourages

Being somewhat short-sighted, she has the habit of _____ at people.

A. staring

B. glancing

C. peering

D. peeping

If the fire alarm is sounded, all residents are requested to______ in the courtyard.

A. assemble

B. converge

C. accumulate

D. crowd

Before the school ______ what students must wear, they just wore anything.

A. managed

B. authorized

C. regulated

D. standardized

He speaks French well enough to pass ____ a French man.

A. into

B. over

C. through

D. for

His job at the hospital did not pay much, so he found another___.

A. on the rise

B. on the decline

C. on the spot

D. on the side

Astronauts are ___ all kinds of tests before they are actually sent up in a spacecraft.

A. inclined to

B. subjected to

C. prone to

D. bound to

It was felt that he lacked the ____ to pursue a difficult task to the very end.

A. persuasion

B. commitment

C. engagement

D. obligation

It’s easy to blame the decline of conversation on the pace of modern life and on the vague changes ____ place in our ever-changing world.

A. taking

B. to take

C. take

D. taken

_____ can be seen from the comparison of these figures, the principle involves the active participation of the patient in the modification of his condition.

A. As

B. What

C. That

D. It

California has more light than it knows ____ to do with, but everything else is expensive.

A. how

B. what

C. which

D. where

Anyone with half an eye on the unemployment figures knew that the assertion about economic recovery_____ just around the corner was untrue.

A. would be

B. to be

C. was

D. being

Marlin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about _____ compliments to his political leaders.

A. paying

B. having paid

C. to pay

D. to have paid

As I’ll be away for at least a year, I’d appreciate ____ from you now and then telling me how everyone is getting along.

A. hearing

B. to hear

C. to be hearing

D. having heard

Doctors see a connection between increased amounts of leisure time spent____ and the increased number of cases of skin cancer.

A. to sunbathe

B. to have sunbathed

C. having sunbathed

D. sunbathing

Christie stared angrily at her boss and turned away, as though ______ out of the office.

A. went

B. gone

C. to go

D. would go

It wasn’t so much that I disliked her____ that I just wasn’t interested in the whole business.

A. rather

B. so

C. than

D. as

Countless divorced politicians would have been elected out of office years ago had they even thought of a divorce, let alone_____ one.

A. getting

B. to get

C. gotten

D. get

This is an exciting area of study, and one_____ which new applications are being discovered almost daily.

A. from

B. by

C. in

D. through

Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door, _____ to find it locked.

A. just

B. only

C. hence

D. thus

These proposals sought to place greater restrictions on the use and copying of digital information than those that ______ in traditional media.

A. exist

B. exists

C. existing

D. to exist Talk to anyone in the drug industry, _____ you’ll soon discover that the science of genetics is the biggest thing to hit drug research since penicillin was discovered.

A. or

B. and

C. for

D. so

The solution works only for couples who are self-employed, don’t have small children and get along ____ to spend most of their time together.

A. So well

B. too well

C. well as

D. well enough

The red words ______against the white wall.

A. stand by

B. stand for

C. stand out

D. stand back

Since 1970s this small town has gradually been______into a huge modern city.