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Directions: The following 39 short statements are provided each with four items. You are to choose for each the best word or phrase in place of the underlined or missing part. Please write your answer on the answer sheet by marking the corresponding letter in each case.
1. The police the witness about the accident.
A. question B. ask C. interrogate D. inquire
2. The salesman his product when challenged.
A. sold B. spoke of C. stood up for D. stood for
3. She makes a rather living as a novelist.
A. precarious B. precautionary C. cautious D. precocious
4. She the chance to spend a whole day with her father.
A. jumped on B. jumped at C. jumped with D. jumped up
5. The car to avoid hitting the old man.
A. swerved B. rambled C. scurried D. curtailed
6. Anyone who has a sore throat should from alcohol.
A. abstain B. retain C. detain D. pertain
7. Free market economy, they believe, the national economy rather than corrupt it.
A. enforces B. enhances C. intensifies D. strengthens
8. Despite a whole night’s emergency treatment, the boy’s condition is still critical and his life is now hanging by a
A. thread B. cord C. string D. rope
9. The film was banned officially because of the language and scenes it contained.
A. decent B. optimal C. obscene D. vicious
10. China will continue to to control population growth and improve the living standard of Chinese people.
A. stride B. contrive C. strive D. stripe
11. He avowed his commitment to those ideals.
A. acknowledged B. converted C. conformed D. renounced
12. The political dissident was accused of instigating a plot to overthrow the government.
A. devising B. supporting C. funding D. provoking
13. I wish you two would stop bickering.
A. complaining B. quarreling C. bargaining D. murmuring
14. The defendant is facing severe verdict despite the appeal for clemency by his lawyer.
A. forgiving B. release C. leniency D. impartiality
15. The little boy listened, enthralled by the Captain’s story.
A. fascinated B. swindled C. shocked D. bored
16. I was impressed by his expertise on landing craft.
A. encouragement B. special skill C. shrewdness D. eloquence
17. Your action is a breach of our university regulations.
A. observation B. violation C. creation D. attack
18. Subsequent events vindicated his policy.
A. predicate B. swing C. dilate D. bear out
19. Drug smuggling carries a mandatory death penalty in most countries in the world.
A. impulsive B. multicolored C. obligatory D. laughable
20. Morality, for him, was doing what is expedient.
A. undesirable B. unavailable C. advantageous D. inappropriate
