The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

      ①From that point the odds seemed to move toward Chavel with a dreadful          : nine to one, eight to one; they were like a         finger. The men who were left drew more         ​ and more carelessly: They seemed to Chavel to have some          information to know that he was the one. When his time came to draw there were only three          left, and it appeared to Chavel a monstrous injustice that there were so few choices left for him. 

        ②It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful          to a greater age than in the past. “Old ladies” are          becoming rare. In a few years, we may well believe, they will be ​        . White hair and wrinkles, a bent back and hollow cheeks will come to be ​         as medievally old-fashioned. The          of the future will be golden, curly and cherry-lipped, neat-ankled and slender.

        ③Calculate for a moment what could be done with even a part of those hours. Five thousand hours, I am told, are ​         a typical college undergraduate spends working on a bachelor’s         . In 10,000 hours you could have learned          to become an astronomer or engineer. You could have learned several languages         ​. If it appealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the          Greek or Dostoyevsky in Russian. If it didn't, you could have walked around the world and written a book about it. 

        ④Age discrimination in employment is unrestrained, with arbitrary retirement practices and         ​ against hiring older people for available jobs. Social Security ​          the old by reducing their income checks as soon as they         ​ more than $2,400 a year. Job-training programs don't want the          (or the middle-aged, for that matter), so there is no opportunity to learn new skills. Employers rarely make          for the possible physical limitations of otherwise valuable older employees, and instead they are fired, retired or forced to resign. 

        ⑤Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, but Arthur knew that they would          each other in peace, would not even call out         . No one bothered you: you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own boss,          from it all for a few hours on any day that the         did not throw down its rain. Like the corporal in the          who said it was marvelous the things you thought about as you sat on the lavatory. 

A. greetings           B. elderly             C. extinct             D. quickly
E. inevitability       F. appearance      G. slips                 H. original
I. bias                    J. leave                K. earn                 L. weather 

M. fluently            N. regarded         O. already             P. pointing 

Q. what                 R. degree             S. away                 T. inner           

U. crone                V. army                W. penalizes        X. enough 

Y. concessions 

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

①The elderly clerk spoke again. He said, “I'm______ . I've got the right to speak. We are going the ______ way about all this. Everyone must ______ lots. This isn't the last draw we shall have, and picture to yourselves what it will be _____ in this cell if we have a privileged ______ —the ones who are left to the end. The rest of you will soon begin to hate us. We shall be left out of your fear...”

②But what this country doesn’t know is that _____ has created a monster in the form of millions of ______ men who have been taught to deal in ______, and who have been given a change to die for the ______ nothing in history. We have returned to this country with a _______ of anger and betrayal which nobody has yet grasped.

③ I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesn’t explain ______ so many of us are ______ and even dangerously so. When things had ______, we knew what we were ______ all the while—and it satisfied us. A teaspoonful of my mother-in-law wild strawberry ______ will entirely satisfy for your jam desire.

④I was especially intrigued by a ______ in Watts because it was supposed to be ______. I wanted to demonstrate that it could be done more than anything ______. I recall a moment during a city-wide high school oratorical ______ when one of the judges asked ______ anything good could come out of Watts. 

⑤What is serious about excitement is that so many of its ______ are destructive. It is destructive in those who cannot ______ excess in alcohol or gambling. It is destructive when it takes the form of mob violence. And ______ all it is destructive when it leads to ______ . It is so deep a need that it will find  ______ outlets of this kind unless innocent outlets are at hand.

A. overweight     B. violence      C. married       D. forms       E. contest  

F. eating             G. biggest       H. draw            I.class           J. whether 

K. else                 L. above          M. jam             N. America  O. like  

P. war                  Q. impossible R. harmful        S. career      T. why  

U. resist               V. sense           W. wrong        X. fighting    Y. flavor

V.The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks,followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y.Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.One word or expression for each blank only.(25 points,1 point for each)
She appealed to me because she was like people I had 32 met personally. Like women in English novels who walked the moors(whatever they were) with their 33 dogs racing at a respectful distance.Like the women who sat in front of 34 fireplaces,drinking tea 35 from silver trays full of scones and crumpets.Women who walked over the "heath"and read morocco-bound books and had two last names 36 by a hyphen.

To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose one's 37 in human nature,for,even after the most 38 day,there is no comparing notes 39 them,no midnight confidence,no casting up the balance of the day's pleasure and pain.
They 40,at once,into stupid,heavy slumber,leaving you to your own mental devices.And they all snore 41!

The senior partner studied the resume for the 42 time and again found nothing he 43 about Mitchell Y.McDeere,at least not on paper.He had the brains,the ambition,the good looks.And he was hungry;with his background,he had to be.He was married,and that was 44.The firm also frowned 45 on divorce,as well as 46 and drinking.

At the very top,of course,are those people,mostly young and without 47,to whom the company is not 48 an institution of any sacred merit but still only a place to work,and who 49 their present association with it as something 50.I put these people at the top because if you asked any one of them if he would choose to spend the rest of his life working for the company,he would give you a 51 No!,regardless of what inducements were offered.

There is a difference 52 my schooling and the wisdom of the street 53. I know the life of a black man in Watts is 54 than a federal poverty program.
If there is no future for the black ghetto,the future of all Negroes is 55
.What affects it,affects me,for I am a child of the ghetto.When they do it to Watts,they do it to me,too.I'll never escape from the ghetto.I have its future.Watts is my home
56 my all on its future. Watts is my home. 

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.

        Not a move. Even her expression hadn’t changed. Her breaths, however, were coming faster and faster. Then the ______ began. I had to do it. I had to have a ______ culture for her own protection. But first I told the ______ that it was entirely up to them. I ______ the danger but said that I would not insist on a throat ______ so long as they would take the responsibility.

        Only two people shared her “special” seat: a fine old man in a velvet coat, his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a ______ of knitting on her embroidered apron. They did not speak. This was ______ , for Miss Brill always looked ______ to the conversation. She had become really quite ______ , she thought, at listening as though she didn’t ______ , at sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her.

        Accordingly, I was considered one of the ______ ones. My scholarship to college was a ticket. People did not expect me to ______. Understanding this, I can understand the ______ in the minds of those in Watts when I was home last summer,working in the ______ poverty program. Rumors spread quickly that I was a FBI ______  I was suspect because I was not supposed to return.

        When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them ______ kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to ______ pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages ______ with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor, which enables them, for the first ______ in their lives, to have the illusion, for a few brief moments, that it is better to be ______ than dead.

        At the flower market she walked up and down in front of the stalls, and saw more clearly because of her decision, so she thought. She looked at the flowers. She looked at the people. There was a ______ at the farthest stand. The woman’s face was ______. But her hands were beautiful. She was ______ a baby. Marian wanted ______ grand flowers, only the soft and touchable. She bought a big wheel of ______ carnations, and some little gentle-petalled primroses with shiny dark green leaves.

A. lucky              B. receive              C. sad              D. pumpkin      E. forward

F. explained      G. disappointing  H. agent         I. alive               J. time

K. family             L. all                         M. nursing    N. no                  O. return

P. local                Q. listen                  R. throat        S. parents         T. expert

U. puzzlement  V. examination     W. red            X. battle             Y. roll

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. One word or expression for each blank only.

     The trouble with television is that it _________ concentration. Almost anything interesting and rewarding in life requires some _________, consistently applied effort. The dullest, the _________ gifted of us can achieve things that seem _________ to those who never concentrate on anything. But television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant _________. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain. 

     Moreover the exercise of choice is in itself _________. Except to people with unusual initiative it is positively agreeable to be told what to do at each hour of the day, _________ the orders are not too unpleasant. Most of the idle rich _________ unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from _________. At times they may find relief by hunting big game in Africa, or by flying round the world, but the number of such sensations is limited, _________ after youth is past.

     The _________ between a single individual's success and the bootstrap effort of the mass of ghetto youth is and remains too _________ to comport with reality. This was made clear to me during the discussions of the Harlem riots on those hot summer days in Vienna. It _________ the notion that my individual progress could be hailed as an advance for all Negroes. Regrettably, it was an advance _________ for me. Earlier I had thought the success I had won satisfied an _________ I had to all Negroes. 

     This is a matter which has been too little considered, _________ by moralists and by social reformers. The social reformers are of the opinion that they have more serious things to _________. The moralists, on the other hand, are immensely impressed _________ the seriousness of all the permitted outlets of the love of excitement; the seriousness, however, in their _________ is that of Sin. Dance halls, cinemas, this age of jazz are all, if we may believe our ears, _________ to Hell, and we should be better employed sitting at home contemplating our sins. 

     The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic "point", _________ in its power to _________ activity. A society with plenty of snobberies is like a dog with _________ of fleas: it is not likely to become comatose. Every snobbery demands of its devotees _________ efforts, a succession of sacrifices The society-snob must be _________ lion-hunting: the modernity-snob can never rest from trying to be up-to-date.

A. only       B. consider         C. minds           D. shattered          E. tiresome
F. especially      G. parallel      H. miraculous      I. perpetually      J. both
K. suffer      L. gateways      M. stimulate      N. drudgery          O. obligation
P. tenuous      Q. constructive      R. consists     S. least        T. plenty
U. with       V. provided      W. unceasing       X. discourages        Y. gratification

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. One word or expression for each blank only.

Between Elvis and Alice, rock critics say, a number of rock stars have helped our society____1____its beliefs and attitudes. Bob Dylan touched a____2____of disaffection. He spoke of____3____rights, nuclear fall-out, and loneliness. He spoke of change and of the bewilderment____4____an older generation. "Something's happening here," he sang. "You don't know what it is, do you, Mr Jones?" Others entered the debate. The Beatles, Horowitz said, ____5____peace and piety, with humor and maybe a little help from drugs.
It was at three the next afternoon (alarm clock time) that an officer entered the cell: the first officer they had seen____6____weeks—and this one was very young, with____7____even in the shape of his mustache which he had shaved too much on the left side. He was as embarrassed as a schoolboy____8____his first entry on a stage at a prize-giving, and he spoke____9____so as to give the impression of a strength he did not ____10____.
For minutes at a time this kind of thing would be running____11____my head: "He pushed the door open and entered the room. A yellow____12____of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, ____13____on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot. With his right hand in his pocket he moved____14____to the window. Down in the street a tortoiseshell cat was____15____a dead leaf," etc., etc. This habit continued till I was about twenty-five, right through my non-literary years.
Newspapers have two great advantages____16____television. They can be used by men as____17____against their wives. It is still the only____18____screen against the morning features of the loved one, and, as____19____performs a unique human service. The second advantage is that you can't line a garbage pail with a television set—it's____20____the other way around.
Companies pursuing product leadership continually push products into the realm of the unknown, the____21____or the highly desirable. Reaching that goal requires that they challenge themselves in three ways. First, they must be creative. More than anything else, being creative means____22____and embracing ideas that may originate____23____inside the company or out. Second, they must____24____their ideas quickly. Third and most important, they must____25____pursue ways to leapfrog their own latest product or service.
A. define   B. such   C. slanted   D. abruptly   E. commercialize
F. over   G. nerve   H. usually   I. beam   J. possess
K. for   L. barriers   M. civil   N. untried   O. through
P. chasing   Q. inexperience   R. effective   S. of   T. recognizing
U. relentlessly   V. across   W. making   X. anywhere   Y. urged 

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     If all forms of mercy-killing are wrong, they should         taboo. But are they? Because many people accept that it is sad,          and gruesome to prolong the throes of death          all the might of medical technology, passive euthanasia, letting patients die---is          accepted. Most American states have “living-will”         that protects doctors from prosecution if they do not try to save someone who has said he does not want life prolonged.

     There were a number of people out this afternoon, far more than last Sunday. And the band sounded louder and         . That was because the Season had begun. For          the band played all the year          on Sundays, out of          it was never the same. It was like someone playing with only the family to         ; it didn’t care how it played if there weren’t any strangers present.

     Give me a         ​ hour or two in bed and I can solve,          my own satisfaction, all the doubts of humanity. When I am in the humor I can          grand symphonies, and paint          pictures. I am, at once, Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Michael Angelo; yet it gives me no satisfaction:         the one thing I cannot do is to go to sleep.      

     Change means trouble, change means work, change means cost. It is easier to print wire services          than have a reporter on the beat. It is easier to buy syndicated columns than find—-and train—local talent. It is easier to let the ads          the format than develop a format that elevates news         ​ dog food. It is easier to write         ​ copy that appeals to emotion          than reason. 

     Vanity is a         of immense potency. Anyone who has          to do with children knows how they are ​       performing some antic, and saying “Look at me”. “Look at me” is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart. It can take          forms, from          to the pursuit of posthumous perfume. 

A. constantly         B. gayer             C. above               D. restless           E. for
F. innumerable      G. magnificent   H. round              I. season              J. much
K. with                   L. rather            M. undignified     N. dictate            O. listen
P. editorial            Q. remain           R. dispatches        S. to                    T. motive
U. buffoonery       V. legislation      W. although        X. compose          Y. widely 

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     Not a move. Even her expression hadn’t changed. Her breaths, however, were coming faster and faster. Then the ______ began. I had to do it. I had to have a ______ culture for her own protection. But first I told the ______ that it was entirely up to them. I ______ the danger but said that I would not insist on a throat ______ so long as they would take the responsibility. 

     Only two people shared her "special" seat: a fine old man in a velvet coat, his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a ______ of knitting on her embroidered apron. They did not speak. This was ______, for Miss Brill always looked ______ to the conversation. She had become really quite ______, she thought, at listening as though she didn't ______, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her.

     Accordingly, I was considered one of ______ ones. My scholarship to college was a ticket. People did not expect me to ______. Understanding this, I can understand the ______ in the minds of those in Watts when I was home last summer, working in the ______ poverty program. Rumors spread quickly that I was a FBI ______. I was suspect because I was not supposed to return.

     When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them ______ kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to ______ pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages ______ with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them intoxicating liquor, which enables them, for the first ______ in their lives, to have the illusion, for a few brief moments, that it is better to be ______ than dead. 

     At the flower market she walked up and down in front of the stalls, and saw more clearly because of her decision, so she thought. She looked at the flowers. She looked at the people. There was a ______ at the farthest stand. The woman's face was ______. But her hands were beautiful. She was ______ a baby. Marian wanted ______ grand flowers, only the soft and touchable. She bought a big wheel of ______ carnations, and some little gentle-petalled primroses with shiny dark green leaves. 

A. lucky                    B. receive                    C. sad                  D.pumpkin                   E. forward
F explained             G. disappointing         H. agent              I. alive                           J. time

K. family                  L. all                            M. nursing           N. no                             O. return 
P. local                    Q. listen                       R. throat              S. parents                      T. expert 
U. puzzlement        V. examination            W.red                  X. battle                        Y. roll 

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all _______ are absolute). I didn't question _______ Mrs. Flowers had singled me out for attention, nor did it occur to me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking _______. All I cared about was that she had made tea cookies for me and _______ to me from her favorite book. It was enough to _______ that she liked me. 

     The key is to segment the market vertically. This _______ the company to pitch specific customers with _______ services that no other company can begin to provide. Example: One customer _______ is the legal profession. Cable & Wireless is developing _______ and functions that have tremendous _______ to lawyers. 

     However, patterns of _______ by Asian-Americans to this country, the cultural _______, language problems and discrimination they have faced have all taken a _______ of their elderly and their families. This is particularly _______ of older Chinese men, who were not allowed to _______ their wives and families with them to the United States or to intermarry. 

     This increased my natural hatred of _______ and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had _______ me some understanding of the nature of _______; but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate _______ orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still _______ to reach a firm decision. 

     I remember going to a writer for a _______ magazine and telling him this was a story the American people should _______. He agreed, but said it would never get _______ his desk because the Army would rescind the magazine's _______ to cover the war, and if you don't cover the war you don't sell magazines, and if you don't sell magazines then _______ happens because that's the American way. 

A authority      B accreditation     C conclusions     D segment       E nothing
F national        G to                        H specialized       I political         J. bring
K prove            L by                        M why                 N given            O appeal
P hear              Q enables               R features           S toll                T immigration
U imperialism V true                     W failed              X barriers         Y read