The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. 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.
     Actually, I enjoy my work when the ____1___ are large and urgent and somewhat_____2___ and will come to the attention of many people. I get scared, and am unable to sleep at night, but I usually_____3_______at my best under this stimulating kind of pressure and enjoy my job the most. I handle all of these important ____4______ myself, and I rejoice with _____5_____ pride and vanity in the compliments I receive when I do them well. But ____6______ such peaks of challenge and elation there is monotony and despair.
     Our anger goes beyond the simple policy matters. It goes ____7_____the fact that all the things we were told about Vietnam we found_____8_____ when we got there. We found that ___9____ often American men were_____10_______ in those rice paddies from______11_____ of support from our so-called allies. We saw at first hand the money—your taxes—_____12_____ by a corrupt dictatorial regime.
     The fact is that although network television still _____13_____ too little time to the vita service of informing the _____14_____, it does a better job in that little time_____15_____the nation's press as a whole. And when I speak of the nation's press as a whole, I am _____16______ speaking of the five or six splendid newspapers—and the_____17______great newspaper—which sere the world as models of _______18______ public information.
     Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, but Arthur knew that they would____19_____each other in peace, would not even _____20______ out greetings. No one bothered you: you were a hunter, a _____21______, your own boss, away from _____22____ all for a few hours on any day that the weather did not ______23______ down its rain. Like the _____24_____ in the army who said it was marvelous the things you thought about as you sat on the lavatory.
A.tremendous         B.assignments                C.into                D.dying             E.squandered

F.frightening           G.between                      H.not                 I.call                  J. corporal 

K.it                           L.untrue                          M.want              N.too                O. public 

P. responsible         Q.throw                           R.dreamer         S.leave              T.than
U.perform               V.projects                        W.allots            X.one