TEST
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1) Her study of the situation covers a great deal of
relevant material but does not tackle the real
issues ___ enough.
A) disturbingly
B) outrageously
C) vaguely
D) adequately
E) currently
2) Now the rate of economic growth is very
satisfactory, but ___ when foreign competition makes
itself felt, this will not be the case.
A) enthusiastically
B) eventually
C) considerably
D) effectively
E) preferably
3) Serbian ___ in Bosnia has been strongly condemned
by the civilized world, but slight serious action
has been taken against it.
A) conduct
B) settlement
C) investment
D) treaty
E) compliment
4) In view of the severe economic recession his
appointment to this office was regarded as extremely
___.
A) refutable
B) persuasive
C) compulsory
D) appropriate
E) considerable
5) In a child, curiosity usually suggests
intelligence and is welcomed, but an ___ adult is
best avoided.
A) indefinite
B) indulgent
C) indecisive
D) impartial
E) inquisitive
6) I am not _____ that his proposal really will lead
to an improvement in the situation.
A) impressed
B) deterred
C) convinced
D) refrained
E) inquisitive
7) It is a society that is ___ to waging war on all
kinds of environmental pollution.
A) regarded
B) preferred
C) referred
D) committed
E) upheld
8) Many of the pictures sent from outer space are
currently on ___ in the public library.
A) duty
B) display
C) account
D) exchange
E) reinforcement
9) The ..... was not a happy one at the time, but
looking back on it, I suppose I'm thankful it
occurred.
A) improvement
B) regression
C) encounter
D) intention
E) compromise
10) Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau were concerned in
their writings with the question of a appropriate
........ between the public good and the right of
individuals to exercise free will.
A) balance
B) demonstration
C) responsibility
D) interest
E) solidarity
11) Problems of race, ethnicity, and religion have
been a ......... source of conflict in American
education.
A) previous
B) perennial
C) vulnerable
D) naughty
E) casual
12) The United States has long been proud of itself
on being a melting pot of culturally .......
peoples.
A) diverse
B) redundant
C) incoherent
D) entire
E) substantial
13) The United States has long been proud of itself
on being a melting pot of culturally .......
peoples.
A) diverse
B) redundant
C) incoherent
D) entire
E) substantial
14) The modern world economy differs ....... from
what the traditional economic theorists of the 1930s
envisaged.
A) primarily
B) likely
C) conversely
D) profoundly
E) intimately
15) In current years ......complex and persistent
problems in economic and social fields have led
people to wonder why once comfortable answers no
longer seem sufficient to today's questions.
A) generously
B) inadvertently
C) increasingly
D) ingeniously
E) leisurely
16) Since the 1950s modern dance in Europe and
America has ........ an energetic process of
creativity.
A) cast
B) explored
C) constituted
D) relaxed
E) followed
17) The assassination by terrorists of Signer Aldo
Moro, five times Prime Minister of Italy, in May
1978 was ......... by everybody as an act of
barbarism.
A) much-admired
B) appealed
C) reiterated
D) condemned
E) restrained
18) . Many of the critics clearly regarded quite a
lot of the paintings on ..... as of poor quality.
A) discovery
B) display
C) occasion
D) approval
E) account
19) . The information issued by the National Health
Council draws attention to the hazards of ..... to
rays.
A) resistance
B) involvement
C) confinement
D) exposure
E) implication
20) . He is cunning; he seems to know by instinct
where someone is ..... and strikes there.
A) conceited
B) sufficient
C) vulnerable
D) informative
E) critical
21) . It was decided at the board meeting that more
funds should be allocated to getting the company's
products ..... more widely.
A) publicized
B) priced
C) curtailed
D) expanded
E) confirmed
22) . There's nothing very brilliant about the
document, but he has ...... collected all the data
needed.
A) infectiously
B) recklessly
C) considerably
D) restrictively
E) conscientiously
23) . What really surprised everybody was that he
saved the company bankruptcy fairly .....
A) extremely
B) relatively
C) dependently
D) single-handedly
E) responsively
24) . Before I sent this commentary to the editor,
I'd be grateful if you could ..... it for me.
A) watch out
B) lookup
C) break through .
D) take over
E) go through
25) . I had my doubts about her when I took her on,
but now I'm pleased to say that she has ..... to be
a talented manager.
A) taken up
B) run over
C) turned out
D) made out
E) carried on
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