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Q1.A. The administration ______ protesters by agreeing to consider their demands.
B.The angry customer was not _____ by the clerk’s apology.
(a)poked
(b)incite
(c)aggravate
(d)placated
(e) evoke
Q2.A. There are some questions about the applicant’s mental ____.
B. Test the platform for ____ before using it.
(a)investigate
(b)keenness
(c)stability
(d)sharpness
(e)durability
Q3. A.The five men, their Land Rover, and their supplies were loaded into the _____military aircraft.
B.A _____ solar storm could fry power grids, knocking out electricity for months.
(a)minute
(b)gigantic
(c)contented
(d)concise
(e)analogy
Q4. A.Have a plan but be _____ and adjust to emerging realities.
b.She’s been doing exercises to become stronger and more ____.
(a)rigid
(b)wise
(c)smart
(d)flexible
(e)innate
Q5. A.In science, it only takes one exception to ____ a rule.
B.Can we commission a poll to confirm or ____ that thesis?
(a)distinguish
(b)put above
(c)disprove
(d)trivial
(e) maintain
Q6. A.One didn’t keep maps of the location of ___ they were hiding.
B.the mid-1980s saw an intensification of interest in community care, as _____ by the publication of four major reports
(a)witnesses
(b)said
(c)seen
(d)place
(e)people
Q7. A. The visit was an ___ of the improvement in relations between the countries
B.There is no _____that either side is going to give up.
(a)submit
(b)indication
(c)subject
(d)clue
(e)dedication
Q8. A.He didn’t seem like the kind whose moods ______ like her father’s.
B.He looked uncomfortable and his gaze ____ absently to the cabinets.
(a)looks
(b)stablize
(c)transferred
(d)twist
(e)shifted
Q9. A.He couldn’t understand how such an awful substance could ____ so much emotion in him.
B.These sudden congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to ____, do occur.
(a)need
(b)ask
(c)mediate
(d)evoke
(e)stifle
Q10.A. Their newest ___ allows you to order their products online.
B.I realize now my ____ was doomed to failure from the start as my target was far better protected than I sensed.
(a) compel
(b) instinct
(c) keen
(d) interest
(e) venture
Q11. A.They tried to ____ funds that were raised for his legal defense.
B.he always strains to _____ the most somber truths
(a)freeze
(b)seize
(c)cease
(d)find
(e)terminate
Q12. A.What he had just seen was no longer the ____and simple eye of a child
B.I’m not so____ as to believe everything he says
(a)ingenuous
(b)indigenous
(c)innovative
(d)interested
(e)anxious
Q13. A. She was ____ with the job of organizing the reception
B.All employees ____ with the care of children are checked by the police.
(a)thrust
(b)entrusted
(c)seen
(d)nurtured
(e)awarded
Q14. A.foreigners in France illegally should be sent home, their employers ____ and border controls tightened up
B.His actions were not ___ by his superiors
(a)described
(b)redone
(c)sanctioned
(d)originally
(e)categorise
Q15. A.I would like to ____my estimate.
B.The text has been _____ and published in a new edition.
(a)mend
(b)revised
(c)qualified
(d)set
(e)amend