Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will _____ down the economy.
A)put
B)settle
C)drag
D)knock
In this factory the machines are not regulated _____ but are jointly controlled by a central computer system.
A)independently
B)individually
C)irrespectively
D)irregularly
Every chemical change either results from energy being sued to produce the change, or causes energy to be _____ in some form.
A)given off
B)put out
C)set off
D)used up
If businessmen are taxed too much, they will no longer be motivated to work hard, with the result that incomes from taxation might actually _____ .
A)shrink
B)delay
C)disperse
D)sink
American companies are evolving from massproduction manufacturing to _____ enterprises.
A)moveable
B)changing
C)flexible
D)varying
If you know what the trouble is, why don＇t you help them to _____ the situation?
A)simplify
B)modify
C)verify
D)rectify
I can't _____ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.
A)figure out
B)draw out
C)look out
D)work out
I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat _____ .
A)disapproval
B)rejection
C)refusal
D)decline
From this material we can _____ hundreds of what you may call direct products.
A)derive
B)discern
C)diminish
D)displace
She had clearly no _____ of doing any work, although she was very well paid.
A)tendency
B)ambition
C)intention
D)willingness
What seems confusing or fragmented at first might well become _____ a third time.
A)clean and measurable
B)notable and systematic
C)pure and wholesome
D)clear and organic
The public opinion was that the time was not _____ for the election of such a radical candidate as Mr. Jones.
A)reasonable
B)ripe
C)ready
D)practical
Hudson said he could not kill a living thing except for the _____ of hunger.
A)sensation
B)cause
C)purpose
D)motive
For the new country to survive, _____ for its people to enjoy prosperity, new economic policies will be required.
A)to name a few
B)let alone
C)not to speak
D)let's say
Foreign disinvestment and the _____ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.
A)displacement
B)elimination
C)exclusion
D)exception
When a number of people _____ together in a conversational knot, each individual expresses his position in the group by where he stands.
A)pad
B)pack
C)squeeze
D)cluster
Part II Cloze Test
Directions:For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A),B),C),D). Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (10 points)
Manpower Inc., with 560,000 workers, is the world's largest temporary employment agency. Every morning, its people 41 into the offices and factories of America, seeking a day's work for a day's pay. One day at a time 42 industrial giants like General Motors and IBM struggle to survive 43 reducing the number of employees, Manpower, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is booming.
44 its economy continues to recover, the US is increasingly becoming a nation of part timers and temporary workers. This "45" work force is the most important 46 in American business today, and it is 47 changing the relationship between people and their jobs. The phenomenon provides a way for companies to remain globally competitive 48 avoiding market cycles and the growing burdens 49 by employment rules, healthcare costs and pension plans. For workers it can mean an end to the security, benefits and sense of 50 that came from being a loyal employee.
41. A)swarm B)stride C)separate D)slip
42. A)For B)Because C)As D)Since
43. A)from B)in C)on D)by
44. A)Even though B)Now that C)If only D)Provided that
45. A)durable B)disposable C)available D)transferable
46. A)approach B)flow C)fashion D)trend
47. A)instantly B)reversely C)fundamentally D)sufficiently
48. A)but B)while C)and D)whereas
49. A)imposed B)restricted C)illustrated D)confined
50. A)excitement B)conviction C)enthusiasm D)importance
Part III Reading Comprehension
Directions:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked A),B),C) and D). Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (40 points)
Passage 1
It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group's on line service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: “We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn't just something that happened in Australia. It's world history.”
The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally III law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some