The fire has caused great losses, but the factory tried to ________ the consequences by saying that the damage was not as serious as reported.

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• 1In our highly technological society, the number of jobs for unskilled worker is ________.

  A.shrinking

  B.obscuring

  C.altering

  D.constraining

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• 2A budget of five dollars a day is totally ________ for a trip round Europe.

  A.inadequate

  B.incapable

  C.incompatible

  D.invalid

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• 3When he tried to make a ________, he found that the hotel that he wanted was completely filled because of a convention.

  A.complaint

  B.claim

  C.reservation

  D.decision

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• 4John said that he didn’t quite ________ and asked me to repeat what I had said.

  A.snatch up

  B.summon up

  C.catch on

  D.watch out

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• 5The Space Age ________ in October 1957 when the first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union.

  A.initiated

  B.originated

  C.embarked

  D.commenced

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• 6If the world is to remain peaceful the utmost effort must be made by nations to limit local ________.

  A.collisions

  B.combats

  C.contradictions

  D.conflicts

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• 7Satellite communications are so up-to-date that even when ________ in the middle of the Pacific, businessmen can contact their offices as if they were next door.

  A.gliding

  B.cruising

  C.piloting

  D.patrolling

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• 8In the past ten years skyscrapers have developed ________ in Chicago and New York City.

  A.homogeneously

  B.simultaneously

  C.spontaneously

  D.harmoniously

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• 9The court considers a financial ________ to be an appropriate way of punishing him.

  A.option

  B.duty

  C.obligation

  D.penalty

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• 10I think that I committed a ________ in asking her because she seemed very ups et by my question.

  A.blunder

  B.revenge

  C.reproach

  D.scandal

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