The chief reason for the population growth isn’t so much a rise in birth rates ________ a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in medical care.

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• 1Help will come from the UN, but the aid will be ________ near what’s needed.

  A.everywhere

  B.somewhere

  C.nowhere

  D.anywhere

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• 2I would have gone to visit him in the hospital had it been at all possible, but I ________ fully occupied the whole of last week.

  A.were

  B.had been

  C.have been

  D.was

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• 3Andrew, my father’s younger brother, will not be at the picnic, ________ to the family’s disappointment.

  A.much

  B.more

  C.too much

  D.much more

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• 4Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owing to its always ________ with other elements, most commonly with oxygen.

  A.combined

  B.having combined

  C.combine

  D.being combined

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• 5The Social Security Retirement Program is made up of two trust funds, ________ could go penniless by next year.

  A.the larger one

  B.the larger of which

  C.the largest one

  D.the largest of which

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• 6He claims to be an expert in astronomy, but in actual fact he is quite ignorant on the subject. ________ he knows about it is out of date and inaccurate.

  A.What little

  B.So much

  C.How much

  D.So little

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• 7Although we feel dissatisfied with the election results, we have to become reconciled ________ the decision made by our fellow countrymen.

  A.for

  B.on

  C.to

  D.in

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• 8Just as the value of a telephone network increases with each new phone ________ to the system, so does the value of a computer system increase with each program that turns out.

  A.adding

  B.to have added

  C.to add

  D.added

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• 9The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly ________.

  A.noticed

  B.to be noticed

  C.being noticed

  D.to notice

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• 10When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.

  A.off

  B.aside

  C.out

  D.down

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