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

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• 1Just 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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• 2Although 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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• 3He 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 ________ he knows about it is out of date and inaccurate.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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• 4The 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.

  A.and

  B.as

  C.but

  D.or

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• 5Help 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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• 6When 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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• 7The wealth of a country should be measured ________ the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.

  A.in line with

  B.in terms of

  C.in regard with

  D.by means of

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• 8He has failed me so many times that I no longer place any ________ on what he promises.

  A.faith

  B.belief

  C.credit

  D.reliance

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• 9My students found the book ________: it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.

  A.enlightening

  B.confusing

  C.distracting

  D.amusing

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• 10Nobody 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

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