All the off-shore oil explorers were in high spirits as they read ________ letters from their families.

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• 1He is planning another tour abroad, yet his passport will ________ at the end of this month.

  A.expire

  B.exceed

  C.terminate

  D.cease

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• 2Preliminary estimation puts the figure at around $110 billion, ________ the $160 billion the President is struggling to get through the Congress.

  A.in proportion to

  B.in reply to

  C.in relation to

  D.in contrast to

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• 3Without telephone it would be impossible to carry on the functions of ________ every business operation in the whole country.

  A.practically

  B.preferably

  C.precisely

  D.presumably

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• 4Please ________ yourself from smoking and spitting in public places, since the law forbids them.

  A.restrain

  B.hinder

  C.restrict

  D.prohibit

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• 5Sometimes the student may be asked to write about his ________ to a certain book or article that has some bearing on the subject being studied.

  A.comment

  B.reaction

  C.impression

  D.comprehension

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• 6Several international events in the early 1990s seem likely to ________, or at least weaken, the trends that emerged in the 1980s.

  A.revolt

  B.revolve

  C.reverse

  D.revive

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• 7I was unaware of the critical points involved, so my choice was quite ________.

  A.arbitrary

  B.rational

  C.mechanical

  D.unpredictable

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• 8The local people were joyfully surprised to find the price of vegetables no longer ________ according to the weather.

  A.altered

  B.converted

  C.fluctuated

  D.modified

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• 9The pursuit of leisure on the part of the employees will certainly not ________ their prospect of promotion.

  A.spur

  B.further

  C.induce

  D.reinforce

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• 10In what ________ to a last minute stay of execution, a council announced that emergency funding would keep alive two aging satellites.

  A.applies

  B.accounts

  C.attaches

  D.amounts

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