Conversation becomes weaker in a society that spends so much time listening and being talked to ________ it has all but lost the will and the skill to speak for itself.

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• 1One difficulty in translation lies in obtaining a concept match. ________ this is meant that a concept in one language is lost or changed in meaning in translation.

  A.By

  B.In

  C.For

  D.With

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• 2The individual TV viewer invariably senses that he or she is ________ an anonymous, statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience.

  A.everything except

  B.anything but

  C.no less than

  D.nothing more than

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• 3So involved with their computers ________ that leaders at summer computer camps often have to force them to break for sports and games.

  A.became the children

  B.become the children

  C.had the children become

  D.do the children become

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• 4There was no sign that Mr. Jospin, who keeps a firm control on the party despite ________ from leadership of it, would intervene personally.

  A.being resigned

  B.having resigned

  C.going to resign

  D.resign

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• 5She felt suitably humble just as she ________ when he had first taken a good look at her city self, hair waved and golden, nails red and pointed.

  A.had

  B.had had

  C.would have and

  D.has had

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• 6Church as we use the word refers to all religious institutions, ________ they Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish, and so on.

  A.be

  B.being

  C.were

  D.are

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• 7He is too young to be able to ________ between right and wrong.

  A.discard

  B.discern

  C.disperse

  D.disregard

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• 8It was no ________ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery.

  A.coincidence

  B.convention

  C.certainty

  D.complication

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• 9One of the responsibilities of the Coast Guard is to make sure that all ships ________ follow traffic rules in busy harbors.

  A.cautiously

  B.dutifully

  C.faithfully

  D.skillfully

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• 10The Eskimo is perhaps one of the most trusting and considerate of all Indians but seems to be ________ the welfare of his animals.

  A.critical about

  B.indignant at

  C.indifferent to

  D.subject to

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