Exercise Three

1. Many people thought he was a man of good .

C. reputation

2. What he did is a cheating.

B. plain

3. We must recover the stolen goods at all .

D. costs

4. The population of the world is growing at a dangerous .

B. rate

5. She told me to use my dictionary to anything I didn't understand.

B. look up

6. This exercise is certainly not so difficult as it .

B. appears

7. I have got to go-something has just at home and I am needed there.

D. come up

8. Industrial countries a great amount of raw materials.

A. consume

9. Sometimes I think he isn't quite in the head.

D. sensible

10. Tom awake all night thinking of them.

A. lay

11. The cost of living is again.

D. rising

12. The new theory became widely .

C. spread

13. When you tell him something he always does the on purpose.

D. opposite

14. It's surprising that this innocent-looking person should have such a crime.

B. committed

15. He me because he offered a cigarette to everyone except me.

C. offended

16. There was nobody in when we came round the corner.

A. sight

17. It is a hard and long struggle we are with.

A. busy

18. If you want to telephone her , you'll have to the number in the book.

D. look up

19. , her health is much improved , but she is still not really well.

B. By the way

20. His job as a tour guide traveling a lot around the country.

D. involves

21. The task before us great courage and perseverance.

D. calls for

22. A piece of news is one that easily arouses the attention of the readers.

C. sensational

23. Such kind of cartoons have great not only to children ,but to some adults.

D. appeals

24. This kind of animal has a wide all over the world.

B. distribution

25. All of us agree that he has an housewife.

A. economical

26.People can't the fact that China is still a developing country.

A. ignore

27.When business is , there is usually an increase in unemployment.

D. depressed

28.The wild life in Africa is extremely .

B. diverse

29.One needed when making a cake is flour ; another is sugar.

A. ingredient

30.The following year parliament voted to the death penalty for murder.

A. abolish

31.He made a(n) contribution to the discussion.

A. positive

32.The completion of the transcontinental railroad was an important .

C. event

33.The plant electricity for the entire city.

B. generates

34.Ministers are under no to follow the committee's recommendation.

B. obligation

35.The PLA soldiers were the dam with sandbags in spite of the heavy rain.

B. reinforcing

36.Princess Anne's wedding was a affair.

D. spectacular

37.As part of their advertising campaign , they distributed of the new shampoo.

D. samples

38.She was the grant money to pay her way through graduate school.

A. counting on

39.You must yourself or they will continue to bully you.

B. assert

40.Experts say that the complex organizational life of ants should be attributed to .

A. instinct

41.You can know a man by the he keeps.

D. company

42.The river's name from an Indian chief.

B. originates

43.Susie's school work is well above .

B. average

44.Human beings have themselves to very diverse environments with the help of fire ,

agriculture and machines.

A. adapted

45.they stayed up late trying to out a way to solve the problem.

D. figure

46.His art criticism has brilliance but no substance.

A. external

47.The nurses do all they can to make the patients feel .

B. at ease

48.Short-term sufficiency lulled them into about the long-term threat.

C. complacency

49.The talks had been but much remained to be done.

A. fruitful

50.People have little information on the of air pollution near the factory.

A. extent

51.We are in of extra pay for extra work.

A. favor

52.There are no contradictions that are not at the meeting.

C. avoidable

53.This middle school is to a key university.

C. attached

54.Farmers will have a bumper harvest , that the whether is favorable.

B. assuming

55.This might explain the feeling I have long had about pop music.

A. intuitive

56.He came to the meeting his serious illness.

A. despite

57.Say what you mean and then there will be no misunderstanding.

D. precisely

58.Under his leadership the of expansion was carried out.

D. policy

59.The workers are well aware that if they undertake this project they will inevitably

many difficulties , even hazards.

C. encounter

60.The of the pill is beginning to have on the patients.

B. effect

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1. For many people today,

1. C. applying for

2. B. comprehend

3. D. difference

4. D. that

5. D. poor

6. B. hobbies

7. A. get over

8. B. deficiency

9. A. Taken

10.B. little

11.D. laboriously

12.C. what

13.C. slows down

14.C. overcome

15.B. predetermined

16.A. faster

17.C. impossible

18.D. sacrificed

19.D. concepts

20.C. improved

2. The past 20 years ...

1. C. structure

2. B. divorce

3. C. many

4. D. end in

5. D. where

6. D. in the number of

7. A. survive

8. D. facilities

9. B. expensive

10.D. In addition

11.C. raising

12.A. earning

13.A. sharp

14.D. among

15.A. for

16.C. damaged

17.D. However

18.B. negative

19.B. As for

20.C. mature

3. Thanksgiving day is ...

1. C. where

2. A. two-mouth

3. C. starvation

4. B. survived

5. D. anxiety

6. D. existence

7. A. produced

8. C. as

9. B. therefore

10.D. proclaimed

11.C. observed

12.B. pattern

13.B. varieties

14.A. traditional

15.A. favorite

16.C. Throughout

17.A. annual

18.B. on which

19.C. express

20.C. ask for

4. The British government ...

1. C. around

2. A. magnet

3. C. destination

4. D. guaranteed

5. B. assessed

6. D. assured

7. A. approved

8. C. recognition

9. D. flexible

10. B. complex

11. C. intensive

12. A. available

13. D. personalized

14. B. on

15. A. compete

16. B. simple

17. A. impartial

18. C. called

19. D. assists

20. C. application

5. There are three kinds of goals :

1. A. that

2. B. current

3. C. apply

4. D. achieved

5. A. as

6. B. amount to

7. C. solid

8. C. Upon

9. D. date

10.C. deal with

11.A. extend

12.B. allow

13.C. overwhelmed

14.D. enforce

15.D. motivation

16.B. related

17.A. cover

18.C. static

19.D. limit

20.C. action

6. A growing world population ...

1. D.distribution

2. A. fewer

3. C. in consequence

4. C. steadily

5. B. fed

6. B. cultivation

7. D. yield

8. A. accessible

9. C. intensively

10. C. difficult

11. D. dense

12. D. improvement

13. A. Were

14. C. quicker

15. B. unfavorable

16. A. beyond

17. C. hold back

18. D. ensure

19. A. suit

20. C. devised