1、The country was facing difficulties financially and ____the situation was discouraging.
A.comprehensive
B.successive
C.overallz
D.systematic

2、I can’t advise you what to do. You must use your own____.
A.opinion
B.justice
C.ideal
D.judgement

3、Sometimes they____ their students’ poor comprehension to a lack of intelligence.
A.owe
B.attribute
C.contribute
D.gratitude

4、Gold is a precious, yellow coloured ____used for making coins, ornaments and jewelry.
A.mental
B.metal
C.moral
D.mould

5、If you persist in doing that, none except yourself should____the consequences.
A.answer for
B.answer to
C.be responsible of
D.be responsible about

6、He saved his daughter from the fire____ of his own life.
A.at expense
B.at a price
C.at the cost
D.At the loss

7、The misty weather in London____the contact.
A.interfered with
B.interfered
C.insured with
D.insured

8、Many automobile accidents were____careless driving.
A.attributed to
B.resulted in
C.contributed to
D.raised from

9、His answer was so confused that I could hardly make any____of it all.
A.explanation
B.meaning
C.sense
D.interpretation
10、Because I don’t take any sugar in my tea, I____to forget to offer it to other people.
A.like
B.come
C.tend
D have

11、Revolutionary developments in both observational and theoretical astronomy (took place) in the 1960’s.
A.commenced
B.occurred
C.were disputed
D.were exchanged

12、In the legends of the American West, Paul Bunyan’s most (treasured) possession was Babe the Blue Us, whose horns were said to span a distance of 42 ax handles.
A.comical
B.valued
C.expensive
D.colorful
13、A supernova is a star that explodes and then slowly fades to less than its original (brightness).
A.size
B.weight
C.radiance
D.imortance

14、Over six million citizens of the United States collect benefits from (private) pension plans each year.
A.unauthorized
B.confidential
C.nontransferable
D.non?governmental

15、Since the 1950’s literary critics have attempted to answer the question: When did children’s literature first (emerge) as a distinct literary genre?
A.improve as
B.appear as
C.conform to
D.respond to

16、Granite crystals are large enough to be seen with the (naked) eye.
A.wary
B.candid
C.unaided
D.discerning

17、Having (enlisted) in the Marine Corps in August 1918, Opha May Jonnson was made a provisional sergeant a month later.
A.considered
B.joined
C.written to
D.Risen in

18、The (widespread)use of X?rays for diagnostic purposes poses the risk of overexposure to radiation. A.medical
B.spacious
C.experimental
D.General

19、The geysers, one of the most unusual phenomena in nature, is beautiful to (behold).
A.view
B Relate
C.Sketch
D.Withhold

20、The lymphatic system includes a network of tiny capillaries that lie (adjacent )to the fine blood vessels.
A.independent of
B.obscured by
C.near
D.within