41. It has been estimated that the earth’s surface temperature has increased ________ one quarter to three quarters of a degree since 1805.
A) to
B) be
C) at
D) with
42. The lady dressed in the latest Paris fashion is ________ in her appearance but rude in her speech.
A) elaborate
B) excessive
C) elegant
D) exaggerated
43. Many people think that the standards of public ________ have declined.
A) morality
B) rightness
C) awareness
D) mentality
44. Iceland lies far north in the Atlantic, with its northernmost tip actually ________ the Arctic Circle.
A) touched
B) touches
C) touching
D) being touched
45. You need to rewrite this sentence because it is ________, the readers will have difficulty in understanding it.
A) comprehensive
B) alternative
C) deliberate
D) ambiguous
46. People were surprised to find that he had the ability to ________ everything he was involved in.
A) precede
B) dominate
C) effect
D) instruct
47. Colin married my sister and I married his brother, ________ makes Colin and me double in-laws.
A) what
B) which
C) that
D) it
48. The problems requiring immediate solution will be given ________ at the meeting.
A) priority
B) urgency
C) superiority
D) emergency
49. A membership card authorizes ________ the club’s facilities for a period of 12 months.
A) the holder using
B) the holder’s use
C) the holder to use
D) the holder uses
50. During the conference the speaker’ tried to ________ his feelings concerning the urgency of a favorable decision.
A) comply
B) impose
C) imply
D) convey
51. ________ I admit that there are problems, I don’t think that they cannot be solved.
A) Unless
B) Until
C) As
D) While
52. The fact that they reacted so differently was a reflection of their different ________.
A) performances
B) personalities
C) qualities
D) appearances
53. Your excuse that an elephant fell on you and made you late is just ________.
A) inevitable
B) indispensable
C) incredible
D) incurable
54. Another big issue ________ the new republic is the problem of the education of its citizens.
A) confining
B) confirming
C) conforming
D) confronting
55. I tried to relax because I knew I would use up my oxygen sooner ________.
A) the more excited I got
B) I got excited more
C) and more I got excited
D) and I got more excited
56. Scientists first ________ the idea of the atom bomb in the 1930s.
A) imagined
B) conceived
C) considered
D) acknowledged
57. Cotton production has been ________ the decline these years.
A) down
B) on
C) at
D) under
58. The day before my history exam, I still hadn’t ________ reading the first book on the list.
A) as about
B) caught up with
C) got round to
D) sat for
59. He has pointed our the dangers ________ in this of nuclear power station.
A) interior
B) inherent
C) insists
D) inner
60. Wherever I have an appointment, I like to arrive ________.
A) ahead of time a little
B) a little time
C) a little ahead of time
D) ahead of a little time
61. Radar is used to extend the ________ of man’s sense of observing his environment, especially the sense of vision.
A) validity
B) liability
C) capability
D) intensity
62. The boy cycling in the street was knocked down by a minibus and received ________ injures.
A) fatal
B) excessive
C) disastrous
D) exaggerated
63. It the ocean were free of ice, storm paths would move further north, ________ the plains of North America of rainfall.
A) to deprive
B) deprived
C) depriving
D) deprived
64. A window in the kitchen was ________; there was rubbish every where, and the curtains and carpets had been stolen.
A) scattered
B) scraped
C) scratched
D) smashed
65. This is an idea site for a university ________ it is far from the downtown area.
A) provided that
B) now that
C) so that
D) in that
66. The most ________ technological success in the twentieth century is probably the computer revolution.
A) prominent
B) prosperous
C) solemn
D) prevalent
67. Whether their football team will win is a matter of ________ to me.
A) indifference
B) discrimination
C) deviation
D) interests
68. He thought he could talk Mr. Robinson ________ buying some expensive equipment.
A) on
B) of
C) round
D) into
69. Today the public is much concerned about the way ________.
A) nature is being ruined
B) which nature is ruined
C) on which to ruin nature
D) of nature to be ruined
70. Though ________ rich, he was better off than at any other period in his life.
A) by any means
B) by some means
C) by all means
D) by no means

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