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

[A] restrain

[B] hinder

[C] restrict

[D] prohibit

32.   Without 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

33.   Preliminary 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

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

[A] expire

[B] exceed

[C] terminate

[D] cease

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

[A] sentimental

[B] affectionate

[C] intimate

[D] sensitive

36.   Several 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

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

[A] arbitrary

[B] rational

[C] mechanical

[D] unpredictable

38.   The 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

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

[A] spur

[B] further

[C] induce

[D] reinforce

40.   In 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

Section II: Cloze Test

Directions:

For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C], [D]. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)

Until recently most historians spoke very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They __41__ that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the __42__ man. But they insisted that its __43__ results during the period from 1750 to 1850 were widespread poverty and misery for the __44__ of the English population. __45__ contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1650 to 1750, when England was still a __46__ agricultural country, a period of great abundance and prosperity.

This view, __47__, is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists __48__ history and economics, have __49__ two things: that the period from 1650 to 1750 was __50__ by great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace.

41.   [A] admitted

[B] believed

[C] claimed

[D] predicted

42.   [A] plain

[B] average

[C] mean

[D] normal

43.   [A] momentary

[B] prompt

[C] instant

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