【正文】 that the damage was not as serious as reported. A) decrease B) subtract C) minimize D) degrade the world is to remain peaceful the utmost effort must be made by nations to limit local _______ . A) collisions B) bats C) contradictions D) conflicts 16 munications are so uptodate that even when ______ in the middle of the Pacific, businessmen can contact their offices as if they were next door . A) gliding B) cruising C) piloting D) patrolling the past ten years skyscrapers have developed ______ in Chicago and New York City. A) homogeneously B) simultaneously C) spontaneously D) harmoniously court considers a financial ______ to be an appropriate way of punishing him. A) option B) duty C) obligation D) penalty think that I mitted a _______ in asking her because she seemed very upset by my question. A) blunder B) revenge C) reproach D) scandal when textbooks are ______ through a school system, methods of teaching may vary greatly. A) monplace B) standardized C) petitive D) generalized have always regarded a man of ______ and fairness as a reliable friend . A) robustness B) temperament C) integrity D) pactness individuals are required to ______ to the laws made by their governments. A) obey B) conform C) concede D) observe basic causes are unknown, although certain conditions that may lead to cancer have been _______ . A) identified B) guaranteed C) notified D) conveyed is very strange but I had an ______ that the plane would crash. A) inspiration B) intuition C) imagination D) incentive changing image of the family on television provides ______ into changing attitudes toward the family in society. A) insights B) presentations C) revelations D) specifications town planning mission said that their financial outlook for the next year was optimistic. They expect increased tax ______ . 17 A) efficiency B) revenues C) privileges D) validity is an example of a severely disabled person who has bee _______ at many survival skills. A) proficient B) persistent C) consistent D) sufficient ties that bind us together in mon activity are so ______ that they ca n disappear at any moment. A) trivial B) fatal C) tentative D) feeble the construction of skyscrapers, cranes are used to ______ building materials to the upper floors. A) toss B) tow C) hoist D) hurl have little ______ value and their price depends almost entirely on their scarcity. A) extinct B) permanent C) surplus D) intrinsic kitchen was small and ______ so that the disabled could reach everything without difficulty. A) conventional B) pact C) patible D) concise will______ resign in view of the plete failure of the research project. A) doubtfully B) adequately C) presumably D) reasonably goal is to make higher education available to everyone who is willing and capable ______ his financial situation. A) with respect to B) in accord with C) regardless of D) in terms of original elections were declared ______ by the former military ruler. A) void B) vulgar C) surplus D) extravagant stood gazing at the happy ______ of children playing in the park. A) perspective B) view C) landscape D) scene obvious change of attitude at the top towards women39。 the great majority pass us by. A) fiction B) function C) fraction D) friction many patients, institutional care is the most _______ and beneficial form of care. A) persistent B) appropriate C) thoughtful D) sufficient 39。 people were saddened when they watched the ________ sight on TV. A) panic B) patriotic C) pathetic D) periodic tourists were _______ by the city39。s piano playing is really terrible. 11 A) pour scorn on B) heap praise upon C) give vent to D) cast light upon 68. Some children display an __________ curiosity about every new thing they encounter. A) incredible B) infectious C) inpatible D) inaccessible 69. Bruce Stephen gripped the __________ wheel hard as the car bounced up and down. A) stirring B) driving C) steering D) revolving 70. Many of the scientists and engineers are judged____how great their achievements are. A) in spite of B) in ways of C) in favor of D) in terms of Unit 4 directions were so _______ that it was impossible to plete the assignment. A) ingenious B) ambitious C) notorious D) ambiguous a degree from a good university is the means to a better job, education is one of the most ________ areas in Japanese life. A) sophisticated B) petitive C) considerate D) superficial a person talks about his weak points, his listener is expected to say something in the way of _______ . A) persuasion B) remedy C) encouragement D) promise 12 interest in redecorating the big house kept her ________ for a whole week. A) constrained B) dominated C) restricted D) occupied we _______ our relations with that country, we39。 we proved in the end that we weren39。ll have to ask the doctor for a ______. A) receipt B) recipe C) subscription D) prescription 50. Some fish have a greater __________ for acid water than others. A) tolerance B) resistance C) dependence D) persietence 51. There was once a town in this country where all life seemed