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1. Taxes are an ______________which may fall on everybody.

2. We __________ the authority's decision not to close the hospital.

3. The doctor's instructions must be ____________ exactly; the sick man's life depends on it.

4.Do these opinion polls really _________________ what people are thinking?

5.I prefer to think of memorization as a stepping-stone to _____________in use of words and phrases.

6.In her office memos she tended to ___________ the work done by her staff.

7.The history of railroad transport has partly been a history of __________________for greater efficiency and profit.

8.He took on the new post without having the faintest idea of what it ____________.

9.He is __________ one of the greatest experts in the field.

10.Absolute secrecy is essential. ____________, the fewer who are aware of the project the better. Ex. 6

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1.This period is usually ___________________ the post-war period.

2.It would be a setback __________________ if we were denied use of their software.

3. We make people mentally old by retiring them, and we may even ____________________make them physically old.。

4.I know that the public _____________________ aren’t interested in this issue.

5.My sister was always _______________to me _______________ a model child.

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1.By the age of 20, Mozart had written some ten operas and was well prepared for the demanding audiences that_______________him in Vienna.

2.After only three years in the American market, our US sales there ________________ those in Japan.

3.Earthquakes _______________such serious danger to the country that Japan has become a world leader

in earthquake prediction, earthquake-proof construction techniques, and disaster preparedness by both civil defense forces and the general public.

4.American artists often took their ________________ from Europ ean literary salons and art schools, and cultured Americans traveled to Europe to become educated.

5.A series of body explosions __________________ all hopes for a peaceful solution in the Middle East.

6.When he realized the police had _______________ him, the man made for the exit as quickly as possible.

7.Many of the scientists and engineers are _________ in terms of how profitable their achievements are.

8.A person who moves to a house on a busy street may initially be _______________ every time a noisy vehicle drives by but after a month he will become used to it.

9.These publishers all depended on the favor of the English crown for their existence, and so they only published materials that did not _______________ royalty.

10. They will seek to persuade others that they are moral in the accepted sense of the term in order

to _______________their motives to gain the awards.

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1.This work has __________________ the best in him even though he is not as good usually.

2.He likes all winter sports _________________ skiing because he thinks skiing is too dangerous.

3.During the last 20 years, computing power has doubled about every 18 months _____________ the creation

of faster microprocessors, the incorporation of multiple microprocessor designs, and the development

of new storage technologies.