21. Only an artist could ______the fine shades of color in the painting.
A. perceive B. conceive C. notice D. observe
22. Being _____your job is fine, of course, but you shouldn’t let work eat up all your leisure time.
A. trapped in B. committed to C. convinced of D. confronted with
23. Chinese people usually _____Wang Jinxi ____”the Iron man”.
A. regard….of B. think…as
C. refer to …as D. consider of…as
24. People often find that some seemingly ______persons do not always behave well.
A. respective B. respectable C. respectful D. respecting
25. Although many people view conflict as bad, conflict is sometimes useful _____it forces people
to test the relative merits of their attitudes and behaviors.
A. by which B. to which C. in that D. so that
26. With a longer life span, the _____ of old people in the population will be very high.
A. breakthrough B. settlement C. realization D. proportion
27. The_____ in international trade has made foreign languages even more useful than before.
A. column B. boom C. calculation D. commitment
28. In the story the clever little animal _____ the hunters and escapes from the trap they set.
A. outnumbers B. outlives C. outgrows D. outwits
29. Some people are worried that the moon will be polluted by human settlement _____ was the
Earth by overpopulation.
A like B. as C. that D. which
30. After years of delay, the cleaning-up project is finally _____.
A. in the way B. out of the way C. under way D. by the way
31. It's a five-star hotel; if you want to stay there you need to make your reservations at least a
week _____.
A. of advance B. in advance C. in a sense D. in service
32. The painter enjoyed his stay in the mountain so much that he decided to _____ it for two more
weeks.
A. extend B. intend C. sketch D. unfold
33.When a man gets ahead in life, ___, he owes his success to a woman.
A. better than B. more than
C. quicker than D. more often than not
34.If their institution does not have good _____, money will be lost and nothing can be achieved.
A. affection B. combination C. administration D. caution
35. Many famous scholars not only have ideas, but also know how to _____ them in words and
communicate them to others.
A. counsel B. dictate C. foretell D. formulate
36. Mr. Wang is an excellent translator, but his _____ is engineering.
A. similarity B. specialty C. maturity D. publicity
37. When people on the Earth _____ oil supplies, it'll be too late to look for other sources of
energy.
A. had nothing to do with B. linked up
C. kept a sharp eye on D. run out of
38. Cloning human _____ some serious ethical problems in the world.
A. poses B. diagnoses C. props D. preserves
39.The snow storm is _____ to reach the North of the country tonight.
A. reminded B. promoted C. predicted D. postponed
40. Nowadays many educators feel our schools do too little to _____ creative thinking.
A. counsel B. regulate C. promote D. construct

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