6. New ideas are slow to _____ and take much time to spread through conservative communities.(A) per
7. The couple were so _____ that they couldn’t afford to give one another even token Christmasgifts.
8. A Thanksgiving turkey is often mistakenly cited as the culprit for after-dinner _____ feeling off
9. Soliloquies in Shakespeare’s plays often reveal characters’ thoughts.(A) Rehearsals (B) Verses (C
10. You need to pay for the cost of the journey first; later, the company will reimburse you for the
11. Although he had trouble finding a suitable publisher because of his cumbersome writing style, hi
12. These cuts have impinged on the region’s largest employers.(A) alleviated (B) affected (C) aboun
14. The meeting was interminable; the manager just kept pressing others into agreeing with him andwo
15. It will take several years before the economy will rebound after such a downturn that has impact
16. The lunch menu is very short. It’s _____ than the dinner menu.(A) varied (B) much varied (C) mor
17. When Rosemary Holland, 33, with a young daughter, learned she had breast cancer, she made adiffi
18. _____, the history of civilization would have to be rewritten.(A) If the artists and creative th
19. The pleasure of being liked and, still more, _____, was what kept Eugene from despair; for it wa
20. Oscar Wilde, the famous Irish novelist and playwright, once said, “When I was young, I _____thin
【題組】24. (A) has supervised (B) has overshadowed (C) has imposed(D) has castigated (E) has retroacted
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