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Mr. Tsutsumi's ( ) background in electronics
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(A)firm (B)solid (C) stiff (D) hard |
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We can give you only a ( ) figure until
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(A)tennis court (B)ballpark (C)playground (D)field |
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We can’t get ( ) how much our company has spent to promote
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(A)away (B)down (C)ahead (D)over |
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Usually you cannot start a business unless
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(A) no fund (B) any fund (C) any funds (D) some
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The defeat in the game brought our team’s weak points ( ) to us. |
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(A)home (B)back (C)about (D)out |
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Two people in our department ( ) this year. |
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(A)are terminated (B)terminate
(C)had been terminated
(D)have been terminated |
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The textbooks for the new school term are already ( ) order. |
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(A)to (B)for (C)with (D)on |
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I lent him my car on condition that he ( ) it
in a week. |
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(A)returns (B)would return (C)returned (D)is
returning |
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The boy squandered the ( ) part of his high school days playing
hooky. |
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(A)many (B)best (C)few (D)better |
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In the general meeting of stockholders,
the majority ( ) of the opinion |
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that management should resign. |
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(A) thought (B) was (C) had (D) made |
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The manager found one of the chairs in the
restaurant was broken and |
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called the supply division to
replace it. |
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The scientists very
carefully observed the substance to
change in the |
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heat in approximately
15 minutes. |
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13. |
The driver dropped
the package by mistake and broke five dozens
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the raw
eggs he was carrying. |
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D |
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14. |
Immediately
after he searched the murder
suspect, the policeman |
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started to
seek for the
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It can infer from
the executive’s speech that our business
showing this |
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year will be much worse than
last year. |
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16. |
Mr. Cox would be
a really vibrant person, but after getting laid
off, he |
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has now
become quite depressed. |
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17. |
Few thrills cannot
equal the moments when you first
realize that you are |
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understanding
a foreign language. |
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D |
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18. |
He prefers
watching the news on television to newspapers because
it |
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gives him audiovisual
information. |
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19. |
Neither the
computer nor the Internet could have been created without |
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the combining and extending of
existing ideas
in ways that had not been |
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thought before. |
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20. |
The arsonist,
mingling among curious on-lookers on
the scene, went |
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noticed after
all by any of the police there. |
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