When he tried to make a ________, he found that the hotel that he wanted was completely filled because of a convention.

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• 1John said that he didn’t quite ________ and asked me to repeat what I had said.

  A.snatch up

  B.summon up

  C.catch on

  D.watch out

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• 2The Space Age ________ in October 1957 when the first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union.

  A.initiated

  B.originated

  C.embarked

  D.commenced

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• 3It can be inferred from the passage that high-quality college education calls for ________.

  A.putting academic work in the proper context

  B.a commitment to students and effective teaching

  C.the practice of putting leaning to productive ends

  D.dedication to research in frontier areas of knowledge

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• 4American colleges and universities failed to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates because ________.

  A.most of them lack high-quality faculties

  B.the interests of most faculty members lie in research

  C.there are not enough incentives for students to study hard

  D.they attach greater importance to research and publication than to teaching

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• 5One of the reasons for the current crisis in American colleges and universities is that ________.

  A.a narrow vocationalism has come to dominate many colleges

  B.students don’t have enough freedom in choosing what they want to learn

  C.skills are being taught as a means to an end

  D.students are only interested in obtaining credentials

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• 6A budget of five dollars a day is totally ________ for a trip round Europe.

  A.inadequate

  B.incapable

  C.incompatible

  D.invalid

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• 7In our highly technological society, the number of jobs for unskilled worker is ________.

  A.shrinking

  B.obscuring

  C.altering

  D.constraining

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• 8The fire has caused great losses, but the factory tried to ________ the consequences by saying that the damage was not as serious as reported.

  A.decrease

  B.subtract

  C.minimize

  D.degrade

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• 9If the world is to remain peaceful the utmost effort must be made by nations to limit local ________.

  A.collisions

  B.combats

  C.contradictions

  D.conflicts

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• 10Satellite communications are so up-to-date 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

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