Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could ________.

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• 1My favorite radio song is the one I first heard on a thick 1923 Edison disc I ________ at a garage sale.

  A.trifled with

  B.scraped through

  C.stumbled upon

  D.thirsted for

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• 2When any non-human organ is transplanted into a person, the body immediately recognizes it as ________.

  A.novel

  B.remote

  C.distant

  D.foreign

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• 3Because of its intimacy, radio is usually more than just a medium; it is ________.

  A.firm

  B.company

  C.corporation

  D.enterprise

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• 4However, growth in the fabricated metals industry was able to ________ some of the decline in the iron and steel industry.

  A.overturn

  B.overtake

  C.offset

  D.oppress

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• 5The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once ________.

  A.thrived

  B.swelled

  C.prospered

  D.flourished

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• 6Equipment not ________ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.

  A.conforming to

  B.consistent with

  C.predominant over

  D.providing for

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• 7As an industry, biotechnology stands to ________ electronics in dollar volume and perhaps surpass it in social impact by 2020.

  A.contend

  B.contest

  C.rival

  D.strive

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• 8The authors of the United States Constitution attempted to establish an effective national government while preserving ________ for the states and liberty for individuals.

  A.autonomy

  B.dignity

  C.monopoly

  D.stability

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• 9For three quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost ________ as microorganisms.

  A.precisely

  B.instantly

  C.initially

  D.exclusively

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• 10The introduction of gunpowder gradually made the bow and arrow ________, particularly in Western Europe.

  A.obscure

  B.obsolete

  C.optional

  D.overlapping

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