The telegraph opened up the possibility of establishing almost _____ communication and thereby offered many practical advantages to people in all walks of life.

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• 1Mobility is one of the characteristics often _____ executives, and they must accustom themselves to moving quite regularly.

  A.demanded of

  B.asked for

  C.expected from

  D.called for

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• 2You can't help but hear commercials; every few minutes the program is interrupted to give you one advertising _____ .

  A.so on and so forth

  B.more or less

  C.something or other

  D.sooner or later

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• 3To develop _____ , to train themselves to behave logically and truthfully, and to listen and respond to their partners, actors often practice improvisation.

  A.simultaneity

  B.spontaneity

  C.grace

  D.excellence

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• 4He often quoted“reason over passion” as maxim in _____ the longstanding division among Canada's Englishspeaking majority and the Frenchdescended minority concentrated in his home province of Quebec.

  A.adjusting

  B.reconcilling

  C.conquering

  D.consolidating

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• 5He _____ a wellmeant but unsuccessful campaign to ease EastWest tensions calling for arms reduction and a summit of the nuclear powers.

  A.embarked on

  B.reckoned on

  C.caught on

  D.dwelt on

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• 6Louis Brailele designed a form of communication enabling people to _____ and preserve their thoughts by incorporating a series of dots which were read by the finger tips.

  A.retain

  B.visualize

  C.convey

  D.transfer

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• 7Only ten to twenty percent of cold viruses are transmitted by carriers, who, sneezing and coughing, _____ the viruses into the air.

  A.spray

  B.sprinkle

  C.spread

  D.sprout

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• 8If a scientist holds an idea to be true and finds any counterevidence whatever, the idea is either _____ or abandoned.

  A.testified

  B.ascertained

  C.violated

  D.modified

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• 9Just as space was _____ into regions, time was split up into eras, seasons, and epochs.

  A.evolved

  B.originated

  C.decomposed

  D.detached

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• 10What does the author think Joe Templer should be blamed for、

  A.He should have equipped his car with a security system.

  B.He should not have his car refilled at the gas station.

  C.He should not have been so sure of himself.

  D.He should have shut down the engine of his car.

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