However dull work may be, it becomes bearable if it is a means of building up _____ , whether in the world at large or only in one's own circle.

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• 1To remain competitive in the international market place, U.S. industries have recognized that they must attract the brightest, most _____ young people available.

  A.committed

  B.dedicated

  C.determined

  D.contributed

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• 2It would be very difficult for a library to be without dictionaries and encyclopedea; such reference books are _____ .

  A.unavoidable

  B.inevitable

  C.indispensible

  D.fundamental

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• 3During the 1990s world oil production will approach geological estimates of maximum production _____ , even with rapidly increasing petroleum prices.

  A.capability

  B.quota

  C.potentiality

  D.capacity

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• 4Children between the age of 2 and 11 cannot comprehend the difference between commercials and television, so they cannot defend themselves against the _____ techniques of commercial television advertising.

  A.persuasive

  B.advisable

  C.irresistible

  D.appealing

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• 5Both men and women, nine times out of ten,are firmly _____ of the superior excellence of their own sex.

  A.asserted

  B.ensured

  C.convinced

  D.conceived

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• 6Job applicants often developed the suspicion that _____ are set aside for friends and relatives and that advertisements are only put out to avoid this accusation.

  A.positions

  B.vacancies

  C.occupations

  D.posts

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• 7But people who read hour after hour or work where the eyes are kept steadily at one focus soon may come to need glasses to correct their _____ .

  A.vision

  B.view

  C.visibility

  D.perception

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• 8Anyone who has ridden on a railroad train knows how rapidly another train flashes by when it is travelling in the opposite direction and _____ how it may look almost motionless when it is moving in the same direction.

  A.meanwhile

  B.accordingly

  C.likewise

  D.conversely

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• 9Manufacturing is Canada's most important economic activity. It _____ more than half the value of all Canadian production.

  A.accounts for

  B.amounts to

  C.takes up

  D.turns out

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• 10Tests reveal that mother's heartbeat can have a calming effect on the infant. Those who were _____ the heartbeat recording fell asleep in half the time it took for those who were not.

  A.left to

  B.exposed to

  C.faced with

  D.trusted with

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