Nowadays, skilled workers such as carpenters, electricians and TV repairmen often have higher income than college graduates. The old distinction that whitecollar workers make a better living than bluecollar workers no longer _____ true.

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• 1One of the main goals of the modern wonmen's liberation movement, which started in the early 1960s, was to _____ sex discrimination in the workforce, and to open up careers for women that were previously reserved for men.

  A.abolish

  B.eliminate

  C.diminish

  D.extinguish

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• 2There are two great belts or _____ where ninety percent of all earthquakes take place; they may, however, happen anywhere at any time.

  A.regions

  B.areas

  C.zones

  D.districts

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• 3Sometimes the tension produced by fears is so great that we cannot suppress it. At such times we need to _____ the tension by laughing or crying.

  A.discard

  B.disperse

  C.disguise

  D.discharge

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• 4It is due to the invention of the computer that man has been able to work so many wonders in the past few years. A case _____ is the successful launching of space shutle.

  A.in point

  B.in question

  C.in a way

  D.in brief

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• 5A scientist does not accept statements which are not based on the most complete evidence available. Instead, he always checks, studies and makes experiments carefully and objectively to _____ them.

  A.testifly

  B.verify

  C.affirm

  D.assert

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• 6The differences, in terms of lifetime experiences, between the average student who goes to college and the average student who does not, are so _____ to the collegegoing sutdnet that any student who can reach college owes it to himself to do so.

  A.preferrable

  B.favourable

  C.convenient

  D.compulsory

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• 7An auction is usually advertized beforehand with full particulars of articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by _____ buyers.

  A.perspective

  B.prospective

  C.prosperous

  D.profitable

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• 8Recently, great advances have been made in the study of Venus' surface by the use of radar waves to _____ the dense cloud layer.

  A.persecute

  B.pierce

  C.penetrate

  D.plunge

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• 9Traditionally,work for“selfinterest” would be interpreted to mean work for _____ .

  A.selfish reasons

  B.a feeling of satisfaction

  C.earning a living

  D.a contributing place in society

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• 10In the second paragraph,the author points out that work and a corresponding salary mean that _____ .

  A.the worth of the worker is recognized by the society

  B.the worker is better than any other person

  C.the worker is able to support himself or herself

  D.the worker is leading a very successful life

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