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| 1.She remains confident and ______ untroubled by our present problems. A) indefinitely
 B) infinitely
 C) optimistically
 D) seemingly
 2.Fiber-optic cables can carry hundreds of telephone conversations ______.
 A) simultaneously
 B) spontaneously
 C) homogeneously
 D) contemporarily
 3.The police were alerted that the escaped criminal might be in the ______.
 A) vain
 B) vicinity
 C) court
 D) jail
 4.Whether you live to eat or eat to live, food is a major ______ in every family's budget.
 A) nutrition
 B) expenditure
 C) routine
 D) provision
 5.Now a paper in Science argues that organic chemicals in the rock come mostly from ______ on earth rather than bacteria on Mars.
 A) configuration
 B) constitution
 C) condemnation
 D) contamination
 6.There is much I enjoy about the changing seasons, but my favorite time is the ______ from fall to winter.
 A) transmission
 B) transformation
 C) transition
 D) transfer
 7.I think we need to see an investment ______ before we make an expensive mistake.
 A) guide
 B) entrepreneur
 C) consultant
 D) assessor
 8.The ______ on this apartment expires in a year's time.
 A) treaty
 B) lease
 C) engagement
 D) subsidy
 9.The elderly Russians find it hard to live on their state ______.
 A) pensions
 B) earnings
 C) salaries
 D) donations
 10.There is supposed to be a safety ______ which makes it impossible for trains to collide.
 A) appliance
 B) accessory
 C) machine
 D) mechanism
 11.After four years in the same job his enthusiasm finally ______.
 A) deteriorated
 B) dispersed
 C) dissipated
 D) drained
 12.No one can function properly if they are _______ of adequate sleep.
 A) deprived
 B) ripped
 C) stripped
 D) contrived
 13.For years now, the people of that faraway country have been cruelly ______ by a dictator.
 A) depressed
 B) immersed
 C) oppressed
 D) cursed
 14.Ever since the rise of industrialism, education has been ______ towards producing workers.
 A) harnessed
 B) hatched
 C) motivated
 D) geared
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