Unit 1 P24

1.This research seems to lend some_______to the theory that the drug might cause cancer .

2.In a number of developing countryies ,war has been an additional _______to progress .

3.Anthea was about to play her_________;without her signature none of the money could be released .

4.I ________my second year exams and was lucky not to be thrown out of college .

5.I didnt want to lose my__________in front of her .

6.The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a __________）.

7.For three hours a committee of state senators listened to a________of local residents giving their opinions.

8.Thousands of lives will be __if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon.

9.Brierley's book has the___of being both information and readable .

10.I think there was a ________to keep me out of the committee .

Unit 2 P59

1.It is not easy for chinese people to respond properly to others compeliments and equally difficult for them to accept criticisms______.

2.We shoud be truly thankful to Mr Deng Xiao Ping for ______and initiating the economic reform in china .

3.Unfortunately ,television studio are strangely designed and dressing -rooms are often miles away from the studios ,so we had to find a place where she and her ________could relax in comfort without the need to climd stairs .

4.What is the use of_______you bad luck ?It is more important to find the real cause of your misfortune .

5.The rising real estate prices________his ambition of owning a house of his own in the big city ,disappointed ,he returned to his hometown .

6.The old women sat silently beside her collapsed house ,her eyes ______tears and hatred .

7.He writes clearly and lightheartedly about the 100 best rivers and gives his expert advice on how to_______their reaches .

8.Outside the forest the snow was already six inches deep and growing steadily , ________deeper .

9.There is no doubt that his duty extends to informing his patient ,if asked ,of the nature of his illness and its likely_______

10.Those who are climbing the career ladder fast may use alcohol as a booster to help them to achieve,and those who recognize that that they have failed to reach the top may also turn to alcohol ,in an attempt to_______their failing self-image.

11.A typically chinese countryside house is one whose eaves______over the wall.

12.The ship came back from the region that had just been attacked by a strange disease.Thus the health officials placed all its crew in ________

Unit 3 P95

1.Given the ______ of modern machines, there is little that require manual labor .

2.After the police released their report ,john was_______from all responsibility for the accident .

3.The world constructed by online games seems to many youngsters a reasonable _______for "real life ",although what they see is not real in the least .

4.In a speech at the Congress ,the president______the virtues of free enterprise andexpressed his distaste for the blatant hegemony in IT industry .

5.He soon became notorious because he enjoyed deriving_______satisfaction from embarrass ing people .

6.I _______everything that has been said from both side of the House in support and admiration of him and of the courage and fortitude that he and his family have displayed.

7.The opposition members of the parliament_______the government 's response to the crisis .

8.The poor women was _______of her money by a dishonest accountant .

9.The other guests were stunned into silence as h began swinging into the______of giggling photographers and kicking at tem frantically .

10.Back to the us,the sly businessman was faced with_________charges that may send him to life imprisonment . Unit 4 P131

1.It is certainly undemocratic ,and many people are beginning to feel that it ______the unconstitutional .

2.Traditionally ,organizations are constructed pyramidally; with a ________most powerful at the top and progressively less so as the pyramid spreads downwards .

3."No theory explains everything ,"she remarks ."yet it is just the desire to explain everything which is the _______of theory .

4.The archaeologist in the film knew that there was a ______upon anyone who entered the pyramid .

5.I have always belived tourism has an important part to play in the spreading of understanding between countries ,as well as being a _______ for economic development .

6.Her body looked diminished,almost _______in the huge chair ,and her hands on the arms began very gently to

shake .

7.The talks will not be easy and the fundamental differences between the parties remain as potentially _____as ever .

8.A real love song is infinitely more appropriate for christmas than a trashy song ______ as a commercial gimmick .

9.A local builder offered to knock down the remain of the house in exchange for the materials he could______.

10.Edward now wore the manic look of some animal transferred into the wrong environment ,as though he might ______.or bite .

11.Alan attempted to read every press clipping ,interview anyone who ever knew the movie star ,and _______a book out of it .

12.Some sociologists tend to ________the loss of community in the face of modern urbanism ;there is a wistful longing for the past in their analysis of the modern word .

Unit 5 P191

1."You just can't _______ that we're in a transformational period,"Cole said,"The old way is not

survivable.Investors,managers and laborers all have accepted that big things have to be done."

2.I think you've just _______ the biggest problem facing the Conservative party in this election.

3.The great _______of my life is that my public career continues to flourish and expand even at a time when the music I love,the music I write ,the music I champion,the music on which I am the world's leading expert,is utterly out of fashion in every segment of musical society.

4. ________ by the surreality of history and the mind boggling changes unleashed in the 60s,many writers in that era became minimalists,withdrawing,turtlelike,inside their own homes and heads.

5.Hannah Arendt's clear message is directed at the citizens of democratic societies that the _______of politics is freedom.

6.According to a survey of college graduates recently released by the government's Council of Labor

Affairs(CLA),the average starting monthly salary for college graduates in 2006 decreased,which reveals ______in economy.

7.Financial________ are said to exist where an agent can expect some form of material reward-especially money-in exchange for acting in a particular way.

8.Girls from dalit families,the lowest in the caste hierarchy in India have the ______for formal school education.

9.The heated argument is getting out of control,And it must be admitted that Challenger is________in the last degree,but Summerlee has an acid tongue,which makes matters worse.

10.________is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness,an out of sorts feeling,often the first indication of an infection or other disease.

Unit6 P225

1.In the following week，the question _____itself in his mind ,but he was incapable of answering it.2.We were very rapidly using up a certain kind of irreplaceable asset, namely the tolerance margins which our _____nature always provides.

3.A _____innovation is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or status quo product in the market.

4.The_____income of Tibet Autonomous Region hit 1.06 billion yuan in the first six months of 2007, an increase of 26.7 percent year-on-year, according to sources with the region’s statistics bureau.

5.We apologize for the____ of Type Pad-powered sites this morning, and we’re working to resolve the hardware problem that’s causing it.

6.The office boy tried to _____the smoke by opening a window of the meeting room.

7.The concept that people are born equal is_____in the American Constitution.

8.Victoria Beckham hasn’t quite picked up on all US custom, and _____ the wrath of a waitress for allegedly failing to leave a tip.

9.He complains about his own staff as well, those who are not_____into silence.

10, Speeches or statements made in pubic that _____people because of their race, homosexuality, transgender status or HIV or AIDS