1、（填空题） The general considered all the information that had been gathered and ________ what possible moves the enemy might make before issuing his orders.

2、（填空题） Children should be allowed to _______ those few years of innocence before they have to learn the truth about the real world.

3、（填空题） He has been _________ by a horrible disease, from which one of his best friends died two weeks ago.

4、（填空题） The results of the survey are _________ and useful despite being from a small sample.

5、（填空题） The director said that they needed a young actress who could ________ someone who was both unbalanced and confident at the same time.

6、（填空题） Praise must be used wisely to _________ students who perform up to expectations and to encourage students to perform to maximum levels.

7、（填空题） In the ________ of research, it is an accepted fact that scientific publications have to be written or translated into English to get published, acknowledged, and cited.

8、（填空题） He received a(n) _________ call threatening to disclose details of his affair if he didn’t pay the money.

9、（填空题） The movie presents Lincoln as a strong-willed, ___________ man who led the US through a moral, constitutional and political crisis.

10、（填空题） It is understandable that the health and welfare of their family is a (n) _________ concern for this young couple.

11、（填空题） As a number of authors point out, the urge to migrate is a(n) _________ part of human nature.

12、（填空题） The new president said she would _________ herself to protecting the rights of the old and the homeless, who are otherwise helpless and vulnerable.

13、（填空题） Cell phone conversations, which are fairly ___________ on commuter trains, can be annoying to fellow commuters.

14、（填空题） Ask your doctor whether a low-fat diet and a daily walk will _________ to reduce your high blood pressure.

15、（填空题） The ________ from tourism is the biggest single contribution to GDP in the Maldives; every year many tourists from all corners of the world spend their holidays there.

16、（填空题） Since the beginning of this century, China has built many modern conference centers with underground parking, air-conditioning and __________ translation systems.

17、（填空题） While advertising offers a stimulus to buy, sales promotion offers a(n) _________ to buy, but consumers must have their own reason to buy.

18、（填空题） In general, smokers living in cities are slightly more ________ to lung cancer than smokers who are living in the country.

19、（填空题） A large proportion of important _______ are brought about by people who step outside of conventional categories or traditional assumptions.

20、（填空题） The habits of going to coffee houses was ______ by the city’s relatively small size, safe streets, good public transportations, and moderate climate.

21、（填空题） Kids are more likely to __________ in a situation if they believe their parents expect them to help.

22、（填空题） He knows that the _________ of social status can consume vast amounts of his time and effort.

23、（填空题） The doctors are at a loss because so far no medicine has been found to _______ the spread of the disease.

24、（填空题） We see many special education directors trying to _______ the quality of their programs with much less money and much smaller staff.

25、（填空题） People there are told it is their ________ duty to support the national economy by buying their own products.

26、（填空题） Darwin’s thinking both drew upon and _________ the conventional ideas of his time.

27、（填空题） In spite of all your _________, there may be times when you encounter difficulties in the training process.

28、（填空题） My advice to Mr. Stewart is to think carefully before entering into a career in medicine, as this is a field which requires a lot of __________ and long working hours.

29、（填空题） Most Chinese parents would prefer to choose some professions that are stable and could bring _________ and economic benefits.

30、（填空题） It is legally possible for an elderly person to ___________ someone to act for them, should they become incapable of looking after themselves.

31、（填空题） 1.Most cities in the country have introduced “Clean Air Zones” ______________ factories and households are only allowed to burn smokeless fuel.

32、（填空题） The first lesson I learned as a newcomer for the company was never to ___________the degree of difficulty I would face in career advancement.

33、（填空题） Just as I started to think that I was never going to get well, the illness began to _______.

34、（填空题） Whatever the decision is, I would like you to know that your department is my first choice and I _______ it a great honor if I could study in your department.

35、（填空题） During one particularly ________ moment in my career, a senior colleague of mine said to me, “If you follow your dreams, the money will come. Follow the money, and you’ll lose your dreams.”

36、（填空题） Unless we can find a way to ________ nature and then invest in protecting it, our basic life-support systems are going to collapse.

37、（填空题） The blizzard moved south, turning into an icy rain that _________ the airports for three days.

38、（填空题） In this introduction we have diagnosed some of the causes of the illness and, in the following chapters, we will draw attention to its various unpleasant ________.

39、（填空题） In those days, divorce under any circumstances was socially unacceptable and there was great _______ in the family who went through it.。

40、（填空题） Every time she talked about being rejected in her hunt for a job, she seemed on the _________ of tears, and I would quickly switch the conversation to another topic.