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1. My little son doesn't feel well _____ towards my neighbors ever since their dog bit him last year.
A. embossed B. disposed
C. obsessed D. enraptured
2. Both Isabel and Irma couldn't _____ this new situation or size up what Mrs. Curry's revelation meant to them.
A. drop in on B. lust for
C. take in D. poke around
3. We must all do something to help rather than merely _____ our hands in despair and saying how awful the situation is.
A. wringing B. prompting
C. arresting D. flicking
4. This group was accused of _____, turning their backs on society and its problems to develop their own interests.
A. humanity B. emanation
C. latitude D. introversion
5. If an extraterrestrial object had hit the Earth, it would have made a crater 100 miles across and _____ an immense cloud of dust.
A. thrown up B. broken into
C. pulled up D. turned in
6. We all know Mr. Roger's overseas investments were made as a _____ against rising inflation in this country.
A. credit B. criterion
C. heirloom D. hedge
7. When asked by the investigator, the man replied: \"All I know about is Antony's own financial dealings, which are always _____.\"
A. genteel B. unstylish
C. aboveboard D. tenuous
8. My spirits _____ when I realized I couldn't afford the new car on my salary, which I had promised to buy for my fiancée.
A. scared B. flogged
C. sank D. transmitted
9. In some countries, especially in the United States, being an unmarried mother no longer carries the social _____ that it used to.
A. stigma B. affront
C. obsession D. convention
10. The council's answer to the population expansion is to build high blocks of fiats, but that's where the plan _____ who wants to live in them?
A. fits in B. emanates from
C. falls to the ground D. drops off |
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