1.  Unless you sign a contract with the insurance company for your goods, you are not entitled____ a repayment for the goods damaged in delivery.

A. to                 B. with               C. for                 D. on

2.  The capital intended to broaden the export base and ________ efficiency gains from international trade was channeled instead into uneconomic import substitution.

A. secure              B. extend             C. defend             D. possess

3.  The roles expected___ old people in such a setting give too few psychological satisfactions for normal happiness.

A. of                 B. on                C. to                  D. with

4.  At first, the_____ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible, but, with painstaking efforts and at great expense, it became a reality.

A. transaction          B. transmission        C. transformation        D. transition

5.  France\'s ____of nuclear testing in the South Pacific last month triggered political debates and mass demonstrations.

A. assumption          B. consumption        C. presumption         D. resumption

6.  His efforts to bring about a reconciliation between the two Parties_____.

A. came off            B. came on           C. came round           D. came down

7.  It is announced that a wallet has been found and can be____ at the manager\'s office.

A. declared            B. obtained            C. reclaimed           D. recognized

8.  When I___ my senses, I found myself wrapped up in bed in my little room, with Grandma bending over me.

A. woke up            B. took to             C. picked up            D. came to

9.  The English weather defies forecast and hence is a source of interest and ____ to everyone.

A. speculation          B. attribution          C. utilization            D. proposition

10. You don\'t have to install this radio in your new car, it\'s an_____ extra.

A. excessive           B. optional            C. additional            D. arbitrary

11. Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could __________.

A. descend            B. decline            C. deteriorate              D. depress

12. ______ to some parts of South America is still difficult, because parts of the continent are still covered with thick forests.

A. Orientation          B. Access            C. Procession             D. Voyage

13. One of the responsibilities of the Coast Guard is to make sure that all ships _________ follow traffic rules in busy harbors.

A. cautiously           B. dutifully            C. faithfully             D. skillfully

14. The individual TV viewer invariably senses that he or she is _________ an anonymous, statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience.

A. everything except   B. anything but          C. no less than          D. nothing more than

15. Fuel scarcities and price increases _______ automobile designers to scale down the largest models and to develop completely new lines of small cars and trucks.

A. persuaded         B. prompted            C. imposed              D. enlightened

16. The chairman of the board _________ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.

A. compelled         B. posted               C. pressed               D. tempted

17. The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once _________.

A. thrived           B. swelled               C. prospered             D. flourished

18. However, growth in the fabricated metals industry was able to _________ some of the decline in the iron and steel industry.

A. overturn          B. overtake              C. offset                 D. oppress

19.   When any non-human organ is transplanted into a person, the body immediately recognizes it as _________.

A. novel            B. remote                C. distant                D. foreign

20. For three quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost _________ as microorganisms.

A. precisely         B. instantly               C. initially               D. exclusively