61. Columbus decision to sail west to reach the East _____ on his belief that the earth was round.
A. existed
B. sat
C. relaxed
D. rested
62. Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the _____ movie could not hold our attention.
A. three-hours
B. three-hour
C. three-hours
D. three-hour s
63. Difficulties can _____ a person s best qualities.
A. bring up
B. bring out
C. bring about
D. bring to
64. Doctors sometimes _____ old cures when modern medicine doesn t work.
A. fall on
B. fall down on
C. fall back on
D. fall in upon
65. Does brain power _____ as we get older? Scientists now have some surprising answers.
A. descend
B. decline
C. deduce
D. collapse
66. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true _____ it comes to classroom tests.
A. when
B. since
C. before
D. after
67. Don t worry. The company will _____ all your expense.
A. satisfy
B. meet
C. pay
D. submit
68. Eventually, people spread throughout the continent, ______ the entire species.
A. wiping out
B. wiping away
C. wiping off
D. wiping up
69. Experts say walking is one of the best ways for a person to ______ healthy.
A. preserve
B. stay
C. maintain
D. reserve
70. Faced with the ______ difficulties, they are determined to carry on their program.
A. satisfactory
B. attributable
C. innocent
D. intangible
71. Fewer and fewer of today s workers expect to spend their working lives in the same field, ______ the same company.
A. all else
B. much worse
C. let alone
D. less likely
72. Flying in an airplane was once thought to be an impossible ______.
A. task
B. profession
C. promise
D. contest
73. Fresh vegetables are straight from the ______ and raw vegetables are ______.
A. earth...cooked
B. soil...uncooked
C. floor...cooked
D. ground...uncooked
74. From this material we can _____ hundreds of what you may call direct products.
A. derive
B. discern
C. diminish
D. displace
75. Fruit is cheapest _____ season.
A. at
B. on
C. in
D. through
76. Fruit pickers are paid at the _____ of 4.00 an hour.
A. rate
B. scale
C. sum
D. value
77. Fumes from the exhaust of an automobile are ______.
A. notorious
B. anxious
C. noxious
D. delicious
78. George wasn t in class today, Professor Brown excused him ______.
A. from attending
B. of attending
C. to attend
D. attending
79. Class will _____ at a high temperature and will be in a liquid condition.
A. dissolve
B. disappear
C. melt
D. evaporate
80. Hamlet _____ his father s death on his uncle.
A. reversed
B. reverted
C. revenged
D. revealed
61. D
62. B
63. B
64. C
65. B
66. A
67. B
68. A
69. B
70. D
71. C
72. B
73. B
75. A
76. C
77. A
78. C
79. A
80. C
