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In 1953, when the writer entered the data processing field, he was _____ to learn that electronic computers could perform several thousand additions per second.

A. frightened
B. embarrassed
C. dismayed
D. astounded

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Jill was _____ by her employees because she often scolded them for not working hard enough.

A. loathed
B. appreciated
C. cherished
D. praised

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There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young one has a glorious future before him and the old one has a _____ future behind him.

A. splendid
B. dreamy
C. luxurious
D. fateful

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At the airport, I could hear nothing except the roar of aircraft engines which _____ all other sounds.

A. diminished
B. drowned
C. dwarfed
D. devastated

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The young teacher gave the students extra work because she was _____ by all the noise and talking in the classroom.

A. interrupted
B. degenerated
C. exasperated
D. terminated

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In 1955 Martin Luther King Jr. gained national _____ for his nonviolent methods used in a bus boycott in Montgomery.

A. realization
B. revolution
C. recognition
D. permission

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It _____ him to think of the seductive girl he disliked very much working in his son’s office.

A. challenged
B. infuriated
C. intimidated
D. shocked

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As fresh flowers wither easily, the department store chooses some artificial ones to _____ the counters and shelves.

A. enhance
B. devise
C. slumber
D. decorate

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Communication is one of the most important _____ that hold cultural systems together.

A. bounds
B. hints
C. moans
D. bonds

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On the day of his funeral, the whole nation _____ the death of our beloved Premier Zhou Enlai.

A. pained
B. mourned
C. saddened
D. regretted

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