超星 - Unit 6 Book 4

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The school was not big enough to _________________ all the children.

A. seat
B. accommodate
C. take
D. accept

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I flew to Boston to attend the annual convention of the Parapsychological Association. What does convention mean in this context?

A. a formal agreement or contract between people and nations
B. a large formal assembly of a group with common interests
C. an accepted rule or method
D. a traditional or common style often used in literature, theater, or art to create a particular effect

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Courses in creative writing have proliferated in recent years.

A. to increase rapidly in numbers
B. to decrease substantially
C. to reduce enormously
D. to decline quickly

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Only a minute amount is needed. What does minute mean in this context?

A. any very short period of time
B. very small
C. 60 seconds
D. precise or detailed

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He is always ready to oblige journalists with information. What does oblige mean in this sentence?

A. to do a favour to someone
B. to compel someone by legal, moral, or physical means to do something
C. to do or receive good
D. to place (someone) under legal or moral obligation

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I was obliged to answer their questions. Obliged is synonymous with__________________?

A. forced
B. glad
C. happy
D. willing

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He’s been ‘relocated’, which is ________________ for ‘given a worse job a long way away’.

A. short
B. equivalent
C. shorthand
D. equal

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They have been living under the most ______________ conditions.

A. appalling
B. appealing
C. appearing
D. disappearing

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It did not require a great deal of perception to realise what he meant. What does perception mean in this sentence?

A. the ability to understand or notice something easily
B. the way you think about or understand someone or something
C. the way that you notice or understand something using one of your senses
D. a result of perceiving

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His comments have ________________ a shocked reaction.

A. led
B. triggered
C. provoked
D. risen

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