The meeting was held in order to ________ better understanding between the two countries.

A. deepen
B. promote
C. urge
D. pursh

These people ________ some reward for their hard work.

A. worth
B. worthy
C. deserve for
D. deserve

Beverly Hills is known for the ________ homes of film and television personalities and contains many fashionable shops.

A. priceless
B. luxurious
C. pleasurable
D. precious

When people are physically _________ a drug, they suffer ill physical effects if they stop taking the drug.

A. absorbed in
B. accepted by
C. addicted to
D. attracted to

Within three months after birth, babies begin to show a preference for complex and ________ stimuli as opposed to simple and familiar stimuli.

A. common
B. normal
C. strange
D. novel

The oldest known systems of education in history had two characteristics in common; they taught religion, and they ________ the traditions of the people.

A. developed
B. encouraged
C. forwarded
D. promoted

Though nsuccessful, steam-powered models of airplanes made by the English inventor Henson in 1847 were ________, as many later models generally followed his designs.

A. encouraging
B. instructive
C. promising
D. victorious

With the increasing consciousness of self health care, millions of Chinese people ________ in a variety of daily physical exercises, ranging from traditional shadow boxing to modern aerobics.

A. compete
B. participate
C. play
D. share

Form antonyms of the follwoing words by adding prefixes.

Match the words in Column A with their definitions in Column B.