8. He spoke clearly in order to ( ).

4. Both Mary and Ellen, ( ) Jane, are studying nursing at the University of Toledo.

60 Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Investors can ( )51( ) money simply by loaning it. The money they loan is called capital. Security (担保) is an expensive item which the borrower mortgages (抵押) to the investor to show that he intends to ( )52( ) the debt. The way investors make money on loans is to charge interest. Interest is money that ( )53( ) pay to investors for the use of their money. Interest is usually a certain percentage of the capital. Investors sometimes ( )54 ten percent or more interest per year. The interest may be calculated daily, monthly, or yearly. The interest must be ( )55( ) before the capital can be repaid. If the interest is not ( )56( ) the agreed rate, the interest is added ( )57( ) the capital. Then the borrower has ( )58( ) pay interest on the unpaid interest ( )59( ) on the capital. A debt can grow quickly this way. If the total of the capital and accumulated interest gets too high, the investor will take ( )60( ) of the item used as security and sell it to get his money back.

7. "My uncle comes in from Iran tonight."“How long has it been ( ) you last saw him?"

5. Most of the students have made ( ) progress in their study of English than we first expected.

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52 Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. The death of a child, ( )51( ) one’s own child, is something the mind can hardly comprehend. It seems to go ( )52( ) nature. The end of a life that is still forming ( )53( ) has just begun is an almost unthinkable cruelty. But it happens. Parents sometimes must witness the illness and death of the children ( )54( ) whom they gave birth. And ( )55( ) will ever fill the empty place that the dead child leaves behind. Parents ( )56( ) to die before their children, which is the natural order of life events. When the situation is reversed and a child dies ( )57( ) the parents it seems wrong. Yet we never know why one person dies and another lives. But we do know ( )58( ) a child is gone, the parents still have a future, as grey and worthless as it may at first seem. Death may take the child, but the love never ( )59( ). The sorrow after a child’s death is one of the longest and hardest type of ( )60( ) to live with. And it takes long to deal with the parents’ own emotions.

33( ) France Viuard an excellent political speaker but she was also among the first members of the populist party.

27She is ( )to refuse, so I have to give in.

16. "If you＇d been here ten minutes earlier, you could have seen the doctor.""But I couldn＇t help ( ). Traffic was heavy."