The Social Security Retirement Program is made up of two trust funds, _____ could go penniless by next year.

A)the larger one

B)the larger of which

C)the largest one

D)the largest of which

Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owing to its always _____ with other elements, most commonly with oxygen.

A)combined

B)having combined

C)combine

D)being combined

Andrew, my father’s younger brother, will not be at the picnic, _____ to the family’s disappointment.

A)much

B)more

C)too much

D)much more

I would have gone to visit him in the hospital had it been at all possible, but I _____ fully occupied the whole of last week.

A)were

B)had been

C)have been

D)was

Help will come from the UN, but the aid will be _____ near what’s needed.

A)everywhere

B)somewhere

C)nowhere

D)anywhere

The chief reason for the population growth isn’t so much a rise in birth rates _____ a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in medical care.

A)and

B)as

C)but

D)or

He claims to be an expert in astronomy, but in actual fact he is quite ignorant on the subject. _____ he knows about it is out of date and inaccurate.

A)What little B)So much C)How much D)So little

Although we feel dissatisfied with the election results, we have to become reconciled _____ the decision made by our fellow countrymen.

A)for

B)on

C)to

D)in

Just as the value of a telephone network increases with each new phone _____ to the system, so does the value of a computer system increase with each program that turns out.

A)adding

B)to have added

C)to add

D)added

The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly _____ .

A)noticed

B)to be noticed

C)being noticed

D)to notice

When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them _____.

A)off

B)aside

C)out

D)down

The wealth of a country should be measured _____ the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.

A)in line with

B)in terms of

C)in regard with

D)by means of

He has failed me so many times that I no longer place any _____ on what he promises.

A)faith

B)belief

C)credit

D)reliance

My students found the book _____ it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.

A)enlightening

B)confusing

C)distracting

D)amusing

Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will _____ down the economy.

A)put B)settle C)drag D)knock

In this factory the machines are not regulated _____ but are jointly controlled by a central computer system.

A)independently

B)individually

C)irrespectively

D)irregularly

Every chemical change either results from energy being sued to produce the change, or causes energy to be _____ in some form.

A)given off

B)put out

C)set off

D)used up

If businessmen are taxed too much, they will no longer be motivated to work hard, with the result that incomes from taxation might actually _____ .

A)shrink

B)delay

C)disperse

D)sink

American companies are evolving from mass production manufacturing to _____ enterprises.

A)moveable

B)changing

C)flexible

D)varying

If you know what the trouble is, why don’t you help them to _____ the situation?

A)simplify

B)modify

C)verify

D)rectify

I can’t _____ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.

A)figure out

B)draw out

C)look out

D)work out

I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat _____ .

A)disapproval

B)rejection

C)refusal

D)decline

From this material we can _____ hundreds of what you may call direct products.

A)derive

B)discern

C)diminish

D)displace

She had clearly no _____ of doing any work, although she was very well paid.

A)tendency

B)ambition

C)intention

D)willingness

What seems confusing or fragmented at first might well become _____ a third time.

A)clean and measurable

B)notable and systematic

C)pure and wholesome

D)clear and organic

The public opinion was that the time was not _____ for the election of such a radical candidate as Mr. Jones.

A)reasonable

B)ripe

C)ready

D)practical

Hudson said he could not kill a living thing except for the _____ of hunger.

A)sensation B)cause C)purpose D)motive

For the new country to survive, _____ for its people to enjoy prosperity, new economic policies will be required.

A)to name a few

B)let alone

C)not to speak

D)let’s say

Foreign disinvestment and the _____ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.

A)displacement

B)elimination

C)exclusion

D)exception

When a number of people _____ together in a conversational knot, each individual expresses his position in the group by where he stands.

A)pad

B)pack

C)squeeze

D)cluster

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