[单项选择]The club members voted ______to raise the dues.

[单项选择]The club members voted to ______ the ban on smoking.
A. refrain
B. repeal
C. repel
D. reside

[单项选择]Among the 50 members, 40 voted, and ______ abstained.


A. the others
B. others
C. another
D. the other

[单项选择]The members of the dub voted to ______ the meeting until after lunch.
A. adjourn
B. adjoin
C. adjust
D. adjudge

[单项选择]The passage implies that some electors voted for John Adams because they were______.


A. in favor of a monarchy
B. persuaded to do so by Hamilton
C. afraid South Carolina would not vote for Pinckney
D. anxious to have a President from their geographical region

[单项选择]A: The city council has finally voted the funds to build a new high school.
B: It's about time they did it. ______

[单项选择]Which of the following can best raise students' creativity according to Robert Eisenberger


A. Assigning them tasks they have not dealt with before.
B. Assigning them tasks which require inventiveness.
C. Giving them rewards they really deserve.
D. Giving them rewards they anticipate.

[单项选择]The owner of the auto plant refused to raise the workers' wages, saying that it would ______ the profit.
A. cut off
B. cut short
C. cut into
D. cut up

[单项选择]What is the final offer of a raise the man makes Miss Barnes


A. Twice her present salary.
B. Ten dollars more per week.
C. The same as Snodgrass, Ellington and Pitts.
D. Ten dollars more per week than Snodgrass, Ellington and Pitts.

[单项选择]The Committee pronounced four members expelled for failure to provide information in the （　） of investigations.
A. case
B. chase
C. cause
D. course

[单项选择]Will all those ______ the proposal raise their hands
A. in relation to
B. in contrast to
C. in excess of
D. in favor of

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Passage 5
Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships. Occasionally the movement of a family away from a situation which has been the source of friction results in greater family organization, but on the whole mobility is disorganizing. Individuals and families are involved in three types of mobility: movement in space, movement up or down in social status, and the movement of ideas. These are termed respectively spatial, vertical and ideational mobility.
A great increase in spatial mobility bas gone along with improvements in rail and water transportation, the invention and use of the automobile, and the availability of airplane passenger service. Spatial mobility results in a decline in the importance of the traditional home with its emphasis on fatally continuity and stability. It also means that when individual family members or the family as a whole move away from a community, the person or the family is remo
A. the family members are subject to social pressures
B. both parents have to work full time
C. the husband, wife and children seldom get together
D. the husband, wife and children work too hard

[单项选择]Many network members had expressed an interest in the merger, as it will not only strengthen the network but also help to______ efforts.
A. summon
B. stimulate
C. soar
D. streamline

[单项选择]All the staff members of the department made zealous efforts to clean up the hall for the Christmas party.
A. enthusiastic
B. concerted
C. gigantic
D. dedicated

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Of all the fancily members, grandparents are probably the least valued. They are just the people who have always been around. They make a fuss over the children in file family, show off to their friends the achievement of this child or that child, and show countless pictures of new babies. Grandfathers can fix anything, and grandmothers always have homemade biscuits around.
When you are small, it’s fun to stay with your grandparents because they always let you do things you can’t do at home, and, of course, they buy you things. They are always able to babysit(照看小孩) because they don’t go out much and actually prefer to see their grandchildren. They are usually good for a small loan now and then that doesn’t need to be paid back because they turn it into a gift. You respectfully listen to their advice but don’t follow it because they are old and don’t understand how things are in this day and age. You thank them politely for what they do
A. feel sorry that grandparents are the least valued in the family
B. miss them very much because no one does the things that only grandparents do
C. regret they didn't express their true feelings to them
D. wish they had visited and called them more often