American companies are evolving from mass-production manufacturing to ________ enterprises.

[A] moveable

[B] changing

[C] flexible

[D] varying

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

[A] simplify

[B] modify

[C] verify

[D] rectify

31.   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

32.   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

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

[A] derive

[B] discern

[C] diminish

[D] displace

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

[A] tendency

[B] ambition

[C] intention

[D] willingness

35.   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

36.   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

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

[A] sensation

[B] cause

[C] purpose

[D] motive

38.   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

39.   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

40.   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

Section II: Cloze Test

Directions:

For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C], [D]. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (10 points)

Manpower Inc., with 560,000 workers, is the world’s largest temporary employment agency. Every morning, its people __41__ into the offices and factories of America, seeking a day’s work for a day’s pay. One day at a time. __42__ industrial giants like General Motors and IBM struggle to survive __43__ reducing the number of employees, Manpower, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is booming.

__44__ its economy continues to recover, the US is increasingly becoming a nation of part timers and temporary workers. This __45__ work force is the most important __46__ in American business today, and it is __47__ changing the relationship between people and their jobs. The phenomenon provides a way for companies to remain globally competitive __48__ avoiding market cycles and the growing burdens __49__ by employment rules, healthcare costs and pension plans. For workers it can mean an end to the security, benefits and sense of __50__ that came from being a loyal employee.

41.   [A] s

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