I was 18 years old, fit, strong and ambitious. One day, I fell down for no_______reason. I saw many different specialists and was finally diagnosed with limb girdle muscular dystrophy(MD).
It was a very difficult time. I had no idea what life was going to_______at me and I was scared. By my late 30s it was_______and I had transitioned(转变)from a walking stick to a wheelchair. I wanted to be master of my own _______, so I had to recognize my_______ and play to my weaknesses. What I wanted to make _______was a trip to the north pole.
People with MD feel the cold. So why did I want to go to one of the most extreme, cold and_______places on Earth?I'd read about Chris Cope, who wanted to go to the north pole to raise money for MD, and it had _______ my adventurous spirit: I wanted to raise awareness about the _______, but I also wanted to find out what I was capable of. I'm very________
In the two years it had taken to organize the expedition, my muscles had worsened but we ________regardless. The unpleasant life coaching and cold training helped me to ________ how my body would behave in extreme cold, which made me aware of what to________.
I had an amazing team around me,________ the four different flights we took to get to the inner Arctic ice shelf were nevertheless discouraging. While we were on the ice the runway________and we had to wait for it to refreeze.________ we reached the north pole, I was bitterly cold, exhausted and a complete ________.I was on the ice for the best part of three long days,then ________the final 350m.The expedition raised50,000 for ________MD is slowly destroying my life but I have chosen to fill it with ________ and I live life to the full.
1.A.adequate B.apparent C.sound D.major
2.A.yell B.target C.throw D.direct
3.A.advanced B.initial C.modest D.minor
4.A.disease B.fortune C.fate D.business
5.A.achievements B.strengths C.privileges D.commitments
6.A.differ B.happen C.count D.work
7.A.autonomous B.mysterious C.fantastic D.inaccessible
8.A.referred to B.appealed to C.belonged to D.applied to
9.A.significance B.conservation C.ambition D.condition
10.A.trustworthy B.delicate C.competitive D.ridiculous
11.A.pulled out B.took off C.pressed on D.hung about
12.A.illustrate B.assess C.stress D.clarify
13.A.value B.forgive C.require D.expect
14.A.though B.but C.so D.as
15.A.floated B.disappeared C.twisted D.split
16.A.Because B.Once C.Before D.Unless
17.A.envy B.failure C.pride D.mess
18.A.ran B.climbed C.rolled D.walked
19.A.treatment B.charity C.training D.ecology
20.A.imaginations B.experiences C.recreations D.responsibilities
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“Just the man I was looking for,” said a voice at Winston’s back.
He turned round. It was his friend Syme, who worked in the Research Department. Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now ______ in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary.
“How is the dictionary ______?” asked Winston.
“Slowly,” said Syme. “I’m on the adjectives. It’s fascinating.”
He had ______ immediately at the mention of Newspeak.
“The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,” he said. We’re getting the language into its final shape --- the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re ______words --- scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the ______. The Eleventh Edition won’t ______ a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.”
His thin dark face had become animated and his eyes had grown almost dreamy.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. It isn’t only the synonyms, there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? A word contains its ______in itself. Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like good, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well --- better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good’, what sense is there in having a whole string of ______useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something ______ still. Of course we sue those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words --- in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston?”
A sort of vapid eagerness fitted across Winston’s face. Nevertheless Syme immediately detected a certain ______ of enthusiasm.
“You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,” he said almost sadly. “In your heart you’d prefer to ______ to Oldspeak with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year? Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to ______ the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly ______. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not ______ that point. But the process will still be continuing ______ you and I are dead. Every year fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”
1.A.engaged B.dressed C.elected D.appointed
2.A.getting on B.putting on C.carrying on D.taking on
3.A.woken up B.brightened up C.put up D.lived up
4.A.escaping B.inventing C.coining D.destroying
5.A.skin B.flesh C.bone D.muscle
6.A.involve B.hold C.contain D.include
7.A.meaning B.similarity C.origin D.opposite
8.A.random B.vague C.precise D.misery
9.A.stronger B.better C.more D.less
10.A.share B.margin C.lack D.ounce
11.A.react B.object C.flee D.stick
12.A.offer B.narrow C.widen D.shoot
13.A.associated B.lost C.defined D.explained
14.A.far from B.close to C.along with D.parallel to
15.A.long after B.long before C.shortly after D.shortly before
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Technological life is and will be a series of upgrades and the rate of advancement is increasing. If we are honest, we must admit that one aspect of the ______ upgrades and eternal becoming of the technium (技术元素) is to make holes in our heart. One day not too long ago we(all of us)decided that we could not live another day ______ we had a smart phone; a dozen years earlier this need would have ______ us. Now we get angry if the network is slow, but before, when we were ______ , we had no thoughts of the network at all. We keep inventing new things that make new ______ , new holes that must be filled.
Some people are furious that our hearts are pierced (刺穿) ______ by the things we make. They see this ever-neediness as a devaluing of human nobility, the source of our ______ discontent. I agree that technology is the source. The momentum of technologies pushes us to chase the ______ , which are always disappearing beneath the arrival of the next newer thing, so satisfaction continues to retreat from our ______ .
But I celebrate the never-ending discontent that technology brings. We are different from our animal ancestors in that we are not ______ to merely survive, but have been incredibly busy ______ new itches that we have to scratch, new desires we've never had before. This is the trigger for our ingenuity and growth.
We cannot expand our self, and our collective self, ______ making holes in our heart. We are ______ our boundaries and widening the small container that holds our identity. It can be painful. Of course, there will be rips and tears. Late-night infomercials (信息广告) and endless web pages of about-to-be-out-of-date gizmos(新玩意儿)are hardly uplifting techniques, and the path to our ______ is very boring, and everyday. When we imagine a better future, we should factor in this constant ______ .
1.A.ceaseless B.effortless C.meaningless D.regardless
2.A.whether B.once C.while D.unless
3.A.dismayed B.astonished C.delighted D.bothered
4.A.tactless B.humble C.innocent D.suspicious
5.A.longings B.findings C.understanding D.warnings
6.A.thus B.yet C.even D.rather
7.A.half-hearted B.continual C.peculiar D.social
8.A.wildest B.latter C.newest D.utmost
9.A.grasp B.era C.sight D.share
10.A.allowed B.content C.privileged D.spontaneous
11.A.wrapping up B.smoothing over C.carrying out D.making up
12.A.through B.against C.without D.despite
13.A.defining B.stretching C.overstepping D.marking
14.A.enlargement B.formation C.sensation D.pleasure
15.A.demand B.tolerance C.companion D.discomfort
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In October 2015, Shah began picking up rubbish from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began_________others to join in. Word spread and with help from social media, more volunteers got_________.
Shah hasn't stopped since. He's now spent 209 weekends_________to this mission, inspiring more than 200,000_________to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was_________clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another_________as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.
For Shah, the work has_________been a personal journey, but it has earned_________attention. After he was_________as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Bollywood celebrities and politicians__________his mission and joined in his cleanups.
Today, Shah is also working with coastal communities to__________plastic pollution at one of the sources. In areas lacking waste management systems, __________often end(s)up in streams and rivers that empty into the__________. Shah and his volunteers__________and assist villagers in reducing, managing and recycling their plastic waste.
"This world__________too much. I think you must talk less and do action__________," he said. “Every citizen on this __________must be in for a long pull. I feel the__________to do something for my planet, so this will__________for life. If each one could start, this journey could become__________Can we do it together?”
1.A.asking B.ordering C.warning D.forcing
2.A.challenged B.encouraged C.involved D.required
3.A.compared B.adapted C.related D.devoted
4.A.workers B.volunteers C.journalists D.clerks
5.A.originally B.finally C.suddenly D.theoretically
6.A.park B.bank C.beach D.market
7.A.occasionally B.hardly C.already D.always
8.A.global B.local C.national D.coastal
9.A.described B.honored C.opposed D.elected
10.A.simplified B.changed C.accepted D.finished
11.A.make B.discuss C.throw D.handle
12.A.trees B.materials C.rubbish D.tools
13.A.ocean B.factory C.mountain D.forest
14.A.protect B.control C.scold D.educate
15.A.talks B.complains C.thinks D.argues
16.A.earlier B.faster C.more D.better
17.A.sea B.planet C.water D.sands
18.A.pity B.need C.pain D.effect
19.A.come on B.get on C.look on D.go on
20.A.great B.complex C.complete D.difficult
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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I come from Ireland, and I am a foreign teacher in Wuhan University. At the end of December, a few cases of “novel pneumonia” were ________in the city of Wuhan. We all took notice but assumed it was ________to worry about.
However, it gradually _______me with sadness that Wuhan is becoming synonymous(同义的) with the coronavirus that is causing a ________emergency and develops further ________ around the world. At home I often see the news ________ Wuhan, which I’ve come to love and call _____ home. News includes stories of infections, stories of isolation but also stories of _______. Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have _______, remains on lockdown.
I still remember last vacation back home, when mentioning Wuhan, people would often just _______and say, “Wu… what?” “Wuhan”! “Where’s that?” “Hubei Province, Central China.” “Mhhh, ________ heard of it.”
Then I talked about the beauty of Wuhan, like ______ the scenery keeps changing, and becoming more _________ day by the day. It has a growing art and creative scene, new green and recreative spaces _________everywhere.
I was _______ asked what ________ could be told to the world about Wuhan. I said that I’d write about its natural beauty like lakes, mountains and rivers, long walks _________the East Lake, and of course the city’s culture, art and music.
I hope that everything will return to _______, and indeed people are going out of their way to help and support each other. They choose to believe that they can_______ the crisis to return life to normal as quickly as possible.
As for me, I will definitely________to tell the story of the city I love and of its wonderful, welcoming, and strong people.
1.A.spotted B.occurred C.settled D.solved
2.A.anything B.something C.nothing D.everything
3.A.sends B.gives C.fills D.helps
4.A.urgent B.national C.immediate D.limited
5.A.convenience B.unhappiness C.ambition D.concern
6.A.putting aside from B.coming out of C.looking forward to D.leaving out for
7.A.its B.it C.my D.me
8.A.virus B.segregation C.hope D.nature
9.A.lightened B.surfaced C.missed D.decreased
10.A.stare B.glance C.cry D.beg
11.A.never B.always C.random D.often
12.A.how B.why C.what D.whether
13.A.upsetting B.challenging C.charming D.curious
14.A.setting aside B.falling down C.springing up D.drawing back
15.A.barely B.rarely C.merely D.once
16.A.remarks B.stories C.experiences D.thoughts
17.A.across B.along C.between D.through
18.A.normality B.disaster C.home D.reality
19.A.put B.suffer C.defeat D.surround
20.A.calm B.start C.stop D.continue
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When your child is supposed to be doing homework, are they chatting with their friends on Facebook or playing games? Many studies have shown that multitasking doesn’t_______, _______your child is probably proudly claiming they can do ten things_______! Many people believe that they can_______two or more tasks at the same time, but Dr. Edward Hallowell says this is_______. The reality is that multitasking_______poor job performance.
New hand-held_______such as smartphones, iPads, games and social networking sites make it very easy to multitask and “attention_______” leading to difficulty focusing on the task_______, such as listening in the classroom or doing homework. “__________, the brain actually__________kids for multitasking even though when your child is supposed to doing homework performance on every task gets worse and worse. Kids don't know that they are doing__________because they feel better when they multitask,” says Dr Edward Hallowell.
__________the appearance of hand-held devices and social networking sites, teachers have noticed a difference in__________performance, critical thinking skills and how information is__________. “Multitasking prevents people from gaining a deep understanding of the information they are trying to learn,” says Dr Edward Hallowell. Kids have a difficult time sticking with a” difficult to understand" topic and__________to allow themselves to be distracted(分散的), to tune out and switch__________ to Facebook or using their cell phones__________working harder at understanding a difficult subject or problem. In the long__________, multitasking affects grades. One study showed that kids that use the Internet while in class did__________on tests resulting in lower grades.
1.A.play B.understand C.use D.work
2.A.only if B.even though C.so that D.no wonder
3.A.at once B.right away C.in no time D.at random
4.A.advocate B.deal C.perform D.prefer
5.A.impossible B.important C.impatient D.impolite
6.A.results in B.results from C.exists in D.exists from
7.A.designs B.discoveries C.equipment D.evidence
8.A.attract B.draw C.pay D.share
9.A.at hand B.on time C.on schedule D.at times
10.A.Uncertainly B.Unfortunately C.Universally D.Undoubtedly
11.A.remains B.rewards C.regards D.reflects
12.A.better B.well C.bad D.worse
13.A.Since B.Before C.When D.While
14.A.accidental B.accurate C.accessible D.academic
15.A.produced B.processed C.possessed D.promoted
16.A.tend B.attend C.intend D.pretend
17.A.out B.on C.off D.over
18.A.except for B.rather than C.more than D.apart from
19.A.run B.walk C.journey D.distance
20.A.hardly B.successfully C.poorly D.mildly
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Usually, there is a teacher-parent meeting in every school year. Some students enjoy it, some don’t. Tom, a little boy invited his mother to attend his school's first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy's ______, she said she would go. This ______ be the first time that his classmates and teacher ______ his mother and he felt ______ of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar (疤痕) that _____nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to_______why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were ______ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother ______ the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed and ______ himself from everyone. He did, however, get within ______of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked ______, "How did you get the scar on your face?"
The mother replied, "______ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was ______ afraid to go in because the fire was ______,so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked ______ but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us." She ______ the burned side of her face. "This scar will be ______, but to this day, I have never ______ what I did."
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great ______ of the sacrifice (牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand ______ for the rest of the day.
1.A.enjoyment B.excitement C.disappointment D.surprise
2.A.would B.could C.should D.must
3.A.noticed B.greeted C.met D.accepted
4.A.sick B.ashamed C.afraid D.tired
5.A.included B.passed C.covered D.shaded
6.A.hear about B.think about C.care about D.talk about
7.A.surprised B.impressed C.excited D.comforted
8.A.in sight of B.by means of C.by way of D.in spite of
9.A.separated B.protected C.hid D.escaped
10.A.hearing B.reminding C.understanding D.learning
11.A.nervously B.carefully C.seriously D.anxiously
12.A.As B.Now that C.Since D.When
13.A.so B.much C.quite D.too
14.A.under control B.out of control C.in control D.over control
15.A.helpless B.hopeless C.useless D.senseless
16.A.pointed B.showed C.touched D.wiped
17.A.beautiful B.lasting C.serious D.frightening
18.A.forgot B.recognized C.considered D.regretted
19.A.honor B.happiness C.sense D.pride
20.A.quietly B.tightly C.slightly D.suddenly
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Mondays are generally pretty busy for me. On one of these _______ Mondays, I got ready to go to work thinking about all the things I have to _______ on that day and walk down to get to my car scolding myself for being late to work, but _______ the car was nowhere to be found. I _______ right across my apartment the previous night but it wasn't there that morning.
This was at 8:00 am in the morning. I made_______ to all the towing places, police stations all the time thinking that it was towed by _______ . By around 10.00am, I couldn't find it anywhere and the cops decided that it was _______ stolen. Alter filing a report with them, I finally get to work thinking how my day was completely _______ .
Later in the day I went to pick up a rental car at Entetprise _______ to realize that my license was missing too along with my car. I told the enterprise guy the whole ________ and he was so sorry for me that he ________ to take me to the nearest DMV(车管局) and get a duplicate (副本________, I was totally dumbstruck.! I didn't know why this complete stranger would want to ________ some time off his day to help me. He actually took me to DMV, got a duplicate and then ________ me a car. I was ________ the whole day because of the sequence of events that happened to me but somehow this simple act of kindness from a complete stranger made it all ________ it. It cheered me up and made me forget all the misfortunes of the day, I was so ________ by this kind act that the next day I made sure someone else got a similar ________ . I took some smiley shaped chocolates and ________ them on some of my colleague's desks.
There is still a lot of goodness out there in the world. We just need to take the time to ________ it.
1.A.typical B.ordinary C.strange D.pleasant.
2.A.make B.explain C.accomplish D.arrange
3.A.excitedly B.surprisingly C.interestingly D.hurriedly
4.A.stayed B.looked C.walked D.parked
5.A.calls B.trips C.surveys D.contributions
6.A.cops B.doctors C.thieves D.officials
7.A.normally B.eventually C.actually D.finally
8.A.made up B.took up C.put up D.messed up
9.A.still B.even C.quite D.only
10.A.message B.secret C.story D.process
11.A.declined B.offered C.hesitated D.approved
12.A.license B.card C.paper D.ticket
13.A.spend B.leave C.take D.get
14.A.lent B.presented C.purchased D.rented
15.A.delighted B.annoyed C.disappointed D.amused
16.A.worth B.worthy C.personal D.special
17.A.moved B.changed C.turned D.appealed
18.A.honour B.respect C.alarm D.surprise
19.A.forgot B.threw C.left D.exposed
20.A.make B.achieve C.live D.realize
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On Christmas morning, Abby, a teenager, went happily downstairs. She didn’t __________ what was under the Christmas tree. Nothing can __________ the gift she has already been given this year--the gift of life.
The teenager has been looking forward to her first __________ Christmas in six years. She was told she wouldn’t __________ 18 without the operation, and now she is enjoying her new life. This year there will be no 12 hours of dialysis (透析)on Christmas Eve and no sitting in her bedroom watching films while __________ to a machine. Additionally, she can go out and __________ with her friends.
But as __________ mounts, Abby realizes her future has come at a price for that of her donor’s(捐献者) family. She said, “I will take some time to silently appreciate the family of my donor, who will be __________ for the person they lost. I know how __________ my kidney (肾脏)is.”
Abby said, “Now I’m well. I’ve discovered there’s lots of kindness and support there. I hope to become a child psychologist to help those in need.” Mum Jo agreed. She said, “We’re astonished by the love we’ve had. Abby’s __________ shows she has reached a new level of humanity.”
1.A.recognize B.care C.forget D.imagine
2.A.remove B.value C.equal D.pack
3.A.modern B.freezing C.innocent D.healthy
4.A.live through B.stick to C.hold up D.begin with
5.A.talking B.listening C.attached D.addicted
6.A.discuss B.socialize C.compete D.quarrel
7.A.sadness B.surprise C.excitement D.doubt
8.A.mourning B.arguing C.waiting D.looking
9.A.weak B.qualified C.dynamic D.precious
10.A.ambition B.guess C.concern D.success
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It did take me quite a while to start noticing Dr. Yuval Noah Harari’s well-received book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (人类简史). I bought the book after I heard Dou Wentao (a renowned TV hose) mention it on his podcast, and to be frank, I read the first chapter with little _________. But it turned out to be the best book I read in 2017.
While I was immediately ___________ the book kept evolving as I read it. The book began with a brief introduction of the lives and activities of the earliest proto-humans (原始人)---Neanderthals (尼安德特人), Homoerectus (直立人) and early Homo Sapiens (智人)---and then _________ an examination of why it was the Homo sapiens, after hundreds of thousands of years of surviving but pretty much existing in the middle of the food chain, _________ rocketed to the top of it without any significant genetic changes, conquered multiple climates, and eventually domesticated the world around them from farm animals to crops. And Harari includes an interesting but fairly _________ argument about the true nature of our relationship to our most necessary crop---wheat.
Think for a moment about the _________ Revolution from the viewpoint of wheat. Ten thousand years ago wheat was just a wild grass, one of many, confined to a small range in the Middle East. All of a sudden, within just a few short millennia, it was growing everywhere.
So how did this grass turn from insignificant to ubiquitous (到处存在的)? Wheat did it by manipulating (操纵) Homo sapiens to its advantage. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life _________ and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to _________ more and more effort in cultivating wheat. Then, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk _________ taking care of wheat plants.
However, the body of Homo sapiens had not evolved for cultivating wheat. Therefore human spines, knees, necks and arches paid the price. Moreover, the new agricultural tasks demanded so much time that people were forced to settle __________ next to their wheat fields. This completely changed their way of life. We did not __________ wheat. It’s the other way around. One of the most important and sustained ideas running through the book is that what ultimately __________ Homo sapiens from all other creatures---other mammals, other apes, and even other “humans” like Neanderthals---was not our opposable thumbs or some other __________ standards, but instead it was our ability to generate (生成), believe in and act upon what Yuval Noah Narari calls “myths” or “__________” (essentially ideas and cultural institutions), particularly on a large scale and collective basis, which eventually transformed us from creatures that lived in small, loosely-organized groups (the typical feature of most apes) to our modern status.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a fascinating ambitious and difficult-to-summarize book that is also just highly __________. So as senior high school students, you won’t experience too much difficulty following the author’s train of thoughts. And I strongly recommend you to indulge (纵情于) yourself in this well-written book.
Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s mind-blowing book:
Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind
1.A.attention B.evaluation C.illustration D.expectation
2.A.fascinated B.confused C.distracted D.uninterested
3.A.turned to B.gave away C.prepared for D.went after
4.A.naturally B.randomly C.suddenly D.hardly
5.A.annoying B.touching C.embarrassing D.depressing
6.A.Industrial B.Agricultural C.Cultural D.Political
7.A.planting B.hunting C.trading D.wondering
8.A.spare B.resist C.invest D.demand
9.A.regardless of B.contrary to C.together with D.other than
10.A.permanently B.delightfully C.temporarily D.instantly
11.A.consume B.grow C.domesticate D.harvest
12.A.distinguished B.disqualified C.discouraged D.dissatisfied
13.A.intellectual B.physical C.psychological D.moral
14.A.poems B.reports C.documents D.fictions
15.A.complex B.overrated C.readable D.appreciated
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