1.Professor Smith asked his secretary to ____ a hundred copies of this article on the duplicating machine.
A) run down
B) run off
C) run over
D) run into
2.The purpose of the new economic policy is not to hinder economic growth____to guide it in a beneficial way.
A) and
B) as
C) but
D) except
3.Since you don’t feel ____to cook dinner tonight, what about dining out?
A) inclined
B) pleased
C) obliged
D) apt
4.The people in that remote area still live on ____ means because the economy there is underdeveloped.
A) difficult
B) modest
C) arduous
D) domestic
5.____ I admire him as a doctor, but I don’t like him as a man.
A) Much as
B) So much
C) As much
D) Much so
6.They were enjoying themselves. ____, they appeared to be enjoying themselves.
A) However
B) Instead
C) Or rather
D) As a result
7.Considering the present birth rate, the prediction that the world population will decrease in the near future simply does not ____.
A) exist
B) prove
C) stand
D) hold
8.The tremendous waves ____ the whole village.
A) conquered
B) imprisoned
C) confined
D) inundated
9.Old as the machine is, it is in ____ good order.
A) reasonably
B) rationally
C) probably
D) occasionally
10.We rarely perceive more than a minute ____ of the sights and sounds that fall upon our sense organs; the great majority pass us by.
A) fiction
B) function
C) fraction
D) friction