Section B

Directions: In this section there are 10 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

21. Almost all the countries in today’s world are ______ together by common interests.

     A. stayed      B. kept           C. knitted       D. drawn

22. Before starting the pledge, we are asked to sign a ______ never to reveal the secret.

     A. pact       B. pledge         C. password       D. privacy

23. The service operates 36 libraries throughout the country, while six ______ libraries specially serve the countryside.

      A. mobile       B. drifting        C. shifting        D. rotating

24. Short of clinics and medicine, many people in the tropical countries ______ from disease.

     A. survived       B. passed       C. perished       D. vanished

25. The conspirators were plotting the ______ of the government, but the plot was found by CID in time.

     A. withdrawal     B. demolition        C. catastrophe     D. overthrow

26. The Government agreed to ______ their troops ______ Iraq in order to save the hostage.

     A. pull…down      B. pull…off      C. pull…out of  　D. pull…up

27. Different from his usual simple style, Spencer’s new book is a very ______ work.

     A. legitimate     B. luxurious        C. logical        D. lovely

28. The local government is quite afraid that the ______ of prices is till upwards.

     A. sniff         B. trend            C. lorry          D. tend

29. Only by working hard can we make progress. ______ we must make our greatest effort to read and write.

     A. Therefore    B. Nevertheless        C. Instead         D. Similarly

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0. The investigation showed that a cigarette stub ______ yesterday’s fire in the department store.

     A. ignored       B. immersed        C. illuminated         D. ignited