1. If you are so easily discouraged by any [ ], how can you ever achieve anything? Hardships are there to make us braver and wiser.


2. Physician Stephen Hawking teams up with his daughter to write a cosmic adventure story for kids. The Hawkings portray the universe as harmonious and largely [ ].


3. Being poor is nothing to be [ ] if you are upright and virtuous.


4. While we may notice slight _____ in our eye color depending on our emotional state or what we wear, our eye color generally remains the same throughout our lives.


5. You look lost. How can I help?


6. He kept a close watch [ ] and caught the thief red handed right on the spot.


7. It is discouraging to visit a potential employer [ ] that he is more interested in your appearance than your qualification.


8. It is sad for us to know that many mothers and babies die through childbirth _____ caused by the size of the head.


9. I am reading a history of the Internet. Did you know it ______ in the 1960's?


10. I go jogging every morning. It is more interesting than [ ] at home like I used to do.


11. Many people worry that the computerized Public Welfare Lottery [ ] gambling to become rich instead of working hard to make money.


12. Income typically rises gradually from young adulthood through the middle years, but usually [ ] after retirement.


13. Tourists are often accused of being loud and rude, but they may in fact help [ ] traditional cultures.


14. [ ] strenuous law enforcement efforts, the number of criminal cases decreased by nearly 10 percent for the period from mid-March to June 30.


15. Why don’t we go to a movie this evening?


16. Psychiatrists still consider imaging technologies like MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and PET (Positron Emission Topography), to be [crucial] research tools.


17.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.


18. I am trying to [ ] her not to take the offer but I need to explain to her why she should not.


19. The lab experiment [ ] the discovery of a cure for cancer.


20. Due to heavy snow on the runway, all the flights were [ ] for nearly eight hours.


21. [ ] in wild, colorful costumes, a crowd of the singer's fans awaited her arrival in eager silence.


22. We are certainly looking at biotech, but [I doubt you'll see a product in less than 5 years].


23. We feel quite [ ] about your situation; but we don’t know how to help you.


24. Scientists and forensic specialists provide a critical service for local law-enforcement officials by analyzing DNA, ballistics and other physical evidence that could make or [ ] a case.


25. Depressed people are advised not to use alcohol as a [ ] for their problems.


26. (On the phone)Eunice: Hello, my watch isn’t working. Clerk: What’s wrong with it? Eunice: It just stopped. Can you fix it?Clerk: Well, [ ]. I’ll have a look at it.


27. He looks [ ] he were very exhausted from work.


28. This evening, regular network television programming [ ] for a political debate.


29. Jane [ ] to meet me at 2 o’clock. She’s an hour late.


30. If you want to give a well-organized presentation, you should not [ ].


31. There will be a ______ on wasteful government spending.


32. A:It's my parents' anniversary. I've got to get a card for them. B:That's very sweet of you. I would never ______ such a thing.


33. Studies indicate that hypnosis, used in conjunction with standard pharmacological techniques, is an effective way to relieve pain during invasive medical procedures.


34. Nick tried to _____ his father to buy him a smartphone, but in vain.


35. Vocational high school students should have greater [ ] in themselves in order to learn English well.


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1. These measures have been taken ________ increasing the company’s profits.


2. Josh: I can’t find Nick anywhere. Do you know where he is now?Tina: Well, ________  .


3. There ________ to be some mistake.


4. There are only three openings. However, ________ university graduates compete for them.


5. Nuclear power plants have long been ________ extremely dangerous especially after the catastrophic events that plagued Japan.


6. In such a rainy day, I ________ stay at home watching TV ________ go to a movie.


7. ________ that, I haven’t decided yet.


8. 我們直到年紀變長,才能體悟青春的短暫。


9. Can you ________ why he has such strange behavior?


10. Tell me ________ he arrived here yesterday.