1. I remember [   ] the movie with Tom last year. It is very good.


2. 《Tom》: Are you free tonight? 《Cathy》: [   ]《Tom》: Too bad. I was thinking maybe we could go see a movie tonight.


3. Many journalists do not [   ] whether or not it is appropriate to interview a child during a tragic event for he/she is usually too young to understand the trauma he/she is involved in.


4. The habit of doing extensive reading helps to lay the [   ] of children’s writing skills.


5. The UN has __ its troops from Iraq. Let’s hope that war will come to an end soon. 


6. A:Good morning, traveler’s check department. B:I’ve lost my traveler’s checks. I want to stop payment. A: [   ] Your name, please.


7. Mrs. Lin told Jane that she had to clean up her room and empty the dishwasher before she could leave for the game. Jane promised her mom that she [   ].


8. [   ] the family income, the Chang's could afford to buy a new car.


9. The field is too barren to yield crops, so the farmers decide to put some [   ] on it.


10. Hank was [   ] of accepting bribes because he couldn’t explain why he suddenly had so much money in his bank account.


11. Most of the people in my office want to stay [   ], so they exercise regularly.


12. Research shows that only some animals are able to [   ] in the wild after being released from the zoo.


13. Soon after they were born, most babies will develop a daily [   ] of eating and sleeping.


14. A: [   ] B:He’s a salesman.


15. Michelle often reviews research papers for one of the top journals in [   ] genetics.


16. My son is [   ] of the dark, so he never walks out of the house after sunset.


17. Cheating in exams is a serious [   ] of the school regulations.


18. In this industry, you really need to keep [   ] if you don't want to be caught off guard.


19. My grandfather [   ] for ten years, but I still miss him a lot.


20. There was a rumor that there had been a minor accident at the nuclear power plant, but a spokesman for the plant issued a [   ].


21. Many customers in Taiwan believe that they were being     as compared to the much lower price of the same product sold in the US. 


22. Two years ago a severe earthquake struck the city and caused a [   ] tsunami, leaving hundreds dead, thousands injured.


23. Our boss [   ] the importance of our finishing the report over the weekend, since he wanted to discuss it at the meeting on Monday morning.


24. Foreign-trained employees have to __ their learned skill-sets to the local market. 


25. Tom’s desk was so [   ] with papers that it was hard to find anything.


26. The original model has been ____ and replaced by the new one. 


27. The total number of the [   ] people in that remote area is decreasing.


28. We can find almost all the information we need [   ] surfing the Internet.


29. A:Are you still driving to the south every week to take care of your grandmother? B: No, I’m not doing that anymore. [   ] A: Oh! I’m so sorry. Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?


30. He moved to the countryside as soon as he retired. However, he found himself unable to [   ] to country life because it was not so convenient as living in the city.


31. The cars are moving so slowly that I can __ them just by walking fast. 


32. He was an [   ] player until 20 when he turned professional.


33. The [   ] of this button is to make sure we can stop the machine if things go wrong.


34. Jenny was brought up in a poor family. She had to [   ] her free time to baby-sit her neighbor’s 2-year-old boy to pay for her high school education.


35. My mother always says we should think things through before [   ] anything.


36. Janet put forward the proposal that the program [   ] until Mr. Brian Reynolds came back from abroad.


37. A spokesperson for the MOTC says that the “fat cat“ problem will be [   ] in the coming weeks in order to meet the expectations of the public.


38. What can you tell me about [   ] the subway in Tokyo?


39. I like to [   ] time [   ] my family.


40. There is a risk that the longer people put off their work, __ it will eventually get done. 


41. The habit of doing extensive reading helps to lay the __ of children’s writing skills. 


42. [   ], I cannot agree with him on the matter.


43. Defined most broadly, folklore includes all the customs, beliefs, and traditions that people have __ from generation to generation. 


44. The joke you told me really [   ].


45. The congressmen have reached a ____ that smoking should be banned within thirty feet from the entrance of a building. 


46. Sharon was going to pay for the yellow blouse with credit card, [   ] then decided to pay cash instead.


47. ____ for the sales in the first quarter may not necessarily be the final sales volume at the end of the quarter. 


48. Please turn off the light. We should save [   ]; otherwise, the bill might go up again.


49. It [   ] me two hours to get there because the traffic was awful.


50. Tim is terrible at [   ] a trip. He always takes to much stuff.