1. Do you mind [   ] to the post office with me? I don’t think I know how to get there.


2. I will attend Mr. Wang’s wedding [   ] my father, who has gone to Hong Kong on business.


3. She claims to be an advocate of animal rights. [   ], she is always wearing fur and carrying a crocodile-skin purse.


4. The supervisor was so [   ] of the new idea that his staff proposed that it was never put into real practice.


5. Academic performance should not be [   ] purely by examination results, which concern only a limited aspect of learning.


6. ____ in 1952, the MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the world’s most prestigious business school.  


7. I just learned that Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark was the [   ] for the original Disneyland in L.A., California.


8. A: [   ]. What’s been going on? B: What do you mean by that? A:Look. You quit smoking. You no longer drive to work; instead, you use public transportation. And you eat really healthy food. You are going “green.”


9. I don’t know [   ]of the people in this room. Can you introduce each of them to me?


10. A lot of debris ____ at the site of explosion for quite a while. 


11. 《Mother》: My daughter eats like a bird. 《Doctor》: [   ] Advise her to eat more.


12. 《Pam》:John, where are the cookies? Don’t tell me you ate them all! Again! 《John》:Yes, I did. [   ] They were so good. 《Pam》: I thought you didn’t like cookies. 《John》: Well, I don’t like cookies flavored with chocolate at all. But vanilla is different. I love them to death.


13. Employees are required to follow the standard operating procedures and to act ____. 


14. I was browsing in the library and [   ] an interesting book on traveling in Alaska.


15. 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.


16. The 2010 Flora Expo, held in Taipei, is very successful. Do you know [   ] city is going to host the next Flora Expo?


17. Those angry peasants held a sit-in [   ] make their protests against the new policy.


18. English is important in Taiwan, [   ] for business people.


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


20. Mary likes her job, [   ]?


21. A lot of heavy smokers [   ] lung cancer every year.


22. Market growth is the rate [   ] the overall market is growing.


23. A few political extremists ____ the crowd to attack the police. 


24. The athletes are getting in shape for the big [   ] next month.


25. Of all the novels I’ve read, this one is __ interesting. 


26. My family’s newest [   ] is a print shop in Taipei.


27. Many people in the U.S. are staying away from restaurants, skipping vacations and [   ] on buying new cars.


28. The [   ] earthquake has buried over 18,000 lives in southwestern China’s Sichuan province.


29. China is calling for a new global currency [   ] the dominant dollar.


30. I think I should be going now. I’ve got to [   ] my son at the school in ten minutes.


31. [   ], I continued working until late last night.


32. Acid rain causes the ground to release [   ] substances; plants and trees are thus slowly poisoned.


33. Mutual funds came into our country in recent years. This financial product was developed for those who do not have enough time, money and [   ] knowledge to invest.


34. In the past year I have developed an important relationship with my [   ].


35. It was really a [   ] for the little boy to survive the air crash.


36. If you [   ] that HBO movie last night, you wouldn’t be so drowsy now.


37. It seemed that the walls    . 


38. The [   ] of calcium may cause osteoporosis, and the patients may get bone fractures easily.


39. The snow [   ] on the roads makes driving an extreme hazard for people rushing to work in the morning.


40. No other girl in her class dances [   ] as she does.


41. I usually buy daily necessities in the same grocery store. The clerks know me because I'm a regular [   ].


42. After many years of moving, Daniel finally found a [   ] home in the Dublin suburbs.


43. Many young people today are [   ] with fashion and style. They care more about what they wear than what they think or believe.


44. Taipei 101 is one of the most well-known [   ] in the world. You can enjoy a great view of the city from the top floors of the building.


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


46. Many families are struggling to [   ] during this recession.


47. [   ] production lines is the prioritized agenda in manufacturing industries.


48. A single bacteria, [   ] the right conditions, divides rapidly into colonies of billions in one day.


49. In the movie, all the stuffed animals came [   ].


50. I want to see [   ].