Fill-in-the-blanks Instructions: Select the word listed on the bottom which best fills in each blank.
请选择考卷底部所列出的最适当单字填写在每一个空格内(二十道题目, 二十个选择, 每一选择只许使用一次)
01. New building in Houston falls ________ on its back
02. Walmart can get what ________ wants cheap.
03. Is it too much to ask for your coworkers to clean up ________ themselves?
04. I'm pumped up to team ________ with a premier organization like Ford on these new projects.
05. This a lesson I learned the hard ________.
06. The lack of a catalog ________, it was a very interesting exhibit.
07. Like the global economic meltdown that was the result of the unfettered credit orgy the bill for risky behavior always comes ________.
08. There's nothing to be ashamed of ________ trying to communicate in a second language and not being an expert.
09. Why haven't I put an end ________ these unwelcome intrusions earlier?
10. What would happen if you had two ________ ideas at the same time?
11. If I had a dollar for every mistake I have made, I'd be ________ shouting distance of a comfortable retirement.
12. You should be proud of yourself for trying to help someone ________.
13. I am a safe driver thanks to skills that I have honed ________ the past 14 years.
14. There are more concrete examples out there, but this is something ________ the top of my head.
15. As we all know, a "warning" without consequences, is a ________ warning.
16. The scheme enables volunteers to work within their community to ________ awareness of the dangers of speeding.
17. At one time or the other, we've all been guilty of it; staying ________ to the couch and the TV when there's work to do.
18. If you set your goals too low, you'll have too much time ________ your hands and feel empty when you achieve your goals.
19. Let's not forget that only a tiny proportion of road accidents are actually attributed to excessive speed, despite what the pro-speed camera lobby would have you ________.
20. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take ________ the rights of the other forty-nine.
(after, away, believe, due, flat, glued, half-baked, in, it, notwithstanding, off, on, out, over, raise, to, toothless, up, within, way)