Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

    The rapid transcontinental settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19th century were accompanied by the development of national literature of great abundance and variety. New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century.

    As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York in the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. No longer was it produced, at least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South; no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives; no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times; no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression; no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle class women.

          In sum, American literature in these years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for in 1867 in describing Leaves of Grass: it treats, he said of his own major work, each state and region as “and expands from them, and includes the world ... connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations"

The phrase “these years” in the third paragraph refers to________.

Sportsmen _________ their political differences on the sport field.

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Even on the most careful prepared trip, problems will sometimes happen.

“Buy me a newspaper on your way back,_______?” 

______ further rioting to occur, the government would be forced to use its emergency powers

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Dogs that are trained to lead the blind must be loyalty, intelligent and calm.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each of the following questions

Unless I miss my guess, your computer needs a new hard drive.  

In England, English, Math and Science are ______ subjects at school.

Nowadays, chemicals are _______ into some fruits to reduce decay.

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The pilot and the crew divided the life preservers between the twenty frantic passengers

His flat looks so _______ that it is difficult to believe he had just had a party last night

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Relaxation therapy teaches one not to fret over small problems

Parts of the country are suffering water _______ after the unusually dry summer.

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The theory of relativity __________ by Einstein, who was a famous physicist. 

We can’t get everything we want from life; we must just make the best_______ it. 

It is desirable that the plane _________ as light as possible