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2. "Be not _______ of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -William Shakespeare A. stared B. did C. afraid D. warmed
3. Gathering himself quickly up, he stood more erect, like a man taken by surprise in a mood to which he was ___________ to have witnesses. (From The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1804–1864.) A. lulled B. reluctant C. shown D. trusting
4. "I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't ________ the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string." -Scott Adams A. Although B. Trust C. Pretend D. Around
5. The engine was ___________, my hand was on the throttle, I was set to take off. A. ranging B. trusting C. idling D. swerving
6. F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescense, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the end. He was supremely a part of the world he described, so much a part that he made himself its king and then, when he saw it begin to ________, he _______ with it and led it to death." -John Aldridge A. rumbled B. humbled C. stumbled D. crumbled
7. Boston has ____________ 600,000 inhabitants. A. wicked B. alike C. around D. fancy
8. "But these small-town boobs, with nobody but each other to talk to, no wonder they get so ______ and uncultured in their speech, and so balled-up in their thinking!” Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair. 1922 A. neat B. rigorous C. thrive D. sloppy
9. "Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snake______, and, furthermore, always carry a small snake." W C. Fields A. charmer B. pit C. bite D. skin
10. The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a _______ of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Chesterton A. range B. nickle C. variation D. lull
11. "I am a student. Please do not ______, spindle, or mutilate me." -Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964. A. stern B. fold C. around D. found
12. "The ogre, Life, comes into the room, (He was waiting and heard the clang of the spring) To watch you nibble the wondrous cheese, And ______ with his burning eyes at you, And scowl and laugh, and mock and curse you, Running up and down in the trap, Until your misery bores him." Robert Fulton Tanner- Spoon River Anthology A. bare B. fancy C. stare D. double
13. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and ______ to anger. "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien A. wastes B. strive C. quick D. might
14. "The reason people _______ things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice." -Doug Larson A. blame B. meld C. shame D. laugh
15. It is double the pleasure to ____ a _____er. Jean de la Fontaine A. beat B. sleet C. cheat D. meet
16. Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it ______ on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. Dr. Martin Luther King A. sings B. thrives C. wishes D. lifts
17. She only wanted him to go into town for groceries and as soon as she had told him what she wanted (she) began to ______. “You’re always puttering,” she said. “Now I want you to hustle. There isn’t anything in the house for supper and you’ve got to get to town and back in a hurry.” The Untold Lie Anderson, Sherwood. 1919 A. scold B. thrive C. lift D. cheat
18. You are without a doubt a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a thief, a scoundrel, and a mean, dirty, stinking, sniveling, _____ing, pimping, pocketpicking, thrice double-damned, no-good son-of-a-bitch... I feel better now, thanks A. sneak B. rat C. lift D. snake
19. "He was an adroit scandal-monger, and would _______ a mile on his belly to anything that had a title or a million. The Thirty-nine Steps. John Buchan. 1875–1940 A. boost B. crawl C. lift D. brawl
20. Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide": -- Gifts for Men -- "Men are amused by almost any idiot thing -- that is why professional ice hockey is so popular -- so buying gifts for them is easy. But you should never buy them clothes. Men believe they already have all the clothes they'll ever need, and new ones make them nervous. For example, your average man has 84 ties, but he wears, at most, only 3 of them. He has learned, through humiliating trial & error, that if he wears any of the other 81 ties, his wife will probably laugh at him ("You're not going to wear THAT tie with that suit, are you?"). So he has narrowed it down to three safe ties, and has gone several years without being laughed at. If you give him a new tie, he will _______ to like it, but deep inside he will hate you. If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires." A. pretend B. approximate C. reliance D. fold
21. What a unique gift for your favorite lawyer or friends who needs one! Just squeeze him and hear legal phrases like, "My client is innocent", "This is an outrage", "I'll see you in court", and "Pay up you dead beat." He carries a briefcase and is dressed in a gray suit, white shirt and striped tie. He measures 7" ____ and comes with a life-time battery included. Our pocket lawyer -- don't go to court without him. A. high B. tall C. height D. small
22. If you give a ______ man a fish he will live a week. If you teach a _______ to fish he will live a life-time. Tom Lyon A. crashing B. burning C. winding D. starving
23. In that little valley was a strange stillness as I rode up; for death and marriage had stolen youth and left age and childhood there. We sat and talked that night after the _______ were done. The Souls of Black Folk. W. E. B. Du Bois. 1868–1963 A. parts B. attractions C. chores D. shares
24. "The joy that isn't ______ dies young." -Anne Sexton A. bared B. shared C. burned D. baked
25. "Man cannot be _______; he must be seduced into virtue." -Don Marquis A. uproarious B. distraught C. uplifted D. dispirited
26. Go ahead, there's ______ room to turn around. A. ample B. waste C. neither D. crawl
27. "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the _______ for independence." -Charles Austin Beard A. signs B. chubby C. admonishment D. struggle
28. "A _____ is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, _____es are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had." -Guy Kawasaki A. rope B. crash C. flaunt D. plenty
29. The woman who is fat, or even _______, has a rather hopeless problem unless fashion goes to Turkey for its next inspiration, which is so unlikely it is almost possible! Emily Post Etiquette 1922 A. struggled B. dopey C. fruity D. plump
30. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow ______ of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln A. weary B. lift C. erode D. cheat
31. "The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or ________, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo A. nevertheless B. trust C. allowed D. rather
32. "Being president is like being a jackass in a hail________. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it." -Lyndon B. Johnson A. bombardment B. storm C. worm D. blame
33. In a word, M. le Duc had returned from the gay life of the capital to show himself for a week among the loyal peasants belonging to the old château, and their quaint habits and costumes afforded him a ______ amusement. The Magnificent Ambersons. Booth Tarkington. 1869–1946 A. mild B. milage C. midwife D. mildew
34. At one time I had the __________ computer in St. Etienne: a pentium 90. Back then, it was as if I owned the most expensive BMW ever made. A. surest B. loneliest C. quickest D. fanciest
35. During all this time Hester stood, statue-like, at the foot of the scaffold. If the minister’s voice had not kept her there, there would __________ have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy. (From The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1804–1864.) A. nevertheless B. biteless C. hopeless D. witless
36. "A good listener tries to understand ________ what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with." -Kenneth A. Wells A. crumbly B. thoroughly C. wary D. competently
37. O Caledonia! _____ and wild, · And the ______ joy which warriors feel Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832. A. bite B. nevertheless C. afraid D. stern
38."Flying is simple. You just throw yourself at the ground and ________." Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for the Fish A. miss B. range C. hit D. crash
39. "Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not ______ in the same oven." -Yiddish Proverb A. stold B. baked C. rather D. idled
40. I had not the faintest idea what had happened: whether the fight was over; or whether this was merely a ______ in the fight; or where the Spaniards were; or whether we might be attacked again; or whether we ought ourselves to attack somebody somewhere else. (Roosevelt, Theodore. 1913. An Autobiography: VII. The War of America the Unready.) A. stern B. lull C. long D. stare