21.Anyone who has spent time with children is aware of the difference in the way boys and girls respond to ____ situation.
A)similar
B)alike
C)same
D)likely
22.In this factory , suggestions often have to wait for months before they are fully ____.
A)admitted
B)acknowledged
C)absorbed
D)considered
23.The boy slipped out of the room and headed for the swimming pool without his parents’____.
A)command
B)conviction
C)consent
D)compromise
24.In a typhoon , winds____ a speed greater than 120 kilometers per hour.
A)assume
B)accomplish
C)attain
D)assemble
25.Difficulties and hardships have ____the best qualities of the young geologist.
A)brought out
B)brought about
C)brought forth
D)brought up
26.The bank manager asked his assistant if it was possible for him to____ the investment plan within a week.
A)work out
B)put out
C)make out
D)set out
27.Richard doesn’t think he could ever____ what is called “free-style” poetry.
A)take on
B)take over
C)take to
D)take after
28.Californians and New Englanders speak the same language and ____by the same federal laws.
A)stand
B)conform
C)abide
D)sustain
29.The long-awaited Hubble Space Telescope, ____to orbit the Earth next March, will observe some of the oldest stars in the sky.
A)subject
B)owing
C)available
D)due
30.Although we had told them not to keep us waiting, they made no ____ to speed up deliveries.
A)trial
B)attempt
C)action
D)progress