A good way to （ ） a language is to live in the native culture with the native speakers.
A.require B.acquire C.inquire D.sustain
Some felt that they were hurrying into an epoch of unprecedented enlightenment, in which better education and beneficial technology would （ ）wealth and leisure for all.
A.ensure B.maintain C.certify D.console
M: Is there anything I can do for you. Madam?W: I’d like to see some linen, please.Q: Where are the two people?
A.In a sports department. B.In a textile department. C.In a hotel. D.In a shoe department.
（ ） is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
A.What B.Which C.That D.Whether
There （ ）no other Chinese in the town, he was called by all the people there simply as “the Chinese”.
A.having B.being C.having been D.been
“Genlle Ben’s Brewing Company” will （ ）a bell with anyone who has lived in Arizona.
A.ring B.spell C.strike D.sound
All the memories of his childhood had （ ）from his mind by the time he was 65.
A.faded B.illustrated C.confined D.concerned
Some of my colleagues have been extremely zealous in their attempts to get smoking banned in the office.
A.ardent B.collaborative C.divisive D.arduous
When I was having dinner with you and Edward at his apartment, I sensed a certain （ ）between the two of you.
A.intimacy B.proximity C.discrepancy D.diversity
In light of his good record, the police accepted defense.
A.In place of B.In view of C.In spite of D.In search of
In the past fifty years, there （ ）a great increase in the amount of research （ ）on the human brain.
A.was, did B.has been, to be done C.was, done D.has been, done
（ ） we wish him prosperous, we object to his ways of obtaining wealth.
A.Much as B.As much C.More as D.As well as
These surveys indicate that many crimes go （ ）by the police, mainly because not all victims report them.
A.unrecorded B.to be unrecorded C.unrecording D.to have been unrecorded
Most earthquakes are in remote areas ； but every now and then a quake may（ ）volcanic eruptions or drown the coastlines with tsunamis, death-dealing tidal waves.
A.yield B.trigger C.transmit D.evolve
To（ ）people’s hunger for adventures, they came up with many high-tech video games.
A.enhance B.beautify C.appease D.nullify
He seemed most（ ） to my idea which was exceptionally creative.
A.alien B.ambulant C.amiable D.amenable
Asbestos exposure results in mesothelioma, asbestosis and interna, organ cancers, and （ ）of these diseases is often decades after the initial exposure.
A.offset B.intake C.outlet D.onset
She walked round to the（ ）of the car and stood silently while he undid the boot and picked up her bag.
A.ream B.ranch C.rear D.realm
The ocean bottom even today is largely unexplored: until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely （ ），hidden beneath water averaging over 3,600 meters deep.
A.inevitable B.indefinite C.incomparable D.inaccessible
These are students who, at some stage of their undergraduate careers have class, either（ ） ,or because they are asked to do so.
A.voluntarily B.selectively C.compulsorily D.necessarily