12.What had begun as good-natured teasing quickly gave way to _____ as the lost hikers blamed one another for their predicament.
(A) supplications
(B) permutations
(C) recriminations
(D) salutations

8. As dermatologists recommend, bringing any shades help to _____ radiation under the sun. (A) obfuscate (B) excavate (C) emulate (D) attenuate

9. The governor concluded that, because the city’s fiscal problems were _____ by entrenched mismanagement, providing rescue funding would be foolhardy. (A) supplanted (B) mitigated (C) ascertained (D) exacerbated

10. Because Russell was such a memorable and _____ public speaker, many people mistook his ability to talk about a wide range of topics for genuine _____. (A) enervating; inquisitiveness (B) charismatic; animosity (C) daunting; diffidence (D) adroit; erudition

11.Ellen respects Gary’s qualities of broad-mindedness and humanism; she cannot, however, _____ them with his _____ support of political creed that seems to oppose precisely those qualities. (A) reconcile; dogmatic (B) repudiate; jingoistic (C) assuage; logical (D) acknowledge; polemical

13.Like cartoonists, some painters seek to communicate character _____ , but this economy of means is not artistic shallowness. 2(A) precociously (B) succinctly (C) ludicrously (D) sinuously

14.Ramona practiced ceaselessly, but even such _____ efforts could not compensate for the poor performance of her teammates. (A) dilatory (B) unremitting (C) perfunctory (D) clandestine

15.Harper Lee cannot be called _____ writer as she has published only one major work; however, her writing in that novel is so , so sharply perceptive, that it has earned her enduring popularity. (A) a productive; convoluted (B) a prolific; trenchant (C) a verbose; timorous (D) an astute; probing

16. (A) whereas the aforementioned professors would still face prosecution (B) with more than two-thirds of the lawmakers in attendance voting to uphold the resolution (C) saying that the Executive Yuan would file for a reconsideration (D) which harmed the public’s trust in the administration (E) as the Executive Yuan may request a reconsideration of legislative resolutions following the president’s approval (AB) adding that there also needs to be a distinction between using funds for appropriate ends and using funds for personal gains (AC) leading to a debate over the act’s applicability

複選題17. (A) whereas the aforementioned professors would still face prosecution (B) with more than two-thirds of the lawmakers in attendance voting to uphold the resolution (C) saying that the Executive Yuan would file for a reconsideration (D) which harmed the public’s trust in the administration (E) as the Executive Yuan may request a reconsideration of legislative resolutions following the president’s approval (AB) adding that there also needs to be a distinction between using funds for appropriate ends and using funds for personal gains (AC) leading to a debate over the act’s applicability

18. (A) whereas the aforementioned professors would still face prosecution (B) with more than two-thirds of the lawmakers in attendance voting to uphold the resolution (C) saying that the Executive Yuan would file for a reconsideration (D) which harmed the public’s trust in the administration (E) as the Executive Yuan may request a reconsideration of legislative resolutions following the president’s approval (AB) adding that there also needs to be a distinction between using funds for appropriate ends and using funds for personal gains (AC) leading to a debate over the act’s applicability