10. Looking at Microsoft’s _____product line and 118,000 or so employees, it’s easy to forget that the company started with one modest product made by two
ambitious people.
(A) sprawling (B) simpering (C) simmering (D) scribbling
16. The presidential candidate _____ the assets in his blind trust in April when he learned it
contained investments that could pose conflicts of interest for his presidential campaign.
The trust was apparently valued at between $5 million and $25 million. Political analysts
said the assets would not meet governmental ethics requirements.
(A) dispensed (B) capitulated (C) salvaged (D) liquidated
3. The excuse John ___________ about having been abducted by aliens last night was not
deemed by his teacher an acceptable explanation for not handing in his assignment.
(A) concocted (B) insinuated (C) stupefied (D) derived
8. Over the years, Rossi has established himself as a medieval __________, delighting his
audience with marvelous tales of thirteenth-century Britain.
(A) neophyte (B) conscript (C) raconteur (D) talisman
1. Food safety has become one of the major worries in Taiwan. After the tainted oil scandal,
tofu was found to be _____ with carcinogens.
(A) condemned (B) concentrated (C) contaminated (D) concatenated