Thousands of people_______ homeless after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan a few months ago.




A.are becoming
B.will become
C.become
D.became

Because of the inflation crisis, the denominations of money are now in _______ of losing their value.




A.warning
B.worry
C.threat
D.danger

The first to support the equality of the sexes was ____.




A.the Chinese
B.the Greek
C.Plato
D.the Jews

The word "underlying" in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by "____".




A.noticing
B.causing
C.finding
D.depriving

The pronoun "it" in paragraph 2 refers to ____.




A.a reality
B.an accomplishment
C.genetic engineering
D.hereditary mechanism

_________(42)




A.widened
B.spent
C.lasted
D.lengthened

As all of us cannot be available today, let's put off the discussion till later.




A.present for the event
B.scheduled for the event
C.arranged for the event
D.appointed for the event

The Romantic musicians also made use of modern technologies such as ________ .




A.improved wind instruments
B.powerful keys and valves
C.greater range and dynamics
D.instrumentation and orchestration

______(41)




A.fast
B.hardly
C.equally
D.hard

Jackson apologised______________.




A.me for paying not the money earlier
B.not to pay me the money earlier
C.for not paying me the money earlier
D.not for paying the money me earlier