Adhere(6次)

1. The ________ they felt for each other was obvious to everyone who saw them. (04/6)
A) affection      B) adherence      C) sensibility      D) sensitivity

2. More than 85 percent of French Canada's population speaks French as a mother tongue and _______ to the Roman Catholic faith. (02/12)
A) caters      B) adheres      C) ascribes      D) subscribes

3. E-mail is a convenient, highly democratic informal medium for conveying messages that _______ well to human needs. (00/6)
A) adheres      B) reflects      C) conforms      D) satisfies

4. If you want to set up a company, you must ______ with the regulations laid down by the authorities. (99/6)
A) comply      B) adhere      C) confirm      D) accord

5. Both parties promised to ______ the contract to be signed the following day. (98/6)
A) keep with      B) tangle with      C) adhere to      D) devote to

6. At the party we found that shy girl ____ her mother all the time. (97/1)
A) depending on      B) coinciding with      C) adhering to      D) clinging to

Alternate(4次)

1. Professor Smith and Professor Brown will ____ in presenting the series of lectures on American literature.(03/12)
A) alter      B) alternate      C) substitute      D) exchange

2. Military orders are ____ and cannot be disobeyed. (02/6)
A) defective      B) conservative      C) alternative      D) imperative

3. The manager tried to wave aside these issues as _______ details that would be settled later. (00/1)
A) versatile      B) trivial      C) preliminary      D) alternate

4. In our highly technological society, the number of jobs for unskilled worker is ______.(99/1)
A) shrinking      B) obscuring      C) altering      D) constraining

Ascend(4次)

1. Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops, but this only _______ the crisis. (02/12)
A) accelerates      B) prevails      C) ascends      D) precedes

2. All the people in the stadium cheered up when they saw hundreds of colorful balloons ____ slowly into the sky. (02/6)
A) ascending      B) elevating      C) escalating      D) lingering

3. The children cheered up when they saw hundreds of colorful balloons _______ slowly into the sky. (98/6)
A) floating      B) raising      C) heaving      D) ascending

4. We managed to reach the top of the mountain, and half an hour later we began to ___. (97/1)
A) ascend      B) descend      C) decline      D) plunge

Consolidate(3次)

1. I found it difficult to _____ my career ambitions with the need to bring up my children.　 (03/6)
A) consolidate      B) amend      C) reconcile      D) intensify
　
2. His successful negotiations with the Americans helped him to _________ his position in he government. (02/1)
A) contrive      B) consolidate      C) heave      D) intensify

3. The presidential candidate ______ his position by winning several primary elections. (99/6)
A) enforced      B) enriched      C) intensified      D) consolidated

Confidential(2次)

1. We'll be very careful and keep what you've told us strictly________. (02/1)
A) rigorous      B) confidential      C) private      D) mysterious

2. For a particular reason, he wanted the information to be treated as ________.(01/6)
A)assured      B)reserved      C)intimate      D)confidential