21. In Britain people four million tons of potatoes every year.
　　A. swallow
　　B. dispose
　　C. consume
　　D. exhaust
　　22. All the ceremonies at the Olympic Games had a unique flavor, ____ of their multicultural communities.
　　A. noticeable
　　B. indicative
　　C. conspicuous
　　D. implicit
　　23. I'd his reputation with other farmers and business people in the community, and then make a decision about whether or not to approve a loan.
　　A. take into account
　　B. account for
　　C. make up for
　　D. make out
　　24. I bought an alarm clock with a(n) ____ dial, which can be seen clearly in the dark.
　　A. supersonic
　　B. luminous
　　C. audible
　　26. She had recently left a job and had helped herself to copies of client data, which she intended to ____ in starting her own business.
　　A. dwell on
　　B. come upon
　　C. base on
　　D. draw upon
　　27. Some women a good salary in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sake of the family.
　　A. must make
　　B. should have made
　　C. would make
　　D. could have made
　　28. Everything we eat and drink contains some salt; we can meet the body's need for it from natural sources without turning the salt bottle.
　　A. to
　　B. over
　　C. on
　　D. up
　　29. Movie directors use music to the action on the screen.
　　A. contaminate
　　B. compliment
　　C. contemplate
　　D. complement
　　30. He always did well at school having to do part-time jobs every now and then.
　　A. in case of
　　B. in spite of
　　C. regardless of
　　D. on account of
　　31. Some people think that a translation, or word-for-word translation, is easier than a free translation.
　　A. literal
　　B. literary
　　C. liberal
　　D. linear
　　32. All the key words in the article are printed in type so as to attract readers' attention.
　　A. dark
　　B. bold
　　C. dense
　　D. black
　　33. Mary once with another musician to compose a piece of pop music.
　　A. merged
　　B. collaborated
　　C. coincided
　　D. constituted
　　34. Agriculture was a step in human progress which subsequently there was not anything comparable until our own machine age.
　　A. to
　　B. in
　　C. for
　　D. from
　　35. He attends to the of important business himself.
　　A. transaction
　　B. transition
　　C. transmission
　　D. transformation
　　36. When I try to understand that prevent so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes.
　　A. why it does
　　B. what it does
　　C. what it is
　　D. why it is
　　37. We rarely perceive more than a minute of the sights and sounds that fall upon our sense organs; the great majority pass us by.
　　A. fiction
　　B. function
　　C. fraction
　　D. friction
　　38. The millions of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, all practical value by the time they were finished.
　　A. had lost
　　B. would have lost
　　C. would lose
　　D. should have lost
　　39. Although it was his first experience as chairman, he over the meeting with great skill.
　　A. presided
　　B. administered
　　C. mastered
　　D. executed
　　40. Only a selected number of landladies in the neighborhood have been allowed by the university to take in .
　　A. residents
　　B. lodgers