_____ what many people thought, the grad...

The pipes have oil or water inside them, which is heated and sent to the storage tank until ______ to produce electricity.

A.needed B.needing

C.to need D.having needed

According to the national population survey concluded recently, Florida is home to the largest population of people aged 65 and older, and this group ______ over 17 percent of the state’s population.

A.takes up B.holds up

C.makes up D.keeps up

People with simple names enjoy quicker career advancement because names which are hard to pronounce inspire negative ________ from superiors.

A.considerations B.consequences

C.expectations D.reactions

Although an earthquake has just happened, people here still ______ their lives as usual.

A.go about B.go through

C.get about D.get through

    Most shoplifters (商店扒手) agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief.

_____ the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape________. It is known, in the business, as “hoisting”.

But the hoisting game is not________it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know___________ they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.

As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed______and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.

Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court______for shoplifting using an evidence of a videotape clearly showing a couple______ dresses. It was an important test case which______ other stores to install similar equipment.

When the balls, called sputniks, first make a(n)______ in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to______shoplifters. Their______ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.

It did not take long, _______, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable______.Soon after the equipment was ______ at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman _____ putting bottles of perfume into her bag.

“As she turned to go,” Chadwick______, “she suddenly looked up at the ‘sputnik’ and stopped. She could not______have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she ______ have had a feeling that I was looking at her.”

“For a moment she paused, but then she ______to the counter and started putting everything ______ . When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store.”

1.A.As B.With C.For D.Since

2.A.noticed B.noticing C.unnoticed D.unnoticing

3.A.how B.that C.which D.what

4.A.if B.that C.how D.why

5.A.at rest B.at attention C.at work D.at shock

6.A.case B.theft C.discussion D.conversation

7.A.trying B.wearing C.stealing D.packaging

8.A.stopped B.kept C.encouraged D.called

9.A.difference B.influence C.appearance D.function

10.A.attack B.calm C.excite D.frighten

11.A.somehow B.somewhat C.anyhow D.somewhere

12.A.however B.thus C.therefore D.anyway

13.A.respect B.interest C.fright D.courage

14.A.in operation B.in case C.in trouble D.in advance

15.A.publicly B.bravely C.quickly D.secretly

16.A.replied B.repeated C.recalled D.requested

17.A.possibly B.politely C.pleasantly D.patiently

18.A.could B.would C.should D.must

19.A.came B.left C.returned D.rushed

20.A.off B.in C.up D.back