. There are three basic ways of _____ language to writing, and all known graphic systems use one or a combination of these.

A. committing  B. attaching  C. comparing  D. relating

 High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage   B. decrease   C. disturb   D. disgust

 They have been waiting for many hours to see the singer, but the airplane must have been _____.

   A. behind the times    B. behind schedule

   C. ahead of time      D. in no time

. As soon as the children were _____, their mother got them out of bed and into the bathroom.

   A. woke                    B. waken                    C. wake                    D. awake

My brother likes eating very much but he isn't very _____ about the food he eats.

A. special                 B. peculiar                  C. particular                  D. unusual

It is wrong for someone in such a high _____ in the government to behave too badly in public.

        A. situation                 B. position                  C. employment                 D. profession

.The country needs a _____ government. We have had three Prime Ministers in a year.

A. stationary B. changeless C.constant D.stable

The climbers _____ their ambition by reaching the summit of the mountain.

A. obtained  B. sustained  C. maintained  D. realized

The lawyer was expected to _____ some proposals after reading all those documents.

   A. come up with    B. put up with

   C. look up to      D. keep up with

The illness from which Mary is suffering has now been _____ as hepatitis (肝炎).

A. diagnosed B. determined  C. deduced D. discovered