10. Many students are signing the petition against building a steelworks near the school.

??? A) names?????????????? B) agreement

??? C) request??????????? D) disapproval

??? 11. Your appraisal of the current situation is quite different from mine.

??? A) optimistic??????? B) compliment

??? C) agreement?????? D) estimate

??? 12. They are boycotting the store because the workers are on strike.

??? A) looting????B) banning

??? C) protecting??????? D) destroying

??? 13. In the final contest, two athletes are contending for the championship.

??? A) satisfying????? B) happy

??? C) competing??????? D) quarreling

??? 14. The computer's value will depreciate by half in the first year.

??? A) decrease???? B) increase

??? C) keep low????? D) fluctuate

??? 15. China Telecom is about to embark on a major program of computerization.

??? A) propaganda??? B) finish

??? C) purchase??????? D) undertake

??? l6. The candidate has given a pledge that he will improve the local environment and invest doubly in education.

??? A) promise???????? B)? declaration

??? C) proposal???????? D) possibility

??? 17. There has always been an epldemic or bike stealing in schools.??????????????????????????????????????????????

??? A) a theft???????? B) a punishment

??? C) a plague????????? D) a crime

??? 18. It is in Chongqing that the next international symposium on environmental protection will be held.

??? A) debate????????? B) conference

??? C) seminar???????? D) negotiation

??? 19. Many people suspected the existence of extraterrestrial life.

??? A) snowman???????? B) outside the earth

??? C) spiritual?????????? D) underworld

??? 20. In case your liabilities outrun your assets, you may go bankrupt.

??? A) debt??????? B) enterprise

??? C) controversy?????? D) bondage

??? 21.After the fierce quarrel, they began? to have a __________ loathing for each other.

??? A) boring?????? B) reciprocal

??? C) friendly????? D) standing

??? 22. On the stage many pieces of blue silk were fluctuated to ________the sea waves.

??? A) simplify?????? B) simulate

??? C) help????????????? D) like

??? 23. The government lacked money because of biting oil________.

??? A) prices??????? B) stations

??? C) buildings??????????? D) revenues