41. The company ______a rise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.
A) is promised B) has been promising
C) is promising D) promised
42. The doctor was asked to go back to the hospital because of ______ case.
A) an operation B) an emergency C) a treatment D) an incident
43. Life is a candle ______ to burn ever brighter.
A) being meant B) meaning C) to mean D) meant
44. Mrs. I,ackey was awakened by the ringing of the bedside phone 12 hours after her husband's boat had been ______
A) wrecked B) collapsed C) decayed D) fired
45. No one needs to feel awkward in ______ his own customs.
A) pursuing B) following C) chasing D) seeking
46. It's time ______ about the traffic problem downtown.
A) something was done B) everything is done
C) anything will be done D) nothing to be done
47. When they had finished playing, the children were made to ______ all the toys they had
taken out.
A) put off B) put out C) put up D) put away
48. There is an undesirable ______ nowadays to make films showing violence.
A) direction B) tradition C) phenomenon D) trend
49. My father did not go to New York; the doctor suggested that he ______ there.
A) not to go B) hadn't gone C) not go D) wouldn't go
50. Most people who travel in the course of their work are given traveling ______
A) income B) allowances C) wages D) pay
51. He failed to supply the facts relevant ______ the case in question.
A) for B) with C) to D) of
52. Young people's social environm
[page][page]ment has a ______effect on their academic progress.
A) gross B) solid C) complete D) profound
53. In Britain, and on the Continent too, the Japanese are sometimes viewed ______a threat
to domestic industries.
A) like B) with C) for D) as
54. The service operates 36 libraries throughout the country, while six ______ libraries
specially serve the countryside.
A) mobile B) drifting C) shifting D) rotating
55. Physics is the present - day equivalent of ______ used to be called natural philosophy,
from which most of present - day science arose.
A) that B) all C) which D) what