2016考博英语词汇单选练习（7）

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　　91. It was Hayek who came up with the strategy that saved the _________ Weiss watch-making industry from succumbing to the Japanese hegemony in the quartz-watch business.

　　a. prestigious b. notorious c. appalling d. susceptible

　　92. Although both sides _________, they tried to keep the brinkmanship within bounds.

　　a. grumbled b. compromised c. appreciated d. sympathized

　　93. Mickey Kantor, Trade Representative, promised that within a month his office would publish a list of Japanese companies that would be punished---probably through tariffs---if the situation is not _________.

　　a. maculated b. alleged c. conducted d. remedied

　　94. Tokyo scrambled to propose conciliatory measures to promote imports, speed deregulation, break down monopolies and open up government purchasing to outsiders---a standard litany that Washington wasn't _________.

　　a. buying b. selling c. talking about d. hitting into

　　95. The old enemy, the Soviet Union, has vanished. With the U.S. running a $41 billion trade _________ with Japan, the once deferential partner begins to look to some Americans like the new enemy.

　　a. surplus b deficit c. bargain d. account

　　96. Fearful of a sudden _________ of their hoards, East Germans last week staged a minirun on banks, withdrawing cash for shopping sprees.

　　a. devaluation b. evaluation c. inflation d. fluctuation

　　97. The tape, which sets fractures faster than plaster, was remarkably similar in design and function to a casting tape developed by 3M scientists and it is obviously the patent _________.

　　a. agreement b. disagreement c. infringement d. abolishment

　　98. Overseas fillings are also up. Japan the number of patent applications nearly doubled between 1980 and 1988 as that government signaled its intention to _________ property laws more strictly.

　　a. carry out b. maintain c. enforce d. wane

　　99. War means peace. Thus the "cold war" was a way of maintaining a tenuous peace between two _________ superpowers.

　　a. papist b. serene c. belligerent d. muscular

　　100. In a study published last June, Bard College economist Dimitri Papadimitrious concluded that new laws were needed to head off "a bitter struggle between these new immigrants and _________ segments of the U.S. population for increasingly scarce low skill, low-wage jobs."

　　a. superiors b. fortunate c. inopportune d. disadvantaged

　  101. Nearly 6 ft. tall, imperially slim and sleekly dressed, she is usually the _________ of attention at any gathering.

　　a. magnificence b. span c. cynosure d. malice

　　102. To do this, the scientists will have to track the locations of hundreds of aftershocks, a lengthy and _________ process.

　　a. appealing b. hilarious c. cheerful d. tedious

　　103. They had charged that Papandreou ordered state companies to deposit funds in the private bank at a time when its owner was suspected of _________.

　　a. arson b. pillage c. pilferage d. embezzlement

　　104. News Corp faced a _________ crisis caused by the recession, a huge drop in advertising revenues, and Murdoch's reliance on short-term loans at a time when interest rates were rising rapidly.

　　a. liquidity b. economic c .cabinet d. military

   105. During the years of its most explosive growth in the last 1970s and mid-1980s, B.C.C became a _________ for drug money, capital fight money, tax-evading money and money from corrupt government officials.

　　a. clash b. credit c. magnet d. reprobation