Section I Vocabulary
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1 (10 points )
1. Once the profits in one year are not sufficient to pay the dividend, the_______will be paid from the profits of later year.
A. rears B. arrears C. arbitrages D. undue
2. If you want to sell your shop, you must make an/a ____________of the stock in details.
A. inventory B. invention C. payment D. investigation
3. ESPN is a ______ division of ABC, Inc., with the ABC, Inc. owning a 90-percent share of the network.
A. secondary B. dependent C. subsidiary D. supplementary
4. In addition to the ______ owned and operated television networks in the US, there is a public television network free from advertising.
A. financially B. economically C. profitably D. commercially
5. In 1997 Boeing and McDonnell Douglas Corporation ______ into a single company under the Boeing name, creating the world's largest aerospace company.
A. emerged B. alloyed C. blended D. merged
6. If you draw a(n) ______ between two things, that means the two things are different.
A. prescription B. intersection C. partition D. distinction
7. As computers become part of modem society, computer scientists to invent better methods of solving current problems with it.
A. strive B. stress C. stretch D. strike
8. He has been from Beijing to Shanghai by the company.
A. transited B. transmitted C. transferred D. transformed
9. Before people first attempted cultivation they existed ______ by hunting and gathering food.
A. exclusively B. occasionally C. eventually D. inclusively
10. Their marriage came to an end because they were simply not ______ with each other.
A. comparative B. comparable C. compatible D. competitive
