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Upon the super typhoon warning， Nancy rushed to the supermarket—only to find the shelves almost ______ and the stock nearly gone.
(A) blank
(B) bare
(C) hollow
(D) queer

Even though Jack said “Sorry!” to me in person， I did not feel any ______ in his apology.
(A) liability
(B) generosity
(C) integrity
(D) sincerity

My grandfather has astonishing powers of ______. He can still vividly describe his first day at school as a child.
(A) resolve
(B) fraction
(C) privilege
(D) recall

Recent research has found lots of evidence to ______ the drug company’s claims about its “miracle” tablets for curing cancer.
(A) provoke
(B) counter
(C) expose
(D) convert

Corrupt officials and misguided policies have ______ the country’s economy and burdened its people with enormous foreign debts.
(A) crippled
(B) accelerated
(C) rendered
(D) ventured

As a record number of fans showed up for the baseball final， the highways around the stadium were ______ with traffic all day.
(A) choked
(B) disturbed
(C) enclosed
(D) injected

Studies show that the ______ unbiased media are in fact often deeply influenced by political ideology.
(A) undoubtedly
(B) roughly
(C) understandably
(D) supposedly

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In certain forests， when you look up you will see a network of cracks formed by gaps between the outermost edges of tree branches. It looks like a precisely engineered jigsaw puzzle， each branch growing just perfectly so it almost， ______， touches the neighboring tree.
(A) in no time
(B) by all means
(C) but not quite
(D) and pretty much

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Scientists have been discussing crown shyness since the 1920s， proposing ______ explanations for the phenomenon.
(A) universal
(B) productive
(C) conventional
(D) multiple

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Other scientists suggest that plants， like animals， ______ resources—nutrients， water， space， and light.
(A) get over
(B) compete for
(C) give way to
(D) make up for