The Pace of Life

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The Pace of Life
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Brainstorming

• Discussion
• What did we use to expect from technology? Has
  technology made our lives easier or more
  burdensome?
• Do you agree with the author that all
  time-liberating techniques in relieving the
  widespread sense of time famine are doomed to
  failure?

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Text AText Organization

• Part One(Paras 1-11)
• Part Two(Paras 12-18)
• Part Three(Paras 19-23)
• Part Four (Paras 24-28)

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• on the go (infml) very active or busy.
• - I was on the go all day and went home at
  about 10 oclock in the evening.
• go (n.)
• 1. an attempt or trial at sth.
• I thought Id give it a go.
• 2. a persons turn to use sth. or to move or
  act in a game
• - Come on Tony, its your go.
• 3. a project or undertaking which has been
  proved
• - Tell them the project is a go.
• 4. being successful in sth.
• - Hes determined to make a go of his marriage.
  

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• Cf. on the move in the process of moving (from
  one place
• or job to another) making progress
• - Its difficult to contact her because shes
  always on the move.
• The economy appeared to be on the move.
• Science is always on the move. (??)
• It was vacation time, and the highways were full
  of families on the move. (???????????)
• As it was a very cold day, I kept on the move to
  stay warm.

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• cope deal successfully (often followed by with )
• People who attempt suicide usually suffer from
  extreme emotional distress and feel unable to
  cope with the stress and their problems.
• The task looks a formidable one, but I think we
  can cope.
• In their crazy search for fulfillment, theyve
  gotten themselves into situations in which they
  are not able to cope.

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• set about sth. / doing sth. start doing sth,
  with vigor or determination
• After breakfast, she set about her household
  duties.
• The school authorities must set about finding
  solutions to the campus security problems.
• set sb. off cause someone to start doing sth.,
  esp. laughing or talking
• set sth. off set off a bomb cause an alarm to
  go off cause a series of things to occur set
  off a chain reaction in other financial markets.
• set out to do aim at intend to do sth.
• set to begin doing sth. vigorously

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• tangle v. twist together into a confused mass
  become involved in a conflict or fight with
• Long hair tangles easily.
• The wind tangled my hair.
• I tangled with him over politics bitterly.
  
• be tangled in a controversy??
• The power failure had tangled traffic in the
  city. (????)

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• n.
• - a tangle of ropes / people
• diplomatic tangles (????)
• His thoughts were in a tangle. (????)
• have a tangle with sb. over sth.
• untangle free from a tangled or twisted state
  make sth. complicated easier to deal with
• - untangle the problem / a cable /the traffic
  jam (???????/??????)

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Part I (Paras 1-11)

• Main Idea
• The author gives three reasons why we feel so
  time-pressed today.

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• eat into (Line 6) use up (profits, resources, or
  time), especially when they are intended for
  other purposes gradually reduce the amount of
  (sth. valuable) damage or destroy
• His extravagances ate into his inheritances.
• Responsibilities at home and work eat into his
  time.
• Sales were hard hit by high interest rates eating
  into disposal income.
• The fear has eaten into my bones. (??????)

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• eat sth. away or eat away at sth. (syn.)
• Rust was eating away the pipe.
• Inflation has eaten away at the value of some of
  their assets.(???????)
• I never did understand what was eating away at
  her. (??)

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• eat sth. up use resources or time in very large
  quantities
• an operating system that eats up 200 Mb of disk
  space
• He ate up valuable minutes with long, dull
  answers. (??)
• Extravagant spending ate up his savings. (??)
• She is eating up the course in algebra.??????.

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• Promise (Line 11) give good grounds for
  expecting (a particular occurrence or situation)
• The clear sky promises fine weather.
• It promised to be a night that all present would
  long remember.
• promising giving hope of success or good result
• a promising future / boy (???)
• The weather is promising. (is likely to be fine)

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• Deliver (Line 11) bring or hand over (a letter,
  parcel, or ordered goods) provide sth. promised
  or expected
• struggle to deliver election commitments.
• Shes waiting for him to deliver on his promise.

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• toil at / on / over / through (Line 18) work
  extremely hard or incessantly move slowly and
  with difficulty
• toil at ones task (????)
• toil through the night (????)
• toil with ones hands for a living
• toil up a hill / along the path
• n.
• a life of toil a hard life
• succeed only after years of toil

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• multiply (Line 21) increase in number or
  quantity add a number to itself a particular
  number of times
• The weeds just multiplied, and before long the
  garden was a jungle.
• Fear multiplies the difficulties of life.
• Multiply 16 by 4, to make 64. (?16??4, ?64?)
• 6 multiplied by 3 is 18. (6 x 3 18)
• multiply the height with the width to determine
  the area
• multiplication sign / table??/???

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• multi- (pref) having many of
• a multipolar world multiprocessing (????)
• a multipurpose computer (????)
• a multistage rocket (????)
• multi-racial country

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• burden (Line 24) a load, typically a heavy one
  a duty or misfortune that causes hardship,
  anxiety
• share the burden with sb.
• burden sb. with questions/ worries / a large
  family
• impose / lay the burden on sb.
• shift the burden to sb.
• alleviate / lessen / lighten the burden
• relieve sb. of the burden
• The room was burdened with flowers. (????)
• The economy was further burdened by a flood of
  refugees.

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• time-pressed (Line 28) be pressed have barely
  enough of sth., esp. time
• - Im terribly pressed for time. / Im
  time-pressed.
• be pressed to do sth. have difficulty doing or
  achieving sth.
• - They may be hard pressed to keep their
  promise.
• press sb. to do sth / for sth. ??,????
• press sb. into doing sth. / press sb. with
  questions
• a world pressed by / burdened with mushrooming
  populations.

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• accommodate (Line 31) provide lodging or
  sufficient space for
• Each flat can accommodate up to six people.
• Even the most prestigious universities, such as
  Oxford and Harvard, are making their efforts to
  make their graduates accommodate to the realities
  of the job market.
• accommodate to adapt to

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• proliferate (Line 35) increase rapidly in
  number produce in large quantities multiply
• With the development of science, the
  science-fiction magazines proliferated in the
  1920s.
• The promise of new technology proliferates
  options on every hand.

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• amount to (Line 41) add up to be equal to
• Losses amounted to over 100 million dollars.
• In 1959 the combined value of U.S. imports and
  exports amounted to less than 9 percent of the
  countrys gross domestic products.
• Their actions amounted to a conspiracy.
• Her standards amounted to perfection.
  (????????????)

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• frontier (Line 41) part of a country bordering
  on another country (fig / usu pl) extreme limit
  of an area of knowledge or a particular activity
• armed clashes on the frontier between the two
  countries
• Our passports were inspected at the Czech
  frontier.
• To open up the space frontier, NASA will try to
  lower the cost of access to Earth orbit.
• The frontiers of medical knowledge are being
  pushed farther outwards every year. (????)
• adj. a frontier zone / town / dispute / trade

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• border (land near the) line dividing two states
  or countries
• a border town / incident
• As the river changed its course, the border
  changed.
• v.
• - The park borders on the shores of the lake. (
  be next to)
• boundary line that marks a limit dividing line
  (fig)
• This river forms a boundary between China and
  DPRK.
• A boundary dispute is a quarrel about where a
  boundary should be.
• If something is beyond the boundary of human
  knowledge, man can know nothing about it

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• stress (Line 42) pressure or worry resulting
  from mental or physical distress, difficult
  circumstances
• Not all of us can cope with the stresses of
  modern life.
• Population growth and pollution place enormous
  stress on the worlds supply of usable water.
• v.
• - A person who is stressed typically has
  anxious thoughts and difficulty concentrating or
  remembering.
• stress the point / need for sth. attach
  importance to sth.
• stress / tension / nervousness see Page 210 Ex.
  II

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Part I (Paras 1-7)

• drive (Line 44) urge or force sb. to move in a
• specified direction or act in a particular
  way
• be driven (of a fact or feeling) compel
  (someone)
• to act in a particular way.
• Youre driving yourself too hard. (You are
  pressing too hard.)
• He drove himself working until late at night.
• He was driven by ambition.

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Part I. (Paras 1-11)

• abundance (Line 46) quantity that is more than
  enough plenty
• Most milk consists of an abundance of the major
  nutrients needed by the body for good health.
• She was blessed with talent and charm in
  abundance.
• food and drink in abundance
• live in abundance

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Part I (Paras 1-11)

• oblige (Line 45) do sth. for sb. as a favor or a
  small service (oblige sb. with sth. / by doing
  sth.)
• Will you oblige me by closing the windows?
• Tell me what you want to know and Ill see if I
  can oblige.
• If you can give me a few minutes of your time
  Ill be much obliged. (grateful)
• repay an obligation n. ????

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Part II (Paras 12-18)

• Main Idea
• Not every one is time-stressed, and in the
  case of Americans they have actually gained more
  free time in the past decade.

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Part II (Paras 12-18)

• shorthand (Line 48) a short or simple way of
  expressing or referring to sth.
• - Poetry for him is simply a shorthand for
  literature.

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Part II (Paras 12-18)

• (Line 53) peripherally involved in the economy
  not fully involved in / not fully employed
• a peripheral member of a group???
• peripheral provinces????

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Part II (Paras 12-18)

• perception (Line 67) ability to notice and
  understand things way of seeing or understanding
  sth. intuitive understanding or insight
• color perception
• a vague perception of ?????/??
• a man of perception?????
• v. perceive
• - Do you perceive what I mean?

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Part II (Paras 12-18)

• nurture (Line 76) care for and encourage the
  growth and development of cherish (a hope,
  belief, or ambition) nourish
• His father nurtured his love of art.
• For a long time she has nurtured the dream of
  buying a shop.
• nurture resentment ??????
• nurture connections with sb. ??????
• n. (often contrasted with nature) nature and
  nurture?????

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• Main Idea
• The perception of time-famine has triggered a
  variety of reactions.

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• Inequalities apart (Line 84) apart from
  inequalities
• - See Page 213 Structure Ex. I

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• famine (Line 84) extreme scarcity of food a
  shortage
• a severe famine / reduce the threat of famine
  / die of famine
• a water famine / the cotton famine of the 1860s
  
• Drought could result in famine throughout the
  region.

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• starve suffer severely or die from hunger
  
• They got lost in the desert and starved to death.
• starve sb. out (of a place) / into a specified
  state
• I dont know about you, but Im starving.
  (be eager to do )
• The plant was starved of light. (be in need
  of light)
• The motherless children are starving for
  affection.
• The patients brain was starved for oxygen.
• n. starvation

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• provoke (Line 85) stimulate or give rise to (a
  reaction or emotion, typically a strong or
  unwelcome
• one) deliberately make (sb.) annoyed or
  angry
• provoke general rage / press interest / a storm
  of protest
• They argued that NATO enlargement could provoke
  Russian hostility and lead to regional
  instability.
• His rudeness provoked me to strike him.
• He tried to provoke them into fight.

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• adj. provoking
• anxiety-provoking situations
• a thought-provoking question
• n. provocation

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• gratify (Line 87) give pleasure or satisfaction
• Beauty gratifies the eye.?????
• I was gratified to see the result.
• The result is gratifying to me. (gratifying
  result)
• It was gratifying to know of the success of our
  efforts.
• n. gratification
• - It was a gratification to know that

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• streamline (Line 94) design or provide with a
  form that presents very little resistance to a
  flow of air or water, increasing speed and ease
  of movement make (an organization or system)
  more efficient by employing faster or simpler
  working methods.
• streamline the finance department
• streamline the decision-making process
• Passenger trains are streamlined for speed.
• Corporate mergers can result in job losses
  because management combines and streamlines
  departments within the newly merged companies.

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• growth market (Line 95) ?????/???????
• - growth shares/ company/ industry / area???
  /??????? / ?? / ??

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• domestic (Line 96) of the home, household of
  family (of a person) fond of family life (of a
  animal) tame and kept by humans of or in side a
  particular country
• domestic appliances / chores / dogs / affairs /
  science home economics
• Her second marriage has made her very domestic
• n. domestics
• After Chinas entry into WTO, the competition
  between domestics and foreign imports has been
  growing increasingly fierce.

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• spring up (Line 101) appear, develop, grow, etc.
  quickly or suddenly
• New professional training schools sprang up all
  over the country.
• Madness and creativity could spring from the same
  source. (originate / arise from)

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• futile (Line 106) incapable of producing any
  useful result pointless
• a futile / vain attempt to keep fans from
  mounting the stage
• It was futile / useless / pointless to continue
  the negotiations.

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Part III (Paras 19-23)

• divert (Line 106) cause sb. or sth. to change
  turn from one direction to another distract
  sb.s attention from sth.
• The dam will divert the flow of river water into
  the canal.
• Money set aside for development was being
  diverted to finance the famine relief operations.
• divert ones interest from sth.
• n. diversion

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Part IV (Paras 24-28)

• Main Idea
• The author pins down the crux of the problem
  and puts forward a remedy for the stress we feel.

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Part IV (Paras 24-28)

• cram (Line 108) completely fill a place or a
  container enter a place or space that seems too
  small
  
  
  
  
  
• They all crammed into the car.
• The restaurant was crammed with people.
  (crowded)
• He is cramming facts and dates for his history
  exam.
• cram the clothes into a suitcase
• cram one pupils?????

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Part IV (Paras 24-28)

• evade (Line 113) escape or avoid, especially by
  guile or trickery ????????????
• evade military service / an attack / (paying)
  taxes
• Tom tried to catch her arm but she evaded him.
• Evade the question by changing the subject
• Adj. be accused of being evasive

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Part IV (Paras 24-28)

• avoid ????,try not to get close to sth. / sb.
  dangerous or sth. / sb. you dont want to meet
• escape ??,??,??????????
• I have to avoid the landlady until I pay the rent
  for the house.
• Nothing escaped her sharp eyes.

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Part IV (Paras 24-28)

• confine (Line 115) n. (confines) the borders or
  boundaries of a place, especially with regard to
  their restricting freedom or movement.
• the confines of a country ?????
• Within the confines of the hall escape was
  impossible.
• This is outside the confines of the human
  knowledge. (figurative)
• V.
• be confined to ones bed / a wheelchair
• confine oneself to the topic / the subject
• They succeeded in confining the fire to a small
  area.

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Part IV (Paras 24-28)

• doom (Line 129) n. death, destruction and some
  other terrible fate
• His doom was to be poverty. ????
• He met (went to) his doom in the battle. ??????
• v. be doomed to sth / to do sth. (sth.) be
  certain to happen, and you can do nothing to
  prevent it.
• The whole project was doomed to failure / fail.
  
• His crippled leg doomed him to unemployment.
• He was doomed to spend the rest of his life in a
  wheelchair.

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Part IV (Paras 24-28)

• Cf. destiny n. the events that will necessarily
  happen to a person or thing in the future the
  hidden power believed to control what will happen
  in the future ?????,???????????,?????????,
  ???????
• believe in destiny
• V. be destined for sth. / to sth. / to do sth.
• She could see that she was destined for stardom /
  great things.
• The land is destined for a new hospital.
  (intended for a particular use)

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Part IV (Paras 24-28)

• Cf. fate ???????????,??????????????????????
• It was the great mans destiny to lead his
  country to freedom.
• He expected to spend his life in Italy but fate
  had decided otherwise. (unchangeable)

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EXERCISE for Unit 6

• Ive been ________since eight oclock this
  morning, preparing my presentation for tomorrows
  class.
• It would be better to admit the problem openly
  and _________ tackling it.
• 3. The boys got into a _______ over the rules of
  the games.
• All these car expenses are ________our savings.
• 5. The forthcoming concerts _________ a feast of
  music from around the world.

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EXERCISE for Unit 6

• 6. Some famous private schools are theoretically
  open to the public, but _______ are attended by
  those who can afford the fees.
• 7. The wealth of industrial society could only
  come from the ______ of the masses.
• 8. Cigarette smoking combining with irregular
  life will _______the risks of lung cancer.
• 9. Some people argue that globalization will
  bring the______so far enjoyed only by wealthy
  industrialized nations to the developing
  countries.

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EXERCISE for Unit 6

• 10. The black miners in South African used to
  earn only _________ the wages paid to white
  miners doing the equivalent work.
• 11. These tropical islands boast a(n) _______ of
  wildlife, so they are always the zoologists
  first choice.
• 12. Parents want to know the best way to _______
  and raise their child to adulthood.
• 13. We need to find ways to ______ the office
  routine.
• 14. Peoples concern over generically modified
  food has _______ a global debate that shows no
  ending soon.

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EXERCISE for Unit 6

• 15. Police and hospital records indicate that the
  majority of victims of __________violence are
  women.
• 16. The would is facing the prospect of water
  _________caused by population growth, uneven
  distribution of water, pollution, and other
  factors.
• 17. The tour group is _____ to the planned
  activity.
• 18. People are now ordering and purchasing
  virtually anything over the Internet. Books,
  compact disks, even sticks are available from
  websites that seem to _______ almost daily.

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EXERCISE for Unit 6

• 19. I knew it was ________ to try and persuade
  her once she had made the decision.
• 20. Wisdom consists in learning when to ________
  and when to oppose head-on.

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EXERCISE for Unit 6

• 21. In Chinese teaching, teachers often _____
  facts down the childrens throats.
• A. insert B. burden C. pour
  D. cram
• 22. Ive been _____ since eight oclock this
  morning, preparing my presentation for tomorrows
  class.
  
• A. on the movement B. on the action
• C. in the procedure D. on the go
• 23. The forthcoming concerts ____ a feast of
  music from around the world.
• A. promote B. advocate
  
• C. provoke D. promise

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EXERCISE for Unit 6

• 24. Cigarette smoking combining with irregular
  life will ____________ the risks of lung cancer.
• A. double B. multiply C. expand D. add
• 25. People are now ordering and purchasing
  virtually anything over the Internet. books,
  compact disks, even sticks are available from
  websites that seem to _______ almost daily.
• A. spring up B. go in
  existence
• C. strike up D. spring up
  come round
• 26. Its a question of whether the city can ____
  on that potential.
• A. fulfill B. proliferate C. deliver
  D. favor

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EXERCISE for Unit 6

• 27. The President seemed willing to _____ himself
  to Senate desires.
• A. divert B. devote C. accommodate
  D. oblige
• 28. The ______ of medical knowledge are being
  pushed farther outwards every year.
• A. frontiers B. borders C. areas
  D. fields
• 29. The secretary took down in _______ what was
  said.
• A. shortage B.
  shorthand
• C. summary D.
  conclusion
• 30. Increasing the powers of ________ is one
  part of school education.
• A. knowledge B. ability C. diversion D.
  perception

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Key to Ex. for Unit 6

• on the go 2. set about 3. tangle
• eating into 5. promise 6. in reality
• toil 8. multiply 9. prosperity
• 10. a fraction of 11. abundance
• 12. nurture 13. streamlining 14. provoked
• 15. domestic 16. shortages 17. confined
• 18. Spring up 19. futile 20. evade
  

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Key to Ex. for Unit 6

• 21 to 30
• DDDBA CCABD