The current political _____ of our country is favorable for foreign investments.

A. climate    B. weather    C. state    D. occasion

A successful scientist needs _____ if he wants to make hypothesis (假设) of how processes work and how events take place.

   A. permission     B. penetration

   C. imagination    D. convention

John always tries to _____ people who are useful to him professionally.

A. develop  B. provoke  C. correspond   D. cultivate

He _____ the place where he had been bitten by an insect.

A. snatched   B. scratched   C. squeezed   D. stretched

This watch is _____ to all the other watches on the market.

A. superior  B. advantageous  C. super D. beneficial

Everything he said then was _____ by what happened later.

A. identified    B. signified   C. noticed    D. verified

Expected noises are usually more _____ than unexpected ones of the like magnitude.

   A. manageable    B. controllable

   C. tolerable     D. perceivable

The author of the report is well _____ with the problems in the hospital because he has been working there for many years.

A. acquainted     B. informed    C. enlightened    D. advised

On turning the corner, we saw the road _____ steeply.

A. departing   B. decreasing    C. descending    D. depressing

_____ it is a good thing I did not get the post I had applied for, though I must admit that I was disappointed at the time.

A. By the way     B. In a way     C. In the way     D. In no way