46. The car ______ halfway for no reason.
　　A) broke off
　　B) broke down
　　C) broke up
　　D) broke out

　　47. The newcomers found it impossible to ______ themselves to the climate sufficiently
　　to make permanent homes in the new country.
　　A) suit
　　B) adapt
　　C) regulate
　　D) coordinate

　　48. A ______ to this problem is expected to be found before long.
　　A) result
　　B) response
　　C) settlement
　　D) solution

　　49. You have nothing to ______ by refusing to listen to our advice.
　　A) gain
　　B) grasp
　　C) seize
　　D) earn

　　50. As a result of careless washing the jacket ______ to a child's size.
　　A) compressed
　　B) shrank
　　C) dropped
　　D) decreased

　　51. He hoped the firm would ______ him to the Paris branch.
　　A) exchange
　　B) transmit
　　C) transfer
　　D) remove

　　52. Having decided to rent a flat, we ______ contacting all the accommodation agencies
　　in the city.
　　A) set about
　　B) set down
　　C) set out
　　D) set up

　　53. The relationship between employers and employees has been studied ______.
　　A) originally
　　B) extremely
　　C) violently
　　D) intensively

　　54. ______their differences. The couple were developing an obvious and genuine
　　affection for each other.
　　A) But for
　　B) For all
　　C) Above all
　　D) Except for

　　55. One day I ______ a newspaper article about the retirement of an English professor
　　at a nearby state college.
　　A) came across
　　B) came about
　　C) came after
　　D) came at

　　56. She was complaining that the doctor was ______ too much for the treatment he was
　　giving her.
　　A) expending
　　B) offering
　　C) costing
　　D) charging

　　57. The manager spoke highly of such ______ as loyalty, courage and truthfulness shown
　　by his employees.
　　A) virtue
　　B) features
　　C) properties
　　D) characteristics

　　58. Since the matter was extremely ______ , we dealt with it immediately.
　　A) tough
　　B) tense
　　C) urgent
　　D) instant

　　59. You don't have to be in such a hurry, I would rather you ______ on business first.
　　A) would go
　　B) will go
　　C) went
　　D) have gone

　　60. When I try to understand ______that prevents so many Americans from being as happy
　　as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes.
　　A) why it does
　　B) what it does
　　C) what it is
　　D) why it is