1. The chairman says he needs an assistant that he can ___ take care of problems that may occur in his absence. A. count on B. resort to C. look up to D. seek after 2. His intelligence and experience will enable him to ___ the complicated situation. A. cope with B. settle down C. intervene in D. interfere with 3. The wood was so rotten that when we pulled, it ___ into fragments. A. broke away B. broke of C. broke up D. break through 4. The terrorists might have planted a bomb on a plan in Athens, set to ____ when it arrived in New York. A. go off B. get off C. come off D. carry off 5. All the information we have collected in relation to that caes ____ very little. A. make up for B. adds up to C. come up with D. puts up with 6. Care should be taken to decrease the length of that one is ___ load continuous noise. A. subjected with B. filled with C. associated with D. attached to 7. George assured his boss that he would _____ all his energies in doing hiw new job. A. call forth B. call at C. call on D. call of 8. Attemps to persuade her to stay after she felt insulted were ____ . A. in no way B. on the contrary C. at a loss D. of no avail 9. The formal gardens originally _____ in the early 1990s aere so elaborate that the care of 32 gardeners was required. |