[单项选择]The Portuguese (give) a great deal of credit to (one man) for (having promoted) sea travel, that man (was) Prince Henry the navigator, who lived in the 15th century.
A. give
B. one man
C. having promoted
D. was

[单项选择]The Portuguese give a great deal of credit to one man for having promoted sea travel, that man ______ Prince Henry the navigator, who lived in the 15th century. A. was B. was called D. calling D. being

[单项选择]The design of this auditorium shows a great deal of _______. We have never seen such abuilding before.
A. invention
B. illusion
C. originality
D. orientation

[单项选择]A member of Parliament has to spend a great deal of time answering letters from his ______.
A. candidates
B. patriots
C. constituents
D. selectors

[单项选择]O'Neill's ideas have been ______ to a great deal of criticism from those who consider them as scientific dreaming.
A. adjusted
B. corresponded
C. subjected
D. yielded

[单项选择]--The cars give off a great deal of waste gas in the streets. --Yes. But I'm sure something will be done to ______ air pollution.
A. reduce
B. remove
C. collect
D. warn

[单项选择]Jane (had) a great (deal of) trouble (to concentrate on) her study (because of) the noise in the next room.
A. had
B. deal of
C. to concentrate on
D. because of

[单项选择]She traveled a great deal（）
A. so most of her friends did
B. as did most of her friends
C. most of her friends did so
D. most of her friends did it

[单项选择]The design of this architecture shows a great deal of ______ We have never seen a building of such a type before.
A. conventionality
B. Originality
C. formulation
D. fascination

[单项选择]The indoor swimming pool seems to be a great deal more luxurious than ______ .
A. is necessary
B. being necessary
C. to be necessary
D. it is necessary

[单项选择]She had read a great deal about Professor King and she felt very excited at the _______ of meeting him.
A. prospect
B. prediction
C. prosperity
D. permission

[单项选择]The fashion designs this year show a great deal of __________, especially in the attempts to use new materials.
A. fascination
B. enlightenment
C. contention
D. originality

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Managers spend a great deal of their time in meetings. According to Henry Mintzberg, in his book, The Nature of Managerial Work, managers in large organizations spend only 22% of their time on meetings. So what are the managers doing in those meetings There have conventionally been two answers. The first is the academic version: Managers are coordinating and controlling, making decisions, solving problems and planning. This interpretation has been largely discredited because it ignores the social and political forces at work in meetings. The second version claims that meetings provide little more than strategic sites for corporate gladiators to perform before the organizational emperors. This perspective is far more attractive, and has given rise to a large, and often humorous, body of literature on gamesmanship and posturing in meetings. It is, of course, true that meeting rooms serve as shop windows for managerial talent, but this is far from the truth as a whole. The suggestio
A. They can impress their superiors.
B. All the important company decisions are made at meetings.
C. It makes them feel that their opinions are of importance to others.
D. They can share problems and anxieties.