[单项选择]（）that increasing numbers of compact-disc players will be bought by consumers in the years to come.
A. They are anticipated
B. In anticipation
C. Anticipating
D. It is anticipated

[单项选择]MATRIX: NUMBERS
A. gas: molecules
B. insurance: securities
C. crystal: atoms
D. base: athletics

[单项选择]ARRAY : NUMBERS::
A. (A) college : graduates
B. (B) abstract : diagrams
C. (C) skin: muscles
D. (D) mosaic : tiles
E. (E) vocation : badge

[单项选择]Experts feared that increasing inflation would further _______ the economy.
A. suppress
B. compress
C. oppress
D. depress

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With increasing prosperity, Western European youth is having a fling that is creation distinctive consumer and cultural patterns. The result has been the increasing emergence in Europe of that phenomenon well known in America as the "youth market". This is a market in which enterprising businesses cater to the demands of teenagers and older youths in all their rock mania and pop-art forms. In Western Europe, the youth market may appropriately be said to be in its infancy. In some countries such as Britain, West Germany and France, it is more advanced than in others. Some manifestations of the market, chiefly sociological, have been recorded. But it is only just beginning to be the subject of organized consumer research and promotion. Characteristics of the evolving European youth market indicate dissimilarities as well as similarities to the American youth market. The similarities .. The market’s basis is essentially the same — more spending power and freedo
A. factual.
B. critical.
C. favorable.
D. ambiguous.

[单项选择]While many applaud the increasing individualism and freedom of children within the family, others lament the loss of family responsibility and discipline.
A. mourn
B. delight
C. prosecute
D. condemn

[单项选择]With increasing awareness of the environment，people have realized that the way coal is used is critical and new approaches have to be sought．（）
A. 尽管环境意识提高了，人们认为使用煤炭仍然是重要的，并且已经找到了新的方法。
B. 随着环境意识的增强，人们认识到使用煤炭的方法应该受到批评，必须寻求新的途径。
C. 随着环境意识的日益增强，人们认识到如何使用煤炭至关重要，因而得寻求新的方法。
D. 尽管人们对环境越来越了解，他们也认识到使用煤炭应该受到批评，但要寻找到新的能源才行。

[单项选择]As an increasing number of traffic regulation schemes are devised, a ______ driver finds himself diverted and forced into one-way systems which cause even greater delays than the traffic jams they are supposed to prevent.
A. bewildered
B. embarrassed
C. hampered
D. diverted

[单项选择]The increasing global warming will have a devastating effect on some coastal areas, or ______ many scientists have warned.
A. so
B. it
C. thus
D. that

[单项选择]The population will be increasing very fast unless they （） with new methods to deal with it.
A. come to
B. come away
C. come over
D. come up

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An increasing proportion of our population, unable to live without advanced medical involvement, will become progressively more reliant on expensive technology.（）

A. interference
B. interruption
C. intervention
D. interaction