[单项选择]The decision to invade provoked storms of protest.
A. ignored
B. organized
C. caused
D. received

[单项选择]The decision to invade provoked storms of protest.
A. ignored
B. organized
C. caused
D. received

[单项选择]GOAD: PROVOKED ::
A. (A) conjecture : premeditated
B. (B) asphyxiate : suffocated
C. (C) espy : analyzed
D. (D) pursue : idolized
E. (E) condemn : recalcitrant

[单项选择]The attack on Fort Sumter near Charleston provoked a sharp response from the North, which {{U}}led to{{/U}} the American Civil War.
A. demanded
B. elicited
C. extracted
D. defied

[单项选择]According to the news, President Bush will invade Iraq and topple President Saddam Hussein


A. even if he is facing widespread international opposition to his threats
B. even if Washington is accused of invading Iraq, a sovereign country
C. even if he has not got the United Nations Security Council approval
D. even if the United Nations arms inspections continues effectively in Iraq

[单项选择]Storms are frequent, here during summer.
A. rare
B. never stopped
C. terrible
D. constant

[单项选择]Scurvy is a disease that is provoked by ______.
A. salted meat and biscuits
B. exhaustion
C. want of some essential substances
D. lack of fresh vegetables and fruits

[单项选择]Dust storms most often occur in areas where the ground has little vegetation to protect（）of the wind.
A. from the effects
B. it the effects
C. it from the effects
D. the effects from it

[单项选择]The decision that Indian president dissolved parliament is ______.

[单项选择]The decision to shut down nuclear reactors resulted from the demand from______.


A. the Government
B. the energy industry
C. a party in the coalition government
D. a declining need for nuclear energy

[单项选择]

A controversial decision on whether choice cuts of steak and cartons of milk produced from cloned animals are suitable for the dinner table is now long overdue.
Hundreds of pigs, cows and other animals created with the help of cloning are living (1) farms across the United States and (2) the forthcoming ruling will directly (3) American consumers, British holidaymakers may also (4) themselves at the forefront of a food revolution that many commentators expect will (5) arrive here.
(6) the birth of Dolly the sheep-the first mammal cloned from an adult cell--there were extreme predictions of herds of genetically (7) bulls and pastures (8) with cloned dairy cows.
That double (9) of the past decade has not yet been realized (10) clones have become a familiar sight at agricultural fairs in America, where producers of (11) pigs and cattle have been among the first to (12) cloning
A. embrace
B. surround
C. enclose
D. adopt