[单项选择]The compact dictionaries published in recent years are not as unwieldy as some of the older editions.（）
A. complete
B. tiresome
C. reliable
D. cumbersome

[单项选择]The compact dictionaries published in recent years are not as unwieldy as some of the older editions.


A. complete
B. tiresome
C. reliable
D. cumbersome

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Recent years have brought minority-owned businesses in the United States unprecedented opportunities—as well as new and significant risks. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficulty establishing themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated by large companies. Now Congress, in apparent agreement, has required by law that businesses awarded federal contracts of more than ＄ 500,000 do their best to find minority subcontractors and record their efforts to do so on forms filed with the government. Indeed, some federal and local agencies have gone so far as to set specific percentage goals for apportioning parts of public works eon- tracts to minority enterprises.
Corporate response appears to have been substantial. According to figures collected in 1977, the total of corporate contracts with minority businesses rose
A. What federal agencies have set percentage goals for the use of minority-owned businesses in public works contracts
B. To which government agencies must businesses awarded federal contracts report their efforts to find minority subcontractors
C. What is one set of conditions under which a small business might find itself financially o- ver-extended
D. How many more minority-owned businesses were there in 1977 than in 1972

[单项选择]Researchers have discovered in recent years that there is a system to the actions almost as consistent and______ as language.
A. comprehensive
B. comprehensible
C. observant
D. conceivable

[单项选择]What has happened to hemp in recent years
A. People have struggled for its legalization.
B. Canadian people have succeeded in legalizing it for fiber.
C. People have tried to make it accepted that hemp is not addictive.
D. Both A and B.

[单项选择]In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into super-systems, causing ______ concerns about monopoly.


A. enhanced
B. curbed
C. disrupted
D. heightened

[单项选择]In recent years people have become interested in purchasing gemstones for investment.
A. works of arts
B. rural land
C. houses
D. jewels

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In recent years a new farming revolution has begun, one that involves the (21) of life at a fundamental level—the gene. The study of genetics has (22) a new industry called biotechnology. As the name suggest, it (23) biology and modem technology through such techniques as genetic engineering. Some of the new biotech companies specialize in agriculture and are working feverishly to (24) seeds that give a high yield, that (25) diseases, drought and frost, and that reduce the need for (26) chemicals. If such goals could be achieved, it would be most (27) . But some have raised concerns about genetically engineered crops.
In nature, genetic diversity is created within certain (28) . A rose can be crossed with a different kind of rose, but a rose will never cross with a potato. Genetic engineering, (29) usually involves taking genes from one species and inserting them into another (30) to transfer a de
A. got along with
B. given rise to
C. come up with
D. lived up to