Section 2 Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in each of the blanks.(10%)

21. Little girls and elderly ladies in kimonos ______ teenagers and women in western dress.

a. rubbed shoulders with 

b. rubbed shoulder with 

c. rubbed the shoulder with 

d. rubbed the shoulders with

22. Don’t          to the temptation to have just one cigarette.

a. submit

b. surrender

c. succumb

d. subscribe

23. The temple was        with lights.

a. bedecked

b. festooned

c. garlanded

d. bejeweled

24. We met Mary and her husband at a party two months ago. ____ we’ve

had no further communication.

a. Thereof  

b. Thereby  

c. Thereafter  

d. Thereabouts

25.  It would be ______, but no more than waiting here for certain detection.

a. perilous

b. hazardous

c. parlous

d. chancy

26.At last this intermezzo ______, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.

a.came to end 

b. came to the end 

c. came to an end 

d. came to ending

27. Everyone who has visited the city agrees that it is ____ with life.

a. vibrant    

b. violent  

c. energetic  

d. full

28. He is a man of        competitiveness.

a. congenital

b. hereditary

c. ingrained

d. inbred

29. After the        sparring over legalities, Darrow got up to make his opening statement.

a. preliminary

b. prefaced

c. introductory

d. groundwork

30. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all        of blandness gone.

a. deception

b. pretense

c. simulation

d. affectation