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18.
A. a lot of food
B. a lot of diets
C. a lot of drugs
D. a lot of nutrition
19.
A. on which
B. for which
C. in which
D. with which
20.
A. direction
B. goal
C. target
D. object
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.Read the following passages and complete the statements or answer the questions with the correct choice. Write your right letter on the Answer Sheet:(20%)
Passage 1
Time was
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and not so many years ago, either
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when the average citizen took a pretty dim view of banks and banking. That this was so, it should be said, was to no small extent the fault of banks and bankers themselves. Banks used to be
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and a few still are
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forbidding structures. Behind the little barred windows were, more often than not, elderly gentlemen whose expression of friendliness showed the size of the customer’s account, and nothing less than a few hundred thousand in the bank could have inspired the suggestion of a smile.
And yet the average bank for many years was, to the average citizen, a fearful, if necessary, instrument for dealing business
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usually big business. But somewhere in the past quarter century, banks began to grow human, even pleasant, and started to attract the little man. It is possible that this movement began in medium-sized towns, or in small towns where people know each other by their first names, and spread to big towns, at any rate, the results have been remarkable. The movement to
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humanize
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banks, of course, received a big push during the war, when more and more women were hired to do work previously performed by men. Also more and more
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