Adhere(6´Î)
1. The ________ they felt for each other was obvious to everyone who saw them. (04/6)
A) affection B) adherence C) sensibility D) sensitivity

2. More than 85 percent of French Canada's population speaks French as a mother tongue and _______ to the Roman Catholic faith. (02/12)
A) caters B) adheres C) ascribes D) subscribes

3. E-mail is a convenient, highly democratic informal medium for conveying messages that _______ well to human needs. (00/6)
A) adheres B) reflects C) conforms D) satisfies

4. If you want to set up a company, you must ______ with the regulations laid down by the authorities. (99/6)
A) comply B) adhere C) confirm D) accord

5. Both parties promised to ______ the contract to be signed the following day. (98/6)
A) keep with B) tangle with C) adhere to D) devote to

6. At the party we found that shy girl ____ her mother all the time. (97/1)
A) depending on B) coinciding with C) adhering to D) clinging to

Alternate(4´Î)
1. Professor Smith and Professor Brown will ____ in presenting the series of lectures on American literature.ª¤(03/12)
A) alter B) alternate C) substitute D) exchange

2. Military orders are ____ and cannot be disobeyed. (02/6)
A) defective B) conservative C) alternative D) imperative

3. The manager tried to wave aside these issues as _______ details that would be settled later. (00/1)
A) versatile B) trivial C) preliminary D) alternate

4. In our highly technological society, the number of jobs for unskilled worker is ______.(99/1)
A) shrinking B) obscuring C) altering D) constraining

Ascend(4´Î)
1. Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops, but this only _______ the crisis. (02/12)
A) accelerates B) prevails C) ascends D) precedes

2. All the people in the stadium cheered up when they saw hundreds of colorful balloons ____ slowly into the sky. (02/6)
A) ascending B) elevating C) escalating D) lingering

3. The children cheered up when they saw hundreds of colorful balloons _______ slowly into the sky. (98/6)
A) floating B) raising C) heaving D) ascending

4. We managed to reach the top of the mountain, and half an hour later we began to ___. (97/1)
A) ascend B) descend C) decline D) plunge

Consolidate(3´Î)
1. I found it difficult to _____ my career ambitions with the need to bring up my children.¡¡(03/6)
A) consolidate B) amend C) reconcile D) intensify

2. His successful negotiations with the Americans helped him to _________ his position in he government. (02/1)
A) contrive B) consolidate C) heave D) intensify

3. The presidential candidate ______ his position by winning several primary elections. (99/6)
A) enforced B) enriched C) intensified D) consolidated

Confidential(2´Î)
1. We'll be very careful and keep what you've told us strictly________. (02/1)
A) rigorous B) confidential C) private D) mysterious

2. For a particular reason, he wanted the information to be treated as ________.(01/6)
A)assured B)reserved C)intimate D)confidential