Our Party has always devoted great attention to raising the living _____ of the working people.

A. cost    B. situation    C. level    D. standard

The storm sweeping over this area now is sure to cause _____ of vegetables in the coming days.

A. rarity    B. scarcity    C. invalidity   D. variety

Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, if not more expensive than, _____ at the other store.

A. anyone    B. the others    C. that    D. the ones

There are three basic ways of _____ language to writing, and all known graphic systems use one or a combination of these.

A. committing   B. attaching   C. comparing   D. relating

High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage      B. decrease      C. disturb      D. disgust

They have been waiting for many hours to see the singer, but the airplane must have been _____.

   A. behind the times    B. behind schedule

   C. ahead of time      D. in no time

As soon as the children were _____, their mother got them out of bed and into the bathroom.

   A. woke                    B. waken                    C. wake                    D. awake

My brother likes eating very much but he isn't very _____ about the food he eats.

A. special                 B. peculiar                  C. particular                  D. unusual

It is wrong for someone in such a high _____ in the government to behave too badly in public.

        A. situation                 B. position                  C. employment                 D. profession

What is most obvious in this book are all those details of daily living which make Mrs. Richard _____ common.

        A. nothing but                        B. anything but                C. above all                 D.rather than