The truck ______ the trainees miles from anywhere and they had to reach the stated destination within 5 hours totally on foot.
| A．doomed | B．deposited | C．simplified | D．reckoned |
He did not find a job yet because he had no _____ to men who could help him.
| A．approach | B．application | C．access | D．approval |
Busy and successful as he was, the novelist was willing to _____ any promising young man and give him all the help he could.
| A．take up | B．pick up | C．make up | D．look up |
When there's doubt the examiner's decision is _____.
| A．right | B．final | C．definite | D．fixed |
After dinner the minister made a short _____ to the guests.
| A．delivery | B．pronunciation | C．conversation | D．speech |
. Deserts, dry areas with _____ no vegetation, cover more than one-third of the Earth's land surface.
| A．surprisingly | B．eventually | C．permanently | D．virtually |