INVESTORS WERE CAUGHT ______ BY THE SHARP DROP IN SHARE PRICES. A....

40.

Investors were caught ______ by the sharp drop in share prices.

A. undecided

B. unawares

C. unsuspecting

D. unconscious

IV. GUIDED CLOZE (10 PTS): Read the texts below and decide which answer best fits each

space.

Passage A:

The BBC, in the form of the language-teaching arm of the World Service, and Harper Collins have (41)

______ forces to publish the BBC English Dictionary, "A Dictionary for the World". It is (42) ______ at the

120 million listeners to the World Service who cannot find the expressions in (43) ______ dictionaries. (44)

______ on 70 million words broadcast at least ten times a year on the World Service, the compilers, (45)

______ by Prof. John Sinclair, have included (46) ______ expressions and word usage, without judging

whether they are being used (47) ______. Elizabeth Smith, the BBC's Controller of English Services, said:

“Our language is (48) ______ on statements by real people, like politicians and (49) ______ which the BBC

has accurately recorded. As broadcasters, we try to use a few idioms and metaphors but only to show that

we (50) ______ in the real world.”