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