ID：9121-11816（本题为引用材料试题，请根据材料回答以下问题）
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
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ID：9121-12897
Americans value time and save it carefully. Time is a real, precious resource to them so every minute must (21) ______. Visitors may think Americans are always in a rush and under (22) ________. Smiles, short conversations, and small exchanges with strangers don’t (23) _______ as in other countries. Americans (24)_______ others professionally rather than socially. They start talking business immediately since they are always (25) _______ of time and dislike “wasting” too much time. Americans work hard at saving time. They would have meetings using equipment like television screens and telephones (26) _________ in person. Quickly solving a problem or doing a job successfully is a (27) _______ of skill. The more important the job, the more time and effort Americans will (28) ________ it. This often makes it difficult for people from other cultures to understand Americans. Therefore, (29) _________ to another culture has become so important to us. This requires a great deal of personal and cultural (30) _________. In short, it is highly necessary for us to develop appreciation for things that are foreign to us.
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ID：9121-12202
Wherever they are now, black people are descended from Africans, but over the centuries their genetic heritage has become diversified and complicated because of various reasons.
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ID：9121-12271
____ achievement, last week’s ministerial meeting of the WTO have earned a low, though not failing, grade.
A. In term of B. In case of C. As a result of D. In face of
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ID：9121-12313
Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmen's golf, as honest as most politician's intentions, or as coherent as most books that get written. ( )
A. metonymy B. parallelism C. personification D. hyperbole E. alliteration
F. euphemism G.. metaphor H. irony I. oxymoron J. Transferred epithet
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