Neither of them thought highly of him and they both tried to _____ him in his work.

   A. hamper    B. support    C. assist    D. encourage

. Jim was so badly burnt that at first they began to _____ of his life.

        A. despair                   B. designate                   C. disappoint                   D. despise

I don't think the charge for overhauling （大修）the equipment is excessive in _____ to its size.

        A.correspondence                B.equation                C.proportion                D. dimension

We all knew from the very _____ that the plan would fail.

        A. outcome            B. outset                    C. income                    D. output

 Having said he would mend the clock, he discovered that he had not brought the _____ tools for the job.

A. concise    B. correct    C. right    D. precise

. I remember her face but I cannot _____ where I met her.

A. recall    B. remind    C. remember    D. remark

. While typing, Helen has a habit of stopping _____ to give her long and flowing hair a smooth.

   A. occasionally    B. simultaneously

   C. eventually      D. directly

These continual _____ in temperature make it impossible to decide what to wear.

A. alterations  B. vibrations C. waves   D. fluctuations

 He's _____ drink and never does a stroke of work.

        A. gone to            B. taken to                    C. taken up            D. gone for

 In a typhoon, winds _____ a speed greater than 120 kilometers per hour.

        A. assume                 B. accomplish                 C. attain                  D. assemble