1) Our very earliest, rodentlike ___________ likely trod the earth some 200 million years ago on tiny, flat feet. a) descendants b) ancestors c) siblings 2) The ____________of European settlers brought with them ideas about the roles of men and women, and for decades, family farms and ranches were handed down to men. a) siblings b) ancestors c) descendants 3) “We live in a very affluent, ___________ county in Maryland, but there are a lot of neighbors in need still,” she said. a) tight-knit b) well-off c) foster 4) As a rule, however, people today are markedly less violent than our distant ____________. a) descendants b) siblings c) ancestors 5) Amid the discrimination, the migrants formed ____________ communities as a means of support. a) well-off b) tight-knit c) foster 6) The girl, she’d been told, was in the care of a _____________ mother. a) well-off b) tight-knit c) foster 7) In any case it’s clear that she’s the one who ______________ in this relationship. a) takes after b) gets on with c) sees eye to eye d) wears the trousers 8) They both _________________ each other. They hit it off and even exchanged emails, but there wasn’t much time to talk there.” a) took after b) got on with c) see eye to eye d) wear the trousers of 9) Grandma likes to say that I_____________ her because I’m “artistic.” a) get on with b) wear the trousers c) see eye to eye d) take after 10) In the context of a post-Brexit Europe he believes it is intended to "declare the centrality of France and Germany, though in practice the two countries often do not _____________". a) get on with b) see eye to eye c) wear the trousers d) take after 11) She also posted a photo of herself planting an ______________ kiss on her mother's cheek. a) affectionate b) thorough c) assertive d) rebellious e) stingy f) outgoing 12) Other lawmakers accused Mr. Cuomo of being ______________ with school funding. a) assertive b) affectionate c) thorough d) outgoing e) stingy f) rebellious 13) My husband thinks we need to be more _______________ in forcing her to follow household routines to teach her that she needs to listen to us. a) stingy b) assertive c) outgoing d) rebellious e) affectionate f) thorough 14) Clouds of the stuff hung in the air, burning throats but not silencing the sullen, ________________ crowds. a) rebellious b) stingy c) assertive d) affectionate e) outgoing f) thorough 15) He was very _________________, using any excuse to start a chat. a) affectionate b) rebellious c) assertive d) thorough e) outgoing f) stingy 16) She sent ________________ texts to peers who each believed they were her closest friend. a) rebellious b) stingy c) assertive d) affectionate e) outgoing f) thourough 17) Originally founded in 1209 by some_________ Oxford students, Cambridge now hosts 12,000 undergrads across 31 colleges, all with the same layout: green, monastic-type courtyards surrounded by chapels, libraries and housing. a) assertive b) affectionate c) rebellious d) thorough e) stingy f) outgoing 18) “Prosecutor, I want your office to do a ____________________ investigation into this matter,” Ms. Conklin says to Mr. Jerk Face. a) assertive b) rebellious c) affectionate d) stingy e) thorough f) outgoing 19) He built this house with his own two hands, he says, and his goal is to be entirely _____________.He built this house with his own two hands, he says, and his goal is to be entirely self-sufficient. a) resourceful b) conscientious c) down-to-earth d) steady e) self-sufficient f) straightforward 20) If they wanted to stay alive and get food, they had to be _________________ a) self-sufficient b) resourceful c) straightforward d) conscientious e) down-to-earth f) steady 21) “Here I stayed for one year doing good and _______________work, for which I received plenty of gratitude but little or no money.”“Here I stayed for one year doing good and conscientious work, for which I received plenty of gratitude but little or no money.” a) resourceful b) steady c) down-to-earth d) self-sufficient e) straightforward f) conscientious 22) But to its credit, it seems to resist the standard conclusion of young-people-in-the-city sitcoms: that characters must “grow up,” which means getting a ______________ job, kids and a mortgage. a) self-sufficient b) straightforward c) conscientious d) down-to-earth e) steady f) resourceful 23) It’s possible to be _________________ about climate change with our children and protect their emotional well-being. a) steady b) conscientious c) resourceful d) straightforward e) down-to-earth f) self-sufficient 24) “He’s the most humble, ________________________, funny, easygoing genius. The sweetest man that I’ve ever worked with,” she says. a) conscientious b) straightforward c) down-to-earth d) self-sufficient e) steady f) resourceful

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