High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage   B. decrease   C. disturb   D. disgust

 They have been waiting for many hours to see the singer, but the airplane must have been _____.

   A. behind the times    B. behind schedule

   C. ahead of time      D. in no time

. As soon as the children were _____, their mother got them out of bed and into the bathroom.

   A. woke                    B. waken                    C. wake                    D. awake

My brother likes eating very much but he isn't very _____ about the food he eats.

A. special                 B. peculiar                  C. particular                  D. unusual

It is wrong for someone in such a high _____ in the government to behave too badly in public.

        A. situation                 B. position                  C. employment                 D. profession

. 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