6. Prices are high, families are often cramped, adult child ren are living at home or relying on the seemingly ____________ 'bank of Mom and Dad' – if they are lucky enough to have affluent parents. .
(A) svelte
(B) benign
(C) insolent
(D) inexhaustible

2. Interrogators from the counter-intelligence corps us ed illegal methods on the poor victim, including electric batons and ice. In their effort to obta in a confession by ____________, they apparently even brought the suspect to a cave. But since the 10-year statute of limitations has already passed, investigators won't indict the alleged perpetrators. (A) controversy (B) hypnosis (C) compulsion (D) expatriate

3. In the presence of their peers, teenagers will of ten do dangerous and foolish things, and this sort of behavior is far more likely to be indicative of __________ adolescent immatu rity than deep-seated depravity. (A) acrimonious (B) categorical (C) divergent (D) transient

4. Many couples get divorced over ________ lawsuit sin ce the spouse caught the other having affairs with others. (A) verifiability (B) credibility (C) infidelity (D) superiority

5. China’s seemingly endless business opportunities make it one of the world’s most important emerging markets. Many old, out-of-dated, and ____________ European and American corporations hope to take advantage of the country’s massive consumer power to remake their brands and relive their heyday. (A) unprecedented (B) disrupted (C) obsolete (D) desolate

7. A 15-MINUTE practice spell of bowling was all it took for the Melbourne Stars to be convinced Shane Warne's burnt hand is ____________ enough for him to make his come back in the next quarter. (A) dexterous (B) consensual (C) perpendicular (D) exalted

8. The catastrophic disaster __________ extensive damage to southern and south-eastern Taiwan but nowhere was its force felt more deep ly than in the remote village. Almost 500 people are thought to have died under an avalanche of mud that buried most of the village’s residents alive. (A) indicted (B) detonated (C) assassinated (D) spawned

9. A blind, self-taught lawyer and symbol of China’s civil rights movement, Chen _______ Washington and Beijing in their most delicate diplomatic crisis after he escaped house arrest and sought refuge in the US embassy. (A) fluctuated (B) embroiled (C) degenerated (D) rejuvenated

10. Iran used to say it was "unconcerned" about the upcoming and ___________ EU ban on its oil, saying it would endure the extra sanctions and weathered the storm even though they amounted to "an economic war.” (A) impending (B) incumbent (C) imminent (D) eminent

11. Since the first___________ sentence was carried through telephone wire on March 10, 1876 in the rented top floor of a Boston boarding house, the world has been on a constant move to find the latest breakthroughs in technology.” (A) intelligible (B) gregarious (C) feasible (D) congenial

12. A lone robber brandished a pistol and rushed into the bank, taking over $515,000NT from the counters but was caught later because of his piling debts from loan sharks. As loan sharks usually ________ physical harm on delinquent borrowers, the police will continue looking into the matter. (A) annihilate (B) afflict (C) inflict (D) abolish