1. I feel obligated to give my opinion on the subject.

　　[A] required             [B] forbidden         [C] determined           [D] encouraged

　　2. Justices of the peace have. jurisdiction over the trials of some civil suits involving minor offenses.

　　[A] supremacy           [B] authority         [C] guidance             [D] obedience

　　3. The western slopes of the mountains of the Sierra Nevade Range are deeply incised by numerous streams.

　　[A] fed                 [B] cut               [C] flooded             [D] distended

    4. Automobile experts have shown that halogen headlights penetrate thick fog more effectively than traditional incandescent headlights and thus help to reduce accidents.

　　[A] dissolve             [B] perceive          [C] touch                [D] pierce

　　5. The Jamestown settlers explored Virginia pimarily for fishing and trading, and only incidentally investigated traces of a lost colony on Roanoke Island.

　　[A] sporadically          [B] by chance          [C] by fault         [D] unaccountably

　　Keys: ABBBB

　　6.  Though many people observed the accident in the center of the city, they were not sure about the exact sequence of events.

　　[A] order                [B] process           [C] result                [D] cause

　　7.  Davy Crockett was reared in eastern Tennessee.

　　[A] born                [B] well-known         [C] brought up           [D] killed

　　8.  Kit Carson, an American frontiersman, was one of the most sensational heroes of the Old West.

　　[A] exciting             [B] distracting        [C] enigmatic            [D] ostentatious

　　9. Automobile experts have shown that halogen headlights penetrate thick fog more effectively than traditional incandescent headlights and thus help to reduce accidents.

　　[A] dissolve             [B] perceive          [C] touch                [D] pierce

　　10. The football player was penalized for unnecessary roughness.

　　[A] side-lined            [B] condoned         [C] punished             [D] condemned