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Question

The Japanese pay much attention to the luck of telephone number. The bathhouses for example (16) _____ to use 4626 because when read in Japanese it has the (17) _____ pronunciation as “Have a good bath.” (18) _____ the clothes shops and the butcher’s like 1429 better than (19) _____ number because this number can either be read as “good dress” (20) _____ “good meat.” (21) _____ these numbers are (22) _____ with something (23) _____ people can remember them very (24) _____. So they have (25) _____ advertisements for the shops. On the other hand there are also telephone numbers which are (26) _____ as forbidden by the Japanese people. 1564 for example has the sound of “kill people” (27) _____ the number 4219 has (28) _____ of “people die”. At present there are about forty-four million (29) _____ in Japan. Yet it is almost (30) _____ for everyone to get (31) _____ telephone number. So these (32) _____ have become commodities( 商品 ) and can be (33) ____ as goods. The (34) _____ can reach as (35) _____ as 222 thousands Japanese yen( 日元 ).

16. A. like B. come C. have D. ought

17. A. English B. a strange    C. different    D. same

18. A. For B. Neither  C. Either   D. Both

19. A. any  B. some C. other    D. any other

20. A. but  B. or   C. as   D. and

21. A. Since    B. Although C. Even D. When

22. A. joined   B. connected    C. fixed    D. mixed

23. A. to do    B. useful   C. nice D. important

24. A. hard B. slowly   C. smoothly D. easily

25. A. become   B. been C. turned   D. made

26. A. sounded  B. regarded C. pronounced   D. appeared

27. A. but  B. because  C. as   D. while

28. A. sound    B. meaning  C. that D. this

29. A. shops    B. Japanese     C. telephones   D. numbers

30. A. possible B. impossible   C. easy D. necessary

31. A. interesting  B. nice C. lucky    D. suitable

32. A. telephones   B. advertisements   C. shops    D. numbers

33. A. used B. made C. sold D. stored

34. A. shop B. number   C. telephone    D. price

35. A. valuable B. expensive    C. high D. large

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