1 . Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. refrigerated       B. amount       C. plastics       D. retired   E. establish     F. impact G. stress        H. reminds       I. tend        J. assume       K. energy-efficient

1. The way you speak________ me of my former English teacher.
2. We get the frozen fish to the supermarkets in ________trucks.
3. It is natural that many students are under a lot of________ before a test.
4. If ________and rubber are burnt, they will give off poisonous gases.
5. It seems reasonable to ________that the book was written around 70AD.
6. We________ to make mistakes when we do things in a hurry.
7. It has been a decade since I________ from the military.
8. It took him several decades to ________himself as the most influential minister in the new government.
9. They gave me some help in the beginning but it did not ________to much.
10. It was not until many species had become extinct that man realized that his activity had a powerful ________on nature.