Mar 14, 2009 Volume 5 -- Daily Life in China, #17(44)

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1. Arab merchants who visited China in the ninth century or later were ______ in _____ the honesty of the Chinese merchants.
2. Charity for them was one way of making up for being _____ wealthy, a kind of tax paid to the gods. It is worth quoting what a contemporary tells us about this, if only because at the same time it reveals the extreme poverty of a large part of the population.
3. The Mongols, stricter in morals than the Southern Chinese, had relegated the prostitutes to the districts outside the walls of their capital. In Hangchow, however, prostitution had ____ everywhere.
4. Some courtesans were frequented by the ____ youth of Hangchow and by the students from the big colleges.

A) unanimous
B) gilded
C) infiltrated
D) extolling
E) excessively

answer
A) unanimous
D) extolling
B) gilded
C) infiltrated
E) excessively

unanimous:
(of two or more people) fully in agreement
• (of an opinion, decision, or vote) held or carried by everyone involved.

gild:
cover thinly with gold.
give a specious or false brilliance to

infiltrate:
1 enter or gain access to (an organization, place, etc.) surreptitiously and gradually, esp. in order to acquire secret information
• figurative permeate or become a part of (something) in this way
• Medicine (of a tumor, cells, etc.) spread into or invade (a tissue or organ).
2 (of a liquid) permeate (something) by filtration
• introduce (a liquid) into something in this way

extol:
praise enthusiastically

excessive:
more than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate