泽熙美文1. Sometimes the student may be asked to write about his ______ to a certain book or article that has some bearing on the subject being studied.
A.reaction
B.comment
C.impression
D.comprehension
正确答案：A
[解析] 可与介词to搭配的只有reaction。reaction to表示“对……的反应”。comment常与on连用，而impression和comprehension一般与of搭配。
2. He had wanted a 25% raise in pay, but after talking to his boss, he decided that a 5% raise would have to
A.suffice
B.satisfy
C.gratify
D.delight
正确答案：A
[解析] 本题意为“他本想得到25%的工资涨幅，但在同老板谈话后，他认为他不得不满足于5%的涨幅”。suffice的意思是“使满足，表示带有无奈情绪的满足”，如：Fifty dollars will suffice me. 50美元足够我用。satisfy的意思是“满足”，主语为人；gratify的意思是“使满足，表示超出预想的满足”；delight的意思是“(使)高兴，(使)欣喜”。四个选项中只有A项符合题意。
3. The priest made the ______ of the cross when he entered the church.
A.mark
B.signal
C.sign
D.gesture
正确答案：C
[解析] 四个词中，只有sign可与“cross(十字)”搭配。如：to consecrate with the sign of the cross划十字祝福。
4. Picking flowers in the park is absolutely ______.
A.avoided
B.prohibited
C.rejected
D.repelled
正确答案：B
[解析] prohibit(=to forbid by authority)“禁止，由权威(如法律、规则等)禁止”。如：Smoking is prohibited in most theaters. 在大多数戏剧院里禁止吸烟。
5. At three thousand feet, wide plains begin to appear, and there is never a moment when some distant mountain is not ______.
A.on view
B.at a glance
C.on the scene
D.in sight
正确答案：D
[解析] 根据句意可判断出答案为D。in sight表示“可见，看得见，在望，不远”，如：Peace was in sight. 和平在望。其余三个词组的意思分别为：A项“展览着，上映着”、B项“看一眼，马上”和C项“出现，登场”。
6. Shares on the stock market have ______ as a result of a worldwide economic downturn.
A.turned
B.changed
C.floated
D.fluctuated
正确答案：C
[解析] ：float指“(汇率)浮动”，如：the floating pound汇率浮动的英镑。
7. With ______ exceptions, the former president does not appear in public now.
A.rare
B.unusual
C.extraordinary
D.unique
正确答案：A
[解析] 各选项的词义分别为：A项“稀有的，罕见的，不常发生的”、B项“不平常的，与众不同的，不寻常的”、C项“非常的，特别的”和D项“唯一的、独特的”。从主句的意思可推知A项正确。
8. The teacher ______ expects his students to pass the university entrance examination.
A.confidentially
B.proudly
C.assuredly
D.confidently
正确答案：D
[解析] 从句意上可排除A、B；C、D均表示“自信地、确信地”，但前者一般指对自己有信心，后者除此之外还可指对他人或事的确信。所以，D项正确。
9. During the famine, many people were ______ to going without food for days.
A.sunk
B.reduced
C.forced
D.declined
正确答案：B
[解析] reduce常与to连用，用于被动句，表示“被迫沦落为……”的意思。如：She was reduced to begging. 她被迫乞讨。be forced to指“强制，迫使”，不符合句意。故答案为B。
10. The old couple will never ______ the loss of their son.
A.get over
B.get away
C.get off
D.get across
正确答案：A
[解析] 从词组的意思上可知A项正确。get over表示“熬过，恢复”，如：finally got over the divorce最终从离婚的创伤中恢复过来。get away指“逃脱，离开”；get off表示“下来，脱下，出发，被容忍，动身，开始等”；get across意为“被理解，使人了解”。
11. His office is ______ to the President’s; it usually takes him about three minutes to get there.
A.related
B.adhesive
C.adherent
D.adjacent
正确答案：D
[解析] 本句的后半句说“他花大约三分钟就到总统办公室”，那么前半句的意思应该是“他的办公室离总统的很近”。“related to有关的；adhesive to粘性的；adherent to坚持于”都不符合句意。只有“adjacent to邻近的，接近的”正确，因此应选D项。
12. The tenant left nothing behind except some ______ of paper, cloth, etc.
A.sheets
B.scraps
C.pages
D.slices
正确答案：B
[解析] sheet和page通常不与cloth搭配；而slice则不能修饰paper和cloth；scrap表示“小片，小块，碎屑”。所以，本题选B。
13. The motorist had to ______ to avoid knocking the old woman clown in the middle of the road.
A.swerve
B.twist
C.depart
D.swing
正确答案：A
[解析] 表示汽车突然转向要用swerve“突然转向，突然离开正路”。如：The car swerved to avoid the dog. 小汽车为了避开这只狗急忙转向。
14. The day was breaking and people began to go to work so the murderer was unable to ______ of the body.
A.dispense
B.dispose
C.discard
D.discharge
正确答案：B
[解析] 本句想说的是因为天亮了人们开始去上班，所以凶手无法处理尸体。四个选项中dispense的意思是“分配，分发”；discard的意思是“丢弃，抛
