泽熙美文Ⅰ Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. The university training enables a graduate to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a ______ of thought.
A.strand
B.mass
C.plethora
D.skein
正确答案：C
2. No bread eaten by man is so sweet as ______ earned by his own labor.
A.what
B.such
C.one
D.that
正确答案：D
3. Though tactless in his youth, Benjamin Franklin became so diplomatic, so ______ at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France.
A.foxy
B.considerate
C.shrewd
D.adroit
正确答案：D
4. The reporter compares a husband to a particularly tricky musical instrument, one that a wife must learn to play ______ her advantage.
A.for
B.as
C.to
D.in
正确答案：C
[解析] 选择A和B似乎都说的通，但跟据全句整体语境以及learn to play的暗示，只有答案C是正确选择，因为to one’s advantage是个习惯用语，也是一个固定搭配。
5. Historically, a cornerstone of classical empiricism has been the notion that every true ______ must be confirmable by specific observations.
A.popularization
B.generalization
C.modernization
D.convention
正确答案：B
6. Sometimes, it is difficult for John to get his Brithsh jokes ______ to American audiences.
A.down
B.over
C.across
D.up
正确答案：B
7. The scientific development has been breathtaking in the past century, but the understanding of this progress has not ______ changed.
A.temporarily
B.rigorously
C.dramatically
D.incidentally
正确答案：C
8. In a negotiation, if neither side is ready to ______ what is necessary for peace, hostility will be resumed.
A.precede
B.intercede
C.precede
D.concede
正确答案：D
9. According to the newspaper, the police are still looking for the criminal, who is still at ______.
A.large
B.bay
C.dawn
D.dusk
正确答案：A
10. In his home, conversation ______ there at the table on every conceivable topic. All members had the opportunity to test their wits against the others.
A.abounded
B.rounded
C.hunted
D.haunted
正确答案：A
11. During the ______ of the rain, she returned home immediately.
A.spin
B.flick
C.lull
D.notch
正确答案：C
12. If a needle is thrown ______ on a sheet of paper ruled with lines, how often can it be expected to fall on a line?
A.on purpose
B.with accuracy
C.at random
D.according to one’s own will
正确答案：C
[解析] 习语搭配
A．on purpose故意；B．with accuracy正确地；C．at random随意地；D．according tO one’s own will按照某人自己的意愿；而本句意为：如果把一个针 ______ 扔在一张用尺子画上许多条线的纸上，那么这个针正落在一条线上的机率是多大?既然是问概率，那么应是随机地去做某事；因此答案应为C。
13. Although Asian countries are generally ______ in social customs than Western countries, there have been several notable examples of women leaders in both China and India.
A.consistent
B.conservative
C.comprehensive
D.confidential
正确答案：B
14. In 1909, just two years before his death, Galton was knighted. Galtons’s place in the history of psychology is ensured. More than any other person, he set psychology on the road to quantifying its data, and, of course, the whole testing movement in educational psychology ______ Galton’s early work.
A.plays an important role in
B.is largely dependent on
C.owes a major debt to
D.is to be credited with
正确答案：C
[解析] 该句空前在讲“教育心理学的测试运动”，后半部分讲“高尔顿的早期工作”，所以C项的“主要归功于”是唯一的选择。
15. The president said that he will do everything he could to be ______ of the faith and trust of the people and to honour the powerful example of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
A.worthy
B.confident
C.faithful
D.confidential
正确答案：A
[解析] 在所提供的四个选择中，只有答案A的worthy一词可跟介词of。
16. In China, it is a serious crime to ______ ancient paintings out of the country.
A.struggle
B.smuggle
C.sublet
D.withdraw
正确答案：B
