泽熙美文Ⅰ Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. Where any people have made a temporary approach to such a character, it has been because the dread of heterodox ______ was for a time suspended.
A.speculation
B.spectrum
C.petrology
D.speculum
正确答案：A
2. The self-important cant of musicologist on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an ______ process closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.
A.unreliable
B.arcane
C.elementary
D.intuitive
正确答案：B
3. You might include a couple of heady growth stocks ______ with your more pedestrian investments.
A.apart
B.beside
C.as well as
D.side by side
正确答案：D
4. When the plane was flying up to the normal height, ______ and immediately the pilot had to fly it back to the airport.
A.somewhere was on the blinks
B.somewhere had a strange noise
C.something became abnormal
D.something was on edge
正确答案：A
[解析] to be on the blinks这一习语本身来自飞机出现的“故障”，因此和fly back的结果吻合。
5. When it comes to Chinese, Jane already knew some of the characters, but John had to start from ______.
A.screw
B.scrap
C.scratch
D.scrape
正确答案：C
6. The human intelligence that created industrial civilization now has the assignment of making the civilization ______ man’s basic needs.
A.compatible with
B.reducible to
C.assignable to
D.warrantable for
正确答案：A
7. Most people frown on sufferings, though a ______ enjoys suffering.
A.masochist
B.philatelist
C.misanthropist
D.agnostics
正确答案：A
[解析] masochist指“受虐狂”。
8. With most online recruitment services, job seekers must choose their words carefully; ______ the search engine will never make the correct match.
A.therefore
B.otherwise
C.provided
D.however
正确答案：B
9. Fashion is partly a search for new language to discredit the old, a way in which each generation can ______ its immediate predecessor and distinguish itself.
A.honor
B.condone
C.emulate
D.repudiate
正确答案：D
10. The children made so much ______ that Mrs. Green had to spend three days cleaning up afterwards.
A.mess
B.trouble
C.damage
D.nuisance
正确答案：A
11. We listened dumb-struck, full of ______, to the shocking details of the corruption of the president of the company.
A.incredulity
B.ingenuity
C.ingenuousness
D.incredibility
正确答案：D
[解析] 本句空格处意为“充满怀疑地”。incredibility意为“不能相信(事实)”，与句意相符。其他三项“incredulity怀疑(不确知的事情)；ingenuity独创性；ingenuousness坦白，直率”都不正确。
12. The British Constitution is ______ a large extent a product of the historical events described above.
A.in
B.by
C.at
D.to
正确答案：D
13. His ideas about the current situation were so ______ that I had to agree with him.
A.cavernous
B.chronic
C.choral
D.cogent
正确答案：D
14. It is understandable that though adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing ______ with regard to onset and duration.
A.falters
B.varies
C.accelerates
D.dwindles
正确答案：B
15. Only hotel guests have the______of using the private beach.
A.occasion
B.possibility
C.privilege
D.allowance
正确答案：C
[解析] 近义辨析。
privilege特权，特别待遇：I had the privilege of meeting the queen．我有会见王后的特权。occasion时机，机会：A birthday is no occasion for tears．生日可不是哭鼻子的时候。possibility可能性：There is no possibility of his coming．他不可能来。allowance宽容，允许，被允许的东西(如限额、限期等)：ask for an allowance of three days要求给三天时间。
16. It is understandable that though adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing ______ with regard to onset and duration.
A.falters
B.varies
C.accelerates
D.dwindles
正确答案：B
17. The technician is ______ to almost all the tasks, who may even falls asleep on the job.
