泽熙美文Ⅰ Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. I’ll just______an eye over these figures before you type them.
A.toss
B.cast
C.fling
D.throw
正确答案：B
[解析] 近义辨析。
这四个词都指“投，抛，掷”。cast指转向或引向：All eyes were cast uponthe speaker．所有目光皆投注在说话者身上。toss：指以迅猛的速度突然移动或抬起(头)：tossing their heads in sprightly dance在轻盈活泼的舞步中抬起他们的头。fling指摆动(身体一部分)：She flung back her head proudly．她傲气地把头一扬。throw指发出，投射：She threw me a look of encouragement．她向我投来鼓励的目光。
2. The party’s reduced vote was ______ of lack of support for its policies.
A.indicative
B.positive
C.revealing
D.evident
正确答案：A
[解析] indicative“表明的，表示的”，常与of连用，符合题意。如：His presence is indicative of his interest in our plan．他的到来表示他对我们的计划发生兴趣；be positive about /of表示“确信，确知”；revealing、evident不与介词of搭配。
3. I only know the man by ______ but I have never spoken to him.
A.chance
B.heart
C.sight
D.experience
正确答案：C
[解析] 四个词均可与by连用。其中，by chance表示“偶然地，意外地”；by heart指“熟记”；know sb．by sight．意为“见过面，面熟，仅熟悉”；by/from experience是指“凭经验，从经验中”。从后半句看，显然C项符合要求。
4. He is ______ drinker, who has been imbibing for so long that he has figuratively speaking, grown old with the vice.
A.an inveterate
B.an incorrigible
C.a chronic
D.an unconscionable
正确答案：B
[解析] 本句的意思是“他是个无药可救的酒鬼，酒龄这么长，以致他都形象地说他将和恶习一起变老”。incorrigible意为“无药可救的”，如：an incorrigible criminal(一个不可挽救的罪犯)。其他三项“inveterate成癖好的；chronic慢性的；unconscionable不合理的，过度的”都与句意不符。
5. There has been a ______ lack of communication between the union and the management.
A.regretful
B.regrettable
C.regretting
D.regretted
正确答案：B
[解析] C和D是分词形式，不符合句子结构要求；regretful的主语多为人；regrettable指“(某事物)令人遗感的，可惜的”，如：Your choice of friends is regrettable．你对朋友的选择实在不怎么样。故本题选B。
6. The streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in northern Beijing, are ______ . That’s no surprise; more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China’s capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
A.deserted
B.vacated
C.unlived in
D.removed
正确答案：A
7. I, ______ , do not believe that the era of the pioneer is at an end; I only believe that the area for pioneering has changed.
A.for one’s part
B.for one’s good
C.for one
D.for oneself
正确答案：C
[解析] 固定搭配
A．for one’s part对某人来说；C．for one作为其中一个，举例来说；D．for oneself独自地，靠自己的力量；此句意为：拿我来说，我就不相信开拓的时代已经结束，我只认为开拓的区域有了变化。因此答案为C。
8. ______ is necessary for people to develop strong bones and teeth.
A.That calcium
B.Calcium
C.It is calcium
D.Although calcium
正确答案：B
[解析] 结构识别
专有名词前一般不用冠词，calcium钙；选项C是强调句的句式，但后面需跟that，选项D是让步状语从句的一部分；而划线部分需填一个主语，因此答案为B。
9. At first the company refused to purchase the equipment, but this decision was ______ revised.
A.subsequently
B.successively
C.predominantly
D.preliminarily
正确答案：A
[解析] 由句首的“at first”可知所选应为表时间的副词。subsequently“后来、随后”符合要求。故答案为A。
10. To get my traveler’s cheques I had to ______ such a special cheque to the bank for the total amount.
A.make for
B.make out
C.make up
D.make over
正确答案：B
[解析] make out书写，填写，开列；make for走向；make up弥补，化妆，构成；make over把(财产)移交。
11. An ______ test is a rough measure of a child’s capacity for learning, particularly for learning the kinds of things required at school.
A.proficiency
B.intelligence
C.psychology
D.speed
正确答案：B
[解析] 词义辨析
A．proficiency熟练，精通，熟练程度；B．intelligence智力，聪明，智能；C．psychology心理学，心理状态；D．speed速度，速率，迅速；因说的是：对孩童的学习能力尤其是学校所要求的科目的学习能力所进行的测试，因此B为答案。
12. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, ______ to the body.
A.the stress it is greater
B.greater is the stress
C.greater stress is
D.the greater the stress
正确答案：D
[解析] 固定用法。
the+比较级，the+比较级。
13. In the informal meeting the exporter learned that the importer was interested purchase rather than prepacked sets of 12.
A.in bulk
B.in essence
C.at random
D.at ease
正确答案：A
[解析] 固定搭配
be interested in对……有兴趣；in bulk散装，大批；在此the importer was interested in bulk purchase rather than prepacked sets of 12表示：进口商对购买散装的产品而不是对购买包装为12支一套的产品感
