泽熙美文Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. Kagan maintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ______ signs of adolescent anxiety.
A.prophetic
B.normal
C.typical
D.virtual
正确答案：A
2. In general, the amount that a student spends for housing should be held ______ to one-fifth of the total for living expenses.
A.acceptable
B.advisable
C.available
D.applicable
正确答案：B
[解析] 四个选项的意思分别为：A项“可接受的”；B项“可取的，明智的”；C项“可取的，适当的，贤明的”；D项“能应用的，合适的，适用的”。
3. 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
4. Due to the fact that universities can not enroll all the candidates, ______ to university is competitive.
A.admission
B.affidavit
C.admiration
D.allegiance
正确答案：A
[解析] 形近识别
A．admission允许进入；B．affidavit宣誓书，书面陈述；C．admiration钦佩，赞美； D．allegiance忠贞，效忠；admission to university准许入大学，因此A为答案。
5. Reformers feared that the privately owned utility companies would charge ______ rates for these essential services and deliver them only to people who could afford them.
A.exorbitant
B.expressive
C.exuberant
D.excellent
正确答案：A
6. The child’s earliest words deal with concrete objects and actions, it is much later that he is able to grapple with ______.
A.decisions
B.abstractions
C.thought
D.mathematics
正确答案：B
7. Peter had idolized the professor so much for so long a time that he remained quite ______ and could not really be himself in her presence.
A.disregarded
B.inhibited
C.heartened
D.pleased
正确答案：B
8. Bother Kohler and Koffka became ______ advocates of this new school of thought, and both went on to produce many experiments, articles, and books in support of it.
A.favorable
B.precipitous
C.zoogenic
D.zealous
正确答案：D
9. What the fairy tales do is that they ______ the relief of all pressures and not only offer ways to solve problems but promise that a “happy” solution will be found.
A.reject
B.deject
C.project
D.inject
正确答案：C
10. Three men were feared dead last night after a helicopter ______ off course into an oil platform and ditched into the North Sea.
A.blandished
B.ignited
C.veered
D.instigated
正确答案：C
11. Edward has never thought that he could ______ what is called “free-style” poetry.
A.take to
B.take in
C.take on
D.take out
正确答案：A
12. Feelings of infinite ______ seized him as he recalled the days when he met with misfortune.
A.melancholy
B.memorial
C.megaphone
D.memory
正确答案：A
13. 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。
14. North Korea’s ______ of nuclear testing triggered political debates and mass demonstrations.
A.assumption
B.consumption
C.presumption
D.resumption
正确答案：D
15. Our journey was slow because the train stopped ______ at different villages.
A.gradually
B.continuously
C.constantly
D.continually
正确答案：D
[解析] 本题的四个副词中，尽管有三个以con-开头，但意思都不相同。A为“逐渐地”，B为“连续不断地，接连地”，C为“不断地”，D为“一再，老是”。A项明显不符合题意。B、C、D三项意思似乎很相近，但B有“持续不停”的意思，用来描述下雨或咳嗽较适合，用来描述句中的火车停站不适合。C项则有频率很高、始终如一的意思，也不适合。
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
1. Many people believe that the holocaust in Rwanda could have been stopped with international intervention.
A.insurrection
B.massacre
C.surveillance
D.pageantry
正确答案：B
