泽熙美文Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. Things went well for her during her early life but in her middle age her ______ seemed to change.
A.affair
B.luck
C.event
D.chance
正确答案：B
[解析] luck除表示“运气，好运”外，还含有“命运”的意思，如：It’s just my luck．我命该如此。其余均不符合题意。
2. To begin some activity is to ______ doing it.
A.set down
B.set up
C.set about
D.set off
正确答案：C
[解析] A项的set down意为“放下，记下”；B项的set up意为“创立，建立”；C项的set about表示“开始，着手”；D项的set off表示“出发，动身”。
3. Because of the economic crises, many graduating students have to be ______ the pavemenmts for a job even before graduation.
A.walking
B.pounding
C.locating
D.cashing
正确答案：B
[解析] to pound the pavements是个习惯用语，其意与“扫马路，找工作”近似。
4. I will never ______ the experiences of the four years at Howard University, though there were unhappy encounters.
A.discharge
B.recharge
C.discard
D.dispose
正确答案：C
5. The members walked out of the session, with the result that the committee did not have a ______ and would not make any decisions.
A.quorum
B.quackery
C.backbone
D.backdrop
正确答案：A
6. Bank notes are not usually ______ into gold nowadays.
A.inverted
B.revertible
C.convertible.
D.diverting.
正确答案：C
[解析] 这道题的四个选项词干和词尾相近，但意义相差很远。他们的词义为：A．颠倒的；B．可回复的；C．(货币、证券等的)可兑换的；D．有趣的。这句话是讲一国的中央银行发行的纸币与黄金的关系。
7. The ______ winds in the Great Basin are from the west. Warm, moist air from the Pacific Ocean is forced upward as it crosses the Sierra Nevada.
A.precarious
B.prevailing
C.preceding
D.processional
正确答案：B
[解析] 只有prevailing winds才符合本句的搭配，意指“遍及”。
8. He has never worried about his properties because he has ______ them against disasters and theft.
A.assured
B.ensured
C.insured
D.secure
正确答案：C
[解析] 本题是近形动词词辨析题。空格中动词宾语为代词them(指代properties财产)，空格后为介词against disasters and theft. 由此可以推断空格中动词意思为“为……保险”，所以答案为C。assure向……保证；使放心：～you of the reliability of the news/you that the news are reliable；ensure确保：～one’s safety/success/the supply of the necessities；insure保险：～house against fire/life against accident；secure使安全；安全的：～the coast areas from the food; feel～with you beside me。
9. 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
10. Though always being the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, she let a number of ______ results slip by in this experiment.
A.verifiable
B.inaccurate
C.salient
D.anomalous
正确答案：D
11. Feelings of infinite ______ seized him as he racalled the days when he met with misfortune.
A.melancholy
B.memorial
C.megaphone
D.memory
正确答案：A
12. We must ______ the train being late for the reason that it always is.
A.allow for
B.allow of
C.allow on
D.allow about
正确答案：C
13. 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。
14. Noting the murder victim’s flaccid musculature and pearlike figure, she deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some ______ occupation.
A.prestigious
B.illegitimate
C.sedentary
D.ill-paying
正确答案：C
15. The young man gets so popular with his colleagues that even his inanities are considered ______.
A.speculative
B.allusive
C.trenchant
D.treacherous
正确答案：C
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
1. Light and shade, night and day, colour and form, distance and propotion, beauty and ugliness: all these were words to the meaning of which he had no clue.
A.to which he had no means
