泽熙美文Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. Stylistic differences are available to all mature native speakers and in literate communities to all writers, as well as to foreigners who know a second language realty well. But there is undoubtedly a considerable range of skills in ______ all the resources of a language.
A.exploiting
B.surviving
C.exploration
D.search
正确答案：A
[解析] 首先，从该句空前a considerable range of skills in和空后的宾语all the resources of a language，从语法角度判断应为动词的现在分词，而C和D与该句的语境格格不入；第二，该句的语境在讲“语言的运用”，所以只有A项的动词exploiting为正确选择。
2. Galileo finally ______ his theories, for it was heresy to contradict the teachings of the Church.
A.composed
B.recanted
C.invoked
D.disposed
正确答案：B
3. A large number of soldiers have ______ their lives on the battlefield.
A.fornicated
B.forged
C.forfeited
D.forestalled
正确答案：C
4. The machine allows segments of the film to be viewed repeatedly and at a number of speeds, so the editor can cut and ______ the film.
A.tinkle
B.tinker
C.splice
D.splash
正确答案：C
5. We aim to ensure that all candidates are treated fairly and that they have equal ______ to employment opportunities.
A.entrance
B.entry
C.access
D.admission
正确答案：C
6. The cultures of China and Japan have shared many features, but each has used them according to its national ______.
A.personality
B.temperament
C.interest
D.destiny
正确答案：B
[解析] 本题的四个名词意思不同。A为“(各人的)个性”，B为“性格，性情”，C为“兴趣，利益”，D为“命运”。
7. 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
8. 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。
9. Picasso was an artist who fundamentally changed the ______ of art for later generation.
A.philosophy
B.concept
C.viewpoint
D.theme
正确答案：B
10. 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
11. In order to live the kind of life we want and to be the person we want to be, we have to do more than just ______ with events.
A.put up
B.set up
C.turn up
D.make up
正确答案：A
12. Being just a ______ schedule, it still requires more improvement.
A.tensional
B.tentative
C.tendentious
D.tensile
正确答案：B
13. Those who fear the influence of television deliberately ______ its persuasive power, hoping that they might keep knowledge of its potential to effect social change from being widely disseminated.
A.undergo
B.underplay
C.understate
D.underscore
正确答案：B
14. Nowadays there are a great number of happenings, such as many forms of disasters, which ______ our possible explanations, and some of the happenings are even as bewildering as bewildering can be.
A.evade
B.evanish
C.entrench
D.entomb
正确答案：A
[解析] to evade explanations是个常用的动宾搭配，意指“解释不清”。
15. John says that his present job does not provide him with enough ______ for his organizing ability.
A.scope
B.space
C.capacity
D.range
正确答案：B
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
1. Many people in Wales have an affinity with music.
A.reputation for
B.solubility in
C.tincture in
D.attraction to
正确答案：D
[解析] 本题中，affinity的意思是“密切关系，吸引力，姻亲关系，亲和力”，affinity with的意思是“对……吸引力”。D项“attraction to对……有吸引力”符合题意．如：The idea of working for state-owned enterprises has little attraction to young people nowadays. (现时去国
