泽熙美文Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. 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
2. In China, it is a serious crime to ______ ancient paintings out of the country.
A.struggle
B.smuggle
C.sublet
D.withdraw
正确答案：B
3. Historically, a cornerstone of classical empiricism has been the notion that every true ______ must be confirmable by specific observations.
A.popularization
B.generalization
C.modernization
D.convention
正确答案：B
4. In a negotiation, if neither side is ready to ______ what is necessary for peace, hostility will be resumed.
A.precede
B.intercede
C.precede
D.concede
正确答案：D
5. ______ with the size of the whole earth, the highest mountain does not seem high at all.
A.When compared
B.Comparing
C.While comparing
D.To compare
正确答案：A
6. In the dim light, I managed to ______ the shadowy figure of a big lion among the trees.
A.make off
B.make up
C.make out
D.make over
正确答案：C
[解析] 习语搭配
A．make off离开，(尤指做了错事后)匆忙离开，逃走；B．make叩弥补，虚构，和解； C．make out辨认出，拼凑；D．make over(尤指依法律形式)转让，移交；而本句意为：在昏暗的光线下，我努力辨认树丛中一只大狮子的阴影。因此C为答案。
7. As you can see by yourself, things ______ to be exactly as the professor had foreseen.
A.turned in
B.turned out
C.turned up
D.turned down
正确答案：B
8. It is known to all linguists that intonation and tone of voice are clearly not reproducible in existing ______ systems, but part of the skill of a novelist or a reporter is to convey these features of speech in his descriptions.
A.orthographic
B.autobiographic
C.autoptic
D.autonomic
正确答案：A
[解析] 该句讲的是言语的声调和拼写，而空后的system是在讲拼写系统，所以答案无疑是A。
9. Just as such apparently basic things as rocks, clouds, and clams are, in fact, intricately structured entities, so the self, too, is not an “elementary particle”, but is ______ construction.
A.a complicated
B.an amorphous
C.an illusory
D.a convoluted
正确答案：A
10. I knew that he was never heavily influenced by the morality play’s ______ which portrays the world as a tug-of-war between good and evil.
A.conversation
B.convection
C.convention
D.conversion
正确答案：C
11. When one is unfamiliar with the customs, it is easy to make a ______.
A.blunder
B.blend
C.brawl
D.bland
正确答案：A
12. In many countries tobacco and medicine are government ______.
A.control
B.monopoly
C.business
D.belongings
正确答案：B
[解析] 这道题的四个选项都是名词，其词义分别为：A．控制；B．垄断，专卖；C．事务，生意；D．财物，行李。根据上下文，B最适合，是本题的正确答案。
13. The reporter compares a husband to a particularly tricky musical instrument, one that a wife must learn to play ______ her advantage.
A.for
B.as
C.to
D.in
正确答案：C
[解析] 选择A和B似乎都说的通，但跟据全句整体语境以及learn to play的暗示，只有答案C是正确选择，因为to one’s advantage是个习惯用语，也是一个固定搭配。
14. It was said to be a disastrous fire. It had Jim out of ______ for a while.
A.head
B.sight
C.hand
D.place
正确答案：C
15. Compared with the indefinable religion, science is considered as whatever can be ______.
A.measured
B.ascertained
C.insured
D.counted
正确答案：B
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
1. An essay which attempts to take a middle view is much more treacherous to write than an essay which argues for only one side of the debate.
A.hazardous
B.ambiguous
C.amicable
D.amphibious
正确答案：A
