泽熙美文Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. With the continued rise in sea level, more ice would ______ into the ocean, causing sea levels to rise even higher, which in turn would release more ice and set in motion a vicious cycle.
A.drop
B.plunge
C.melt
D.drift
正确答案：B
[解析] 答题者可能会选C，认为ice应该是melt，但根据空后的into the ocean的提示，B才是正确选择。
2. One of the most common faults of the literature essay is the tendency of the question as an invitation to retell the ______.
A.plot
B.blot
C.flop
D.topic
正确答案：A
[解析] plot指文学作品的“情节”，是四个选择中唯一的一个。
3. In writing, ______ can be used to enclose explanatory or additional material, without which the passage can also be complete.
A.paraphrases
B.parentheses
C.parallels
D.paragraphs
正确答案：A
4. The popularity of the film show that the reviewers’ fears were completely ______.
A.unjustified
B.unjust
C.misguided
D.unaccepted
正确答案：A
5. The ______ meter can detect even a very small amount of gas in the room.
A.sensible
B.sensitive
C.sensing
D.sensed
正确答案：B
6. Every face of his coine is a new image, which he adores with the highest ______.
A.veneration
B.variations
C.vemgeance
D.veracity
正确答案：A
[解析] 该句动词adore已说明该空的选择应为表示敬慕的veneration。
7. Prepared though I was to be impressed by the magnificence of the Grand Canyon, when I actually stood at its brink, I was ______ by its magnitude scale and grandeur of beauty.
A.numbed
B.inhibited
C.imbued
D.dumbfounded
正确答案：D
8. Literature is essentially regarded as of permanent worth. Printing and, in earlier days, the copying of ______ are the means of preserving written literature.
A.matrimony
B.maturation
C.manuscripts
D.manifestoes
正确答案：C
[解析] 此句在讲书面语言手稿的保存，而A项意指“婚姻关系”，B项意指“成熟”，D项意指“宣言”，所以只有C项(手稿)才符合该句的语境。
9. Language belongs to each one of us, to the flower-seller ______ to the professor.
A.as far as
B.as long as
C.as much as
D.the same as
正确答案：C
10. Where any people have made a temporary approach to such a character, it has been because the dread of heterodox ______ was for a time suspended.
A.speculation
B.spectrum
C.petrology
D.speculum
正确答案：A
11. Fashion is partly a search for new language to discredit the old, a way in which each generation can ______ its immediate predecessor and distinguish itself.
A.honor
B.condone
C.emulate
D.repudiate
正确答案：D
12. Some Americans are not sure if Obama is a president with great ______ and therefore deserves their political support.
A.instigation
B.integrity
C.instinct
D.intensity
正确答案：B
13. Although I spoke to her about the matter several times, she took little ______ of what I said.
A.remark
B.warning
C.notice
D.attention
正确答案：C
[解析] take notice of为固定搭配，表示“注意，留心”。此外，pay attention to也可表示“注意”的意思。
14. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow ______ of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional fight of amending itm or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
A.weary
B.flense
C.douse
D.graze
正确答案：A
15. The soldier was of running away when the enemy ______.
A.scolded
B.charged
C.accused
D.punished
正确答案：C
[解析] be accused of为一固定搭配，意为“被指控”，scold和punish通常和for搭配。charge的搭配词为with。
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
1. When you are looking for a job, it is important to make an excellent resume to sell yourself to prospective employer.
A.particular
B.potential
C.prudent
D.prominent
正确答案：B
2. If cauliflowers are exposed from extreme temperatures, the heads get discolored.
A.are exposing from
B.are exposed to
