泽熙美文Vocabulary Selection
Directions: Below each of the following 40 incomplete sentences, there are four choices respectively marked A, B, C and D. You are to choose the one that can best complete the sentence and tick the letter that represents the right answer. Please note: Short Answers are provided for 1-10 questions, which you may refer to after completing answering the first 10 questions. This provision is thought to be helpful for aiding and guiding your practice in answering the rest questions.
1. Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resources; for, ______ failing, force remains.
A.reconciliation
B.reconversion
C.conciliation
D.reconsolidation
正确答案：C
[解析] 全句讲的是“斗”与“和”，而该空无疑是指“和好不成力仍存”，所以应选conciliation才符合全句语境。
2. It is said that almost all vegetables having a bitter ______ are good to health.
A.snack
B.smack
C.smell
D.stale
正确答案：B
[解析] 从该句真正主语all vegetables having a bitter这一片语来判断，横线上缺少的无疑和“味道”相关。尽管C项的smell也是一种“味道”，但该词的“味道”侧重指能闻到的“味道”，而只有B项的smack(味儿)与该句相吻合。
3. The labour here is altogether that words may be aculeate, sentences concise, and the whole contexture of the speech and discourse rather rounding into itself than spread and ______.
A.digested
B.dilated
C.directed
D.dimidiated
正确答案：B
[解析] dilated意指“放大”，与spread(引申)的意指吻合。
4. Every face of his coin is a new image, which he adores with the highest ______.
A.veneration
B.variations
C.vengeance
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。
5. English, although it was used as the language of popular literature, did not for a long time ______ Latin’s hold.
A.erase
B.escalate
C.erode
D.eschew
正确答案：C
[解析] 该句后半句讲“没有离开拉丁文”，而erode有“磨损”和“削弱”之意。
6. A writer who wants to convince his readers of a point of view must marshall his arguments, assert the virtues of his apinions, and ______ the possible protests of the opposition.
A.diminish
B.demonstrate
C.declaim
D.demolish
正确答案：D
[解析] demolish有“废除”和“驳倒”等意，与之后的宾语相吻合。
7. 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”，是四个选项中唯一的选择。
8. 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”。
9. In writing, a good writer usually spends a lot of time ______ one point against another, who has to meter the situation both socially and politically.
A.measuring
B.weighing up
C.chalking up
D.calculating
正确答案：B
[解析] weighing up有“衡量”、“思量”、“端量”等意，与其后的one point against another搭配得体。
10. Consumers like Li have ______ many a fevered fantasy among international auto executives on a quest for great untapped markets.
A.nourished
B.cultivated
C.prompted
D.exemplified
正确答案：C
[解析] 根据该空之后的宾语a fevered fantasy及其后的状语for great untapped markets的综合提示，此空有四个选择：prompted，boosted，speeded up，geared up。因而下面给出的四个选择中只有prompted与该句的语境相契合。
11. While some of the drawings are well-rendered, others are mere ______ after all these words came from the hands of a beginner.
A.mementos
B.illustrations
C.daubs
D.portraits
正确答案：C
12. 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
13. Since the results of the experiment were ______ the body of research already completed, the committee considered the results to be anomalous.
A.contradicted by
B.inconsistent with
C.compounded by
D.dispelled by
正确答案：B
14. Both coffee and tea have beneficial as well as ______ side-effects; while they stimulate the heart and help overcome fatigue, they also cause insomnia and other nervous disorder.
A.injurious
B.malignant
C.salutary
D.specious
正确答案：A
15. Instead of taking exaggerated precautions against touching or tipping or jarring the costly bottle of wine, the waiter handled it quite ______, being careful only to use a napkin to keep his hands
