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. 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 questions. This provision is thought to be helpful for aiding and guiding your practice in answering the rest questions.
1. The president says that it was high time they showed their ______ on those political issues.
A.head
B.teeth
C.hand
D.arm
正确答案：B
[解析] to show one’s teeth是个习惯表示法，意指“强硬”。
2. When the plane was flying up to the normal height, ______ and immediately the pilot had to fly it back to the airport.
A.somewhere was on the blinks
B.somewhere had a strange noise
C.something became abnormal
D.something was on edge
正确答案：A
[解析] to be on the blinks这一习语本身来自飞机出现的“故障”，因此和fly back的结果吻合。
3. It is common practice for students to take the initiatives to get contacts with business bodies and find a job before graduation, and the efforts of which are mostly time-consuming and sometimes ______ some unhealthy social tendencies.
A.foster
B.furnish
C.nurish
D.cultivate
正确答案：A
[解析] 尽管选择中的cultivate也说得过去，但根据宾语unhealthy tendency的暗示，foster更合适。
4. He is known as a ______, a man who hates woman.
A.believer
B.misogynist
C.philatelist
D.deist
正确答案：B
[解析] misogynist的意思是“厌女者”，也就是后半句说的a man who hates woman.
5. He is commonly perceived as a man of marks, but he is also a ______, who is now apparently abhorrent of marriage.
A.celibate
B.libeler
C.bella
D.deist
正确答案：A
[解析] A项的celibate意指“恐婚”，也就是之后非限定性定语从句所说的who is now apparently abhorrent of marriage.
6. Most people frown on sufferings, though a ______ enjoys suffering.
A.masochist
B.philatelist
C.misanthropist
D.agnostics
正确答案：A
[解析] A项的masochist的意思是“受虐狂”。
7. Victor Henry couldn’t help staring in wonder at this ______, smoke-wreathed puddle of an old man, fiddling with the thick gold chain across his big black-clad belly.
A.slugging
B.sleeking
C.slicking
D.slumping
正确答案：D
[解析] 空后的smoke-wreathed puddle of an old man说明slumping(弯垂)是唯一的选择。
8. Sandra only ______ in the warmth of his feeling, which was as a grateful blaze to one who is cold.
A.blazed
B.basked
C.folded
D.dived
正确答案：B
[解析] bask指“取暖”，和句后的who is cold遥相呼应。
9. They reviewed the international situation in which important changes and great upheavals are taking place and ______ their respective positions and attitudes.
A.expanded
B.devoided
C.expounded
D.expired
正确答案：C
[解析] expound一词指“阐述”，和之后的positions及attitudes相吻合。
10. The aroused manager ______ merrily for a good four miles to his office an old melody that he had not recalled for more than ten years.
A.wrestled
B.wrested
C.whistled
D.wrinkled
正确答案：C
[解析] whistle和其后的宾语melody相吻合。
11. Disturbed by the ______ nature of the plays being presented, the Puritans closed the theaters in 1642.
A.mediocre
B.fantastic
C.moribund
D.salacious
正确答案：D
12. Although the condition in which she lives indicates that she is miserly, her dedication to the charities shows that she is ______.
A.stingy
B.frugal
C.thrifty
D.generous
正确答案：D
13. A hysterical person is not necessarily egocentric and vindictive all the time, he or she could be kind, gracious and even ______ when the circumstances seem to require it.
A.authoritarian
B.taciturn
C.self-deprecating
D.self-assured
正确答案：C
14. There is no necessarily intrinsic connection between a word and the thing it refers to; the relation is purely ______.
A.conventional
B.contentious
C.consistent
D.controversial
正确答案：A
15. During 1960s of America, youths often resort to music to ______ the government and express their dissatisfaction of the reality.
A.renounce
B.denounce
C.conform
D.concern
正确答案：B
16. Voters responded to the levy of a new tax with ______ because they have become inured to the fickle nature of government policies.
A.exasperation
