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. Because of the economic crisis, many graduating students have to be ______ the pavements for a job even before graduation.
A.walking
B.pounding
C.locating
D.cashing
正确答案：B
[解析] to pound the pavements是个习惯用语，其意与汉语“扫马路，找工作”近似。
2. As the crisis is sweeping across the country, many young people, especially college graduates, can’t but get in ______ of themselves, not knowing what to do with their “future”.
A.back
B.front
C.frontier
D.backyard
正确答案：B
[解析] to get in front of oneself是一条美国口语，与汉语的“不知如何是好”或“慌了神儿”近意。
3. Many sports people, especially the Gold winners, all know that they will have to break fresh ______ and find a line of business for the later part of their life.
A.field
B.heaven
C.road
D.ground
正确答案：D
[解析] to break fresh ground与汉语“新打鼓，另开张”同意。
4. Most of the authorities knew that they had to ______ a halt to that sort of energy-consuming management.
A.nail
B.hammer
C.make
D.call
正确答案：D
[解析] to call a halt to sth. 是个习惯表示法，意即“停止”。
5. Some people are born to have a very good memory whereas many other people are born to have a memory like a ______.
A.sleeve
B.sieve
C.button
D.basket
正确答案：B
[解析] have a memory like a sieve的字面意思是“记性像个筛子”，喻指记忆力很差。
6. It is commonly acknowledged that no one can make a ______ purse out of a sow’s ear.
A.cotton
B.nylon
C.silk
D.satin
正确答案：C
[解析] make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear与汉语“巧媳妇难为无米之炊”的说法近意。
7. In our philosophy of life we believe that in most cases what is sauce for the ______ is sauce for the gander.
A.chicken
B.pigs
C.ducks
D.goose
正确答案：D
[解析] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.是个习语，意指“适用于甲的东西也适用于乙”。
8. I often tell people that have failed in some business that what you lose on the ______ you get back on the roundabouts.
A.swings
B.sprays
C.ends
D.logs
正确答案：A
[解析] What you lose on the swings you get back on the roundabouts的意思近似于汉语“失之东隅，收之桑愉”的说法。
9. Frankly speaking, I am not at all for anything that is all the ______.
I respect things that can sustain and carry some far-reaching significance.
A.rag
B.blacket
C.rate
D.rage
正确答案：D
[解析] be all the rage是个固定说法，与汉语“风靡一时”近意。
10. She soon found that in that place she was just like a square ______ in a round hole.
A.log
B.board
C.peg
D.hog
正确答案：C
[解析] like a square peg in a round hole是个习惯表示法，与汉语“格格不入”近意。
11. It’s a sure thing that if she knows that there is a ______ sale in town, she will certainly rush to the scene.
A.liquidation
B.station
C.realization
D.modification
正确答案：A
12. Some good wives can always get their money’s worth. They seldom buy things that they are made to pay through the ______.
A.arm
B.leg
C.nose
D.face
正确答案：C
13. Since 2008, there have been more and more famous people in the acting profession whose name becomes “smelly”, and whose life and career are between the ______ and the block.
A.needle
B.twiddle
C.riddle
D.beetle
正确答案：D
14. Some corrupted officials the world over, whatever crimes they have committed, can always get away with ______.
A.murmur
B.murder
C.mercy
D.motive
正确答案：B
15. There are always people in any community who are always on the gravy train and in Fortune’s ______.
A.leg
B.nap
C.fat
D.lap
正确答案：D
