泽熙美文Vocabulary Selection
Directions: Below each of the following 40 incomplete sentences, there are 4 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 questions. This provision is thought to be helpful for aiding and guiding your practice in answering the rest questions.
1. 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] 选项A和B似乎都说得通，但根据全句整体语境以及learn to play一语的暗示，唯有C项是正确选择。另：to one’s advantage是个习惯用语，也是一个固定搭配。
2. This week the BBC ______ Family Wanted—a campaign to raise awareness of adoption and fostering.
A.tossed
B.launched
C.raised
D.advanced
正确答案：B
[解析] to launch a campaign是个动宾结构的固定搭配，所以选B项才对。
3. The answers to the problem, the scientists say, is to build up the immune system, which not only will give greater ______ to disease but will boost cellular regeneration and improve the skin.
A.persistence
B.insistence
C.resistance
D.instance
正确答案：C
[解析] 选择resistance to diseases的根据是前面谈到的immune system，所以答案是C。
4. Ten years later, when he started his brief ______ in parliament and was back to London, he invited the Speaker to dinner at the hotel.
A.stay
B.spell
C.work
D.visit
正确答案：B
[解析] spell意指“一段时间”，故应选择B项。
5. Like David Brent, Bartnall’s boss once harbored ______ to be something in the music industry.
A.inspirations
B.aspirations
C.restorations
D.perspirations
正确答案：B
[解析] 后半句的to be something in the music industry的意思是“想在音乐方面有所作为”，所以跟随harbored只有aspirations才更贴切。
6. Treatment of Parkinson’s has improved hugely, but little is known of its cases and origins—ven dog-owning has been ______ as a contributor.
A.cited
B.sited
C.sighted
D.cherished
正确答案：A
[解析] to be cited as…是个固定搭配。
7. The president said that he will do everything he could to be ______ of the faith and trust of the people and to honour the powerful example of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
A.worthy
B.confident
C.faithful
D.confidential
正确答案：A
[解析] 在所提供的四个选择中，只有A项的worthy一词可跟介词of。
8. Born in 1842 in New York City, William James showed little ______ of academic brilliance during his school years.
A.confidence
B.persistence
C.evidence
D.insistence
正确答案：C
[解析] 与academic brilliance最贴近的是evidence，所以答案是C项。
9. A somewhat singular and solitary person, he demonstrated early in his life a capacity for hard work, long hours, and ______. Almost a personification of the Protestant work ethic, Thorndike simply abhorred making even the slightest error and consequently was always striving for perfection in his work.
A.accuracy
B.precision
C.vision
D.permission
正确答案：B
[解析] 选择B项的重要参照是“making even the slightest error…”。
10. After two years of working on the subject, he seriously switched his field again, ______ to comparative anatomy and physiology.
A.transferring
B.gliding
C.transforming
D.drifting
正确答案：A
[解析] 选择A项的参照是短语switched the filed。总体上说，选择正确答案的一个重要途径是寻找参照，这就如同“找路”凭借“参照物”一样。
11. Congress and the White House still ______ the agency with requests for intelligence on a number of African countries.
A.force
B.deluge
C.command
D.allure
正确答案：B
12. Can people truly fall in love via modem? What are the psychic rewards and risks of computer-______ romance?
A.mediated
B.medicated
C.misdated
D.menaced
正确答案：A
13. With the FAA planning to roll out the concept within the next few weeks, air-controllers are already ______ the alarm.
A.pounding
B.sounding
C.knocking
D.voicing
正确答案：B
14. Most people in all countries connected with air-traffic control are ______ to admit to any safety problems.
A.prone
B.slow
C.willing
D.loath
正确答案：D
15. It is obvious that the aging systems continue to ______, and no new replacement is available.
A.elaborated
B.debouch
C.debauch
D.deteriorate
正确答案：D
