Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. Children should always ______ the same basic procedure: seeing the whole Word—hearing and pronouncing—writing from memory.
A.go through
B.take over
C.respond to
D.carry off
正确答案:A
2. 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
3. During the ______ of the rain, she returned home immediately.
A.spin
B.flick
C.lull
D.notch
正确答案:C
4. According to the International Law, the United Nations would impose economic ______ against an invading country.
A.commissions
B.promotions
C.sentences
D.sanctions
正确答案:D
5. 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
6. The technician is ______ to almost all the tasks, who may even falls asleep on the job.
A.reluctant
B.decreant
C.recuperative
D.recusant
正确答案:B
[解析] 该句的非限定定语从句中even falls asleep暗示前面讲的是“玩忽职守”,所以decreant符合全句的语境。
7. The salt dissolved in the water gradually, finally all that remained was an almost ______ residue on the bottom of the glass.
A.lumpy
B.imperceptible
C.glassy
D.opaque
正确答案:B
8. The world, and not least its 265m Americans, has an ______ belief in America as the land of the free.
A.unappalled
B.ununassuming
C.unwavering
D.unblenched
正确答案:C
9. Just as such apparently basic things as rocks, clouds, and clams are, in fact, intricately structured entities, so the self, too, is not an “elementary particle”, but is ______ construction.
A.a complicated
B.an amorphous
C.an illusory
D.a convoluted
正确答案:A
10. When one is unfamiliar with the customs, it is easy to make a ______.
A.blunder
B.blend
C.brawl
D.bland
正确答案:A
11. Peter had idolized the professor so much for so long a time that he remained quite ______ and could not really be himself in her presence.
A.disregarded
B.inhibited
C.heartened
D.pleased
正确答案:B
12. Kagan maintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ______ signs of adolescent anxiety.
A.prophetic
B.normal
C.typical
D.virtual
正确答案:A
13. Every man in this country has the right to live where he wants to, ______ the color of his skin.
A.with the exception of
B.in the light of
C.by virtue of
D.regardless of
正确答案:D
[解析] 四个选项的意思分别为:A项“除……以外”;B项“根据,依据”;C项“依靠,凭借,由于”;D项“不顾,不管”。
14. It is understandable that though adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing ______ with regard to onset and duration.
A.falters
B.varies
C.accelerates
D.dwindles
正确答案:B
15. The president of the corporation suggested that the phenomena should be ______ and analyzed into their smallest parts of elements.
A.buckled on
B.nudged further
C.broken down
D.broken into
正确答案:C
16. Picasso was an artist who fundamentally changed the ______ of art for later generation.
A.philosophy
B.concept
C.viewpoint
D.theme
正确答案:B
17. What the fairy tales do is that they ______ the relief of all pressures and not only offer ways to solve problems but promise that a “happy” solution will be found.
A.reject
B.deject
C.project
D.inject
正确答案:C
18. The ______ winds in the Great Basin are from the west. Warm, moist air from the Pacific Ocean is forced upward as it crosses the

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