Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
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] 选择A和B似乎都说的通,但跟据全句整体语境以及learn to play的暗示,只有答案C是正确选择,因为to one’s advantage是个习惯用语,也是一个固定搭配。
2. Fruits are loaded with ______, vitamins and other nutrients, which can help to prevent genetic damage that can lead to the development of cancer.
A.antioxidants
B.antidotes
C.antifeedants
D.antibiotics
正确答案:A
3. The speaker was very much ______ by rude words and behavior of the audience in the hall.
A.jerked
B.incensed
C.laced
D.limped
正确答案:B
[解析] jerked肌肉抽搐的,痉挛;incensed激怒的,发怒;laced有花边的,有带子的;limped跛行的,柔软的。答案是B。
4. You might include a couple of heady growth stocks ______ with your more pedestrian investments.
A.apart
B.beside
C.as well as
D.side by side
正确答案:D
5. Where any people have made a temporary approach to such a character, it has been because the dread of heterodox ______ was for a time suspended.
A.speculation
B.spectrum
C.petrology
D.speculum
正确答案:A
6. Brierley’s book has the ______ of being both informative and readable.
A.inspiration
B.requirements
C.myth
D.merit
正确答案:D
7. Being just a ______ schedule, it still requires more improvement.
A.tensional
B.tentative
C.tendentious
D.tensile
正确答案:B
8. His ideas about the current situation were so ______ that I had to agree with him.
A.cavernous
B.chronic
C.choral
D.cogent
正确答案:D
9. His ______ behavior made everyone nervous. He was always rushing to open doors and perform other small tasks, apologizing unnecessarily for any inconvenience that he might have caused.
A.oblivious
B.observant
C.obsequious
D.obsolescent
正确答案:C
[解析] 形近识别。
obsequious卑躬的;巴结的:He is an obsequious owner.他是个善于讨好的店主。oblivious未察觉;不注意:The government seems oblivious of the likely effects of the new legislation.政府似乎并没有注意到新法可能带来的后果。ob servant善于观察的’寂静的:An observant shop assistant had remembered ex actly what the man was wearing.有个机警的店员准确记得那个男子的穿着。 obsolescent即将过时的,逐步淘汰的:Electronic equipment quickly becomes obsolescent.电子设备淘汰得快。
10. John says that his present job does not provide him with enough ______ for his organizing ability.
A.scope
B.space
C.capacity
D.range
正确答案:B
11. Stylistic differences are available to all mature native speakers and in literate communities to all writers, as well as to foreigners who know a second language realty well. But there is undoubtedly a considerable range of skills in ______ all the resources of a language.
A.exploiting
B.surviving
C.exploration
D.search
正确答案:A
[解析] 首先,从该句空前a considerable range of skills in和空后的宾语all the resources of a language,从语法角度判断应为动词的现在分词,而C和D与该句的语境格格不入;第二,该句的语境在讲“语言的运用”,所以只有A项的动词exploiting为正确选择。
12. James’s independence of mind and his ability to go beyond the ______ once again were in evidence.
A.conventional
B.irrational
C.educational
D.conditional
正确答案:A
13. Many psychologists at that time saw the importance of tailoring educational material to fit the learner’s true condition, not the condition that the teacher ______ the learner should be in.
A.assumed
B.allured
C.resumed
D.assured
正确答案:A
14. The two men, working together for more then a decade, both became famous psychologists ______.
A.in their own shape
B.in their own right
C.to their own taste
D.at their own wish
正确答案:B
15. 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
16. “They’re the best team I’ve seen thus far,” says______men’s basketball coach Larry Brown.
A.American’s
B.US
C.the USA

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