泽熙美文Ⅰ Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. Despite repeated ______ by educational authorities for concrete measures to reduce students’ burdens, little has changed.
A.directions
B.recommendations
C.advice
D.calls
正确答案：D
[解析] 名词辨析
A．directions指示，用法，说明；B．recommendations推荐，介绍，劝告；C．advice忠告，建议；D．calls召唤，呼吁，号召，拜访；而本句意为：尽管教育界的权威人士一再号召采取具体措施来减轻学生负担，一切还是老样子。因此D为答案。
2. 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
3. The newly elected president of the country has made up his mind to ______ the established policy of developing agriculture.
A.go on
B.go after
C.go for
D.go by
正确答案：D
4. A good hand at management usually has second ______ to one’s bow, a best card to be played when needed.
A.rope
B.thread
C.straw
D.string
正确答案：D
5. Some Americans are not sure if Obama is a president with great ______ and therefore deserves their political support.
A.instigation
B.integrity
C.instinct
D.intensity
正确答案：B
6. The jury gave a______of “not guilty”.
A.sentence
B.judgement
C.charge
D.verdict
正确答案：D
[解析] 近义辨析。
verdict裁决，判决，判断(指陪审团的裁决)：The verdict was that the prisoner was guilty．判决犯人有罪。sentence判决，宣判(指法庭的判决，尤其指对已判决有罪的人加以处罚的法院的刑罚决定)：He received a heavy sentence．他被判重刑。judgement判断，审判，裁判(指法庭的判决，法官的决定)：The judgement set a new precedent．那次判决树立了一个新的判例。charge指控，控告(指提出对不法行为的指控)：a charge of murder指控犯谋杀罪。
7. 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
8. George Ernest Morrison, an Australian, traveled the “five-foot roads,” or foot paths, from Shanghai to Rangoon in 1894, ______ China before it was engulfed in a century of revolution, war and political tumult.
A.witness
B.witnessed
C.witnessing
D.to witness
正确答案：C
[解析] 结构识别
本句考察的是用动词不定式、现在分词短语还是过去分词短语作状语：动词不定式表示还没有做的事，现在分词表做过的事，现在分词含有主动的意思，而过去分词形式含有被动的含义；此句要表达的是George Ernest Morrison已做过的事，且表主动，因此C为答案。
9. The Earth ______ three principal layers: the dense, iron-rich core, the mantle made of silicate rocks, and the thin, solid-surface crust.
A.comprises
B.composes
C.consists
D.concedes
正确答案：A
[解析] comprise和consist是同义词，但consist之后需跟介词of，而空后没有of，所以只能选A。
10. According to the recent research of Northeastern University, our ______ sensitivity decreases with age. By age 60, most people have lost 40 percent of ability to smell and 50 percent of their taste buds.
A.sensory
B.sensitive
C.sensible
D.senseless
正确答案：A
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
1. The attitude of the politician toward this issue is obscure.
A.equal
B.distinct
C.equivocal
D.estimable
正确答案：C
2. The author of the book On the Human Animal was not at all dubious of the disastrous future of human’s life in that respect.
A.ambiguous
B.doubtful
C.assured
D.confident
正确答案：B
[解析] dubious意即doubtful。
3. In the 1400s, artists often created their own pigments by pulverizing semiprecious stones.
A.washing color from
B.making a powder of
C.imitating colors of
D.brushing dust from
正确答案：B
4. The student was rebuked for playing pranks during the class.
A.cribs
B.quips
C.dido
D.nogs
正确答案：C
5. There was no enmity between us, so we were able to reach an agreement on the sale of the property.
A.animosity
B.indemnity
C.perfidy
D.obloquy
正确答案：A
Part 3 Correcting Grammatical Errors
1. When he realized he had been suggested to sign the contract by intrigue, he threatened to start legal proceedings to cancel the agreement.
