泽熙美文Ⅰ Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
1. Things went well for her during her early life but in her middle age her ______ seemed to change.
A.affair
B.luck
C.event
D.chance
正确答案：B
[解析] luck除表示“运气，好运”外，还含有“命运”的意思，如：It’s just my luck．我命该如此。其余均不符合题意。
2. 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。
3. 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
4. Arrogance and pride are similar in meaning, but there is a (n) ______ difference between them.
A.submerged
B.indecisive
C.indistinct
D.subtle
正确答案：D
[解析] 形容词辨析
A．submerged在水中的，淹没的；B．indecisive非决定性的；C．indistinct模糊的，朦胧的；D．subtle敏感的，微妙的；而本句意为：傲慢与骄傲在意思上近似，但两者间有着的不同。根据上下文，此处应表“微妙的”，因此D为答案。
5. The popularity of the film show that the reviewers’ fears were completely ______.
A.unjustified
B.unjust
C.misguided
D.unaccepted
正确答案：A
6. I will never ______ the experiences of the four years at Howard University, though there were unhappy encounters.
A.discharge
B.recharge
C.discard
D.dispose
正确答案：C
7. Disturbed by the ______ nature of the plays being presented, the Puritans closed the theaters in 1642.
A.mediocre
B.fantastic
C.moribund
D.salacious
正确答案：D
8. Both coffee and tea have beneficial as well as ______ side-effects; while they stimulate the heart and help overcome fatigue, they also cause insomnia and other nervous disorder.
A.injurious
B.malignant
C.salutary
D.specious
正确答案：A
9. Three men were feared dead last night after a helicopter ______ off course into an oil platform and ditched into the North Sea.
A.blandished
B.ignited
C.veered
D.instigated
正确答案：C
10. 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
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
1. Often the roots of the plants harbor ants, which help build up the soil by their wastes and dead bodies.
A.provide food for
B.give shelter to
C.supply water for
D.obtain food from
正确答案：B
2. Although the imperial guards despised the motive of the revolution, they actually helped the discontented, rebellious common people to attack and occupy the Bastille.
A.disruptive
B.discouraged
C.dissatisfied
D.disagreeable
正确答案：C
3. Historians of the 1960’s portrayed Jefferson as a dogmatic thinker, who was eager to fill the yound with his political orthodoxy and censored ideas which he did not like.
A.judicious
B.cynical
C.proficient
D.doctrinaire
正确答案：D
4. The man had a rather shady occupation and made a lot of money within a short period of time.
A.profitable
B.comfortable
C.honorable
D.dishonest
正确答案：D
[解析] 本题中，shady的意思是“成荫的，多荫的，阴暗的”。四个选项中，dishonest的意思是“不正当的”，如：get money by dishonest means(非法赚钱，得不义之财)。profitable的意思是“有利可图的”；comfortable的意思是“舒适的”；honorable的意思是“值得尊敬的”。只有D项符合题意。
5. It is formulated that the provisions of any regional constitutions may not conflict with those of the Constitution.
A.interrelations
B.stipulations
C.interpretations
D.jurisdictions
正确答案：B
Part 3 Correcting Grammatical Errors
1. Just consider, it was only one minute when she left school, and the impressions of six years are not got over in that space of time.
A.only one minute she left
B.but one minute that she left
C.one minute when she had left
D.only one minute before she left
正确答案：B
2. “We’re not bringing in millions of dollars,” says a director of development. “But we want to make sure the demand is there before we
