泽熙美文Section 1 Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
Directions: In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer.
1. Considering how long she had yearned to see Paris, her first reaction was curiously ______.
A.tepid
B.meditative
C.insightful
D.enthusiastic
正确答案：A
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. ______ means, while fishing, there might be a fish.
A.Absorb
B.Hop
C.Jerk
D.Skip
正确答案：C
4. His ______ manner kept him from having any friends.
A.thrifty
B.musty
C.bulky
D.surly
正确答案：D
5. Though always being the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, she let a number of ______ results slip by in this experiment.
A.verifiable
B.inaccurate
C.salient
D.anomalous
正确答案：D
6. 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
7. As serious as he is about the bullfight, he does not allow respect to ______ his sense of whimsy when painting it.
A.inspire
B.provoke
C.satisfy
D.suppress
正确答案：D
8. To make someone angry is to ______.
A.entice
B.sneer
C.aggravate
D.engrave
正确答案：C
9. The Muses are ______ deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.
A.rueful
B.vindictive
C.solicitous
D.dispassionate
正确答案：D
10. It was said to be a disastrous fire. It had Jim out of ______ for a while.
A.head
B.sight
C.hand
D.place
正确答案：C
11. 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
12. Many young people nowadays think their parents’ views are ______ and can’t keep up with the advancement of the modem society.
A.bananas
B.banal
C.original
D.inexorable
正确答案：B
13. The speaker is giving a ______ explanation.
A.lunatic
B.luscious
C.luxurious
D.luminous
正确答案：D
14. It is a(n) ______ disgrace the way he won the prize.
A.complete
B.total
C.absolute
D.thorough
正确答案：C
15. 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
16. During the ______ of the rain, she returned home immediately.
A.spin
B.flick
C.lull
D.notch
正确答案：C
17. Henry James Thoreau held that none of the ______ creatures required more than food and shelter, which was decided by their ferocity.
A.cute
B.brute
C.refute
D.intelligent
正确答案：B
18. Considering the unfavorable situation, the troops had to ______ quickly.
A.repulse
B.molest
C.recoil
D.harass
正确答案：C
19. Paradoxically, his excessive denials of the value of her early works suggest that he has become quite ______ them.
