Section 1 Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
Directions: In this part, there are ]3 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. 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
2. The Declaration of Independence unequivocally declares that men have ______ rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
A.unalienable
B.unbounded
C.uncultivated
D.uncoupled
正确答案:A
3. Americans can rarely do their own thing quite as freely as they imagine. Rules and regulations ______ almost every feature of their lives.
A.pervade
B.purport
C.purfle
D.purvey
正确答案:A
4. Those who fear the influence of television deliberately ______ its persuasive power, hoping that they might keep knowledge of its potential to effect social change from being widely disseminated.
A.undergo
B.underplay
C.understate
D.underscore
正确答案:B
5. Nevertheless, most domestic architecture of the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century displays a wide ______ of taste and freedom of application of the rules laid down in these books.
A.divergence
B.dissolution
C.dissonance
D.diversion
正确答案:A
6. Bother Kohler and Koffka became ______ advocates of this new school of thought, and both went on to produce many experiments, articles, and books in support of it.
A.favorable
B.precipitous
C.zoogenic
D.zealous
正确答案:D
7. 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
8. In England today you would have to be a ______ not to understand the distinction. Or maybe just a member of the insular ruling class.
A.social asset
B.social worker
C.social hermit
D.social contact
正确答案:C
9. There are numerous ______ reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains, and the like.
A.unsuspended
B.unsubstantiated
C.unrebukable
D.unratified
正确答案:B
10. 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
11. Historically, a cornerstone of classical empiricism has been the notion that every true ______ must be confirmable by specific observations.
A.popularization
B.generalization
C.modernization
D.convention
正确答案:B
12. I knew that he was never heavily influenced by the morality play’s ______ which portrays the world as a tug-of-war between good and evil.
A.conversation
B.convection
C.convention
D.conversion
正确答案:C
13. Being just a ______ schedule, it still requires more improvement.
A.tensional
B.tentative
C.tendentious
D.tensile
正确答案:B
14. 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
15. The hurricane ______ havoc throughout the coastal area.
A.wrought
B.damaged
C.wrecked
D.wreaked
正确答案:D
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
Directions: This part consists of 15 sentences. In each sentence, one word or phrase is underlined. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part without causing any grammatical error or changing the basic meaning of the sentence. There is only ONE right answer.
1. While the delegate clearly sought to dampen the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.
A.substantiate
B.discourage
C.encourage
D.rekindle
正确答案:B

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