Section 1 Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
In this part, there are 10 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. Music is the universal language of mankind—poetry their universal ______ and delight.
A.activity
B.gravity
C.pastime
D.recreation
正确答案:C
2. During the opera’s most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra’s conductor seemed ______, without necessary relation to what had gone before.
A.tedious
B.melodious
C.capricious
D.compelling
正确答案:C
3. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow ______ of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional fight of amending itm or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
A.weary
B.flense
C.douse
D.graze
正确答案:A
4. Fashion is partly a search for new language to discredit the old, a way in which each generation can ______ its immediate predecessor and distinguish itself.
A.honor
B.condone
C.emulate
D.repudiate
正确答案:D
5. Usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, in this particular experiment she let a number of ______ results slip by.
A.inaccurate
B.verifiable
C.salient
D.anomalous
正确答案:D
6. The scientific development has been breathtaking in the past century, but the understanding of this progress has not ______ changed.
A.temporarily
B.rigorously
C.dramatically
D.incidentally
正确答案:C
7. The speaker’s ______ answer led to an outcry form the Opposition.
A.impressive
B.evasive
C.intensive
D.amusive
正确答案:B
8. Children should always ______ the same basic procedure: seeing the whole Word—hearing and pronouncing—writing from memory.
A.go through
B.take over
C.respond to
D.carry off
正确答案:A
9. Another American had been kidnapped in the West Beirut. Fifty-year-old Reed was ______ by four gunmen on Christmas morning.
A.severed
B.contracted
C.abducted
D.constituted
正确答案:C
10. On today’s fully occupied planet, there are few places left where ______ people do not hunt and trap or where loggers and mining companies have not sent in teams of surveyors.
A.notorious
B.locomotive
C.negligible
D.indigenous
正确答案:D
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
This part consists of 10 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. A person who displays an abnormal behavior must be either a man of nonsense or a man whose mind is on the blinks.
A.depositional
B.cripple
C.deviant
D.devout
正确答案:C
2. In our Chinese traditional culture, it is believed that clever fingers indicate a deft and quick mind.
A.dexterous
B.dissonant
C.Divergent
D.dubious
正确答案:A
3. Although they let it go, most of the committee members were still suspicious of the Chairman’s affair.
A.cautious
B.dubious
C.weary
D.finicky
正确答案:B
4. If a person who gives much heed to tidiness, he is usually particular about almost everything, including the food he eats and the clothes he wears.
A.finicky in
B.flacid
C.practicious
D.fractious
正确答案:A
5. Some young people are trying to put their cotton-picking fingers on my throwing away things. Unfortunately, they have nothing to throw away.
A.detruncate
B.debunk
C.debauch
D.detrude
正确答案:D
6. Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary.
A.understood
B.undeveloped
C.unnecessary
D.uninteresting
正确答案:B

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