Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection with Notes
1. The president says that it was high time they showed their ______ on those political issues.
A.head
B.teeth
C.hand
D.arm
正确答案:B
to show one’s teeth是个习惯说法,意指“强硬”。
2. When the plane was flying up to the normal height, ______ and immediately the pilot had to fly it back to the airport.
A.somewhere was on the blinks
B.somewhere had a strange noise
C.something became abnormal
D.something was on edge
正确答案:A
to be on the blinks这一习语本身来自飞机出现的“故障”,因此和fly back的结果吻合。
3. It is common practice for students to take the initiatives to get contacts with business bodies and find a job before graduation, and the efforts of which are mostly time-consuming and sometimes ______ some unhealthy social tendencies.
A.foster
B.furnish
C.nurish
D.cultivate
正确答案:A
尽管选择中的cultivate也说的过去,但根据宾语unhealthy tendency, foster更合适。
4. He is known as a ______, a man who hates woman.
A.believer
B.misogynist
C.philatelist
D.deist
正确答案:B
misogynist指“厌女”。
5. He is commonly perceived as a man of marks, but he is also a ______, who is now apparently abhorrent of marriage.
A.celibate
B.libeller
C.bella
D.deist
正确答案:A
celibate指“恐婚”。
6. Most people frown on sufferings, though a ______ enjoys suffering.
A.masochist
B.philatelist
C.misanthropist
D.agnostics
正确答案:A
masochist指“受虐狂”。
7. Victor Henry couldn’t help staring in wonder at this ______, smoke-wreathed puddle of an old man, fiddling with the thick gold chain across his big black-clad belly.
A.sluging
B.sleeking
C.slicking
D.slumping
正确答案:D
空后的smoke-wreathed puddle of an old man说明slumping(弯垂)是唯一的选择。
8. Sandra only ______ in the warmth of his feeling, which was as a grateful blaze to one who is cold.
A.blazed
B.basked
C.folded
D.dived
正确答案:B
bask指“取暖”,和句后的who is cold遥相呼应。
9. The reviewed the international situation in which important changes and great upheavals are taking place and ______ their respective positions and attitudes.
A.expanded
B.devoided
C.expounded
D.expired
正确答案:C
expound一词指“阐述”,和之后的positions以及attitudes相吻。
10. The aroused manager ______ merrily for a good four miles to his office an old melogy that he had not recalled for more than ten years.
A.wrestled
B.wrested
C.whistled
D.wrinkled
正确答案:C
whistle和其后的宾语melogy相吻合。
11. 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
12. Although the condition in which she lives indicates that she is miserly, her dedication to the charities shows that she is ______.
A.stingy
B.frugal
C.thrifty
D.generous
正确答案:D
13. A hysterical person is not necessarily egocentric and vindictive all the time, he or she could be kind, gracious and even ______ when the circumstances seem to require it.
A.authoritarian
B.taciturn
C.self-deprecating
D.self-assured
正确答案:C
14. There is no necessarily intrinsic connection between a word and the thing it refers to; the relation is purely ______.
A.conventional
B.contentious
C.consistent
D.controversial
正确答案:A
15. During 1960s of America, youths often resort to music to ______ the government and express their dissatisfaction of the reality.
A.renounce
B.denounce
C.conform
D.concern
正确答案:B
16. Voters responded to the levy of a new tax with ______ because they have become inured to the fickle nature of government policies.
A.exasperation
B.perplexity
C.stolidity
D.amazement
正确答案:C
17. To obtain a satisfactory result, one must apply two ______ of paint on a clean surface.
A.levels
B.times

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