泽熙美文Ⅰ Vocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
Directions: Complete each of the following sentences by selecting the one word from the four choices marked by letters A, B, C and D that can best complete the statement.
1. The reporter compares a husband to a particularly tricky musical instrument, one that a wife must learn to play ______ her advantage.
A.for
B.as
C.to
D.in
正确答案：C
选择A和B似乎都说的通，但跟据全句整体语境以及learn to play的暗示，只有答案C是正确选择，因为to one’s advantage是个习惯用语，也是一个固定搭配。
2. This week the BBC ______ Family Wanted—a campaign to raise awareness of adoption and fostering.
A.tossed
B.launched
C.raised
D.advanced
正确答案：B
to launch a campaign是个动宾结构的固定搭配，所以选B才对。
3. The answers to the problem, the scientists say, is to build up the immune system, which not only will give greater ______ to disease but will boost cellular regeneration and improve the skin.
A.persistence
B.insistence
C.resistance
D.instance
正确答案：C
选择resistance to diseases的根据是前面在谈的immune system，所以答案C是正确答案。
4. Ten years later, when he started his brief ______ in parliament and was back to London, he invited the Speaker to dinner at the hotel.
A.stay
B.spell
C.work
D.visit
正确答案：B
spell意指“一段时间”，所以应该选择B。
5. Like David Brent, Bartnall’s boss once harbored ______ to be something in the music industry.
A.inspirations
B.aspirations
C.restorations
D.perspirations
正确答案：B
后半句的to be something in the music industry的意思是“想在音乐方面有所作为”，所以跟随harbored只有aspirations才更贴切。
6. Treatment of Parkinson’s has improved hugely, but little is known of its cases and origins—ven dog-owning has been ______ as a contributor.
A.cited
B.sited
C.sighted
D.cherished
正确答案：A
to be cited as…是个固定搭配。
7. The president said that he will do everything he could to be ______ of the faith and trust of the people and to honour the powerful example of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
A.worthy
B.confident
C.faithful
D.confidential
正确答案：A
在所提供的四个选择中，只有答案A的worthy一词可跟介词of。
8. Born in 1842 in New York City, William James showed little ______ of academic brilliance during his school years.
A.confidence
B.persistence
C.evidence
D.insistence
正确答案：C
与academic brilliance最贴近的是evidence，所以答案C是正确选择。
9. A somewhat singular and solitary person, he demonstrated early in his life a capacity for hard work, long hours, and ______. Almost a personification of the Protestant work ethic, Thorndike simply abhorred making even the slightest error and consequently was always striving for perfection in his work.
A.accuracy
B.precision
C.vision
D.permission
正确答案：B
选择答案B的重要参照是precision一词。
10. After two years of working on the subject, he seriously switched his field again, ______ to comparative anatomy and physiology.
A.transferring
B.gliding
C.transforming
D.drifting
正确答案：A
选择答案A的参照是短语switched the filed。总体上说，选择正确答案的一个重要途径是寻找参照。正可谓：只有比较，才有鉴别。
11. In his home, conversation ______ there at the table on every conceivable topic. All members had the opportunity to test their wits against the others.
A.abounded
B.rounded
C.hunted
D.haunted
正确答案：A
12. He chose medicine but found, once again, some lack of meaning and so interrupted his studies first to collect ______ up the Amazon River and later to spend time recuperating from illness by a trip to Europe.
A.laments
B.fragments
C.specimens
D.commons
正确答案：C
13. When offered a position as instructor at Harvard at the age of thirty, James jumped at the chance to drop the sheer ______ of medicine. He moved from the practice of medicine into the classroom.
A.longing
B.research
C.digging
D.drudgery
正确答案：D
14. He thrived on academic life, worked hard at the craft of college teaching, and very early displayed a talent for both research and teaching. Once again, however, his enormous and restless talent ______ beyond the conventional and past the then recognized academic disciplines.
A.entrenched
B.stretched
C.hitched
D.fetched
正确答案：B
15. His originality and creativity ______, and he poured out lectures that increased in popularity. Essentially he was creating a field of study, shaping the content, and outlining the sequence of topics all simultaneously.
A.set forth
