Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C,) and D), Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
1. The doctors don't ________ that he will live much longer. (1分)
A. articulate |
B. anticipate | C. manifest | D. monitor |
2. I suggest we put the scheme into effect, for it is quite ________. (1分)
A. eligible |
B. sustainable | C. probable | D. feasible |
3. The old gentleman was a very ________ looking person, with grey hair and gold spectacles. (1分)
A. respectful |
B. respected | C. respective | D. respectable |
4. This book is expected to ________ the best-seller lists. (1分)
A. promote |
B. prevail | C. dominate | D. exemplify |
5. That part of the city has long been ________ for its street violence. (1分)
A. notorious |
B. responsible | C. historical | D. illegal |
6. Under the guidance of their teacher, the pupils are building a model boat ________ by steam. (1分)
A. towed |
B. pressed | C. tossed | D. propelled |
7. Having finished their morning work, the clerks stood up behind their desks, ________ themselves. (1分)
A. expanding |
B. stretching | C. prolonging | D. extending |
8. England’s team, who are now superbly fit, will be doing their best next week to ________ themselves for last year’s defeat. (1分)
A. revive |
B. retort | C. revenge | D. remedy |
9. If you want to get into that tunnel, you first have to ________ away all the rocks. (1分)
A. haul |
B. transfer | C. repel | D. dispose |
10. It took us only a few hours to ________ the paper off all four walls. (1分)
A. shear |
B. scrape | C. stroke | D. chip |
11. The famous scientist ________ his success to hard work. (1分)
A. imparted |
B. granted | C. ascribed | D. acknowledged |
12. It is difficult to ________ of a plan to end poverty. (1分)
A. speculate |
B. conceive | C. ponder | D. reckon |
13. Now the cheers and applause ________ in a single sustained roar. (1分)
A. mingled |
B. concentrated | C. assembled | D. permeated |
14. Improved consumer confidence is ________ to an economic recovery. (1分)
A. crucial |
B. subordinate | C. cumulative | D. satisfactory |
15. Although the body is made up of many different tissues, these tissues are arranged in an ________ and orderly fashion. (1分)
A. incredible |
B. intricate | C. internal | D. initial |
16. If you work under a car when repairing it, you often get very ________. (1分)
A. waxy |
B. slippery | C. sticky | D. greasy |
17. The damage to his car was ________; therefore, he could repair it himself. (1分)
A. considerable |
B. appreciable | C. negligible | D. invisible |
18. My sister is quite ________ and plans to get an M. A. degree within one year. (1分)
A. aggressive |
B. enthusiastic | C. considerate | D. ambitious |
19. The manager tried to wave aside these issues as ________ details that would be settled later. (1分)
A. versatile |
B. trivial | C. preliminary | D. alternate |
20. His ________ was telling him that something was wrong. (1分)
A. intuition |
B. hypothesis | C. inspiration | D. sentiment |
21. This book is about how these basic beliefs and values affect important ________ of American life. (1分)
A. fashions |
B. frontiers | C. facets | D. formats |
22. Parents often faced the ________ between doing what they felt was good for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undisciplined noise and destructiveness. (1分)
A. paradox |
B. junction | C. dilemma | D. premise |
23. Clark felt that his ________ in one of the most dramatic medical experiments of all time was worth the suffering he underwent. (1分)
A. apprehension |
B. appreciation | C. presentation | D. participation |
24. As one of the youngest professors in the university, Miss King is certainly on the ________ of a brilliant career. (1分)
A. threshold |
B. edge | C. porch | D. course |
25. The ________ lawyer made a great impression on the jury. (1分)
A. protecting |
B. guarding | C. defending | D. shielding |
26. Very few people understood his lecture, the subject of which was very ________. (1分)
A. dim |
B. obscure | C. conspicuous | D. intelligible |
27. This movie is not ________ for children to see: it contains too much violence and too many love scenes. (1分)
A. profound |
B. valid | C. decent | D. upright |
28. The wood was so rotten that, when we pulled, it ________ into fragments. (1分)
A. broke off |
B. broke away | C. broke through | D. broke up |
29. The detective and his assistant have begun to ________ the mysterious murder. (1分)
A. come through |
B. look into | C. make over | D. see to |
30. Sadly, the Giant Panda is one of the many species now in danger of ________. (1分)
A. extinction |
B. migration | C. destruction | D. extraction |