专四语法词汇详解四十套题目

专四语法词汇详解四十套

（一）

1. Although ____ Spanish, he attended the course.

A. he was knowing

B. he is knowing

C. having a knowledge of

D. knows

2. You ____that letter to James. However, you didn’t.

A. ought to write

B. ought to have written

C. should write

D. should be writing

3. Joseph was very lucky ____ with his life; he almost did not get out of the room.

A. to escape

B. to have escaped

C. to escaping

D. to be escaping

4. Bread and butter ____liked by Westerners.

A. is

B. are

C. were

D. be

5. The back garden of our house contains a lawn, ____very pleasant to sit on in summer.

A. which is

B. which it is

C. it is

D.where it is

6. He set up in business ____ his own and was very successful.

A. in

B.of

C.on

D. by

7. John’s score on the test is the highest in the class; he ____last night.

A. must study

B. should have studied

C. must have studied

D. is sure to study

8. Frank almost never received any education, ____?

A. would he

B. did he

C. didn’t he

D. wouldn’t he

9. Even if his letter ____ tomorrow, it ____too late to do anything.

A.will arrive...is

B.should arrive...were

C.arrives...will be

D.arrives...would be

10. We can hear__ __from the back of the room.

A. just as good

B.just as easy

C.just as well

D.easily as well

11. To obtain a satisfactory result, one must apply two __ _ _of paint on a clean surface.

A.coats

B. levels

C.times

D. courses

12. The small mountain village was ____ by the snow for more than one month.

A. cut back

B.cut out

C.cut off

D. cut away

13. Miss Green was ____ $100 for driving after drinking.

A. fined

B.charged

C.punished

D.posed

14. Modern ___perhaps causes more problems than it solves.

A. technique

B.technology

C. tactics

D.tendency

15. Mary tiptoed over and took the clock away because she hated to hear it ____ when she was trying to go to sleep.

A. sounding

B. ringing

C. ticking

D. humming

16. Under this ____ pressure some of the rocks even became liquid.

A. intensive

B.weighty

C.intense

D.bulky

17. Of course, most immigrants did not get rich overnight, but the ____ of them were eventually able to improve upon their former standard of living.

A. maximum

B.minority

C. majorit

D.minimum

18. Nancy was surprised that they have ____. They seemed to be a happy couple.

A. split up

B.broken down

C. fallen through

D. knocked out

19.The beach is in an ideal ____to draw tourists.

A. condition

B. situation

C. state

D. publicity

20. Our ____ sensitivity decreases with age. By age 60, most people have lost 40 percent of their ability to smell and 50 percent of their taste buds.

A. sensible

B. senseless

C. sensitive

D. sensory

21. The eldest child is thoroughly ____because they always give him whatever he wants.

A. wasted

B. spoiled

C.destroyed

D.uneducated

22. If a substance is dissolved in water or heated, it may ____a gas.

A. give into

B. give over

C. give off

D. give away

23. His manner was so pleasant that Bolla felt at ____ with him at once.

A. peace

B. large

C. ease

D. best

24. —Can you take the day off tomorrow?

—Well, I’ll have to get ____ from my boss.

A. permission

B. permit

C. allowance

D. possession

25. The ____ in Janet’s character has hindered her from advancement in her career.

A. weakness

B. merit

C. defect

D. shortcoming

（二）

1. My pain ____apparent the moment I walked into the room, for the first man I met asked sympathetically: “Are you feeling all right?”

A. must be

B. must have been

C. had been

D. had to be

2. It is only when you nearly lose someone ____fully conscious of how much you value him.

A. do you become

B.then you become

C. that you become

D.have you become

3. Just as the soil is a part of the earth, ____the atmosphere.

A. as it is

B. so is

C. the same as

D. and so is

4. While driving along the treacherous road, ____.

A. my right rear tyre blew out

B. my right rear tyre had a blowout

C.I had a blownout on my right rear tyre

D. I had my right rear tyre blowout

5. Jean Wagner’s most enduring contribution to the study of Afro American poetry is his insistence that it ____in a religious, as well as worldly, frame of reference.

A. is to be analysed

B. has been analysed

C. be analysed

D. should have been analysed

6.____there is little we can do to modify the weather, we can at least know what kind of weather to expect.

A. Since

B.When

C.While

D. Unless

7.This organization brought Western artists together in the hope of making more of an impact on the art community ____any of them could individually and to promote Western art by women.

A. rather than

B.rather

C. than

D. other than

8. But the Swiss discovered long years ago that constant warfare brought them ____suffering and poverty.

A. anything but

B. nothing but

C. none other than

D. no more than

9. After ____seemed an endless wait, it was her turn to step into the doctor’s office.

A.it

B.that

C.what

D. which

10. The board deemed it’s urgent that these files ____right away.

A. had to be printed

B. should have been printed

C. must be printed

D. should be printed

11. His answer was so confused that I could hardly make any ____of it at all.

A. explanation

B. meaning

C. sense

D. interpretation

12. You should have your eyes tested every year in case the ____of your spectacles need changing.

A. lenses

B.glasses

C.sights

D.crystals

13. The school committee hoped that their choice of play would be ______with the students and their parents.

A. recognized

B. popular

C. favorable

D. fascinated

14. By cutting down trees we ____the natural home of birds and animals.

A. harm

B. hurt

C. injure

D. damage

15. Mr. Robinson knew that the most trivial chore could prove to be a ____if approached with enthusiasm.

A. prize

B. reward

C.refund

D. bonus

16. The trade unions in this industry are ____any reduction in wages.

A. objecting against

B. opposed to

C. reacted to

D.resisting against

17. She was teaching me ____you would teach a younger child to speak the language.

A. the way

B.in the way

C. a way

D.to the way

18. The Brownings have not ____yet and I doubt whether they will come.

A turned in B. turned out C.turned up D. turned to

19.We went on a(n) ____to the mountain yesterday.

A.excursion

B.trip

C. tour

D. travel

20.When Sarah and I ____on an article for the school newspaper, we found it difficult to work together.

A. compiled

B. gathered

C. collaborated

D. collected

21.Beth could ____her coat because it had largered buttons.

A. recognize

B.prove

C.define

D. claim

22.Postal ____are determined by the class and weight of the parcel mailed.

A. taxes

B.payment

C. fees

D. premium

23.My father is so deaf that he has to use a hearing____.

A. help

B. aid

C.support

D.tool

24.On New Year’s Eve, there will be a firework ____at People’s Square.

A. display

B.performance

C. show

D. exhibition

25.The ____of beer and alcohol in New Zealand is very high.

A. consumption

B. use

C.drink

D. absorption

（三）

1. The bank is reported in the local newspaper ____ in broad daylight yesterday.

A. to be robbed

B. robbed

C. to have been robbed

D. having been robbed

2. ____ before, his first performance for the amateur dramatic group was a success.

A. Though having never acted

B. As he had never acted

C. Despite he had never acted

D. In spite of his never having acted

3. By the middle of the 21st century, the vast majority of the world’s population ____ in cities

rather than in the country.

A. are living

B. will be living

C. have lived

D. will have lived

4. Mr. Milton prefers to resign ____ part in such dishonest business deals.

A. than take

B. than to take

C. rather than take

D. rather than to take

5. No one would have time to read or listen to an account of everything ____ going on in the world.

A. it is

B.as is

C.there is

D.what is

6. There is a real possibility that these animals could be frightened, ______ a sudden loud noise.

A. being there

B.should there be

C.there was

D. there have been

7. Bit by bit , a child makes the necessary changes to make his language ____.

A. as other people

B.as other people’s

C.like other people

D.like other people’s

8.Clothing made of plastic fibres has certain advantages over ____made of natural fibres like cotton, wool, or silk.

A. one

B.the one

C.that

D.what

9.The treasury issued an order stating that ____ land purchased from the government had to be paid for in gold and silver.

A. henceforth

B.moreover

C. whereby

D.however

10.The students expected there ____ more reviewing classes before the final exams.

A. is

B.being

C. have been

D.to be

11. It was during summer breaks that we first taste the satisfaction work that ____ into hard currency.

A. translates

B. Transfers

C. transplants

D. transmits

12.In some cases, your instructor may tell you the topics ____or may give you a choice of topics to write about.

A. in advance

B. ahead of

C. above all

D. right away

13.It was the driver’s ____ that caused him to step on the gas instead of the brake after his car went over the curb.

A. fraud

B. alarm

C. terror

D. panic

14.Danny left this ____ message on my answering machine:

“I must see you. Meet me at twelve o’clock.”Did he mean noon or midnight?

A. ambiguous

B.responsible

C. implicit

D. thoughtful

15.We looked for a table to sit down, but they were all ____.

A.reserved for

B. engaged in

C. used up

D. taken up

16.She will have to find somewhere else to work, for she can’t ____ this loud noise any longer.

A. come up with

B. catch up with

C. keep up with

D. put up with

17.Tom ____ his new job with confidence.

A. set out

B. set off

C. set up

D. set about

18.The truck driver was fined for exceeding the speed ____.

A. range

B. limit

C. rule

D. regulation

19.The crippled Jack proudly walked with a ____ to the platform to join the children.

A. jump

B. limp

C. hop

D. jog

20.He cannot ____ a car, for he does not earn much money.

A. obtain

B. afford

C. donate

D. consume

21.The message is clear: Just as tea and banana cant’t go together, ______ should the son of a low

class family expect to marry the daughter of a nobleman.

A. either

B.not

C. neither

D. nor

22.Though ____ rich, she was better off than at any other period in her life.

A. by means of

B. within her means

C. by all means

D. by no means

23.It is a(n) ____ attitude to take towards life.

A. absurd

B. silly

C. stupid

D. authentic

24.Every year, one student in our high school wins a scholarship that ____ one year of college.

A. improves

B. subsidizes

C. obliges

D. inflicts

25.He wrote the book in ____ with his wife.

A. proportion

B. Installment

C. correspondence

D. collaboration

（四）

1. Evidence came up ____ specific sounds are recognized by babies as young as six months old.

A. what

B. that

C. which

D. whose

2. I understand ____ preparation that staff must put in under pressure to meet the deadline.

A. more than the enormous amount of

B. better than most the enormous number of

C. better than most the enormous amount of

D. fewer than the number of

3. I’m sure your suggestion will ____ the problem.

A. contribute to solving

B. be contributed to solve

C. contribute to solve

D. be contributed to solving

4. In 1840, both Lucretian Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton resented ______ proper seating at the World’s Antislavery convention in London because of their sex.

A. refusing

B. to be refused

C. being refused

D. having refused

5. America will never again have as a nation the spirit of adventure as it ____ before the West was settled.

A. could

B. did

C.would

D. was

6. You should have put the milk into the icebox, I expect it ____undrinkable.

A. became

B.had become

C. has become

D. becomes

7. It’s no good ____ him. He is always indifferent towards others’ matters.

A. to turn to

B. turning to

C. turn to

D. turned to

8. Some companies have introduced flexible working time with less emphasis on pressure ____

A. than more on efficiency

B. and more on efficiency

C. and more efficiency

D. than efficiency

9. She always put her medication on the top of the shelf lest the children ____ it by mistake.

A. took

B. should take

C. had taken

D. would take

10. The earnings of women are well below that of men ____educational differences that are diminishing between the two sexes.

A. although

B. though

C. despite of

D. in spite of

11. Many automobile accidents were ____ careless driving.

A. attributed to

B. resulted in

C. contributed to

D. raised from

12. The actress wanted a hat to ____ her dress.

A. go by

B. go through

C. go out

D. go with

13. It takes a lot of____ to put on a school play such as King Lear.

A. organization

B. arrangement

C. management

D. preparation

14. The police carried out a(n)____ search for the mising boy.

A. complete

B. entire

C. thorough

D. whole

15. The ____ crown jewels are kept in the Tower of London.

A. valued

B. valueless

C. invaluable

D. usable

16. Tom has been a vegetarian ____ principle for years.

A. in

B.on

C. for

D. by

17. When I got out of the car and walked about among them, ____one old man who shook his head disapprovingly, they all began to cheer.

A. see that

B. except that

C.provided that

D. except for

18. ____ the water left in the kettle, the doctor put several things he unwrapped from a handkerchief.

A. At

B.To

C. Within

D. Into

19. I am ____ grateful for the many kindnesses you have shown my son.

A. excessively

B. much

C. certainly

D. exceedingly

20. The ____ of AIDS has led to an expansion in research seeking a cure.

A. innovation

B. selection

C. proliferation

D. conviction

21. I am sorry I have no time at present to ____ more detail or give you an account of other cities of interest.

A. bring into

B. take into

C. come into

D. go into

22. When the idea of winning in sports is carried to excess, ____competition can turn into disorder and violence.

A. honestly

B. honest

C. honorable

D. honorary

23. Unless all the members agree to____ to the plan there may be further development in the course of action.

A. tumble

B. stick

C. come

D. adjust

24. You must pay import ____ on certain goods brought into this country.

A. money

B. fees

C. bills

D. duties

25. We expect Mr. White will ____ Class One when Miss Jane retires.

A. take over

B. take up

C. take off

D. take to

（五）

1. ____ in the past, at the moment it is a favorite choice for wedding gown.

A. Unpopular has as white been

B. White has been as unpopular

C. Unpopular has been as white

D. Unpopular as white has been

2. ____ for a long time, the fields are all dried up.

A. There has been no rain

B. Having no rain

C. There having been no rain

D. There being no rain

3. The millions of calculations involved, ____ by hand, would have lost all practical value by the time they were finished.

A. had they been done

B. they had been done

C. having been done

D. they were done

4. Televisions enable us to see things happen almost at the exact moment ____.

A. which they are happening

B. they are happening

C. which they happen

D. they have happened

5. ____ me most was that the young boy who had lost both arms in an accident could handle a pen with his feet.

A. That amazed

B. It amazed

C.Which amazed

D. What amazed

6. Although she wrote a lot of short stories and poems when she was very young, ____ she was twenty five.

A. her first real success did not come until

B. her real first success came until not

C. since her first real success did not come until

D. not until her first real success

7.You should know better than ____ your little sister at home by herself.

A. to leave

B. leaving

C. to have left

D. left

8. As the train will not leave until one hour later, we ____grab a bite at the snack bar.

A. may well

B. just as well

C. might as well

D. as well

9. She resorted to ____ when she had no money to buy foods for her children.

A. have stolen

B. steal

C. stole

D. stealing

10. The boy has admitted to ____ the window while playing football yesterday.

A. breaking

B. having been broken

C. break

D. be breaking

11. Betty advised me to label our luggage carefully in case it gets____in transit.

A. misused

B. mishandled

C. mistaken

D. mislaid

12. ____ money, she is quite rich. However, this does not mean that she is happy.

A. Concerning

B. As to

C. In terms of

D. In the light of

13. A well written composition ____ good choice of words and clear organization among other things.

A. calls for

B. calls on

C. calls up

D. calls off

14. It is ____ with the customer not to let the shop assistants guess what she really likes and wants until the last moment.

A. in her honor

B. on her honor

C.a point of honor

D. an honor

15. This house will probably come on the ____ next month.

A. fair

B. market

C. shop

D. store

16. George was introduced to ____ activities at a young age, when she was hire to act as a lookout for drug dealers.

A. illegal

B. lawful

C. faithful

D. peaceful

17. An institution that properly carries the name university is a more comprehensive and complex institution than any other kind of higher education____.

A. settlement

B. establishment

C. construction

D. structure

18. People’s status in society is frequently ____ by how much they own.

A. measured

B. examined

C. tested

D. questioned

19. Jack is so ____ to his appearance that he never has his clothes pressed.

A. adverse

B. anonymous

C. indifferent

D. casual

20. There is an increasing ____ to make movies describing violence.

A. strength

B. direction

C. tradition

D. trend

21. Outside my office window there is a fire ____ on the right.

A. escape

B. ladder

C. steps

D. stairs

22. I ____ with the Browns during my stay in New York City.

A. put in

B. put down

C. put on

D. put up

23. Operations which left patients ____ and in need of long periods of discovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable.

A. exhausted

B. unhealthy

C. upset

D. fearful

24. Farmers are allowed to grow small gardens of their own and they sell their vegetables ____ the black market.

A. on

B. at

C. in

D. for

25. The electric fan does not work because of the ____of service.

A. pause

B. break

C. interruption

D. breakdown

（六）

1. ____ native to North America, corn has now spreadall over the world.

A. In spite of

B. That it is

C. It was

D. Although

2. Our civilization cannot be thought of as ____ in a short period of time.

A. to have been created

B. to be created

C. having been created

D. being created

3. We feel it is high time that the Government ____something to check the inflation.

A. did

B. Do

C.should do

D. would do

4. It has been proposed that we ____ our decision until the next meeting.

A.delayed

B.delay

C. can delay

D. are to delay

5. Hurricanes are severe cyclones with winds over seventyfive miles an hour ____ originate over tropical ocean waters.

A. which

B. who

C. where

D. how to

6. ____ is announced in the papers, our country has launched a large scale movement against smuggling and fraudulent activities in foreign currency exchange deals.

A. What

B. As

C. Which

D. That

7. All the flights ____ because of the snowstorm, wehad to take the train instead.

A. were canceled

B. had been canceled

C. having canceled

D. having been canceled

8. Once ____, this power station will supply all the neighboring towns and villages with electricity.

A. it being completed

B. it completed

C. completed

D. it completes

9. He might have been killed ____ the timely arrival of the ambulance.

A. but for

B. except for

C. besides

D. except

10. If you have never planted anything, you won’t be able to know the pleasure of watching the thing you have planted ____.

A. grow

B. to grow

C. growing

D. to be growing

11. He did me a ____ turn by lending me ten pounds.

A. good

B. nice

C. fine

D. pretty

12. Once our chickens started laying eggs, we had such a ____of eggs that we were giving many away to our neighbours.

A. output

B. surplus

C. production

D. plenty

13. Following are comments about the behavior that people in Korea usually expect in various social____.

A. occasions

B. cases

C. situations

D. circumstances

14. They have considered their high standard of living a(n) ____for practising their basic beliefs.

A. award

B. reward

C. result

D. consequence

15. Mac’s close ____ to his brother made people mistake them for one another.

A. resemblance

B. identity

C. appearance

D. relationship

16. The thieves ____ the waste paper all over the room while they were searching for the diamond ring.

A. spread

B. scratched

C.scattered

D. burned

17. The sight of the fruit salad made our daughter Kit’s mouth ____.

A. wet

B. water

C. soak

D. taste

18. The ____ problem of bring a space ship back from the moon has been solved.

A. technical

B. technological

C. technique

D. technology

19. A large part of a person’s memory is ____ words and combination of words.

A. by means of

B. in terms of

C. in connection with

D. by way of

20. At her word she stood up and walked away, stopping at the window to pull back the curtain and ____.

A. look round

B. look out

C. look up

D. look on

21. Their happiness was very ____.

A. crisp

B. brittle

C. delicate

D. fragile

22. I was awfully tired when I got home from work, but a half hour nap ____ me.

A. revived

B. released

C. relieved

D. recovered

23. We should always keep in mind that ____ decisions often lead to bitter regrets.

A. hasty

B. instant

C. prompt

D. rapid

24. Information and opinion gap exercises have to have some content ______ talking about.

A. worthwhile

B. worthily

C. worth

D. worthy

25. “If we fail to act now,”said Tom, “We’ll find ourselves ____ in action later on.”

A. paid back

B. paid for

C. paid up

D. paid off

（七）

1. It was requested that all of the equipment ____in the agreed time.

A. erected

B. would be erected

C. be erected

D. will be erected

2. The man sitting opposite me smiled dreamily, as if ____something pleasant in the past.

A. to remember

B. remembered

C. having been remembered

D. remembering

3. I ____him the Christmas gift by mail because he came home during the Christmas holidays.

A. ought to have sent

B. couldn’t have sent

C. must have sent

D. needn’t have sent

4. It turned out that the children were not ____ for the accident.

A. to blame

B. to be blamed

C. to be blaming

D. to have been blamed

5. The desegregation was achieved through a number of struggles, ____been mentioned in previous chapters.

A. a few of which

B. a few of them

C. a few of those

D. a few of that

6. Setting up a committee might be a way ____ the project more efficiently.

A. to be doing

B. doing

C. to do being done

7. It ____ to see so many children in that mountainousarea cannot even affordelementary education.

A.pains her

B. makes her pain

C. is paining

D. is pained

8. Our boss, Mr. Thompson, ____ a raise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.

A.was promising

B. has been promising

C. promised

D. has promised

9. He was determined to sail around the world ____ his illness and old age.

A. given

B. although

C. despite

D. in spite

10. The board deemed it’s urgent that these invitations ____first thing tomorrow morning.

A. had to be put in the mail

B. must be put in the mail

C. be put in the mail

D. should have been put in the mail

11. ____ drills that have no real topic have to remain as they are.

A. Manufacture

B. Manipulative

C. Manipulate

D.Manifest

12. This book has been in the works so long that I have lost ____of most of the sources found for me by the staff of the library.

A. trace

B. trail

C. track

D. touch

13. The elbows on your coat have worn thin, so I must ____them.

A. mend

B. patch

C. repair

D. pitch

14. ____ and wage increases have not kept in step.

A. Production

B. Product

C. Produce

D. Productivity

15. People under stress have performed ____ feats of strength, like lifting an automobile off an accident victim.

A. specific

B. extraordinary

C. abrupt

D. abnormal

16. Modern appliances ____ us from a good deal of household work.For instance, the dryer frees us from hanging the laundry.

A.escape B . benefit C. liberate D. comfort

17. The audience waited in ____ silence while their aged speaker searched among his note for the figures he could not remember.

A. respective

B. respect

C. respectful

D. respectable

18. The disappearance of her paper has never been ____.

A. counted for

B. looked up

C.accounted for

D. checked up

19. When he was asked about the missing briefcase, the man ____ever seeing it.

A. refused

B. denied

C. opposed

D. resisted

20. Communication between a young couple is a(n) ____business.

A. sharp

B. dreadful

C. intense

D. delicate

21. After so many weeks without rain, the ground quickly ____the little rain that fell last night.

A. skipped

B. soaked

C. retrieved

D. absorbed

22. We’ll ____ you as soon as we have any further information.

A. notify

B. signify

C. communicate

D. impart

23. The fox fell into the ____ the hunters had set forit.

A. bush

B. trap

C. trick

D. circle

24. I don’t know you want to keep the letter. I’ve ____it up.

A. torn

B. given

C. broken

D. disposed

25. The old lady ____ and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.

A. slided

B. slipped

C. split

D. spilled

(八)

1. It was requested that all of the equipment ____in the agreed time.

A. erected

B. would be erected

C. be erected

D. will be erected

2. The man sitting opposite me smiled dreamily, as if ____something pleasant in the past.

A. to remember

B. remembered

C. having been remembered

D. remembering

3. I ____him the Christmas gift by mail because he came home during the Christmas holidays.

A. ought to have sent

B. couldn’t have sent

C. must have sent

D. needn’t have sent

4. It turned out that the children were not ____ for the accident.

A. to blame

B. to be blamed

C. to be blaming

D. to have been blamed

5. The desegregation was achieved through a number of struggles, ____been mentioned in previous chapters.

A. a few of which

B. a few of them

C. a few of those

D. a few of that

6. Setting up a committee might be a way ____ the project more efficiently.

A. to be doing

B. doing

C. to do

D. being done

7. It ____ to see so many children in that mountainousarea cannot even affordelementary education.

A.pains her

B. makes her pain

C. is paining

D. is pained

8. Our boss, Mr. Thompson, ____ a raise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.

A.was promising

B. has been promising

C. promised

D. has promised

9. He was determined to sail around the world ____ his illness and old age.

A. given

B. although

C. despite

D. in spite

10. The board deemed it’s urgent that these invitations ____first thing tomorrow morning.

A. had to be put in the mail

B. must be put in the mail

C. be put in the mail

D. should have been put in the mail

11. ____ drills that have no real topic have to remain as they are.

A. Manufacture

B. Manipulative

C. Manipulate

D.Manifest

12. This book has been in the works so long that I have lost ____of most of the sources found for me by the staff of the library.

A. trace

B. trail

C. track

D. touch

13. The elbows on your coat have worn thin, so I must ____them.

A. mend

B. patch

C. repair

D. pitch

14. ____ and wage increases have not kept in step.

A. Production

B. Product

C. Produce

D. Productivity

15. People under stress have performed ____ feats of strength, like lifting an automobile off an accident victim.

A. specific

B. Extraordinary

C. abrupt

D. abnormal

16. Modern appliances ____ us from a good deal of household work.For instance, the dryer frees us from hanging the laundry.

A.escape

B. benefit

C. liberate

D. comfort

17. The audience waited in ____ silence while their aged speaker searched among his note for the figures he could not remember.

A. respective

B. respect

C. respectful

D. respectable

18. The disappearance of her paper has never been ____.

A. counted for

B. looked up

C.accounted for

D. checked up

19. When he was asked about the missing briefcase, the man ____ever seeing it.

A. refused

B. denied

C. opposed

D. resisted

20. Communication between a young couple is a(n) ____business.

A. sharp

B. dreadful

C. intense

D. delicate

21. After so many weeks without rain, the ground quickly ____the little rain that fell last night.

A. skipped

B. soaked

C. retrieved

D. absorbed

22. We’ll ____ you as soon as we have any further information.

A. notify

B. signify

C. communicate

D. impart

23. The fox fell into the ____ the hunters had set forit.

A. bush

B. trap

C. trick

D. circle

24. I don’t know you want to keep the letter. I’ve ____it up.

A. torn

B. given

C. broken

D. disposed

25. The old lady ____ and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.

A. slided

B. slipped

C. split

D. spilled

（九）

1. Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owing to its always ____ with other elements, most commonly with oxygen.

A. being combined

B. having combined

C. to combine

D. combined

2. Physics is the present day equivalent of ____ used to be called natural philosophy, from ____ most of present day science arose.

A. which, what

B. that, which

C. what, which

D. what, that

3. On no account ____ ever leave the baby at home alone.

A. should you

B. you should

C. shall you

D. you shall

4.____the center of our planetary system was considered as heresy by the church in the Middle Ages.

A. It is the sun and not the earth

B. That the sun and not the earth

C. Being the sun and not the earth

D. The sun and not the earth

5. The reason that his property was confiscated by the country, it ____, was that he was involved in a lot of fraudulent activities during the war.

A. was turned out

B. was being turned out

C. being turned out

D. turned out

6. I’d rather you ____ by train because the weather forecast said there would be heavy snow tomorrow.

A. went

B. Should go

C. will go

D. go

7. Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 and enjoyed great fame in Germany until

the rise of Nazism ____ he was expelled from Germany because he was a Jew.

A. when

B. who

C. then

D. which

8. Nowhere but in the remotest region of the country ____find a place to settle down.

A. can he

B. he can

C. he

D. for him to

9. With one leg broken in that car accident, he cannot even walk, ____ run.

A. let alone

B. that’s to say

C. not to speak

D. not to mention

10. ____, she led a life of complete seclusion.

A. Being disgraced

B. Disgraced

C. Disgracing

D. She was disgraced

11. Sometimes a bus ____ gets on the bus to check the tickets.

A. agent

B. officer

C. conductor

D. inspector

12. He made a quick ____ from his illness.

A. relief

B.recovery

C. survival

D. relaxation

13. ____ the stress of examinations are over, we can all relax.

A. While

B. Even though

C. Now that

D. For

14. My cousin Nancy is often in a poisonous mood; I suppose it’s because she is ____ child.

A. one

B. a lone

C. a single

D. an only

15. ____ the factors already referred to, people sometimes feel insecure because their motives are

misunderstood by others.

A. But for

B. Except for

C. Apart from

D. Except that

16. If the scheme is ____ carried out without waste of time or energy I shall be completely satisfied.

A.relatively

B. noticeably

C. appropriately

D. efficiently

17. One day we all may find it useful to have a(n) ____for sending documents, writing any pictures across the telephone lines.

A. receiver

B. echo

C. extension

D. facility

18. To their credit the Department of Energy ____ these ideas and funded a detailed study.

A. took over

B. took on

C. took up

D. took to

19. Feeling that she was in the right, she took ____ at the dirty remark.

A. protection

B. offense

C. defense

D. guard

20. They agreed to share in common any ____ of funds after all expenses were paid in full.

A. sufficiency

B. surpass

C. excess

D. surplus

21. He was____her in intelligence.

A. below

B. under

C. beneath

D. down

22. It took a lot of imagination to come up with such an ____plan.

A. bright

B. clever

C. brilliant

D. ingenious

23. In the refining process, rice and flour lose much of their ____.

A. acid

B. alcohol

C. vitamin

D. sulphur

24. Individual lines of the poem were very beautiful, but I didn’t see how the lines fit together. To me, the poem wasn’t ____.

A. inherent

B. coherent

C. logical

D. corporate

25. To an especially sensitive child, a simple scolding can be a ____experience.

A. hysterical

B. grievous

C. gracious

D. sensible

（十）

1. All of the plants now farmed on a large scale were developed from plants ____ wild.

A. that once grow

B. once they grow

C. they once grew

D. once grew

2. By the time you graduate, we ____ in Australia for one year.

A. will be staying

B. will have stayed

C. would have stayed

D. have stayed

3. He appreciated ____ the chance to deliver his thesis in the annual symposium on Comparative Literature.

A. having given

B. to have been given

C. to have given

D. having been given

4. The government official can hardly find sufficient grounds ____his arguments in favor of the revision of the tax law.

A. on which to base

B. which to be based on

C. to base on which

D. on which to be based

5. Living in the desert involves a lot of problems, ____water shortage is the worst.

A. not to mention

B. of which

C. let alone

D. for what

6. Hydrogen is one of the most important element in the universe ____ it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.

A.so that

B. but that

C. provided that

D. in that

7. Just as relaxation is an important part of our lives, ____stress.

A.so is

B. as it is

C. and so is

D. the

same is

8. Victor took a bus and headed for home, ____ if his wife would have him back.

A. not to know

B. not known

C. not knowing

D. not having known

9. We can make an exception ____.

A. in any case of John

B. in case of John

C. in case of John’s

D. in the case of John

10. When the Cultural Revolution was launched in China, his father ______ college.

A. attended

B. had been attending

C. was attending

D. has been attending

11. My cat is a fussy eater, but my dog is so ____ that she’ll swallow down anything that is put in front of her.

A. indiscriminate

B. choosy

C. indefinite

D. picky

12. “This house is more ____ than the federal government!”Mac complained to his parents. “You have rules for everything.”

A. systematic

B. democratic

C. bureaucratic

D. public

13. The American people’s ____ of being polite is different from that held here in China.

A. mind

B. concept

C. consideration

D. thought

14. Well, that is probably all I can say about sports. Next time I’ll take up the topic of some other ____ activities.

A. refreshment

B. entertainment

C. pleasure

D. leisure

15. Where there is an earthquake, energy is ____ in one area along a crack in the earth crust.

A. repelled

B. released

C. run

D. rushed

16. The old gardener used to keep all his tools and doityourself equipment in a ____ in the garden.

A. barn

B. room

C. hut

D. shed

17. I’ve got a big coffee ____ on the front of my dress.

A. pore

B. patch

C. stain

D. grease

18. She broke her leg, but the ____ healed quickly.

A. fracture

B. injury

C. skeleton

D. cavity

19. You’d better add them up. I’m not good at ____.

A. figures

B. characters

C. summaries

D. counters

20. The girl chose some very pretty ____ paper for the present.

A. covering

B. wrapping

C. Packing

D.collecting

21. The two scholars worked at the task of writing a preface to the new dictionary for three hours ____ last night.

A. at length

B. in full

C. on end

D. in time

22. I can’t read the marks and notes Jim made in the margin. They are too____.

A.faint

B. foggy

C. transparent

D. misty

23. A highly organized system of irrigation is ____Chinese agriculture.

A. typical of

B. consistent with

C. famous for

D. subject to

24. Jack is very ____ about wines.

A. aware

B. knowledgeable

C. learned

D. informed

25. As for Ann, I am not sure about her ____ in Italian.

A. fluency

B. clarity

C. coherence

D. excellency

（十一）

1. They feel they are justified ____ the child because he was not behaving himself.

A. to punish

B. to be punishing

C. in punishing

D. punishing

2. ____ in the first round of the competition, our team took the earliest flight back.

A. Being knocked out

B. Having been knocked out

C. We were knocked out

D. We had been knocked out

3. If the door was not forced open, ____ that the burglar must have had a key.

A. it follows

B. it is followed

C. following is

D. it will be followed

4. Miss Helen always buys ____ priced clothes.

A. higher

B. high

C. highest

D. highly

5. By 1990, production in the area is expected to double ____of 1980.

A. that

B. it

C. one

D. what

6. I did not choose any of the three offerings, because I found ____ satisfactory.

A. neither of them

B. none of it

C. either of them

D. none of them

7. A panda’s primary activity is sleep, ____ its waking hours looking for food.

A. that it spends

B. for spending

C. and it spends

D. will spend

8. The university of California, ____ in 1868, is administered by president and governed by a twentyfourmember board of regents.

A. founded

B. has been founded

C. to have been founded

D. was founded

9. ____ of the play, Desire Under the Elm, introduces the cast of characters and hints at the plot.

A. The act first

B. Act first

C. First Act

D. Act One

10. I’d rather we ____ our lesson now.

A. have

B. had

C. should have

D. shall have

11. Their walkingtour through Springfield never came ____.

A. to

B. off

C. out

D. round

12. The conflict between romantic ____ and harsh reality has been the theme of many great novels.

A. fantasies

B. perceptions

C. affairs

D. revelations

13. Bob’s work is ____ to Tom’s.

A. interior

B. inferior

C. exterior

D. better

14. Sunglasses serve to ____ eyes from the glare of the sun.

A. shield

B. shelter

C. defend

D. guard

15. They bought that piece of land with a ____ to building a new shopping center.

A. purpose

B. reason

C. view

D. goal

16. To be ____, I couldn’t understand what he was driving at.

A. modest

B. frank

C. sincere

D. trivial

17. The exact cause of the killing disease was not known until Dr. Smith discovered it ____.

A. by all means

B. by accident

C. by hand

D. by and by

18. David found the book ____, it provided him with so much information about the subject.

A. flattering

B. fabricating

C. enlightening

D. perplexing

19. He had deceiveda great many people but she ____him at once.

A. saw through

B. saw off

C. saw about

D. saw into

20. It’s on the top shelf, out of ____.

A. reach

B. touch

C. hand

D. distance

21. All the hotels in the town were full up so we stayed in a ____village.

A. close

B. near

C. nearby

D. neighbourhood

22. He does not work but he gets a good ____ from his investment.

A. income

B. salary

C. wage

D. earning

23. Mr. Black asked his son Olive to buy a ____ of bread at the baker’s near his school.

A. pound

B. loaf

C. bag

D. packet

24. This detective story may not be ____ interesting to keep the child awake.

A. inadequately

B. enough

C. sufficiently

D. amply

25. The two pieces of fried steak Karl had for dinner gave him a(n)____.

A. headache

B. infection

C. soar throat

D. upset stomach

（十二）

1. Public acceptance of rabbit as an economical source of protein dependson ____.

A. how aggressively do producers market it

B. if it marketed aggressively

C. how aggressively producers market it

D. whether or not aggressive marketing

2. You mustn’t eat these apples ____ they are unripe.

A. much as

B. because of

C. even if

D. in case

3. Although ____ happened in the developed country sounds like science fiction, it could occur elsewhere in the world.

A. which

B. what

C. how

D. it

4. It was he in ____ we had the greatest faith.

A. who

B. whose

C. whom

D. that

5. Being in no great hurry, ____.

A.we went the long route

B. the long scenic route was our preference

C. we took the long, scenic route

D. our preference was taking the long, scenic route

6.Neither of the answers ____ right.

A. were

B. is

C. has been

D. are

7. He is ill, ____ I am only a little tired.

A. whereas

B. on the contrary

C. and

D. however

8. She is rich, and ____ is more, very beautiful.

A. who

B. that

C. what

D. which

9. Say ____you like，it is your father that made you ____ you are.

A. that ;that

B. that;what

C. what ;that

D. what ;what

10. ____ you made your bed,____you must lie on it.

A.Because; so

B.For; and

C. Once ; and

D. As ; so

11. If reading is to accomplish anything more than ____time, it must be active.

A. wasting

B. spending

C. passing

D.idling

12. The ____ from the airport was really tiring because it was situated far from the city.

A. flight

B. travel

C. crossing

D. journey

13. Kenya’s Tsavo Game Park ____ Susan much of the wildlife park she had visited in New Jersey.

A. evoked

B. recalled

C. reminded

D. remembered

14. Did you notice the ____ on the doctor’s face when he heard that Kita had found the pearl of the world.

A. appearance

B. expression

C. description

D. illusion

15. They plan to ____ the rundown house in a year’s time.

A. revive

B. renovate

C. replace

D. remove

16. The supply of silver in the mine had ____, causing great concern among the people of the town.

A. increased

B. extended

C. devalued

D. diminished

17. The lawyer thought that piece of evidence was ____early in the investigation, but it turned out to be vital in convicting the criminal.

A. unchangeable

B. unsuitable

C. insignificant

D. important

18. The once beautiful flowers in the vase had ____.

A. withered

B.wasted

C. watered

D. wrinkled

19. This has been the ____ of the frontier on the American mind.

A. impact

B. input

C. effort

D. recognition

20. Because of its incredibly ____ natural resources, the United States appeared to be a “land of plenty”.

A. optional

B. abundant

C. maximum

D. leading

21. The most important of these leaders was Martin Luther King, a black minister with a great gift for ____ his people.

A. exciting

B. cheering

C. inspiring

D. offering

22. Material abundance has been the life blood which has ____Americans in their basic beliefs and values.

A. contributed

B. provided

C. favored

D. sustained

23. I ____ a letter to an Internet service that distributes journalists’ questions to more than 850 institutions.

A. assigned

B. attached

C. dispatched

D.detached

24. Some colleges are statesupported, others are privately ____, and still others are supported by religious organizations.

A. entitled

B. endeavored

C. ensured

D. endowed

25. In addition, there are specialized public schools for the ____, and for those with other special needs, as well as accelerated and enriched courses for gifted students.

A. indulged

B. handicapped

C. kidnapped

D. invalid

（十三）

1. Any steam engine gives us an example of ____ into work.

A.heats having turned

B. heats turning

C. heats having been turned

D. heat being turned

2. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of______ reality.

A. what it is conceived

B. that is conceived

C. that is being conceived

D. what is conceived to be

3. Not until a monkey is several years old ____ to exhibit signs of independence from its mother.

A.it does begin

B. when it begins

C. does it begin

D. before it begins

4. Television will be used to enable customers to shop from the comfort of their homes by simply ordering via the TV screen, payment____ by direct debit of their credit cards.

A. making it

B. is made

C. being made

D. will be made

5. A woman has to be ____ a man to go half as far.

A. twice as good as

B. as twice good as

C. twice good as

D. twice so good as

6. Hardly had we got on the bus ____ it began to rain.

A. when

B. since

C. but

D. before

7. I’m sorry I can’t go with you, but I wish you ____.

A. a good time

B. have a good time

C. to have a good time

D. will have a good time

8. Many a time ____ them not to do so.

A. we have warned

B. do we have warned

C. have we warned

D. warned we have

9. They have produced ____.

A. 10 more pianos this month than last month

B. 10 pianos more this monththan last month

C. 10 pianos this month as many as last month

D. 10 as many pianos this month as last month

10. He was hungry and ordered two ____ of fish.

A. shares

B. parts

C. portions

D. sections

11. The best students are ____ special scholarships.

A. awarded

B. rewarded

C. forwarded

D. honored

12. She stood up and ____ in strong language.

A. opposed

B. reckoned

C. objected

D. shouted

13. After becoming paralysed, Jane had to get used to the loss of____.She hated having to depend on others for things she once did for herself.

A. authority

B. autonomy

C. attraction

D. dependence

14. Having poor handwriting is not much of a ____ in an age of typewriters and computers.

A. difference

B. possibility

C. convention

D. liability

15. The ____ grades are generally considered to be kindergarten through third grade.

A. primitive

B. primary

C. promising

D. proceeding

16. The meal was excellent; the pears were particularly____.

A. flavored

B. delicious

C. tasteful

D. gracious

17. His parents give him many expensive toys as some form of ____for his lameness and inability to play active games.

A. remedy

B. compensation

C. treatment

D. comfort

18. To what extent will future scientific discoveries make possible the ____ of the human life span.

A. increase

B. expansion

C. growth

D. prolongation

19. She was at the ____ of her career when she was badly injured in the car accident.

A. bloom

B. peak

C. excess

D. extreme

20. Should the ____ of patriotism be controlled by reason?

A. sentiment

B. affection

C. emotion

D. passion

21.____ going through to New York yesterday to attend his son’s wedding, Dr. Knapp flew to Chicago for a flower show.

A. On the contrary

B. In spite of

C. Instead of

D. Because of

22.____ to the question of refreshments, I should think orange juice and potato chips will be sufficient.

A.Due

B. As

C. Prior

D. According

23. To most of the undergraduate students, the doctoral degree is a distant ____.

A. theme

B. prospect

C. threshold

D. token

24. The party’s reduced vote was ____ of lack of support for its policies.

A. authoritative

B. acute

C. adverse

D. indicative

25. Plato’s teaching had a profound ____ on Aristotle.

A. sentiment

B. affect

C. effect

D.sanction

（十四）

1. ____ their help, we wouldn’t have succeeded.

A. Hadn’t been for

B. Had it not been for

C. It hadn’t been for

D. Hadn’t it been for

2. ____ that the sweater is handmade, the price seems reasonable.

A. Since

B. In view

C. Because

D. Considering

3. I am in charge of welcoming the ____.

A. visitors from outside of town

B. outoftown visitors

C. visitors of outoftown

D. outside town visitors

4. I really do not know whether we can succeed, so do not expect ____.

A. too much of us

B. us too much

C. of us too much

D. us of too much

5. Japan has begun to rival America ____.

A. producing automobiles

B. to manufacture automobiles

C. in the production of automobiles

D. for automobiles producing

6. He did nothing but ____ letters home all this afternoon.

A. to write

B. writing

C. write

D. wrote

7. ____ left before the deadline, it does not seem likely that Jimmy will accomplish the job.

A. With so short time

B. Although such a short time

C.With such a short time

D. It is such a short time

8. “Will Tom recover?”“Right now there is no way ____.”

A. of knowing

B. to be known

C. for knowing

D. to have known

9.No sooner had we started out ____ it began to snow.

A.then

B.when

C. than

D. whenever

10. ____ the consequence, I will be on your side.

A. However

B. No matter how

C. No matter

D. Whatever

11. When they arrived at the cross roads, they went the wrong ____.

A. direction

B. way

C. path

D. route

12. I can’t stand the summer’s ____ heat.

A. intensive

B. heavy

C. intense

D. high

13. She takes ____ interest in the economic reform in China.

A. considerable

B. conventional

C. considerate

D. conservative

14. When our university library bought this microscope we were given a one year’s ____.

A. proof

B. reservation

C. security

D. guarantee

15. The football player had studied economics in the university for a(n)____ of roughly six years.

A. decade

B. time

C. age

D. period

16. A dictionary of the English language, ____ by Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the first real attempt as a systematic written survey of English usage.

A. compiled

B. composed

C. concocted

D. collected

17. The volunteer firefighters valiantly tried to put out the ____forest fire.

A. raging

B. rippling

C. rolling

D. roaring

18. Education is ____ for all schoolage children in many a country.

A. universal

B. compulsory

C. requested

D. general

19. The policeman’s ____ mind caught the suspect’s lies.

A. alive

B. alert

C. experienced

D. imaginable

20. Over years, a balance is ____ among the plants and animals in a community and it remains basically stable.

A. worked out

B. worked off

C. worked over

D. worked up

21. The global influence of English can be measured by the opposition of its old ____, French.

A. rival

B. mould

C. objective

D. plot

22. That night’s ____ with Grace was as tough a battle as I’ve ever fought with an animal.

A. experience

B. encounter

C. fatigue

D. attack

23. I don’t think I have become more political, but if I see injustice and ____, I feel I have to do something.

A. hostility

B. hostage

C. inhumanity

D. indignation

24. Dr. Foxsaid that wolves he has have been even more ____and more sensitive to human feelings than most dogs have.

A. expressive

B. extensive

C. impressive

D. intensive

25. The present universal fear has been the result of a forward surgeinour knowledge and ____ of certain dangerous factors in the physical world.

A. perception

B. supplement

C. synthesis

D.manipulation

（十五）

1. Everyone in the family bullied her and made her do all the chores, she was indeed ____.

A. Ciderella

B. a Cinderella

C. the Cinderella

D. that Cinderella

2. Air is to us ____ water to fish.

A. like

B. as

C. what

D. that

3. ____ troublesome the problem is, he faces it with patience.

A. However

B. No matter

C. Despite

D. Although

4. Peter became angry and said that ____.

A. he was tired to listen to them

B. the listening to them was tired for him

C. he was tiring listening to them

D. he was tired of listening to them

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A. permits

B. should permit

C. will permit

D. permitting

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