英语水平考试

试卷类型：17

I. Vocabulary

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

1. Your speech class will give you an opportunity to __ confidence.

A. reward

B. win

C. gain

D. earn

2. Filters and low tar tobacco are claimed to make smoking to some extent safer, but they can only marginally reduce, not eliminate the__.

A. inconveniences

B. hazards

C. harmonies

D. hatreds

3. New environmental taxes on cars, gasoline, and wood products were__.

A. reposed

B. disposed

C. imposed

D. exposed

4. Many students find that if they try to speak fast, they make more mistakes. So, how do we balance __ and fluency in spoken English?

A. accuracy

B. emergency

C. frequency

D. efficiency

5. Unfortunately war __ in the Middle East on October 6, 1973.

A. broke out

B. broke off

C. broke through

D. broke away

6. Anyone who refuses too often to listen to the other side of a question risks becoming __ minded.

A. thin

B.arrow

C. thick

D. norrow

7. __ is the mother of invention.

A. Negligible

B. Needless

C. Necessity

D. Necessarily

8. With an area of approximately 255,212 square miles, __ to 661,000 square kilometers, Alberta is the fourth largest province in Canada.

A. alike

B. likely

C. equivalent

D. uniform