新标准大学英语综合教程4unittest3答案

Unit test 3

Part I: Vocabulary and Structure

Section A: Choose the best way to complete the sentences.

1. Throughout history, many people have attempted to find the _____ secret to success, but relatively few

have actually done it.

a. elusive

b. evasive

c. illusory

d. eloquent

2. It was hard for Cynthia to remain uninvolved with the controversy since she is such a _____ part of the

company.

a. visibility

b. risible

c. visible

d. visibly

3. "Officer Clarke, in the best interest of the case, please consider absolutely everything to be at your

_____."

a. dispose

b. disposal

c. disposing

d. disposed

4. The mountain climbers demonstrated a(n) _____ feat of selflessness when they turned around to help an

injured stranger.

a. advantageous

b. gorgeous

c. outrageous

d. courageous

5. Many movie stars are notorious for wearing excessive amounts of expensive _____.

a. jewellery

b. jewels

c. jewelers

d. jewelling

6. Her novel successfully _____ an entire generation of young women to believe they could be whatever

they wanted.

a. emboldened

b. embittered

c. empowered

d. embroidered

7. I'm not really a _____ of pop culture trends, so can you explain that reference to me

a. flower

b. follower

c. fellow

d. fallowing

8. We just moved into town so we're still a little _____.

a. unsettling

b. settlers

c. settled

d. unsettled

9. The movie is fantastic, but you'll need to _____ your disbelief toward the end.

a. upend

b. suspend

c. depend

d. misspend

10. Don't _____ Jack's determination to do whatever it takes to win.

a. underestimate

b. overestimate

c. estimate

d. misestimate

11. As judge, I _____ over this courtroom and have the final say on all matters.

a. preside

b. reside

c. presume

d. resume

12. Please stay back! This is a _____ area!

a. constricted

b. districted

c. restricted

d. unrestricted

13. The moon shone down and cast a _____ glow over the entire field.

a. luminosity

b. luminous

c. luminal

d. luminously

14. The state dinner is a _____ affair, so please dress appropriately.

a. distinctive

b. respectable

c. dramatic

d. formal

15. Stock prices rose _____ after the company publically announced its new product.

a. dramatically

b. magically

c. loosely

d. exclusively

16. The colonists began to form a _____ in response to the unfair taxes.

a. rebel

b. rebellion

c. rebellious

d. rebelling