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I’d like to buy the radio, but I haven’t
got any money on me at the
moment.
Could you __
c
__for me for a
day or two?
A. put it out
B. take it in
C. put it by
D.
lay it in
2. My woollen sweater used to
be bigger than this. It ha
b
in the
wash.
A.
shortened
B. shrunk
C. reduced
D.
lessened
3. The
unprecedentedly big floods in our village did not
start to __
a
__
until four days after the torrential
rain had stopped.
A. sink
B. reduce
C.
lower
D. withdraw
4.
The explorers’ hopes of finding their
missing colleagues are now
beginning to
d
A. faint
B. darken
C. shrink
D. fade
5. After
the eruption of the volcano there was a
serious___
b
__ of
typhoid in the area.
A. outrage
B.
outbreak
C. outcome
D. output
6
. His test results for the
whole term were not very___c_ . He did well
one week and badly the next.
A.
consequent
B.
continuous
C.
consistent
D. invariable
7
. The novelist is a highly
__a__ person with great talent.
A. imaginative
B.
imaginable
C. imaginary
D.
imaginal
8
. Mary is so __d__
that she cried for days when her pet died.
A.
sensitive
B.
sensible
C. impressive
D. sentimental
9
. The rainbow __d__ as the
sun came fully out from behind the
clouds.
A. dissipated
B. removed
C. dispersed
D. dissolved
10
.
Now Norman has put himself into the patient _a__
state of mind
of a chess player.
A.
contemplative
B. attentive
C.
pondering D. thinking
11
.The thieves __a___the
papers all over the room while they were
searching for the money.
A.
scattered
B. strewed
C.
littered
D. straggled
12
.
A row of swallows __b__ along the fence, ready to
take off at the
slightest sound.
A. crouched
B. perched
C. squatted
D. nested
1
3. The door ___b_ when you
open it. You must put some oil on the
hinges.
A. crackles
B.
creaks
C. clangs
D. cracks
1
4. It surprises me that no
inquiry has been made by a government
__a__ working party into the loss of
productivity caused by this
out-dated
machine.
A.
appointed
B. operated
C. nominated
D. selected
1
5. Nowadays, a kind of __d_
grain that is twice as expensive as
regular grain is becoming popular in
Shanghai.
A.
purified
B.
clarified
C. whitened
D. refined
1
6
. The excited
___a_ of the small boys playing in the street
distracted me from my work.
A. screams
B. howls
C.
groans
D. yelps
17
. What would Frank
Stockton’s _a___ short story be about?
A.
forthcoming
B.
following
C. eventual
D. actual
18
. At the football match,
the ___a__ were thoroughly aroused by the
flexibility of the players.
A.
spectators
B. audiences
C. on-lookers
D. crowds
19
. The readers could tell
from very __a__ that the princess would
make such a decision.
A. outset
B. outcome
C. onset
D. opening
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.
The fact that the princess was paler and whiter
than any one in
the arena __b___ her
anxiety.
A.
uncover ed
B.
revealed
C. disguised
D.
represented
2
1. The clerk in
the patent office said to his boss: “Look, I am
not
drunk. I’m as _a__ as a
judge.”
A. sober
B. sombre
C.
steady
D. clear
2
2. Einstein, who worked out
his theory of relativity, lived to a
__a__ old age.
A. ripe
B.
mature
C. perfect
D. mellow
2
3. Fortunately,
all the brilliant people who could stand routine
obtained their just ___b__ in their
lifetime.
A. gains
B. deserts
C.
fruits
D. demands
2
4.
Some people do not like to have their daily
__b_upset.
A.
system
B. routine
C.
custom
D. life
2
5.
My continual ___d_ kept the other workmen awake at
night
during at night during my ten
years as a workingman.
A. snoozing
B.
snarling
C.
sneering
D. snoring
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. Smoke particles and
other air pollutants are often __a__ in the
atmosphere, thus forming smog.
A.
trapped
B. burned
C. covered
D. spread
2. Louisa May Alcott based the _a__
characters of her book
Little
Women
on her sisters and
herself.
A.
principal
B. complex
C. original
D. many
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. All living creatures
have some __a__ that are passed on from one
generation the next.
A. attributes
B.
properties
C. aspects
D. faculties