红宝书%20基础词%20第三节%20练习题及答案详解

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练习题及答案详解

基础词

第三节

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Unit

15

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Unit

21

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281

页

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329

页）

练习一：

词汇与搭配

l at the Town Hall, the Queen was wel omed by the Lo d Mayor.

2

．

The

Weather

Bureau

has

repeatedly

advised

the

people

to

take

every

precaution

the coming typhoon.

3

．

The weather was blamed

the exceptionally poor harvest.

4.

Christmas is a Christian holy day usually celebrated on December 25th

honor of the birth of Jesus Christ

5

．

Before

the

students

set

off,

they

spent

much

time

setting

a

limit

the

expenses of the trip.

7

．

The doctor told the patient that he was definitely

the mend and could get

up soon.

8

．

The

story

you

have

just

told

brings

mind

a

strange

thing

that

once

happened to me.

9

．

Canned foods are popular

housewives because it takes so little time to

cook them.

．

0th century scientists.

13

．

The police raided the night club early this morning and placed everybody

arrest.

练习二：

词汇辨析

1

．

She

__ in not packing a raincoat for her trip to England.

[A] blundered

[B] errored

[C] mistook

[D] misjudged

2

．

They had planned to

_

the bridge but their bombs failed to __

[A] blow up…explode

[B] explode…blow up

[C] blow up…erupt

[D] explode…burst

3

．

The doctor is caught in a

tell his patient the truth.

[A] predicament

[B] dilemma

[C] puzzle

[D] bewilderment

because he does not know whether he should

. _

because he does not know whether he should

4

．

High in the sky a

__ of wild geese were

flying southward.

[A] flock

[B] swarm

[C] pack

[D]herd

5

．

He runs three miles every morning;

that’s why he’s so

.

[A] well

[B] healthy

[C] sound

[D] fit

6

．

Space

scientists

believe

that

the

black

hole

is

,

and

would

draw

everything, even light, toward its center.

[A] hollow

[B] vacant

[C] empty

[D]blank

7

．

At the end of the match the

went wild with excitement.

[A] audience

[B] viewers

[C] listeners

[D] spectators

8

．

The

toy

maker

produces

a

copy

of

the

space

station,

exact

in

every

detail.

[A] minimal

[B] minimum

[C] miniature

[D] minor

9

．

Free medical treatment in this country covers sickness of mind as well as

sicknesses.

[A] normal

[B] regular

[C] average

[D] ordinary

10

．

of newspaper are piled along the wall on both sides of the corridor,

leaving only a narrow path for one to walk through.

[A] Stacks

[B] Heaps

[C] Loaves

[D] Rolls

11

．

Several guests were waiting in the

for the front door to open.

[A] porch

[B] vent

[C] inlet

[D] entry

12

．

The neighbors do not consider him quite

as most evenings he awakens

them with his drunken singing.

[A] respectful

[B] respected

[C] respectable

[D] respective

13

．

The city

at the mouth of the Newcastle River.

[A] locates

[B] situates

[C] remains

[D] lies

14

．

Although a Democrat, he often

the party line.

[A] deviates away

[B] deviates from

[C] strays away

[D] strays from

练习三：

英语知识运用

1

．

As

was

discussed

before,

it

was

not

until

the

19th

century

that

the

newspaper became the dominant pre‐electronic medium following in the wake

of the pamphlet and the book and in the

of the periodical.

[A] process

[B] company

[C] light

[D] form

2

．

These were called

“canals” because they looked the same as canals on earth

that are viewed from an airplane. However, scientists are now certain that the

Martian

phenomena

are

really

not

canals.

The

photographs

taken

from

space‐ships have helped us to

the truth about the Martia “canals”.

[A] find

[B] expose

[C] uncover

[D] discove

r

3

．

As knowledge engineer Holly Welling put it, “It’ll be like having a roomful of

experts, all at your command.” Welling, together with Gene E. Clerc, an exper

t

from Production Planning, is

the Expert Machine Selector System.

[A] developing

[B] employing

[C] appreciating

[D] adopting

4

．

Proprietors encouraged this, “for the pleasure of the customers and for the

benefit

of

their

digestio

n”!

Afternoon

“tango

teas”

everywhere.

Even

in

private

houses,

Latin

America

music

was

played

for

the

tango,

as

more

and

more people owned gramophones.

[A] sprang out

[B] sprang forth

[C] sprang up

[D] sprang back

ed, however, that the introduction of the computer in

the early 20th century,

by the invention of the integrated circuit during

the 1960s, radically changed the process, although its impact on the media was

not immediately apparent.

[A] brought

[B] followed

[C] stimulated

[D] characterized

6

．

The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940

and 1945. Moreover, during the war and in the boom times that

, large

numbers of teachers left their

profession for better‐paying jobs else where in

the economy.

[A] is following

[B] is followed

[C] followed

[D] following

7

．

This

may

also

explain

why

we

are

not

usually

sensitive

to

our

own

smells

—

we

simply do not need to be. We are not aware of the usual smell of

our own house, but we

new smells when we visit someone else’s.

[A] tolerate

[B] repel

[C] neglect

[D] notice

8

．

Once limited

several hundred addicts centred in London. Heroin use

has

now

become

so

common

in

school

yards

and

neighborhoods

throughout

Britain that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has warned that it threatens to

“undermine a whole generation”.

[A] to

[B] for

[C] among

[D] on

9

．

“It’s such a problem to

on the right, isn’t it?” my wife said. “Yes, if only

I had had a few lessons for practice,” I replied. “You had better go carefully on

the way home,” my wife said. “You’d be sorry if you had an accident on the first

day, wouldn’t you?”

[A] remind to drive

[B] remind driving

[C] remember to drive

[D] remember driving

10

．

In

the

beginning

people

believed

that

because

meteorites

fell

from

the

heavens,

they

were

either

gods

themselves

or

from

the

gods.

Thus

the

more

civilized

of

early

men

carefully

kept

the

meteorites,

draping

them

in

costly linens and anointing them with oil.

[A] messengers

[B] passengers

[C] messages

[D] passages

11

．

He has written (in French) over twenty‐five books and 150 articles that are

a gold

of ideas about the development of a child’s intel

lect. About half the

books and a few of the articles have been translated into English, but his style of

writing and the highly technical vocabulary make him a very difficult author to

read in any language.

[A] pole

[B] miner

[C] pillar

[D] mine

12

．

Natural foods are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil

that is rich in organic matter. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been

________by

unused

vegetable

matter,

which

provides

it

with

vitamins

and

minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals

and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amount, but not

the quality of foods grown in commercial farming areas.

[A] flourished

[B] nourished

[C] furnished

[D] thrived

13

．

When an airline equipped itself with jets, for example, its costs and therefore

airfares would go up, but the new planes meant such an improvement that the

higher cost was justified. A new car or wireless, washing machine, electric kettle

made

life

so

much

more

comfortable

than

the

old

one

that

the

high

of

replacement was amply

.

[A] resign

[B] replace

[C] regain

[D] repay

14

．

Rangoon and Mandalay, the only large cities, boast not a single skyscraper,

and in the entire country there are just a handful of elevators and one escalator,

which

is

boarded

up.

For

27

years,

Burma

has

isolated

in

the

world,

ruled by a government with fairly conservative views of the world. People feel

their closest connections at home, or in setting where they feel at home

—

with

one or a few people they feel close with and comfortable about

—

in other words,

during private speaking.

[A] set

[B] stood

[C] kept

[D] maintained

15

．

The only difference between ourselves and the Romans is that

_they

were honest enough to admit that they enjoyed watching hungry lions tearing

people apart and eating them alive, we find all sorts of sophisticated arguments

to defend sports which should have been banned long ago.

[A] while

[B] despite

[C] when

[D] since

练习四：

语法与词汇

cost

1

．

The Mayor and Corporation of Hamelin were ________for some way of ridding

the town of rats.

A. at their wit’s end

B. at their wits end

C. in their wit’s end

D. for their wits end

2

．

He seems to be ________enough to climb to the mountain top in an hour.

A. radiant

B. conscientious

C. conspicuous

D. energetic

3

．

On this cloudless summer morning every leaf and blade of grass was sparking

with______.

A. spray

B. raindrops

C. frost

D. dew

4

．

The company decided to ______ computerization.

A. put in for

B. go in for

C. take in

D. put in

5

．

Yo

u'll find that job very difficult. You’ll ________some very tricky problems.

A. run up against

B. run over

C. run through

D. run out of

6

．

They

always

________a

large

supply

of

tinned

food

in

winter

in

case

snowed up.

A. lay in

B. lay off

C. lay down

D. lay out

they

are