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Unit 1
1) This
disease is caused by a tiny worm which can _______
the skin of a human being and
cause a
potentially serious illness.
A) transmit B)
plunge
C)
penetrate
D)
filter
2) The
prime minister has made it clear that no _________
will be made to the strikers.
A) sessions B)
recessions
C)
concessions
D)
conferences
3)
The noise was so loud that it was a _________ to
the neighbors.
A) nuisance
B)
trouble
C) worry
D) anxiety
4)
It's only by _____ luck that I can remain in the
company when so many employees have to
be dismissed.
A) perfect
B)
total
C)
sheer D)
thorough
5) He is
______ on all kinds of wine - beer, whisky, and so
forth.
A)
willing
B) ready
C) eager
D) keen
6) The government
would not dare to ________ taxes on such needed
foods as bread or milk.
A) put B) impose
C) force
D)
emphasize
7) Oh, the steak I had last night was
so ________! It was delicious.
A) mild
B) slight
C) light
D)
tender
8) While they did not __________ any
good results, they were still trying their
best.
A) count
in
B) count on
C) count up
D)
count out
9) They did not ________ to the enemy
and determined to go on fighting.
A) yield
B) apply
C) resort
D)
appeal
10) I
said I might be late for dinner but he made such a
_____ that I thought I'd better
arrive
on time.
A)
confusion
B) initiative
C) fuss
D) bark
11) I at last
surrendered to the ________ and ate the last piece
of chocolate.
A)
intention
B) appeal
C)
temptation
D)
charm
12) I
refused to tip the ______ , who left with an angry
expression.
A) porter
B)
employee
C) servant
D)
assistant
13) Divorce rate in the US is very
high, which is often _________ by money
problems.
A)
associated
B) connected
C)
assisted
D)
accompanied
14)
You take everything too _______! Relax and enjoy
yourself.
A)
carefully
B) gravely
C)
seriously D)
critically
15)
You look thoroughly _______. Why don't you take a
week's holiday
A) run up B) run down
C) run over
D) run off
16)
Would it be more ______ in the long run to buy a
second-hand television rather than to
rent one
A) sensible
B)
sensitive
C) sentimental
D)
sensational
17)
If you have not signed a contract, you are under
no ______ to pay them any money.
A) instinct
B) influence
C) sympathy
D)
obligation
18) She no longer believed in him for
his _______ promises all these years.
A) vacant
B) empty
C) bare D)
hollow
19) They all believed
that internal peace and stability cannot be
_______ by force.
A) protected
B)
guaranteed
C) preserved
D)
ensured
20) It
must've taken a lot of courage for an adult to be
_______ to such shame and stress.
A) subjected
B) attached
C) related
D)
resisted
Unit
2
1)
If a ________ were to reach the gas it
would go off at once.
A)
spot
B) spill
C) spark
D) spray
2) After
about an hour and a half the party ______ because
there was not enough wine that
evening.
A)
broke off
B) broke away
broke
through
3) House purchase
is the biggest decision
that
most people make and the
easiest one to
____
for various reasons. A) postpone
B) conduct
D)
last
C)
C) broke up
D)
replace
4) Somewhat to my _______, the police
will soon eliminate her from their
inquiries.
A)
entertainment
B
) judgment
relaxation
5) The
political weakness of these countries
_________their economic weakness.
A)
compromised
with B) competed with
corresponded to
6) A series of tragic _______ made Mr.
Terres feel he has to face up to his
life.
C) communicated to
D)
C) relief
D)
A)
accidents
occurrences
B)
incidents
C) events
D)
7) The foreign-born
Chinese are thought of as yellow on the outside
and
white on the inside
because they only look like Chinese but
never think or ______ like Chinese.
A)
direct
B) accustom
C) adjust D)
behave
8) For many young
people, the late 1960s was a period of _______
against the moral values
that had been
the pride of the past generations.
A)
revolt
B) rebel
C) chaos D)
challenge
9) I promised
to_________ the others at 5 a.m.
A)
rouse
B
) stimulate
C) motivate
D)
prompt
10) Prisoners are
reported to have been deliberately _______ without
trial.
A)
murdered B) convicted
punished
11) This
swimming costume is made of ______
material.
A)
elastic B) clumsy
delicious
12) Two drivers were killed in a head-
on ________ down a car and a taxi last night.
A)
collapse B) conflict
C) collision
D) crush
C) coarse
D)
C) executed
D)
13) A few shots of this
drug cleared up the disease ______
A)
for long
for good
14) The
citizens in the neighborhood all___ for the local
government's decision to close
the
small paint factory. A) claimed
crashed
15) The
government attempts to put down the______ of the
president's sex scandal.
A)
news
B) rumor
C)
saying
D)
B) cracked
C) clapped
D)
B) before long
C) ever since
D)
proverb
16)
The fact that we underestimated our ______ led to
our bitter defeat.
A)
opponent
B
) candidate
C) colleague D)
advocate
17) The girls were
all _____ of Grace because she was so pretty, with
beautiful hands and
a face like a film-
star's. A) greedy B) controversial
D) jealous
C)
competitive
18) The
Watergate ______ was exposed by two investigative
journalists working for the
Washington
Post.
A)
shame B) conviction
C) rumor
D) scandal
19) Japanese
banks, once _____ competitors in the British
banking market, have all but
disappeared.
A)
bold
B
) fierce
C) wild
D) harmful
20)
5000 people held a protest march and_____ against
sexual discrimination.
A)
rally
riot
B)
conjunction
C) episode
D)
Unit 3
1) Prices
of goods are governed by the cost of the ______
materials, as well as by the cost
of
production.
A)
primitive
B) rough
raw
2) In the
countryside there are no ________ and no free
medical care for the aged.
A) wages
B)
pensions
C) profits
D) rewards
C) original
D)
3) You are legally _________ take
faulty goods back to the store where you
purchased.
A)
entitled to
B) involved in
D)assigned
to
C) associated
with
4) The headmaster has_______
views about what his pupils should
wear.
A) noble
B) flexible
liable
5) She made a _______of $$200 to the
Children's Hospital.
A)
publication
B) donation
quotation
6)
It
is
frightening
for
a
youngster
to
feel
that
he
is
in
charge
of
himself;
it's
like
being
in a
car without ________.
A) brakes
signals
7)
Environmental protection is _________ national and
local economic development.
A) related to B) involved
in
D)subjected
to
C) included in
B)
controls
C) gears
D)
C) acquisition D)
C)
liberal
D)
8) She made a _____ of $$ 69,000 for the
flat, which was accepted.
A) currency
B) proposal
purchase
9) After the recent bomb attacks,
members of the public are being warned to be _____
at all
times and to look out for any
suspicious packages.
A) alert
B)
aware
C)
cautious
D)
nervous
C) bid
D)
10) If the
rain doesn't stop, people will be ________ serious
flooding.
A) facing with
B) faced with
subjected
with
11) It was _______ to
the media that the president had resolved to
fight.
A) leaked
B) loosened
C) relieved D)
issued
C) subjecting with D)
12) How do you _______your long absence
from classes without asking for leave
A) account for B) count on
C) account of
D) count
for
13)
They were ___ of armed robberies and sentenced to
15 years and 14 years respectively.
A) convicted B)
convinced
condemned
14) Most flowers will not ____ without
sunshine.
A) cultivate
B) boom
C)
sustain
D)
thrive
C)
sentenced
D)
15) I decided
to keep a low ______, after all I was a
guest.
A) profile
B) position
mood
16) If you throw away your credit card
_______ and someone else gets it, they can use the
number to buy things in your
name.
A) cheque
label
17) I
eventually found the letter I was looking for
under a ____ of papers.
A)
stock B) stack
sequence
18)
A
small
______
plane
crashed
into
a
hillside
in
Northern
England
yesterday,
killing
six
people.
A)
assembled B) dominated
chartered
19) Mr.
Thomson is strongly opposed to the proposal of
constructing a power plant in the
area
that is ____ populated.
A) densely B) vastly
largely
20) In
the ______ of physics, Albert Einstein was a
genius.
A) settlement
B) operation
C) realm D)
scope
C) enormously
D)
C) monitored
D)
C) piece
D)
B) ticket
C) receipt
D)
C) attitude
D)
Unit 4
1) The prisoner remained _________
throughout his trial.
A)
clumsy B) deaf
C)dumb
D) still
2) The Olympic
Games began with a _______ of all the
competing nations.
A)
exhibition B) display
C) parade
D) show
3) The
editor ______the manuscript to half of its
original length.
A)
condensed B) condemned
concentrated
4)
Bombing,
which
was
_______
in
the
city
center,
has
destroyed
most
of
the
major
buildings.
A) integral B) intentional
intense
5) His
________need to be loved springs from a deep sense
of insecurity.
A)
crucial B) terminal
desperate
6) The
child finished the dessert and then _______ the
plate.
A) scratch
B) clicked
scraped
7) In
1974 and 1975, the economy plunged into the worst
______ since the Great Depression
of
the 1930's.
A)
reservation
recession
8) Be
careful with the cat. It may ____ you if you make
it angry.
A) punch
scratch
9) They have all ______ significant
amounts of time and energy in this project.
B) scrape
C)tear
D)
B) recreation
C)
reversion
D)
C)licked
D)
C)
intensive
D)
C)
intensive
D)
C)
concealed
D)
A) invested B) involved
integrated
C)
invented
D)
10) My job could be at ________ if I
make an error of judgment.
A) danger B) stake
threat
11)
Studies showed that June is the _____ month for
suicides and for admitting patients to
mental hospitals.
A) high B) peak
C) common
D) rush
C) loss
D)
12) He has put his car entirely at
our ____ for the holiday.
A)
usage B) application
disposal
13) The
government's _________ is made up chiefly of the
money people pay in taxes.
A) efficiency B) privilege
C)
revenue D)
validity
C)
disposition
D)
14)
He
______
in
working
twelve
hours
a
day
in
his
laboratory
in
spite
of
his
rapidly
declining
health.
A) persisted
assisted
15)
We
must
not
_______
behind
other
nations
in
our
efforts
to
help
those
people
made
homeless
by
the great floods. A) decline B) delay
C) lack D)
lag
B) insisted
C)
resisted D)
16)
Communication
is
the
process
of
____
a
message
from
a
source
to
an
audience
via
a
channel.
A) transmitting B) submitting
switching
17)
The
computer
has
become
smaller
and
cheaper
and
____ more
available
to
a
greater
number
of people.
A) yet B) hence
nevertheless
C)
still
D)
C) transforming D)
18) Decrease the _______ of medicine as
you feel better.
A) therapy
B) prescription
dose
19) He was a war________ in Europe
during the Second World War.
A) resident B) correspondent
applicant
20)
_________ rubbers are widely used as a substitute
for natural rubber.
A)
Practical B) Compound
C)
Raw
D)
Synthetic
C)
ambassador
D)
C) injection
D)
Unit 5
1) He
made great efforts to _______ her violent temper
after she became his wife.
A) tend B) cultivate
C) breed
D) tame
2) There is a strong
possibility that the fire was started on
_________.
A) choice
B) purpose
design
3)
Carefully
_______,
clear
speech
can
now
be
understood
by
computers
with
only
a
4-5
percent
error
rate.
A) passed
B)
talked
C)
dictated
D)
declared
C) intention
D)
4)
This
film
is
about
a
young
man
of________
origin,
who
wants
to
marry
the
beautiful
daughter
of a rich banker.
A) humble
B) harsh
C) wicked
D) wrecked
5) By
the time he reached the shelter of the station he
was soaked ________.
A) wet
B)
to the skin
C) on the skin
D) over
6) The old woman almost _______ to
death in the thick fumes.
A) blocked
B) provoked
C) choked
D) stroked
7) Soldiers who
die for their country are said to have made the
__________ sacrifice.
A)
supreme B) superficial
superior
C) supplementary
D)
8) __________ has prevailed and the
guilty man has been punished by law.
A) Judgment
D)Justification
9) He will first give you a summary of
the situation and then discuss it at________.
A) detail
length
10)
Nothing seems to be sure for certain about the
prediction of earthquakes __________.
A) for a long time
from time to
time
11) Immediately, she
felt the floor ____ as the
children
started to beat drums in
the small
room.
A)
shiver
B) shake
C) vibrate
D)
tremble
B) for the first
time
C) for the time being
D)
B) extent
C)
degree
D)
B)Jury
C) Justice
12) _______ vegetables are believed to
be healthful and environmentally
friendly.
A) Superb
B) Organic
C)
Vigorous
D)
Rotten
13) She felt their
relationship had lost its initial excitement and
had become __________.
A)
static
stale
14) They were of the generation that
had gone through the Great ______ and a world war.
A) Boom
Disadvantage
15)
They ______ no flaws in their plan because some
VIPs will be present in the meeting.
A) resist
tolerate
16)
Employers therefore ________ to the reduction of
costs, most particularly in wages, in
B) sustain
C)
undergo
D)
B) Nightmare
C) Depression
D)
B) stained
C) stable
D)
order to compete in world
markets.
A) resorted
inclined
17) The
_____ listened carefully to the evidence and
concluded that the man was guilty.
A) panel
legislation
18)
It
is
generally
acknowledged
that
engineering
science
is
an
extremely
______
and
theoretical science.
A) abstract B) practical
superficial
19) She ____________ in delight upon
hearing the good news.
A)
grasped
exclaimed
20) This beef is rather tough; you have
to ____ it for a long time.
A) chew
B) bite
C) eat
D)
swallow
B) gripped
C)
claimed
D)
C) concrete
D)
B) jury
C) court
D)
B) appealed
C) proceeded
D)
Unit 6
1) The
boss always encourages his employees to go all out
for a ___________business.
A) preliminary
punctual
2) The
badly wounded take __________ for medical
attention over those only slightly
hurt.
A)
privilege
B)
precision
C) priority
D)
protein
B)
prosperous
C) primitive
D)
3) He had little idea as to how far
they had come and had ________ how many times they
had
fallen.
A) lost count of
B) lost account of
C) lost desire of
D)
lost
deposit
of
4) Change is a word that
can bring either fear or excitement. It is human
nature to ______
to change because it
requires us to cross into the unknown.
A) intend
B) incline
C) subject
D) oppose
5)
This
virus
can
_______
antivirus
and
firewall
software,
so
that
victims
have
to
reinstall
the software in order to prevent future
infections.
A)
disable
B)
digest
C) disguise
D)
dispose
6) We really should
meet sometime soon to discuss the details. What's
the ______of fifty
pounds in
dollars
A)
episode
B)
equivalent
C) evolution
D) estate
7)
One
striking
side
effect
of
iron
supplements
is
that
they
may
produce
a
feeling
of
wanting
to
_______and may be poisonous in some
cases.
A) throw
out
B) throw
off
C)
throw up
D)
throw
away
8) It seems that James has a talent for
acting because he can _______his teacher's speech
perfectly.
A) intimate
B)
investigate
C) internalize
D) imitate
9) Consequently,
the brains of people who exercise may be better
equipped to ______mental
challenges.
A) trim
B) twist
C) torture
D)
tackle
10)
Do
you
mean
there
will
be
less
______when
civil
servants'
salaries
increase,
say,
several
times
A) battery
B) burden
C) bribery
D) barrier
11) She racked her brains, staring
unseeingly into the glowing fire and trying to
______a
solution for the problem. A)
hit at
B) hit off
C) hit upon D)
hit up
12) Despite earnest
public awareness to address the need for
organ______, there appears to
be little
prospect of increasing supplies to meet current
shortages satisfactorily.
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