单选专项

1. The justification for a university is that it ______ the connection between knowledge and the

zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

A. preserves

B. produces

C. predicts

D. prohibits

2. A fact is no longer a bare fact: it is invested ______ all its possibilities.

A. on

B. against

C. in

D. with

3. It works by eliciting the general principles which ______ the facts.

A. apply to

B. belong to

C. suggest to

D. stick to

4.

Youth

is

imaginative,

and

if

the

imagination

be

strengthened

by

discipline

this

energy

of

imagination can in great ______ be preserved through life.

A. method

B. moment

C. measure

D. means

5. The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and

those who are experienced have ______ imaginations.

A. strong

B. fable

C. feeble

D. fantastic

6. Recently, I was made keenly ______ of the different Englishes I do use.

A. awake

B. aware

C. await

D. award

7. It has become our language of ______ , a different sort of English that relates to family talk,

the language I grew up with.

A. intimacy

B. intimate

C. intimidate

D. intimidator

8. You should know that my mother's expressive command of English ______ how much she

actually understands.

es

les

9. I had plenty of ______ evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at

banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously.

A. empire

B. empirical

C. empiric

D. empiricist

10. I had to get on the phone and say in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing,

is Mrs. Tan.

A. adult

B. youngster

C. feeble

D. adolescent

11. The enjoyment of life covers many things: the enjoyment of ourselves, of home life, of trees,

flowers, clouds, winding rivers and falling ______ and the myriad things in Nature.

A. categories

B. cats

C. cataracts

D. camels

12.

Probably

somebody

is

playing

a

______,

and

from

the

distance

there

come

the

sound

of

music and the distant roar of the waves.

A. programme

B. gramophone

C. gratitude

D. grapefruit

13. It proceeds, I suspect, from a false philosophy, sharply dividing the spirit from the flesh, and

not supported by a closer direct ______ of our real pleasures.

A. scribble

B. scream

C. scrutiny

D. sculpture

14. And the very fact that people try to answer this question and quarrel over it and are puzzled

by it serves to show it up as quite ______ and uncalled for.

A. vain

B. van

C. varied

D. volume

15. The question may be divided into two: either that of a ______ purpose, which God has set

for humanity, or that of a human purpose, a purpose that mankind should set for itself.

A. divide

B. diversity

C. dilemma

D. divine

16. I was making pictures with a motor ______ and he, the fire fighter, was reaching up and, I

don't know, everything started falling.

A. drive

B. dive

C. drift

D. dream

17. A rescue ladder was ______, just a few feet away, and the fireman had one arm around the

woman and one arm reaching out toward the ladder.

A. appropriate

B. approaching

C. appreciation

D. appraisable

18. The woman was grasping ______ at the legs of the fireman, who had managed to grab the

ladder.

A. despair

B. destination

C. dessert

D. desperately

19. More than four hundred newspapers in the United States alone carried the photographs: the

tear ______ from overseas are still coming in.

A. sheep

B. sheets

C. shelters

D. shuttles

20. They are pictures of death in action, of that ______ second when luck runs out, and it is

impossible to look at them without feeling their extraordinary impact and remembering, in an

almost subconscious way, the morbid fantasy of falling, falling off a building, falling to one

’

s death.

B. splice

C. split

D. splodge

1.

A

7.

A

13.

C

19.

B

2.

D

8.

C

14.

A

20.

C

3.

A

9.

B

15.

D

4.

C

10.

D

16.

A

5.

C

11.

C

17.

B

6.

B

12.

B

18.

D

1. Fools act on imagination without knowledge; ______ act on knowledge without imagination.

A.

peasants

B. presidents

C. pedants

D. pedestrians

2. We need not ______ from the assertion that the main function of such a school is to produce

men with a greater zest for business.

A. flourish

B. flinch

C. flash

D. flick

3. In a simpler world, business relations were simpler, being based on the immediate ______ of

man with man and on immediate confrontation with all relevant material circumstances.

A.

contradict

B. contact

C. construct

D. contrast

4. There is one great difficulty which ______ all the higher types of human endeavor.

A. hampers

B. bonders

C. hints

D. blinds

5. Its students thus pass into their period of technical ______ with their imaginations already

practiced in connecting details with general principles.

A.

appearance

B. attributes

C. apprenticeship

D. abbreviation

6. So she said she would not leave until the doctor called her daughter. She wouldn't ______.

A. budget

B. bump

C. budge

D. break

7. Sociologists and linguists probably will tell you that a person's developing language skills are

more influenced by ______.

A. pioneers

B. peers

C. priest

D. pedestrian

8. While my English skills were never judged as poor, compared to math, English could not be

______ my strong suit.

A. consulted

B. confronted

C. considered

D. concluded

9. But those scores were not good enough to ______ the opinion that my true abilities lay in

math and science

A. override

B. overtake

C. overweight

D. overrake

ately,

I

happen

to

be

rebellious

in

nature

and

enjoy

the

challenge

of

disproving

assumptions made about me.

A. rebellious

B. repel

C. representative

D. remark

11. What we usually end up with by this sort of ______ is to make God the color-sergeant of

our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.

A. reasoning

B. repeating

C. remain

D. requirement

we must have a view of the universe, let us forget ourselves and not ______ it to human

life.

A. confront

B. console

C. confine

D. conduct

13. This view of nature and our place in it must be natural, since we are a ______ part of it in

our life and go back to it when we die.

A. varied

B. vital

C. vocal

D. vibrated

omy, geology, biology and history all provide pretty good material to help us form a

fairly good view if we don't ______ too much and jump at conclusions.

A. attend

B. attribute

C. attract

D. attempt

15. It is enough that he has a place, and by living in harmony with nature around him, he will be

able to form a workable and reasonable outlook on human life itself.

A. outlook

B. outweigh

C. outside

D. output

16. Most newspaper editors ______ some reader reaction to photographs like Forman's; even so,

the response around the country was enormous, and almost all of it was negative.

A. anticipate

B. antivirus

C. antigravity

D. antislavery

17. The Seattle Times received sixty letters and calls; its managing ______ even got a couple of

them at home.

A. crane

B. diversity

C. editor

D. franker

18.I shall try to hide my ______ that Miss Bryant wasn't wearing a skirt when she fell to her

death.

A. disability

B. disappointment

C. disappearance

D. disaccord

19.

Marshall

L.

Stone

of

Maine's

Bangor

Daily

News,

which

refused

to

print

the

famous

______ picture of the Vietcong prisoner in Saigon, claimed that the Boston pictures showed

the dangers of fire escapes and raised questions about slumlords.

A. assistance

B. assassination

C. assimilability

D. assaulter

20. For the last five years, the Washington Post has ______ various journalists as ombudsmen,

whose job is to monitor the paper on behalf of the public.

A. embodied

B. emplaced

C. empoldered

D. employed

1.

C

7.

B

13.

B

19.

B

2.

B

8.

C

14.

D

20.

D

3.

B

9.

A

15.

A

4.

A

10.

A

16.

A

5.

C

11.

A

17.

C

6.

C

12.

C

18.

B

1. It is often the case that the truth can be ______ through discussion.

A. eliminated

B. elided

C. elicited

D. elaborated

2. The parents are amazed at the kid's ______ of self-control in the matter of fear.

A. accumulation

B. acquirement

C. accelerant

D. acquisition

3. Like other branches of science, history is now encumbered and ______ by its own mass.

A. hammered

B. hamfisted

C. hurried

D. hampered

4. This statement is not ______ what the chair man has announced at the meeting.

A. consistent with

B. confronted with

C. consistent to

D. confronted to

5. If you had remained calm, the discussion might have been more ______.

A. temperature

B. temptable

C. temperate

D. tempered

6.

Certainly

no

one

in

The

Bronx

need

go

to

that

school:

in

The

Bronx

it

is

baseball

that

is

______ as a living thing, and opera and poetry that have to be learned.

A. inhaled

B. inhabited

C. inherited

D. inhumed