词汇练习题

2012

级教师攻读硕士专业学位研究生英语课程

词汇练习

100

题

1.

The mother ________ her baby tightly.

A. clarified

B. clutched

C. cleansed

D. coaxed

2. While she had the fever, she _______for hours.

A. raved

B. sniggered

C. tittered

D. perforated

3. She reached her decision only after much ___________.

A. medication

B. metaphor

C. miscarriage

D. meditation

and pictures about recent wars sometimes

angry

memories and feelings of hatred between nations.

A)formulate

B)foster

C)forge

D)forbid

5. The judge imposed a

fine.

A)hefty

B)heinous

C)hellish D)helpless

6. Foreigners frequently are unaware of the

of the words they

use.

A)consensus

B)consequence

C)connotation

D)constituent

7

. We’re still three votes

of the number we need to win.

A)sick

B)shrill

C)shy

D)shrew

8. They

us three weeks to finish the job.

A)alluded

B)allured

C)adverted

D)allotted

9

. I think it’s rather

the truth to say he’s handsome.

A)straightening

B)straining

C) stirring D)stimulating

10. An endless

of tedious days and nights stretched before us.

A)vista

B

)visual

C)visibility

D)visa

11

. The kitchen was small and

_______ so that the disabled could reach

everything without difficulty.

A. conventional

B. compact

C. compatible

D. concise

12

. It

’

s _______ to pay the debt within six months.

A. malevolent

B. malign

C. maniac

D. mandatory

13. The farmers receive a _____ from the government to grow this crop.

A. subsidy

B. subsidiary

C. successor

D. subordinate

14

. We are going to pay for the house by monthly _______.

A. instances

B. inspections

C. installments

D. instruments

14

. The country signed a/an _______ contract with America with an aim

to make good use of their natural resources and capital.

A. residential

B. reciprocal

C. unusual

D. influential

15

. These excursions will give you an even deeper _______ into our

language and culture.

A. inquiry

B. investigation

C. insight

d. confirmation

16

. My boss often _____ his opinion upon others.

A. imports

B. imposes

C. exposes

d. disposes

17. Your story about the frog turning into a prince is _______ nonsense.

A. sheer

B. sheet

C. shear

d. shield

18. The nerve of a tooth is ________.

A. sentimental

B. sensible

C. sensational

D. sentient

19. He came home tired and _______ after a long and unsuccessful day

’

s

work.

A. mortal

B. morose

C. marginal

D. medieval

20

. Since John has such an ______to flying, I am certain that he will not

want to go to Britain with us.

A. aviation

B. aviator

C. avocation

D. aversion

21

.

A clever politician knows how to _____ his supporters.

A. maneuver

B. manifest

C. manipulate

D. marshal

22. The unions are getting more

in their demands.

A. strict

B. striking

C. strident

D) stubborn

23

. She is

for her lost child.

A. wailing

B. waiving

C. wandering

D. waning

24

. The flowers in the vase

in the hot room.

A. dazzled

B. drooped

C. diminish

D. displaced

25

. He had

reasons for rejecting the proposal.

A. cordial

B. copious

C. costly

D. courageous

26. They think those regulations are too

.

A. striking

B. stuffy

C. subdued

D. stringent

27

. The famous scientist

his success to hard work.

A. imparted

B. granted

C. ascribed

D. acknowledged

28

. The evidence produced so far does not ____ the conclusion that the

driver was negligent.

A. deserve

B. qualify

C. modify

D. warrant

29. What were your___ wages for this last year?

A. aggressive

B. aggregate

C) aggravate

D)affluent

30. After the explosion, the policeman did a lot of work to find out some

clues from the _______.

A. on-lookers

B. viewers

C. people

D. witnesses

31

. If your action are ___ you need not hide them from the police.

A. offensive

B. obscure

C. legitimate

D. customary

32

. We felt an _______ presence in the conference room.

A. intangible

B. inveterate

C. intestine

D. invincible

33

. Their appeal for funds didn

’

t ________ much of a response.

A. elicit

B. elevate

C. eclipse

D. eject

34

. Writing a history book _______ a lot of work.

A. entitles

B. enthrones

C. enthuses

D. entails

35. I don

’

t intend to _______ your hopes with false reports of outside

assistance; the truth is that we must face the enemy alone.

A. baffle

B. bewilder

C. bolster

d. boost

36. The whole family is _____ in scientific research.

A. dipped

B. immersed

C. saturated

D. submerged

37

. The drugs must _______ in every way to the standards set up by the

government.

A. conform

b. confirm

c. comply

D. correspond

38

. The date of our next test has been _________ postponed. Now we

don

’

t know when it will be given, or if it will be given at all.

A. identically

B. unidentifiably

C. indefinitely

D. conservatively

39. The _______ white fur coat that the lady has on is very expensive.

A. exquisite

B. explicit

C. implicit

D. intelligible

40

. When talking about China, people often _____ it with the great Wall.

A. assist

B. think

C. imagine

D. associate

41. We must ______ that the experiment is controlled as rigidly as

possible.

A. assure

B. secure

C. ensure

D. issue

school has excellent sporting _______.

A. facilities

B. equipment

c. faculties

/d. fragments

43. Our company can _______ you with all the necessary details.

A. furniture

B. give

C. furnace

D. furnish

44. The _______ country for the next Olympic games is Japan.

A. host

B. guest

C. Designer

D. master

45

.Although most dreams apparently happen, ______, dream activity

may be provoked by external influences.

A. spontaneously

B. simultaneously

C. homogeneously

D. instantaneously

46

. The goods were lost in ______.

A. transition

B. transfer

C. transit

D. translation

47

. My husband has ________to the children at weekends.

A. accuse

B. access

C. assess

D. account

48

.Are there enough shelves to ______ all our books?

A. provide

B. fit

C. accommodate

D. supply

49

. Writing is a slow process, requiring _______ thought, time and effort.

A. significant

B. considerable

C. enormous

D. numerous

said that if we made any more noise he

’

d ______ the police.

A. complain

B. complain to

C. complain about

D. complain of

51. Convenience foods which are already prepared for cooking are _____

in grocery stores.

A. ready

B. approachable

C. probable

D. available

52. Once you _____ the country life, you won

’

t want to live in the city.

A. have tested

B. have tried

C. have sampled

d. have checked

53

. Her achievement was more ______ in that she had come from such a

poor family.

A. popular

B. famous

C. understandable

D. remarkable

54

. The windy weather ________ people from attending the park.

a. discouraged

b. disclosed

c. discharged

d. obeyed

55

. Mike just discovered that his passport has _________ three months.

A. exceed

B. expire

C. terminated

D. cease