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选词填空：
1.
During the Gulf War, the Chinese
Embassy helped Taiwanese labor service
personnel
stranded
in
Kuwait pull out of dangerous places
safely.
2.
G
. Wilson Knight,
emeritus
Professor at the
University of Leeds, has had a long and prolific
career
as a critic.
3.
While
conventional wisdom holds that conflicts in a
relationship slowly
erode
the bonds that hold
partners together,
couples who are happy in the long term turn out to
have plenty of conflicts, too.
4.
She let her
joyous eyes
rest upon him without
speaking,
as upon some
wondrous
thing she had
created out of chaos.
5.
She drew him
towards her with all her might, seeking to know
him in the depths of his heart, with
a
yearning
to lose herself in
him.
6.
Many
Americans have misunderstandings about China,
believing it
’
s a closed
country and that the
people
’
s thinking
is
shackled
.
7.
Government
loans have been the
salvation
of several shaky business companies.
8.
Her teeth
having all dropped out, Granny Li could
only
nibble
away at her
food.
9.
If
you
aim
at
imperfection
,
there
are
some
chances
of
your
getting
it;
whereas
if
you
aim
at
perfection, there is none.
10.
Some
of
his
peers
were
convinced
that
the
early
stages
of
the
illness
manifested
themselves
in
graduate school, but the full-blown
symptoms did not
erupt
until
he was 30.
11.
Internationally, the world economic
situation can be described as
“
ups and downs, complicated
and
volatile
”
.
12.
Problems
of
urbanization
are
widely
noted
and
studied,
not
only
because
of
their
absolute
magnitude
but also because
of their visibility.
13.
In the competitive market, we must
always be prepared for every
contingency
in order to
survive
every difficulty and crisis.
14.
Younger
buyers
and
others
who
have
been
on
the
leading
edge
of
trends
continue
to
prefer
Japanese cars in
disproportionate
numbers.
15.
The
technology
of
modern
mass
communication
results
from
the
confluence
of
many
types
of
inventions and discoveries.
16.
The
achievements of civilized man, although very great
and remarkable, are nevertheless very far
from sufficient to
eclipse
the works of man as
a barbarian.
17.
There is an interesting and unexplained
anomaly
in tamarack from the
northern localities in the
west central
part of Canada.
18.
Top athletes
scrutinize
both success and failure
with their coach to extract lessons from them, but
they are never distracted from longer-
term goals.
19.
The
development
of
marine
resources
and
the
protection
of
the
marine
environment
should
be
planned
and implemented
simultaneously
.
20.
They ran to a
safe place during a
lull
in
the storm and stayed there for the whole night.
21.
I defy anyone
to say that our Becky, who certainly has some
vices, has not been presented to the
public in a perfectly genteel and
inoffensive
manner.
22.
If you go on
living at this
extravagant
rate, you
’
ll spend every
penny you
’
ve got, and then
you
’
ll
be in the
soup.
23.
Get a
life, a real life, not a(n)
manic
pursuit of the next
promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger
house.
24.
For some
inexplicable
reason, she
chose that moment to break the news, which took
everyone by
surprise.
25.
They
are still not
mentally
prepared to
carry out democracy, and
are still probably
enduring the
throe
brought by political
and economic transition for a long time.
26.
Our
environment
having
been
polluted
so
heavily,
smog
is
a(n)
quotidian
occurrence
in
many
major cities around the
globe.
27.
The
early
settlers
wrote
that the
prairie
grass
was
very
beautiful, decorated with
flowers in
the
spring, and so tall that
a man on foot could not see over it.
28.
He said
wryly
,
“
There was also a period
when lawyers were paid by the number of words they
wrote.
”
29.
Mr. Arthur
Pendennis was a(n)
impetuous
young fellow; rather selfish and conceited,
perhaps, but
honest.
30.
On the
sidewalk, Soapy began to yell drunken
gibberish
at the top of his
harsh voice. He danced,
cried and
wildly shouted.
31.
What with war and what with famine, the
populace
at large was caught
between two fires.
32.
In
this
way,
more
than
500
years
ago,
Prince
William,
Bush
and
Churchill
are
exactly
blood
relatives sharing the same
ancestry
.
33.
He felt that
he ought to
rebuke
the lady
for presuming so to talk to a gentleman and a
clergyman
many years her senior.
34.
The
science
of
meteorology
is
concerned
with
what
may
be
thought
of
as
a
vast,
automatic
air-conditioning system.
35.
Practice has
shown that China-Japan relations will go ahead
steadily once this political foundation
is maintained; otherwise the relations
will be undermined become stagnant or even
retrogress
.
36.
They consider
that the opinion given by the old
lady
is only some kind
of
superstition
without
scientific basis.
37.
The measures
proposed
by the
government
shall
apply
to
the activities
of supervision over and
examination
of
the
costs
of
government-fixed
prices
within
the
administrative
region
of
this
province.
38.
Before the
minister had time to celebrate his victory over
this last temptation, he was conscious of
another impulse, more
ludicrous
, and almost as
horrible.
39.
This new European model MBA differed
from the U.S.
varian
t by
being one year in duration.
40.
They all
sought the same goals:
impartial
government, fair
taxation, regulation of public service
companies and expanded social services
for the lower classes.
选择题：
1.
It
is
becoming
increasingly
clear
that
as
many
as
80
percent
of
people
who
are
obese
(
fat
)
are
predisposed genetically.
2.
The IT
industry is developing so fast that an advanced
computer program today may be obsolete
(
outdated
) next
week.
3.
In such
dry
weather, if
a forest
fire cannot
be extinguished,
devastation (
destruction
) is
sure to
ensue.
4.
I should like
to put forward a proposal: merge
(
combine
) the two firms into
a big one.
5.
Utilization of the land which leaves it
in an infertile (
sterile
)
condition is considered pollution.
6.
Don
’
t cling to
(
hold on to
) your old ideas.
Be ready to entertain some new ones, otherwise you
will always lag behind others.
7.
In modern
society, the world
’
s
transport systems would fall apart
(
split up
) without a supply
of
electricity.
8.
Coming from a
theatrical family, I was destined for
(
fated to be
) a career on
the stage --- I was
expected to be an
actor.
9.
We
don
’
t think he is a
dependable person because he acted counter to
(
contrary to
) his promise.
10.
In order to finish the task in time, he
was out in the rain all day and this brought on
(
resulted in
) a
bad cold.
11.
The
play
shows
that
Americans
have
an
embarrassment
of
riches
and
a
paucity
(
scarcity
)
of
spirituality and
morality, focusing on the disillusionment of the
American Dream.
12.
Putin,
55,
is
enormously
popular
in
Russia,
presiding
over
a
reviving
economy
flush
(
well-
supplied
) with revenue from oil and
natural gas.
13.
A
lot
of
people
gathered
at
the
airport
waiting
for
the
famous
film
star,
and
when
he
arrived
a
flurry
(
burst
) of excitement went
round the crowd.
14.
Economic
growth
has
been
at
the
core
of
American
success:
despite
periodic
(occasional
)
depressions or recessions, the U.S
economy over time has continued to grow.
15.
Moves
to
change
the
way
key
resources
should
be
allocated
have
sparked
a
rise
in
turf
battles,
which could hinder
(
retard
) the
Internet
’
s growth as a
global information infrastructure.
16.
The results
of many studies show that they dissipated
(
wasted
) a lot of money when
they carried
out the so-called
effective plans.
17.
I was now in such a state of nervous
resentment that I thought it prudent
(
sensible
) to check myself
at present from further demonstrations.
18.
The company
experienced rapid commercial
growth with
its foray
(
attempt
) into
the
wholesale
market and its
decision to narrow down its range of products.
19.
For
more
than
a
century,
economics
was
largely
concerned
with
problems
other
than
growth,
chiefly efficient allocation
(
allotment
) at the margin.
20.
Investment is
a hazardous (
risky
) business
in the highly volatile market; even those who are
in the
swim sometimes come a cropper.
21.
How slight a
thing will disturb the peace of our frail
(
weak
) minds when we are
confronted with
such severe
competition!
22.
Death was an abyss
(
gulf
) to him. As he stood
trembling on its mournful brink, he surrendered to
horror.
23.
Government departments should have less
squabble over (
quarrel over
)
trifles and put their high
priority on
raising labor standards.
24.
Even the most mundane
(
ordinary
) things can become
objects of beauty in French eyes.
25.
You should
bear in
mind (
keep in
mind
) that powerful
forces
in
the world
are out
to
block the
summit meeting.
26.
He had become
so used to playing tricks on others all these
years that it came as rather a shock to
him to find he had walked into a snare
(
trap
) himself.
27.
Nature is
rational, simple and orderly, and it acts in
accordance with immutable
(
constant
) laws.
28.
In
courts,
experts
under
examination
and
cross-examination
submit
their
results
to
the
scrutiny
(
inspection
) of
the opposing experts and the judge and the jury.
29.
It was the
earnest and dogmatic (
rigid
)
way in which she presented her political
convictions that
put
everyone
’
s back up.
30.
While
discussions of online hazards and Internet
monitoring often focus on blocking porn sites, the
greatest may lurk
(
hide
) in chat rooms and
e-mails.
31.
Nature in animal as well as human life,
he argues, rests on the innate superiority
(
advancement
) of
the strong over the weak.
32.
They only saw
their idol (
favorite
),
moving about with appealing grace, continuing a
power which
to them was a revelation.
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