Ⅰ. Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.
1. The child strikes his head in the bath and falls unconscious. The man sits down and watches ______ him.
A.brown
B.draw
C.drown
D.drawn
A B C D
C
[解析] 感官动词watch后可加do和doing两种形式。watch sb. do sth.表示“看见了某人做了某事”,watch sb. doing sth.表示“看见某人正在做某事”,通常句中会有提示性时间状语。有类似用法的还有set,notice等,此处选动词原形drown(淹没)。
2. Her tongue was cut and she was screaming in wild ______ shrieks.
A.happy
B.excited
C.hysterical
D.kind
A B C D
C
[解析] 本题考查形容词修饰名词并作定语的用法。通过tongue was cut可判断A、D项不可选;excited译为“激动的”,常用于高兴的场合,hysterical译为“歇斯底里般的”,符合题意。
3. To drive a car safely, it is ______ good brakes.
A.essential with
B.essential to have
C.essential have
D.essential
A B C D
B
[解析] It is +形容词+to do…表示“做……是……的”。这是一个动词不定式作主语的句型,但不定式不写在句首,而用形式主语it代替它居于句首。不定式前可加for…短语,作不定式的逻辑主语。因此选B。
4. All skilled work can be pleasurable, provided the skill ______ is either variable or capable of indefinite improvement.
A.require
B.requires
C.requirement
D.required
A B C D
D
[解析] 本题考查过去分词作后置定语的用法,required作skill的定语。
5. Disease-snobbery is only one out of a great multitude of ______, of which now some, now others take pride of place in general esteem.
A.snobberies
B.snob
C.snobbery
D.snobbering
A B C D
A
[解析] a great multitude of译为“大批的,大量的”,后接可数名词时要用复数形式。句意指因为:疾病而生之势利仅是众多势利中的一种,在这众多的势利中,有时有这样或那样的势利在人们心目中独尊其位。答案为A。
6. The jobs of wildlife technicians and biologists seemed ______ to him, but one day he discovered their difference.
7. Even after the most ______ day, there is no comparing notes with them, no mid- night confidence, no casting up the balance of the day's pleasure and pain.
A.eventful
B.event
C.evening
D.eventually
A B C D
A
[解析] 此空需要一个形容词,“多事的,变故多的”。
8. They are bending with great ______ over the computer.
12. While the television crews ignored me, they were not aware of a very important ______, which both I and my campaign manager, Wesley Mac D. Holder, knew.
19. It has become ______ to think that, like fast food, fast ideas are the way to get to a fast-moving, impatient public.
A.fashion
B.fashionable
C.unfashionable
D.out-of-fashion
A B C D
B
[解析] 那样想很时尚,此空需要一个形容词,“时尚的,流行的”。
20. Be careful not to fall ______ to online banking fraud.
A.cheat
B.victim
C.deception
D.back
A B C D
B
[解析] fall victim是固定短语,意为“称为……的牺牲品;称为……的受害者”,因此选B
21. I smiled in my best ______ manner and asked for the child's first name. I said, come on, Mathilda, open your mouth and let's take a look at your throat.
A.professional
B.profession
C.profess
D.professed
A B C D
A
[解析] 此处需要的是一个形容词,in my best professional manner表示一种状态,指做了一个很专业的微笑。professional为形容词,专业的。
22. Freedom. He wants to be free and you can't be that, man, when they're watching you all the time. Man, that ______ that's his parole officer is some mean watch-dog.
24. Most of the idle rich suffer ______ boredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery.
A.unspeakable
B.speakable
C.speak
D.unspeak
A B C D
A
[解析] 这儿需要一个形容词,前半句的意思指大部分游手好闲的富家子弟都经受着无法形容的厌倦感。
25. We demand justice for the body ______ for the soul.
A.as well
B.well
C.as well as
D.good
A B C D
C
[解析] for the body和for the soul在句中是两个并列成分,需要用连词来连接,排除A、D。as well常用作状语,作“又,也”解,相当于too或also,常位于句末,无须用逗号与句子分开;在口语中有时也用as well来作“也行”解。as well as常用来连接两个并列成分,作“也,还”解。它强调的是前一项,后一项只是顺便提及。
26. I must find someone to act as a ______ for me during my absence.
A.assistants
B.assist
C.assists
D.deputy
A B C D
D
[解析] 句中空前有冠词a,因此先排除A、C选项;由during my absence知是要选代理人,而不是找助手。deputy for sb.某人的代理人,固定搭配。
27. He's afraid ______ going out alone at night.
A.for
B.of
C.about
D.on
A B C D
B
[解析] be afraid of后跟名词或者动名词,意为 “害怕”。be afraid for后接名词,意为“担心…… 会遇到危险”。因此选B。
28. I ______ back in the separate unasked and unanswerable questions.
A.hanging
B.hung
C.hunged
D.hunging
A B C D
B
[解析] 此空需要一个动词的过去式和副词back一起作谓语,表“徘徊或悬挂在”。
29. Any donation you can give will help ______ the suffering and isolation of the homeless on Christmas Eve.
A.comfort
B.ease
C.release
D.lift
A B C D
B
[解析] comfort:安慰;ease:减轻;release:释放; lift:举起。因此选B。
30. Once in bed, when it is time to close the five ports of knowledge, most folks I know seem to find no difficulty in ______ their earthly parts into oblivion.
A.plunge
B.plunging
C.plunged
D.plunges
A B C D
B
[解析] “find no difficulty in doing sth.”,所以选B。
31. West Germany, by ______, will not be able to legalize any form of euthanasia for a long time to come.
32. Freedom. He wants to be free and you can't be that, man, when they're watching you all the time. Man, that ______ that's his parole officer is some mean watch-dog.