1. Plastic bags are useful for holding many kinds of food, _______ their cleanness, toughness, and low cost.
B) by means of
C) at sight of D) by way of
2. Plants as well as animals are _______ to insect attacks, and every year millions of dollars worth of agricultural crops
are destroyed by insects.
B) eager
C) beneficial D) harmful
3. James was not a good enough actor to be able to _______ the role throughout the film. (4---1B#) 1
B) finance
C) neglect D) quit
4. We object ________ punishing a whole group for one person’s fault. (4---1A#)
A) against B) about D) for
5. It is much easier to talk about social change than to ______. (4---1)
A) bring it on C) bring it up D) bring it out
6. Mr. Wilson said that he did not want to ______ any further responsibilities. (4---1B#)
B) get on
C) put up D) look up
7. The voters told the politician that he could ______ on their support in the next general elections. (4---1A#)
A) expect B) decide
D) doubt
8. Everything on earth is subjected _____ the laws of nature. (4---1B#)
B) of
C) for D) with
9. Cancer is second only ______ heart disease as a cause of death. (4---1B#)
A) of C) with D) from
10. We love peace, yet we are not the kind of people to yield _______ and military threat. (4---1A#)
A) up C) in D) at
11. By the time they reached the summit, they were ______ but they were also relieved to be there. (4---1A*)
A) run out B) run down
C) pulled out D) pulled down
12. After a two-year investigation, the committee _______ a fine of $5 million on the company for its breaking the rules.
A) punished B) pursed
C) required 13. It was clear that the minister was the right man to speak at the dinner: his ______ was faultless. (4---1A*)
B) nursery
C) bakery D) arbitrary
14. With more companies bidding on the project, the competition is bound to______. (4---1A*)
B) identify
C) glorify D) justify
15. She does such a good job that she ______ every penny she earns. (4---1A#)
A) reserves B) preserves
D) conserves
16. Mr. Baroda thought his wife was always full of surprises and sometimes he could hardly _______ her thoughts.
A) gaze B) overcome
C) stare 17. The manufacturing plant lies _______, with no workers. (4---1A#)
B) upright
C) keen D) wit
18. For my point of view his ideas should be taken _______ but not his prestige. (4---1A*)
A) sensitively C) respectively D) casually
19. He made some excellent ______ on the beauty and complexity of the natural world and drew some conclusions.
A) investments B) processions
C) concessions 20. To see our house, we made a ______ to the buyer by agreeing to put on a new roof. (4---1B#)
A) confession C) succession D) classification
21. The whole point of marriage is that it imposes clear obligations, not just the right to ______ your own happiness.
A) conduct B) look
D) generate
22. I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take ______ and leave. (4---1B#)
A) angry B) defense
C) response 23. He had felt such extraordinary _______ for her that he could not bear the temporary parting. (4---1B#)
A) fashion B) dignity
D) faith
24. There has been no _____ in that class——they’ve had a succession of four different teachers. (4---1B*)
A) guarantee B) C) obligation D) transmission
25. The men had all run away, living _______ only old woman and children. (4---1B*)
A) out
C) over D) off
26. The policeman blew his whistle and the protesters _______ in all directions. (4---1B*)
B) scarred
C) deserved D) disposed
27. I acknowledge that some children are better _______ without a violent father. (4---1B*)
A) of C) away D) out
28. If you have not signed a contract, you are under no ______ to pay them any money. (4---1B*)
A) passion B) faith
C) concern 29. A severe illness in _______ with hot weather left the baby very weak. (4---1B#)
A) addition C) connection D) common
30. The election which was held in October was in no _____ fair. (4---1A#)
A) meaning B) reason
C) idea 31. A bridge can be defined ______ a structure greeting over an obstacle, such as a river, a road or railway. (4---1B#)
A) to B) like
D) with
32. His insurance _______ him against money loss in case of fine. (4---1B#)
A) supported B) defended
C) warned 33. Swarms of ants are always invading my kitchen. They are a through ______. (4---1A#)
B) disturbance
C) trouble D) annoyance
34. Your story about the frog turning into a prince is a _______ nonsense. (4---1A#)
B) shear
C) sleeve D) sheet
35. Cultural ______ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generation to another. (4---1B#)
A) translation B) transition
D) transaction
1. Charlie Chaplin was born in the slums of South London, but in 1913 he left Britain ______ good. (4---2A*)
A) by B) in
C) with 2. It wasn’t an accident. He did it on ______. (4---2A#)
A) reason B) determination
D) intension
3. Would you mind paying for the tickets ________? (4---2A#)
B) forwards
C) primarily D) now and then
4. I have found that the community has _______ great changes since I was here last. (4---2A#)
A) submitted C) sustained D) experimented
5. In Britain today women ______ 44% of the workforce, and nearly half the mothers with children are in paid work.
A) build up B) stand for
D) conform to
6. The ______ of a collision between two heavily loadtrucks caused a lot of damage to each. (4---2B#)
A) influence B) effect
D) affect
7. Petrol is refined from the ______ oil we take out of the ground. (4---2A#) B) fresh
C) rude D) original
8. As all the performers were either related to or known to the audience, each act was greeted with loud and equal ___
A) relief C) attempt D) implication
9. Her husband breathed a sign of ________when he learned Mrs. Baroda wanted to have Gouvernail visit them again.
A) release
C) signature D) figure
10. The first mobile phones were heavy and ________ to use but nowadays they are lighter and easier. (4---2A#)
A) coarse B) tender
C) faint
11. Those letters are particularly valuable to use because Pliny was clearly aware of the need to ________ the temptation
to exaggerate and to describe objectively what he had experienced.
A) insist B) inspect
D) persist
12. His expenses do not __________to his income. (4---2A#)
A) relate B) require
D) concern
13. You mustn’t use such _________language when talking to innocent young girls.(4---2A#)
A) coast
C) cause D) console
14. The beggar was dressed in _________. (4---2A#)
B) raps
C) laps D) lags
15. Selling hamburgers for a living! He has________ in the world, hasn’t it? (4---2A#)
A) cut down B) gone down
D) taken down
16. That building is a ________ to those who were killed in the war. (4---2A#)
A) rumor B) comedy
D) scout
17. The two cars were broken to pieces in________. (4---2A#)
B) penetration
C) fight D) plunge
18. Women in that country are ______against the restrictions on job opportunities. (4---2A#)
A) refreshing B) penetrating
D) sparking
19. You say the bridge is safe, I shall take care _________. (4---2A#)
A) all the way B) all in all
C) all alone 20. While he speaks, he must be making eye_______ with the other person. (4---2A#)
A) touch B) feel
D) glimpse
21. I don`t like the _______ play which is on at the theatre this week. It isn`t funny at all (4---2A#)
A) tragic C) magic D) fabric
22. The speaker`s aim is to ______ the reformers into action. (4---2A#)
B) execute
C) declare D) betray
23. These leaders were very ______ of their power, and did what they could to shut women out of politics. (4---2B*)
B) angry
C) keen D) abuse
24. The government has ______ a new plan to build more houses. (4---2B#)
B) landed
C). run D) committed
25. The minister was forced to resign after a ______ involing him and another minister`s wife______ . (4---2B#)
A) riot C) opponent D) refugee
27. He announced to the media that he was going to run ________ mayor. (4---2B#)
A) out B) down
D) off
28. I`ll accept any job ______ I don`t have to get up early. (4---2B#)
A) lest B) though
C) in case
29. Are you joking or in______ ? (4---2B#)
A) trust B) real
D) faith
30. Simply going for a walk can relax the mind and ______ the spirit and it will make you fitter, too. (4---2B*)
A) revise B) reverse
C) refrain 31. Trade union delegates remained silent during the short debate but ______ solidly behind the leadership. (4---2B*)
A) rioted C) witnessed D) roused
32. There was such a ______ storm that the ship almost sank. (4---2B#)
A) heated B) fiery
D) idle
33. The police broke up a ______ of 2,000 people in the town. (4---2B#)
A) resemble B) assemble
C) banner 1. Not long ago, a person whom I know very well was ______ an accident. (4---3A#)
A. related to C. included in D) subjected to
2. Frankfurt, Germany, is in one of the most ______populated regions of Western Europe.(4---3B#)
A) enormously B) vastly
D) largely
3. With these autumn rains the roof is beginning to ______. (4---3A#)
A) withdraw
C) omit D) reduce
4. This ticket ______ you to a free meal in our new restaurant. (4---3 A #)
A) gives B) grants
D) credits
5. New York is the largest city next ______ London. (4---3 B#)
A) of C) with D) from
6. He’s watching TV ? He is ______to be cleaning his room. ( 4---3 A#)
A) known
C) regarded D) considered
7. We love peace, yet we are not the kind of people to yield______ any military threat. (4---3 A#)
A) up B) in
D) at
8. Because it was not checked properly before leaving, the car ______ on the way.
A) broke up C) broke off D) broke into
9. In the meantime he had been ______ a moral crisis of her own. ( 4---3 A#)
B) going by
C) going over D) going in for
10. The teacher asked him to account ______ his lateness for school. (4---3A#)
A) of B) on
C) about 11. Many ______ of money and clothing poured in for the flood victims. (4---3A#)
A) profiles B) appliances
D) commissions
12. When you retire, you are allowed to exchange part of your expected ______for a lump
sun – and this is tax-free under the present law. (4---3A*)
A) donation B) reception
D) rent
13. We are ready to start services immediately upon ______ of government approval.
B) reception
C) conviction D) conversion
14. The garden seems to ______ on the new fertilizer. (4---3A#)
A) thrill C) boom D) arouse
15. All four men were ______ illegally bringing drugs into the country. (4---3A#)
A) charged B) arrested
C) scolded
16. Most homes now have numerous domestic ______ from dishwashers to microwave ovens
A) application. B) equip
C) vessels
17. The two men have __the heaviest pressure that could be imagined rather than betray their friend, Resenence Jeopardy.
A) profound B) profile
D) engage
18. Life in a wheelchair is ______ and living on welfare is just like sharing a dinner of raw pet food with the cat
A) rough C) cough D) enough
19. His role was to ______ up contributions and donations from friends in big business. (4---3A*)
B) beat
C) hit D) strike
20. Our headmaster has ______ views about what his pupils should wear and therefore pupils are allowed to wear
21. Only a few crumbling walls ______witness to the past greatness of the city of Aksum.
A) stand B) endure
D) deserve
22. International Aid Agencies have ______ ships to transport supplies to the disaster area.
A) skimmed C) dyed D) closed
23. Some dramatic successes in the ______ of foreign policy marked the last six years of his time in office. (4---3B#)
B) reference
C) regard D) retail
24. The discussion on Cultural Exchanges _______ the importance of people- to-people relations. (4---3B#)
A) uprighted
C) steered D) bond
25. She managed to ______ the conversation towards the subject of her birthday party.
A) sheer B) sneer
C) sneeze 26. That day was, for the manager, devoted to a succession of telephone calls, and a_ of files, most with urgent tags pinned on them A) stock C) stuck D) stink
27. There’s apple pie, ice-cream, cheesecake or fresh fruit for ______. (4---3B#)
A) dissolve B) desert
D) deserve
28. I was ______ with parcels, unable to walk any faster. (4---3B*)
B) carried
C) sustained D) retained
29. Although he barely ________through it, my teacher said that my essay was excellent.
A) steered C) overheard D) sought
30. The music sounds terrible because the old piano is badly out of ______. (4---3B#)
A) tongue C) sound D) noise
31. The multinational corporation was making a take-over ______for a property company.
A) application C) proposal D) suggestion
1.
We should concentrate on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of____. A) retreat B) rejection D) restriction
2. Her fluency in English gives her an advantage ______ other girls for the job. (4---4A#)
A) above C) than D) with
3. Nuclear science should be developed to benefit the people ______harm them.(4---4B#)
A) more than B) other than
D) better than
4. You can’t afford to let the situation get worse. You must take ______ to put it right.
A)decisions B) directions
C) sides 5. Over a third of the population was estimated to have no _______ to the health service.
A) assessment B) assignment
C) exception 6. I find this report badly done, and that ______ all the other work done in this office.
A) goes after B) goes through
C) goes on 7. The broadcasting stations ______ radio and TV programmes to all parts of the country.(4---4B#)
A) transformed B) transported
C) transferred
8. The mayor was asked to ______ his speech in order to allow his audience to raise questions
. A) constrain B) conduct
D) condemn
9. Improved consumer confidence is ______ to an economic recovery. (4---4B#)
B) satisfied
C) magic D) optical
10. He______ his head, wondering how to solve the problem. (4---4A#)
A) scanned B) screwed
C) scraped 11. As a developing country, we must keep ______ with the rapid development of the world economy. (4---4A#)
A) move B) step
C) speed 12. Very few scientists ______ with completely new answers to the world’s problems.
A) come to B) come round
C) come on D) come up
13. I’ll put my room and my computer at your ______. (4---4A#) B) use
C) manage D) operation
14. I can announce today that we are going to put an end to the uncoordinated and inefficient activities public _______ digging up our roads almost every day. (4---4A*)
C) galleries D) revenues
15. He was ______ after the failure of his plan. (4---4A#)
B) despair
C) despise D) depress
16. What proportion of your income is allotted for the government ______ annually.
A) avenues C) retails D) avails
17. For the time being, they are ______the old technology, but they soon turn to new technologies. (4---4A*)
A) stuck down B) stuck in
C) stuck up D) stuck with
18. We will use overseas aid to ______ the good will of the government, sensible economic policies and the respect for human rights. (4---4A*)
A) disturb C) impose D) wreck
19. This custom dates _____ the seventeenth century. (4---4A#) A) ridges
A) by B) with
C) from D) in
20. this bridge is of great ______ importance to the enemy and must be destroyed. (4---4A#)
B) intensive
C) detective D) elastic
21. If we walk slower than others we shall ______ behind them. (4---4A#)
A) lap C) tag D) push
22. He has ______ the house to us for ten years. (4---4A#)
A) engaged C) transformed D) licked
23. The patient’s health failed to such an extent that he was put into ______ care.
A) tense B) rigid
D) tight
24. It was unwise of him to ______ unreliable data in his speech. (4---4B#)
B) add to
C) keep to D) point to
25. The company welcomes ______ from people who use the goods it produces.(4---4B#)
A) antique C) charter D) donation
26. Send him to the bank for money; he is a ______ boy. (4---4A#)
A) slender B) practical
D) confident
27. Nylon is a kind of ______ material widely used in our daily lives.(4---4B#)
A) mixed C) combined D) systematic
28. There is only one ______of medicine left in this bottle. (4---4B#)
A) dot C) donor D) doll
29. After he had worked as a doctor for some years, he decided to specialize ______ children’s diseases.
A) at B) on
D) with
30. His resignation has created a ______ which can not easily be filled. (4---4B*)
B) carrier
C) format D) tag
31. Our ______ is limited to a few friendly letters. (4---4B#)
A) oven B) offense
C) worship 32. Don’t make ______ the weekly meeting; teachers will not work up any enthusiasm for it.
A) route C) course D) cause
33. All the images and data they need have been stored in a digital ______ in the database.
A) formation C) formality D) fortune
1. I think she hurt my feelings ______rather than by accident as she claimed.(4---5A#)
A) virtually C) literally D) appropriately
2. Generally, it is only when animals are trapped that that they ______ to violence in order to escape. (4---5B#)
A) retain B) appeal
D) gain
3. Parents often faced the ______between doing what they felt was good for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undisciplined noise and destructiveness. (4---5B#)
A) puzzle B) diagram
D) glue
4. He does not ______ his workmates and there are often disagreements between them.
A) go on with B) put up with
D) keep up with
5. If you joke with him he’ll think you’re insulting him on ______. (4---5A#)
A) reason B) determination
D) intention
6. I always keep candles in the house _____there is a power cut. (4---5A#)
A) if C) unless D) in the event
7.Some old people don’t like pop songs because they can’t _______so much noise.
A) resist B) sustain
D) undergo
8. If you don’t like to swim, you ______as well as stay at home. (4---5A#)
A) should C) can D) would
9. It took him several months to ______the wild horse. (4---5A#)
A) tend B) cultivate
C) breed 10. Increases in contributions ______from thirty yuan to one hundred yuan. (4---5B#)
A) alter C) separate D) differ
11. Some of his suggestions have been adopted but others have been _______ as they are quite impracticable.
A) subjected B) projected
C) objected 12. Though he did not ______, he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said. B) dedicate
C) devote D) delicate
13. It was difficult to guess what the old woman’s _______ to the bad news would be.
A) impression C) comment D) estimate
14. He ______ suicide when he was quite young. (4---5B#)
A) performed B) conducted
C) acted 15. she could not wait for daybreak and called her friend up at midnight to tell her the unpleasant experience that _
her A) soaked C) lumped D) dumped
16. Shall I put some ______milk in your coffee? (4---5A#)
A) pond B) powered
D) pooled
17 It’s so hot outside, I have been walking ten minutes and my shirt is ______. (4---5A#)
A) seeking B) choking
C) dosing 18. The story line was so fascinating that she finished reading the book at one ______.
A) standing C) lying D) kneeling
19. People refused to talk to him after the scandal and he was ______ by the best society. (4---5A*)
B) carried out
C) cut out D) called out
20. He came into power from______ circumstances as a poor boy. (4---5A#)
A) hollow B) gamble
D) peak
21. She put the dirty ______into the washer. (4---5A#)
A) launch C) slippery D) waterproof
22. He suffered a great deal ______cold and hunger. (4---5A#)
A) of B) with
C) by 23. Following the heavy rain, the holes were ______ again. (4---5A#)
A) filling for C) filling out D) filling by
24. It had been raining and the road was very ______. (4---5A#)
B) slim
C) slide D) skimming
25. Every time she tried to argue with her identical twin Katie, she ______crying her eyes out. (4---5B*)
A) turned up C) called up D) cut up
26. Heavy materials like brick and stone do not ______easily, and therefore soon reduce noise. (4---5B*)
A) exclaim B) resort
D) rust
27. All of these festivals were regarded as ______ occasions when all ordinary work stopped. (4---5B*)
B) hollow
C) liberal D) alert
28. The news in the newspaper is ______; we heard on the radio last week. (4---5B#)
A) stake C) clumsy D) mythical
29. Jane spent days in this atmosphere of grief and ______. (4---5B#)
A) recession B) concession
C) obligation
30. It is generally acknowledged that engineering science is an extremely______ and Theoretical science.
A) abrupt C) distract D) restrict
31. Martin decided to leave the company to______ out on his own as a writer. (4---5B#)
A) turn B) take C) strike D) slap
1. Plastic bags are useful for holding many kinds of food, _______ their cleanness, toughness, and low cost.
B) by means of
C) at sight of D) by way of
2. Plants as well as animals are _______ to insect attacks, and every year millions of dollars worth of agricultural crops
are destroyed by insects.
B) eager
C) beneficial D) harmful
3. James was not a good enough actor to be able to _______ the role throughout the film. (4---1B#) 1
B) finance
C) neglect D) quit
4. We object ________ punishing a whole group for one person’s fault. (4---1A#)
A) against B) about D) for
5. It is much easier to talk about social change than to ______. (4---1)
A) bring it on C) bring it up D) bring it out
6. Mr. Wilson said that he did not want to ______ any further responsibilities. (4---1B#)
B) get on
C) put up D) look up
7. The voters told the politician that he could ______ on their support in the next general elections. (4---1A#)
A) expect B) decide
D) doubt
8. Everything on earth is subjected _____ the laws of nature. (4---1B#)
B) of
C) for D) with
9. Cancer is second only ______ heart disease as a cause of death. (4---1B#)
A) of C) with D) from
10. We love peace, yet we are not the kind of people to yield _______ and military threat. (4---1A#)
A) up C) in D) at
11. By the time they reached the summit, they were ______ but they were also relieved to be there. (4---1A*)
A) run out B) run down
C) pulled out D) pulled down
12. After a two-year investigation, the committee _______ a fine of $5 million on the company for its breaking the rules.
A) punished B) pursed
C) required 13. It was clear that the minister was the right man to speak at the dinner: his ______ was faultless. (4---1A*)
B) nursery
C) bakery D) arbitrary
14. With more companies bidding on the project, the competition is bound to______. (4---1A*)
B) identify
C) glorify D) justify
15. She does such a good job that she ______ every penny she earns. (4---1A#)
A) reserves B) preserves
D) conserves
16. Mr. Baroda thought his wife was always full of surprises and sometimes he could hardly _______ her thoughts.
A) gaze B) overcome
C) stare 17. The manufacturing plant lies _______, with no workers. (4---1A#)
B) upright
C) keen D) wit
18. For my point of view his ideas should be taken _______ but not his prestige. (4---1A*)
A) sensitively C) respectively D) casually
19. He made some excellent ______ on the beauty and complexity of the natural world and drew some conclusions.
A) investments B) processions
C) concessions 20. To see our house, we made a ______ to the buyer by agreeing to put on a new roof. (4---1B#)
A) confession C) succession D) classification
21. The whole point of marriage is that it imposes clear obligations, not just the right to ______ your own happiness.
A) conduct B) look
D) generate
22. I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take ______ and leave. (4---1B#)
A) angry B) defense
C) response 23. He had felt such extraordinary _______ for her that he could not bear the temporary parting. (4---1B#)
A) fashion B) dignity
D) faith
24. There has been no _____ in that class——they’ve had a succession of four different teachers. (4---1B*)
A) guarantee B) C) obligation D) transmission
25. The men had all run away, living _______ only old woman and children. (4---1B*)
A) out
C) over D) off
26. The policeman blew his whistle and the protesters _______ in all directions. (4---1B*)
B) scarred
C) deserved D) disposed
27. I acknowledge that some children are better _______ without a violent father. (4---1B*)
A) of C) away D) out
28. If you have not signed a contract, you are under no ______ to pay them any money. (4---1B*)
A) passion B) faith
C) concern 29. A severe illness in _______ with hot weather left the baby very weak. (4---1B#)
A) addition C) connection D) common
30. The election which was held in October was in no _____ fair. (4---1A#)
A) meaning B) reason
C) idea 31. A bridge can be defined ______ a structure greeting over an obstacle, such as a river, a road or railway. (4---1B#)
A) to B) like
D) with
32. His insurance _______ him against money loss in case of fine. (4---1B#)
A) supported B) defended
C) warned 33. Swarms of ants are always invading my kitchen. They are a through ______. (4---1A#)
B) disturbance
C) trouble D) annoyance
34. Your story about the frog turning into a prince is a _______ nonsense. (4---1A#)
B) shear
C) sleeve D) sheet
35. Cultural ______ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generation to another. (4---1B#)
A) translation B) transition
D) transaction
1. Charlie Chaplin was born in the slums of South London, but in 1913 he left Britain ______ good. (4---2A*)
A) by B) in
C) with 2. It wasn’t an accident. He did it on ______. (4---2A#)
A) reason B) determination
D) intension
3. Would you mind paying for the tickets ________? (4---2A#)
B) forwards
C) primarily D) now and then
4. I have found that the community has _______ great changes since I was here last. (4---2A#)
A) submitted C) sustained D) experimented
5. In Britain today women ______ 44% of the workforce, and nearly half the mothers with children are in paid work.
A) build up B) stand for
D) conform to
6. The ______ of a collision between two heavily loadtrucks caused a lot of damage to each. (4---2B#)
A) influence B) effect
D) affect
7. Petrol is refined from the ______ oil we take out of the ground. (4---2A#) B) fresh
C) rude D) original
8. As all the performers were either related to or known to the audience, each act was greeted with loud and equal ___
A) relief C) attempt D) implication
9. Her husband breathed a sign of ________when he learned Mrs. Baroda wanted to have Gouvernail visit them again.
A) release
C) signature D) figure
10. The first mobile phones were heavy and ________ to use but nowadays they are lighter and easier. (4---2A#)
A) coarse B) tender
C) faint
11. Those letters are particularly valuable to use because Pliny was clearly aware of the need to ________ the temptation
to exaggerate and to describe objectively what he had experienced.
A) insist B) inspect
D) persist
12. His expenses do not __________to his income. (4---2A#)
A) relate B) require
D) concern
13. You mustn’t use such _________language when talking to innocent young girls.(4---2A#)
A) coast
C) cause D) console
14. The beggar was dressed in _________. (4---2A#)
B) raps
C) laps D) lags
15. Selling hamburgers for a living! He has________ in the world, hasn’t it? (4---2A#)
A) cut down B) gone down
D) taken down
16. That building is a ________ to those who were killed in the war. (4---2A#)
A) rumor B) comedy
D) scout
17. The two cars were broken to pieces in________. (4---2A#)
B) penetration
C) fight D) plunge
18. Women in that country are ______against the restrictions on job opportunities. (4---2A#)
A) refreshing B) penetrating
D) sparking
19. You say the bridge is safe, I shall take care _________. (4---2A#)
A) all the way B) all in all
C) all alone 20. While he speaks, he must be making eye_______ with the other person. (4---2A#)
A) touch B) feel
D) glimpse
21. I don`t like the _______ play which is on at the theatre this week. It isn`t funny at all (4---2A#)
A) tragic C) magic D) fabric
22. The speaker`s aim is to ______ the reformers into action. (4---2A#)
B) execute
C) declare D) betray
23. These leaders were very ______ of their power, and did what they could to shut women out of politics. (4---2B*)
B) angry
C) keen D) abuse
24. The government has ______ a new plan to build more houses. (4---2B#)
B) landed
C). run D) committed
25. The minister was forced to resign after a ______ involing him and another minister`s wife______ . (4---2B#)
A) riot C) opponent D) refugee
27. He announced to the media that he was going to run ________ mayor. (4---2B#)
A) out B) down
D) off
28. I`ll accept any job ______ I don`t have to get up early. (4---2B#)
A) lest B) though
C) in case
29. Are you joking or in______ ? (4---2B#)
A) trust B) real
D) faith
30. Simply going for a walk can relax the mind and ______ the spirit and it will make you fitter, too. (4---2B*)
A) revise B) reverse
C) refrain 31. Trade union delegates remained silent during the short debate but ______ solidly behind the leadership. (4---2B*)
A) rioted C) witnessed D) roused
32. There was such a ______ storm that the ship almost sank. (4---2B#)
A) heated B) fiery
D) idle
33. The police broke up a ______ of 2,000 people in the town. (4---2B#)
A) resemble B) assemble
C) banner 1. Not long ago, a person whom I know very well was ______ an accident. (4---3A#)
A. related to C. included in D) subjected to
2. Frankfurt, Germany, is in one of the most ______populated regions of Western Europe.(4---3B#)
A) enormously B) vastly
D) largely
3. With these autumn rains the roof is beginning to ______. (4---3A#)
A) withdraw
C) omit D) reduce
4. This ticket ______ you to a free meal in our new restaurant. (4---3 A #)
A) gives B) grants
D) credits
5. New York is the largest city next ______ London. (4---3 B#)
A) of C) with D) from
6. He’s watching TV ? He is ______to be cleaning his room. ( 4---3 A#)
A) known
C) regarded D) considered
7. We love peace, yet we are not the kind of people to yield______ any military threat. (4---3 A#)
A) up B) in
D) at
8. Because it was not checked properly before leaving, the car ______ on the way.
A) broke up C) broke off D) broke into
9. In the meantime he had been ______ a moral crisis of her own. ( 4---3 A#)
B) going by
C) going over D) going in for
10. The teacher asked him to account ______ his lateness for school. (4---3A#)
A) of B) on
C) about 11. Many ______ of money and clothing poured in for the flood victims. (4---3A#)
A) profiles B) appliances
D) commissions
12. When you retire, you are allowed to exchange part of your expected ______for a lump
sun – and this is tax-free under the present law. (4---3A*)
A) donation B) reception
D) rent
13. We are ready to start services immediately upon ______ of government approval.
B) reception
C) conviction D) conversion
14. The garden seems to ______ on the new fertilizer. (4---3A#)
A) thrill C) boom D) arouse
15. All four men were ______ illegally bringing drugs into the country. (4---3A#)
A) charged B) arrested
C) scolded
16. Most homes now have numerous domestic ______ from dishwashers to microwave ovens
A) application. B) equip
C) vessels
17. The two men have __the heaviest pressure that could be imagined rather than betray their friend, Resenence Jeopardy.
A) profound B) profile
D) engage
18. Life in a wheelchair is ______ and living on welfare is just like sharing a dinner of raw pet food with the cat
A) rough C) cough D) enough
19. His role was to ______ up contributions and donations from friends in big business. (4---3A*)
B) beat
C) hit D) strike
20. Our headmaster has ______ views about what his pupils should wear and therefore pupils are allowed to wear
21. Only a few crumbling walls ______witness to the past greatness of the city of Aksum.
A) stand B) endure
D) deserve
22. International Aid Agencies have ______ ships to transport supplies to the disaster area.
A) skimmed C) dyed D) closed
23. Some dramatic successes in the ______ of foreign policy marked the last six years of his time in office. (4---3B#)
B) reference
C) regard D) retail
24. The discussion on Cultural Exchanges _______ the importance of people- to-people relations. (4---3B#)
A) uprighted
C) steered D) bond
25. She managed to ______ the conversation towards the subject of her birthday party.
A) sheer B) sneer
C) sneeze 26. That day was, for the manager, devoted to a succession of telephone calls, and a_ of files, most with urgent tags pinned on them A) stock C) stuck D) stink
27. There’s apple pie, ice-cream, cheesecake or fresh fruit for ______. (4---3B#)
A) dissolve B) desert
D) deserve
28. I was ______ with parcels, unable to walk any faster. (4---3B*)
B) carried
C) sustained D) retained
29. Although he barely ________through it, my teacher said that my essay was excellent.
A) steered C) overheard D) sought
30. The music sounds terrible because the old piano is badly out of ______. (4---3B#)
A) tongue C) sound D) noise
31. The multinational corporation was making a take-over ______for a property company.
A) application C) proposal D) suggestion
1.
We should concentrate on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of____. A) retreat B) rejection D) restriction
2. Her fluency in English gives her an advantage ______ other girls for the job. (4---4A#)
A) above C) than D) with
3. Nuclear science should be developed to benefit the people ______harm them.(4---4B#)
A) more than B) other than
D) better than
4. You can’t afford to let the situation get worse. You must take ______ to put it right.
A)decisions B) directions
C) sides 5. Over a third of the population was estimated to have no _______ to the health service.
A) assessment B) assignment
C) exception 6. I find this report badly done, and that ______ all the other work done in this office.
A) goes after B) goes through
C) goes on 7. The broadcasting stations ______ radio and TV programmes to all parts of the country.(4---4B#)
A) transformed B) transported
C) transferred
8. The mayor was asked to ______ his speech in order to allow his audience to raise questions
. A) constrain B) conduct
D) condemn
9. Improved consumer confidence is ______ to an economic recovery. (4---4B#)
B) satisfied
C) magic D) optical
10. He______ his head, wondering how to solve the problem. (4---4A#)
A) scanned B) screwed
C) scraped 11. As a developing country, we must keep ______ with the rapid development of the world economy. (4---4A#)
A) move B) step
C) speed 12. Very few scientists ______ with completely new answers to the world’s problems.
A) come to B) come round
C) come on D) come up
13. I’ll put my room and my computer at your ______. (4---4A#) B) use
C) manage D) operation
14. I can announce today that we are going to put an end to the uncoordinated and inefficient activities public _______ digging up our roads almost every day. (4---4A*)
C) galleries D) revenues
15. He was ______ after the failure of his plan. (4---4A#)
B) despair
C) despise D) depress
16. What proportion of your income is allotted for the government ______ annually.
A) avenues C) retails D) avails
17. For the time being, they are ______the old technology, but they soon turn to new technologies. (4---4A*)
A) stuck down B) stuck in
C) stuck up D) stuck with
18. We will use overseas aid to ______ the good will of the government, sensible economic policies and the respect for human rights. (4---4A*)
A) disturb C) impose D) wreck
19. This custom dates _____ the seventeenth century. (4---4A#) A) ridges
A) by B) with
C) from D) in
20. this bridge is of great ______ importance to the enemy and must be destroyed. (4---4A#)
B) intensive
C) detective D) elastic
21. If we walk slower than others we shall ______ behind them. (4---4A#)
A) lap C) tag D) push
22. He has ______ the house to us for ten years. (4---4A#)
A) engaged C) transformed D) licked
23. The patient’s health failed to such an extent that he was put into ______ care.
A) tense B) rigid
D) tight
24. It was unwise of him to ______ unreliable data in his speech. (4---4B#)
B) add to
C) keep to D) point to
25. The company welcomes ______ from people who use the goods it produces.(4---4B#)
A) antique C) charter D) donation
26. Send him to the bank for money; he is a ______ boy. (4---4A#)
A) slender B) practical
D) confident
27. Nylon is a kind of ______ material widely used in our daily lives.(4---4B#)
A) mixed C) combined D) systematic
28. There is only one ______of medicine left in this bottle. (4---4B#)
A) dot C) donor D) doll
29. After he had worked as a doctor for some years, he decided to specialize ______ children’s diseases.
A) at B) on
D) with
30. His resignation has created a ______ which can not easily be filled. (4---4B*)
B) carrier
C) format D) tag
31. Our ______ is limited to a few friendly letters. (4---4B#)
A) oven B) offense
C) worship 32. Don’t make ______ the weekly meeting; teachers will not work up any enthusiasm for it.
A) route C) course D) cause
33. All the images and data they need have been stored in a digital ______ in the database.
A) formation C) formality D) fortune
1. I think she hurt my feelings ______rather than by accident as she claimed.(4---5A#)
A) virtually C) literally D) appropriately
2. Generally, it is only when animals are trapped that that they ______ to violence in order to escape. (4---5B#)
A) retain B) appeal
D) gain
3. Parents often faced the ______between doing what they felt was good for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undisciplined noise and destructiveness. (4---5B#)
A) puzzle B) diagram
D) glue
4. He does not ______ his workmates and there are often disagreements between them.
A) go on with B) put up with
D) keep up with
5. If you joke with him he’ll think you’re insulting him on ______. (4---5A#)
A) reason B) determination
D) intention
6. I always keep candles in the house _____there is a power cut. (4---5A#)
A) if C) unless D) in the event
7.Some old people don’t like pop songs because they can’t _______so much noise.
A) resist B) sustain
D) undergo
8. If you don’t like to swim, you ______as well as stay at home. (4---5A#)
A) should C) can D) would
9. It took him several months to ______the wild horse. (4---5A#)
A) tend B) cultivate
C) breed 10. Increases in contributions ______from thirty yuan to one hundred yuan. (4---5B#)
A) alter C) separate D) differ
11. Some of his suggestions have been adopted but others have been _______ as they are quite impracticable.
A) subjected B) projected
C) objected 12. Though he did not ______, he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said. B) dedicate
C) devote D) delicate
13. It was difficult to guess what the old woman’s _______ to the bad news would be.
A) impression C) comment D) estimate
14. He ______ suicide when he was quite young. (4---5B#)
A) performed B) conducted
C) acted 15. she could not wait for daybreak and called her friend up at midnight to tell her the unpleasant experience that _
her A) soaked C) lumped D) dumped
16. Shall I put some ______milk in your coffee? (4---5A#)
A) pond B) powered
D) pooled
17 It’s so hot outside, I have been walking ten minutes and my shirt is ______. (4---5A#)
A) seeking B) choking
C) dosing 18. The story line was so fascinating that she finished reading the book at one ______.
A) standing C) lying D) kneeling
19. People refused to talk to him after the scandal and he was ______ by the best society. (4---5A*)
B) carried out
C) cut out D) called out
20. He came into power from______ circumstances as a poor boy. (4---5A#)
A) hollow B) gamble
D) peak
21. She put the dirty ______into the washer. (4---5A#)
A) launch C) slippery D) waterproof
22. He suffered a great deal ______cold and hunger. (4---5A#)
A) of B) with
C) by 23. Following the heavy rain, the holes were ______ again. (4---5A#)
A) filling for C) filling out D) filling by
24. It had been raining and the road was very ______. (4---5A#)
B) slim
C) slide D) skimming
25. Every time she tried to argue with her identical twin Katie, she ______crying her eyes out. (4---5B*)
A) turned up C) called up D) cut up
26. Heavy materials like brick and stone do not ______easily, and therefore soon reduce noise. (4---5B*)
A) exclaim B) resort
D) rust
27. All of these festivals were regarded as ______ occasions when all ordinary work stopped. (4---5B*)
B) hollow
C) liberal D) alert
28. The news in the newspaper is ______; we heard on the radio last week. (4---5B#)
A) stake C) clumsy D) mythical
29. Jane spent days in this atmosphere of grief and ______. (4---5B#)
A) recession B) concession
C) obligation
30. It is generally acknowledged that engineering science is an extremely______ and Theoretical science.
A) abrupt C) distract D) restrict
31. Martin decided to leave the company to______ out on his own as a writer. (4---5B#)
A) turn B) take C) strike D) slap