一、詞匯選項：

1. The city center was wiped out by the bomb.

A. covered

B. reduced

C. destroyed

D. moved

C  wipe out是個短語，意思是‘消滅、摧毀’，和動詞destroy同義。又如：The whole  town was wiped out by the landslide。

2. The contempt he felt for his fellow students was obvious.

A. need

B. hate

C. love

D. pity

B  在四個選項中和contempt（蔑視）意義最接近的是hate，plty的意思是‘憐憫’。

3. A larg crowd assembled outside the American embassy.

A. watched

B. shouted

C. gathered

D. walked

C    assemble是‘集結’的意思，gather是具有這一詞義的最普通的一個詞。

4. He inspired many young people to take up sports.

A. encouraged

B. allowed

C. called

D. advised

A   inspire sb. to do sth．是‘鼓勵、激勵某人做某事’的意思，這里inspire和encourage的詞義和用法一樣，故可以用encourage來代替。

5. The storm caused severe damage.

A. physical

B. accidental

C. serious

D. enviromental

C  severe有‘嚴厲的、嚴重的’多種意義。severe damage是嚴重破壞，故可用serious代替。又如：severe criticism嚴厲批評、severe situation嚴峻的形勢、severe winter嚴冬、    severe loss嚴重損失、severe teacher嚴厲的老師。

6. I think $7 a drink is a bit steep, don’t you?

A. tight

B. low

C. cheap

D. high

D   steep這個詞最常用的意義是‘陡峭的’，如：a steep slope，陡峭的山坡，但在口語中它可以用來表示（要求、價格）‘過高、難以接受’的意思。

7. Do we have to wear these name tags?

A. lists

B. forms

C. lables

D. codes

C   tag小標簽，如：price tags份格標牌，luggage tags行李標簽。在四個選項中label和它同義。form是‘表格’，code是‘碼’，如bar code條形碼。

8. Most baby can take in a wide range of food easily.

A. bring

B. digest

C. keep

D. serve

B   take in這個短語可以有多種解釋，如‘接納、接受、留宿、收縮、改小’等等。本句中它的意義很明顯是‘吸收、消化’，故選digest。

9. Joe came to the window as the crowd chanted ”Joe,Joe,Joe”

A. repeated

B. jumped

C. maintained

D. approached

A  chant這個詞的意思是‘唱’，尤其是‘反復、單調地唱或吟誦’。本句中說窗外的人群反復呼喊Joe的名字，所以這里可以用repeat來替代chant。

10. What puzzles me is why his books are so popular.

A. shocks

B. influences

C. confuses

D. concerns

c    puzzle做動詞用的意思是‘感到不解、迷惑’，句子的意思是：令我不解的是為什么他的書如此受歡迎。動詞confuse恰好和puzzle同義，而且用法也相同。

11. All the flats in the building had the same  layout.

A. size

B. function

C. color

D. arrangment

答案：D

layout是‘布局、安排’的意思，如：layout of the exhibition hall,layout of the shop—ping complex等。本句的意思是：大樓里所有的公寓布局都一樣。arrangement可以指時間、日程的安排，也可以指空間的分割和安排。function是‘功能’。

12. The weather was crisp and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away.

A. fresh

B. hot

C. heavy

D. windy

A    crisp通常用于修飾食品，表示‘脆的、新鮮而脆生的’，如：crisp crackers,crisp   lettuce等。但它也可以用來描述天氣，表示‘清新、涼爽的’，在本句中它表示就是這個意思，所以可以用fresh來代替。

13. The walls are made of hollow concret blocks.

A. big

B. empty

C. long

D. new

B   hollow是．空心的’意思，如：a hollow tree,a hollow pipe。這里可以用empty來替換。

14. Our aim was to update the health service and we succeeded.

A. offer

B. provide

C. modernize

D. fund

C   update的意思就是現在常說的‘升級、更新’，和modernize‘現代化’意義相近。

15. Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.

A. slightly

B. partly

C. faintly

D. completely

D    utterly是‘完全’的意思，和completely同義。

（責任編輯：vstara）

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