新标准大学英语3课后习题答案
Unit 2
1.When was the last time you were in _______ with your childhood friends?
A. context
B. contact
C. control
D. content
2.Like a boat at sea, his mind started to _______ when he wasn't interested.
A. float
B. soar
C. sink
D. drift
3.Mrs Jones didn't trust Jack, so she was very _______ to let him cut her grass.
A. reluctant
B. reluctantly
C. enthusiastic
D. enthusiastically
4.My house seems to be in a _______ state of disrepair—something is always broken!
A. perpetually
B. perpetual
C. perpetuity
D. perpetuate
5.The problem needs to be looked at from a historical _______ .
A. prospective
B. directive
C. perspective
D. executive
6.Dr. Carter has written _______ about the brain and its influence on our emotions.
A. extensively
B. intensively
C. extensive
D. intensive
7.The accident of last week _______ a review of school safety policy.
A. prompted
B. prompt
C. prompting
D. prompts
8.I am easily _______ by ice cream, so it's probably the best if I don't look at the dessert menu.
A. tempt
B. tempts
C. tempting
D. tempted
9.Wouldn't it be _______ if we didn't need to worry about money?
A. predictable
B. marvellous
C. astonishing
D. depressing
10.Researchers claim that there is a _______ link between caffeine and headaches.
A. definite
B. definitely
C. definition
D. defined
11.It's incredible to see how newborn babies are completely _______ on other people for everything.
A. depending
B. dependence
C. dependent
D. dependents
12.The criminal devised an _______ plan to escape from prison.
A. intrinsic
B. intricate
C. intrepid
D. intrusive
13.The court brought a _______ against the escaped prisoner.
A. persecution
B. persecute
C. prosecution
D. prosecute
14.Thank you for the offer to stay for dinner, but we don't want to _______.
A. pose
B. compose
C. propose
D. impose
15.Pedro's friends organized a friendly _______ to help him deal with his alcohol abuse.
A. contravention
B. invention
C. intervention
D. prevention
16.It's impossible to not be impressed by the Taj Mahal and _______ at its beauty.
A. respect
B. flaunt
C. marvel
D. admire
17.We should hire an _______ reviewer who isn't biased one way or the other.
A. internal
B. outdoor
C. indoor
D. external
18.I'm so excited for the new movie that waiting all year for it has been like _______.
A. tortures
B. torturing
C. tortuous
D. torture
19.Dylan likes to write _______ during his free time on the weekend.
A. poetry
B. poet
C. poetic
D. poem
20.The waterfall provided a _______ source of soothing background noise.
A. continual
B. continue
C. continuing
D. continuity
Unit 3
1.Next summer, the developers plan to _____ the old school into a museum.
A. convert
B. converse
C. converts
D. converge
2.Can you tell me what steps _____ a valid research proposal?
A. constitution
B. constitute
C. constituent
D. consist
3.The school received more money and _____ has been able to hire more teachers.
A. consequence
B. consequential
C. consequent
D. consequently
4.Different cultures' varying conceptions of _____ are visible in the types of clothes they
generally wear.
A. jealousy
B. modesty
C. notoriety
D. clarity
5.Unfortunately, I didn't practice enough so I failed to _____ for the team.
A. qualify
B. succeed
C. thrive
D. attempt
6.Her job is to gather the data and then _____ the results to determine their significance.
A. analysis
B. analyze
C. analytical
D. analyst
7.My _____ clouded my judgment and prevented me from acting rationally when I saw my girlfriend with another man.
A. modesty
B. clarity
C. jealousy
D. notoriety
8.Jim is in Thailand on vacation; he loves to travel to _____ places.
A. erotic
B. robotic
C. exotic
D. mitotic
9.Love him or hate him, the President of the United States is one of the most _____ people in the world.
A. influential
B. domestic
C. instinctive
D. intransigent
10.In a change of pace from his recent international focus, the Prime Minister spoke last night about _____ issues.
A. exotic
B. rhythmic
C. expressive
D. domestic
Unit 4
1.Some people have an unhealthy _____ with technology and need to have every new gadget available.
A. session
B. obsession
C. recession
D. cessation
2.After much _____, Heather was finally able to convince her boss to award her employees with a holiday bonus.
A. desistence
B. consistence
C. insistence
D. resistance
3.It's hard to _____ what the future might look like, but science fiction writers have been doing it for over a hundred years.
A. visualize
B. confer
C. mechanize
D. ascertain
4.I know almost everyone loves her new book, but I'm not even _____ interested in reading it.
A. massively
B. supposedly
C. entirely
D. remotely
5.Even though Mr Lewis didn't say it out loud, the _____ in his speech was that his staff didn't work hard enough.
A. personification
B. implication
C. justification
D. explanation
6.Many people complain that the cost of education is prohibitively expensive, but I think the cost of _____ is much higher.
A. ignore
B. ignorant
C. ignorance
D. ignoring
7.After he lost the competition, Lawrence felt completely and utterly _____.
A. dispirited
B. inquisitive
C. observant
D. unchanged
8.We need to come up with a _____ explanation for why we missed class yesterday.
A. plausible
B. sentient
C. staggering
D. corporate
9.Paul has become very _____ and conceited since he first tasted fame.
A. arrogance
B. elegant
C. elegance
D. arrogant
10.Dinosaurs have been _____ for approximately 65 million years!
A. succinct
B. extinct
C. instinct
D. blinked
Unit 7
1. My parents always taught me to _____ in the face of adversity.
A. perseverance
B. severe
C. severance
D. persevere
2. Could you please _____ the plant so it's not in front of the television?
A. punctuate
B. actuate
C. situate
D. fluctuate
3. The Prime Minister's speech will be remembered as one of the most _____ speeches ever given.
A. historic
B. history
C. historical
D. historian
4. Shelley had the _____ of being ahead of her time; she should've been born fifty years from now.
A. fortune
B. misfortune
C. fortunate
D. misfortunate
5.Mark can run a five-kilometre race pretty fast, but do you think he could _____ that speed for an entire marathon?
A. extend
B. protect
C. sustain
D. prolong
6. If you _____ David from the equation, do you still think his team could win the championship?
A. detract
B. distract
C. protract
D. subtract
7. She was, _____, one of the smartest students I've ever taught.
A. incident
B. incidence
C. incidental
D. incidentally
8. Do you think it's just a _____ that the car breaks down every time Sheila drives it?
A. coincidence
B. coincident
C. coincidental
D. coincidentally
9. My mother has _____ memory —she only remembers what she wants to remember.
A. defective
B. corrective
C. selective
D. elective
10.It's hard to believe how _____ people are until you see the helplessness of a newborn baby.
A. unlucky
B. vulnerable
C. insignificant
D. functional
11. In order to make cookies, you need to _____ together a lot of ingredients.
A. merge
B. blend
C. mingle
D. unite
12.His first novel was a failure, but his four _____ books were instant bestsellers.
A. successive
B. preceding
C. simultaneous
D. subsequent
13.I've never felt so _____ as when I saw the Himalayas and looked up at Mount Qomolangma.
A. insignificant
B. vulnerable
C. fortunate
D. amazing
14. Dr Carter was _____ a genius since no one else could replicate his work.
A. evidently
B. evident
C. evidence
D. evidential
15.Would you please turn off your cell phones for the _____ of the flight?
A. session
B. preservation
C. duration
D. termination
16.My daughter has been sick and kept me awake for three _____ nights.
A. consecutive
B. subsequent
C. succeeding
D. adjacent
17. William takes pride in his ability to _____ his parents' plans when he doesn't agree with them.
A. frustrating
B. frustration
C. frustrate
D. frustrated
18. Call the doctor! Nancy is _____, and I don't know what to do!
A. non-response
B. non-responsible
C. non-responding
D. non-responsive
19.There is a high _____ that we will get five inches of snow tonight.
A. probability
B. chance
C. odds
D. possibility
20.Robots are now a reality, but they still aren't very _____ to be useful.
A. function
B. functional
C. functioning
D. functionary
Unit 8
1. Harold _____ waited in the lobby for them to call him into the interview.
A. nervously
B. essentially
C. anomaly
D. blindly
2. We need to _____ natural resources today if we want our children to have them tomorrow.
A. reserve
B. disserve
C. conserve
D. preserve
3. I want the senator to make a _____ apology for his insensitive remarks.
A. sincere
B. humble
C. festive
D. morbid
4. I love Sundays because they are the only chance I get to _____ around and do nothing.
A. sneak
B. crawl
C. run
D. lounge
5. We're going to throw Maria an amazing _____ when she returns from Spain.
A. celebrate
B. celebration
C. celebratory
D. celebrating
6. The chocolate cake was a tiny bit of _____ in an otherwise ordinary meal.
A. decadent
B. decadents
C. cadence
D. decadence
7. My dog, Rex, was a _____ member of the family for 15 years.
A. beloved
B. belittled
C. bemused
D. belonged
8. It's impossible to _____ torture as a means of questioning.
A. beautify
B. justify
C. certify
D. mystify
9. Don't _____ around the house at night; the noises keep me awake.
A. lounge
B. pop
C. preach
D. sneak
10.I can't even describe the _____ I felt when I found out she got fired.
A. fury
B. furious
C. furor
D. furiously