复旦大学 研究生综合英语习题及答案.doc

研究生英语第一册

Lesson 1

1. My husband, because of his own professional _____, goes to Cambridge every week.

A. judgments

B. criteria

C. personalities

D. commitments

2. While looking for the address book, Mr. Hailey _____ some of his old love letters in his

wi fe’s drawer.

A. came about

B. came up with

C. came across

D. came out with

3. Mrs. Bush, head of the intelligence department, is _____ immense talent and boundless

energy.

A. capable of

B. blessed with

C. associated with

D. recognized as

4. The audience are deeply impressed by the leading character of the feature film that looks

_____ at social problems.

A. squarely

B. obviously

C. accurately

D. deliberately

5. The Prime Minister has decided to take advantage of his popularity in the opinion polls, and

called a _____ election for next month.

A. snap

B. clean-out

C. magnetic

D. convincing

6. The singer is very popular with the general public, but she is often regarded as being too

_____ on stage.

A. instinctual

B. refreshing

C. flamboyant

D. eloquent

7. Mr. Potter had taken it for granted that his verbose and _____ explanation of the facts would

convince the jury of his innocence.

A. flimsy

B. individual

C. glib

D. greasy

8. Malaysia and Indonesia rely on open markets for forest and fishery products. _____ some

Asian countries are highly protectionist.

A. Deliberately

B. Conversely

C. Evidently

D. Naturally

9. According to legal provisions, the properties will either _____ the original owners or else be

sold at auction.

A. commit to

B. take to

C. romp to

D. revert to

10. The measures are little more than _____ that will fade fast once investors take a hard look at

them.

A. blind faith

B. window dressing

C. good impression

D. winning image

1. The number of people who consult psychiatrists today is not, as is sometimes felt, a _____ of

increasing mental illness.

A. revelation

B. syndrome

C. symptom

D. repugnance

2. That snake is not poisonous. It's a completely _____ little garden snake.

A. inoffensive

B. innocuous

C. ingenious

D. incompatible

3. Evidence _____ to the trial must be submitted to the police.

A. prevalent

B. subsequent

C. subordinate

D. pertinent

4. University teaching may be _____ if the government increases the number of students without

providing additional funding.

A. jeopardized

B. patched

C. improvised

D. generalized

5. The child's parents were _____ into accepting the demand of the kidnappers'.

A. pleaded

B. intoxicated

C. intimidated

D. besieged

6. The detectives _____ on the terrorists' conversations by using secret microphones.

A. overheard

B. eavesdropped

C. reflected

D. mused

7. The two sides are so _____ to each other that there is no way to work out a compromise.

A. inimical

B. reconcilable

C. magnetic

D. conducive

8. They tried to keep it quiet but eventually everyone learned about _____ the meeting.

A. clandestine

B. intangible

C. sedate

D. squalid

9. Although Jack had moved away before the baseball season ended, the most valuable player

award was _____ his.

A. dubiously

B. duly

C. excessively

D. transiently

10. Many citizens appealed to the city government for enacting _____ laws to protect the

consumers.

A. lavish

B. equivocal

C. stringent

D. flabby

Lesson 2

1. Probably the physics of the mid-nineteenth century was not as spectacular as that of the _____

and following periods, but its theoretical advances were nevertheless very impressive.

A. posterior

B. overwhelming

C. preceding

D. potential

2. We will encourage every school to _____ its character, ethos and areas of special interest

within a more flexible National Curriculum framework.

A. facilitate

B. enhance

C. acquaint

D. install

3. _____ her dreams, Lynne traveled the world, leaving her 2-year-old son Stephen in the care of

babysitters.

A. In spite of

B. In case of

C. In place of

D. In pursuit of

4. His deep _____, subtle approach, sharp analytical capacities and broad clinical knowledge

made him a brilliant clinician.

A. intuition

B. revelation

C. hypothesis

D. indulged in

5. Western medicine, _____ science and practiced by people with internationally accepted

medical degrees, is only one of many systems of healing.

A. rooted in

B. originated from

C. trapped in

D. indulged in

6. The computer acts as a substitute for human friends, perhaps, but the human-computer _____

may also bring about the end of existing human-human relationships.

A. apathy

B. intensity

C. concept

D. infatuation

7. She had something to tell him, something so important that even this unexpected opportunity

for _____ of their desire must take second place.

A. appetite

B. consummation

C. intimacy

D. potentiality

8. Such an approach forces managers to communicate with one another and helps _____ rigid

departmental boundaries.

A. break down

B. stand for

C. set off

D. pass over

9. He knew that he had one more duty to perform before he allowed himself to succumb to his

_____ for rest.

A. orientation

B. anticipation

C. craving

D. objection

10. To be honest, I felt rather embarrassed by Jane’s _____ and flirting during her interview.

A. spontaneousness

B. anticipation

C. coyness

D. sensation

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1. It is _____ upon all users of this equipment to familiarize themselves with the safety

procedure.

A. necessary

B. indispensable

C. incumbent

D. requisite

2. The kidnappers specified that the _____ money should be left at the bus station by 12 o'clock

the next day, otherwise they would kill the boy.

A. ransom

B. prize

C. conscience

D. revenue

3. According to the economic forecast, some people are hopeful of a drop in the inflation figures,

but others are less _____.

A. fastidious

B. sanguine

C. lenient

D. prudent

4. Her rise to fame was quite _____—in less than two years she was a household name.

A. phenomenal

B. bleak

C. blank

D. vacant

5. I looked for her through the window, but the curtains were drawn and I could only see her in

_____.

A. feature

B. profile

C. silhouette

D. reverse

6. I tried to persuade her to take the job but she was quite _____ that she did not want it.

A. desperate

B. paranoid

C. absolute

D. adamant

7. We are not compatible—he likes nearly all the things that _____ me.

A. repulse

B. surpass

C. banish

D. repatriate

8. In his will, the millionaire _____ nearly all his fortunes to the housemaid who took care of

him in his last days.

A. inherited

B. bequeathed

C. owed

D. remitted

9. When the only witness finally came to tell the truth, poor Mike was _____ from all

responsibility for the accident.

A. pardoned

B. derived

C. exonerated

D. charged

10. The negotiation had reached an _____, with both sides refusing to compromise.

A. eclipse

B. impasse

C. ultimatum

D. abyss

Lesson 3

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1. Hard training will _____ you richly when it comes to the actual competition.

A. bring

B. pay

C. serve

D. make

2. At the news conference, the foreign minister_____ a confident smile and answered all the

questions raised by the journalists.

A. wore

B. expressed

C. settled

D. cultivated

3. After years of research, scholars have finally _____ this anonymous play _____ Christopher

Marlowe.

A. taken ... for

B. obliged ... with

C. ascribed ... to

D. reconciled ... to

4. Most parents have occasional _____ about whether they're doing the best thing for their

children.

A. burdens

B. qualms

C. necessities

D. securities

5. It _____ me to thank you for all you have done for the association in the last few years.

A. falls to

B. falls into

C. falls on

D. falls in with

6. I never heard anyone in my village mention my uncle Tony—I think he was a bit of a _____.

A. white elephant

B. dark horse

C. guinea pig

D. black sheep

7. The _____ that she suggested for discussion were based on the most recent medical research.

A. contributions

B. occupations

C. expostulations

D. amendments

8. Rosa used to be quiet and introverted, but now she is _____ being sociable.

A. looking forward to

B. going back on

C. making a point of

D. standing up to

9. Mary broke off her engagement to John when she found him often _____ the pretty girls in his

office.

A. putting up with

B. seeing through

C. making fun of

D. philandering with

10. Instead of ending up in jail or _____, she was remarkably successful and became one of the

wealthiest people in Britain today.

A. in the raw

B. in the gutter

C. in the extreme

D. in the flesh

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1. As one of the youngest branch managers in the IT company, Mr. Yang is certainly on the

_____ of a brilliant career.

A. track

B. margin

C. course

D. threshold

2. In _____ times, human beings did not travel for pleasure, but to find a more favorable climate.

A. prime

B. primary

C. primitive

D. preliminary

3. While it's true that techniques of active listening can _____ the value of lecture, few students

possess such skills at the beginning of their college careers.

A. enhance

B. enlarge

C. access

D. exaggerate

4. In the library, I found Dabbie was frowning, apparently _____ a word.

A. tumbled to

B. collided with

C. coincided with

D. stumped on

5. Fierce storms have been _____ rescue efforts and there's now little chance of finding more

survivors.

A. hampering

B. bewildering

C. tangling

D. blundering

6. They didn't even give him any sick-pay when he was off ill, which is a fairly _____ way to

treat an employee.

A. vulnerable

B. makeshift

C. shoddy

D. backhanded

7. It must be realized that large price increase can only _____ demands for even larger wage

increase.

A. call off

B. trigger off

C. make off

D. carry off

8. When the old lady was back from shopping, she was shocked to find that her house had been

_____.

A. pawned

B. leased

C. ransacked

D. mortgaged

9. Since this was my first job interview, I asked _____ about the salary.

A. discouragingly

B. diffidently

C. differentially

D. diffusely

10. The lost car of the Lees was found _____ in the woods off the highway.

A. vanished

B. abandoned

C. scattered

D. disregarded

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1. As television continued to command the family hours of the evening, radio found its own

prime time hours in the morning with wake-up shows, bright with music and _____, as well as time and weather announcements.

A. chitchat

B. hyperstimulation

C. collaboration

D. spur

2. At this conference Trudeau admonished the press as“a pretty lousy lot”for _____ into his

private life.

A. lapsing

B. snooping

C. sneezing

D. yawning

3. The demoralizing effect on the enemy of such bombing and _____ from planes completely

hidden in a clouded sky was tremendous.

A. explosives

B. mines

C. barrels

D. barrages

4. Three schools in Putney have _____ their resources and order to buy an area of waste ground

and turn it into a sports field.

A. pooled

B. captured

C. sucked

D. transcended

5. The U.S. economy appeared to function on autopilot during much of 1995 with _____

mergers that kept the stock market in a tizzy.

A. appalling

B. anticipating

C. mind-boggling

D. brain-racking

6. After Steve entered the room he _____ the satchel on the label and sat down on the sofa in

front of the telly.

A. plunked down

B. plucked out

C. ran amok

D. pecked out

7. The roads tied _____ regions together, moving the goods and people required to build and

maintain extensive public works.

A. full-blown

B. far-gone

C. far-flung

D. far-fetched

8. Evidence from drawings of that time indicates that the Egyptians used a _____, probably milk,

to reduce the sliding friction and thus increase the efficiency of the inclined planes.

A. nutrition

B. junk

C. query

D. lubricant

9. Since last Sunday, the volcano has _____ a giant cloud of ash, dust and gases into the air.

A. mustered

B. demolished

C. forged

D. spewed

10. He _____ together a living from several part-time jobs by running sight-seeing charters, and

collecting dry cleaning.

A. haunts

B. cobbles

C. flattens

D. underscores

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1. The old lady has developed a _____ cough which can't be cured completely in a short time.

A. benign

B. permanent

C. perpetual

D. chronic

2. The police were alerted that the murderer might still be in the _____.

A. round

B. circumstances

C. vicinity

D. track

3. Listening to the soft tapping of rain on the roof can _____ a person's nervous tension.

A. provoke

B. soothe

C. retain

D. revive

4. The _____ the farmer gave on his woodland to a lumber company expires in two years' time.

A. premium

B. subsidy

C. extinction

D. lease

5. It's more important to pave the way for children's desire to know than to put them on a diet of

facts they are not ready to _____.

A. disperse

B. assimilate

C. alternate

D. affiliate

6. Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are

never alone or _____ of life.

A. weary

B. wary

C. cautious

D. callous

7. If the freed men had become landowners instead of _____ laborers, their descendants would

be prosperous today.

A. affluent

B. stingy

C. impoverished

D. gorgeous

8. This cream can be used to treat cuts and bruises and other_____ minor injuries.

A. floppy

B. sundry

C. infirm

D. murky

9. They _____ agreed to the proposal that hostage-taking be made an international crime.

A. incompatibly

B. presumably

C. invariably

D. unanimously

10. For reasons of personal safety, the man told the police that he wished to remain _____.

A. anonymous

B. suspicious

C. conspicuous

D. rigorous

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1. The new rule stipulated that a worker who was _____ three times in one month should be

dismissed immediately.

A. awkward

B. aloof

C. clumsy

D. tardy

2. At the end of the President’s speech, leaders of both parties announced their full support of the

doctrine he had _____.

A. complimented

B. enunciated

C. disguised

D. deprived

3. Because of its capacity to _____ numerous substances in large amounts, pure water rarely

occurs in nature.

A. suffice

B. dissolve

C. withhold

D. recognize

4. In Austria he met with President Kurt Waldheim, who remained a figure of controversy

because of his reported _____ in Nazi crimes against Jews and others during World War II.

A. caricature

B. complicity

C. citadel

D. protocol

5. When we arrived there we saw many red-and-white streamers floating gently into the outfield

grass, fireworks _____ overhead.

A. booming

B. intoning

C. squabbling

D. mounting

6. The bird put his tiny head to one side and looked up at him with his soft bright eye. Then he

hopped about and pecked the earth _____, looking for seeds and insects.

A. dubiously

B. lavishly

C. transiently

D. briskly

7. John reached for a cigarette and _____ a little. “We did not think anybody would be stubborn

enough to come here in spite of our discouragement.”

A. overheard

B. chuckled

C. generalized

D. jeopardized

8. For a moment I thought he was being serious, but then he _____ at me.

A. intimidated

B. mused

C. reflected

D. winked

9. Many of the country’s prosecutors feared the proposal was ultimately aimed at curbing their

considerable powers and _____ wrongdoers _____.

A. patching…up

B. picking…out

C. letting…off the hook

D. brushing…off

10. About half of all children in South Asia and one-third of those in sub-Saharan Africa suffer

from _____, which usually results from an inadequate intake of essential vitamins and minerals.

A. eclipse

B. repugnance

C. malnutrition

D. revelation

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1. A photograph taken in Bern during Eva Peron's 1947 tour of Europe depicts the _____

Argentine first lady, bejeweled and elegantly dressed in a Pads gown.

A. spurious

B. glamorous

C. clamorous

D. proliferous

2. Actors on stage bring characters to full life who would _____ have lain inert on the printed

page.

A. thereof

B. nevertheless

C. furthermore

D. otherwise

3. Human cloning is probably not _____ because they will be heavily discouraged by many

governments.

A. imminent

B. eminent

C. efficient

D. impeccable

4. Snow began to fall at round about the beginning of the New Year and continued on and off for

_____ ten days.

A. appropriately

B. exceedingly

C. approximately

D. apprehensively

5. Hungry birds in search of _____ of food made delicate impressions on the surface of the

snow.

A. scraps

B. scratches

C. scrapes

D. scents

6. The glade was pear-shaped, roughly a hundred yards long and fifty yards wide, with a _____

pool of rain-water in the center of it.

A. random

B. blank

C. hollow

D. stagnant

7. Geraldo's reports exposed the _____ conditions and neglectful, often abusive, treatment of the

patients in the hospital.

A. tertiary

B. stationary

C. solitary

D. unsanitary

8. After endless difficulty, we managed to catch the horse, but could not get him move and were

obliged to camp in a most _____ spot where we could not light a fire.

A. inevitable

B. indispensable

C. inhabitable

D. insatiable

9. It's curious how often sympathy for the old and _____ takes a form which actually humiliates

them.

A. infirm

B. infamous

C. impatient

D. ignorant

10. After we had waited for ten minutes in the crowded tea shop, the clergyman's son came _____

through the door.

A. lumbering

B. plundering

C. glittering

D. rumbling

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1. Dissatisfaction with the Labor government now seems to have _____ every section of society.

A. heralded

B. permeated

C. conceived

D. scrutinized

2. We know these chemicals are dangerous, but their benefits far _____ any risk to the

environment.

A. overtake

B. manipulate

C. stock

D. outweigh

3. All previous attempts to _____ the fighting have failed so why should these proposals be any

more successful?

A. compromise

B. halt

C. withstand

D. sustain

4. The president and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a _____ for continued

economic reform.

A. mandate

B. assertion

C. discourse

D. determinism

5. She is not satisfied with her job because it provides no _____ for her energies and talents.

A. conception

B. outreach

C. outlet

D. essentialism

6. John has been _____ me with drinks all evening—I don’t think I am capable of driving home.

A. shifting

B. offering

C. plying

D. crushing

7. My second and more _____ reason for going to Dearborn was to see the Henry Ford Museum.

A. compelling

B. weary

C. perplexing

D. worthy

8. Scotland’s _____ on Wales in the second half of the match earned them a 4-1 victory.

A. imposition

B. onslaught

C. push

D. edge

9. By the time I left his house he had become pretty hostile; I felt I _____ better than that.

A. pursued

B. fostered

C. entitled

D. deserved

10. Today almost every household has radios, TVs and a whole _____ of gadgets by electricity.

A. endeavor

B. host

C. supply

D. faculty

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1. Taking more than the recommended dose of tablets is quite _____.

A. hilarious

B. perilous

C. surreptitious

D. hideous

2. Even the best medical treatment can not cure all the ills that _____ men and women.

A. beseech

B. bestow

C. bewitch

D. beset

3. The field of medicine has always attracted its share of quacks—that is, _____ women and

men with little or no medical knowledge.

A. disreputable

B. disguised

C. distinguished

D. dissoluble

4. The reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans is that there is sharp

difference in appearance between them and their white _____.

A. consultants

B. counterparts

C. culprits

D. conservatives

5. All the questions _____ around what she had been doing on the night of the robbery.

A. resolved

B. revoked

C. revolved

D. revived

6. We tried to drive our horse into the river, but he simply could not _____.

A. trudge

B. surge

C. budge

D. dredge

7. The experiments _____ that in overpopulated communities, mother rats do not behave

normally.

A. defied

B. verified

C. purified

D. intensified

8. The aim of the president's speech was to convince still reluctant countries of the great

necessity of imposing sanctions against the countries that _____ terrorists.

A. kidnapped

B. harassed

C. heckled

D. harbored

9. In other words, we discovered a _____ of effects from the power failure, each becoming the

cause of the next.

A. succession

B. recession

C. procession

D. secession

10. In establishing or _____ a causal relation, it is usually necessary to show the process by which

the alleged cause produces the effect.

A. reframing

B. redeeming

C. refuting

D. redressing

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1. We looked out across a river valley to the broad snow-white ridge of Mount Ararat, its peak

_____ against the blue sky.

A. galvanizing

B. exhilarating

C. incandescent

D. unreachable

2. Would you care for some tea, or even a light meal, to _____ yourself before setting off for a

new adventure?

A. color

B. forego

C. boost

D. fortify

3. The company she was working for was failing so she decided to _____ and set up her own

business with a friend.

A. deal out

B. bail out

C. hold out

D. fall out

4. Fisher was given a _____ in the marketing section before a decision was made about his

future.

A. tryout

B. momentum

C. conviction

D. permissiveness

5. This is one of the few jobs you can do in this place and _____ being completely drunk.

A. contribute to

B. get away with

C. make for

D. try on

6. The lieutenant general has got such an enormous _____ —I've never known anyone so full of

themselves!

A. humility

B. illusion

C. altruism

D. ego

7. Before becoming a _____ director, Jason had worked as a film critic for a magazine for a

number of years.

A. full blown

B. lovelorn

C. grown up

D. rootless

8. According to a survey of 250 high schools, the _____ rate among students is currently one in

five.

A. alteration

B. dropout

C. impulse

D. denial

9. Please don't be so depressed; I'm sure things will start to _____ for the motor trade in the

coming year.

A. look up

B. dredge up

C. take hold

D. sell out

10. After a heated debate, the Parliament voted to impose a two-year _____ on nuclear weapons

testing.

A. curfew

B. strain

C. settlement

D. moratorium

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1. Even in those schools, which have tried to enforce no smoking by _____ punishment, there's

as much smoking as in other schools.

A. cordial

B. contingent

C. convertible

D. corporal

2. People who have such an addiction are _____; i.e., they have a very powerful psychological

need that they feel they must satisfy.

A. compulsory

B. compulsive

C. comprehensive

D. consistent

3. Those living in countries with long dark winters are apt to be less talkative and less sociable

than inhabitants of countries where the climate is more _____.

A. excessive

B. equivalent

C. equable

D. exquisite

4. Jill was seriously injured and for days he _____ between life and death.

A. hovered

B. hewed

C. hobbled

D. huddled

5. Professor Smith has already retired, but his teachings still _____ a strong influence on his

students.

A. execute

B. forsake

C. exert

D. forge

6. This is but a _____ of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored.

A. friction

B. fraction

C. faction

D. fracture

7. The country has been faced with a _____ problem of unemployment since the newly-elected

President came into power.

A. sagging

B. jogging

C. logging

D. nagging

8. The English language is capable of expressing many subtle _____ of meanings.

A. shallows

B. sermons

C. shades

D. shadows

9. It's established that everyone has over a thousand dreams a year, however, few of these _____

productions are remembered during waking hours.

A. tacit

B. stringent

C. nocturnal

D. mawkish

10. The belief that you should own your house is deeply _____ in British society.

A. ingrained

B. inflicted

C. afflicted

D. enraged

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1. Chris decided to divorce Pat because he often _____ a girl young enough to be his daughter.

A. brought up

B. stood up for

C. took advantage of

D. played around with

2. Generations of women in this part of the world were _____ by poverty, by religion and by

tradition.

A. acquired

B. undergone

C. enslaved

D. bolstered

3. My neighbor is always complaining about his secondhand ear--he doesn't know when he's

_____.

A. celebrated

B. well off

C. deceptive

D. well-founded

4. It is becoming abundantly clear that, unless I make some determined move, I will become a

permanent _____ in the machine.

A. cog

B. model

C. victim

D. conductor

5. The recent fall in house prices has _____ disaster for many people who want to sell their

houses.

A. spelt

B. averted

C. resolved

D. transformed

6. I told my sister I'd lend her my new shirt if she let me borrow her jacket, but she didn't rise to

the _____.

A. bait

B. mask

C. obligation

D. compromise

7. My husband ate a _____ breakfast before he set off for his remote farmhouse.

A. prime

B. hearty

C. convenient

D. heady

8. Yesterday morning when she said she was going to leave him for good, he thought it was only

a _____.

A. bliss

B. sacrifice

C. bluff

D. consequence

9. Alice was _____ with grief when she heard her husband died in a plane crash.

A. above herself

B. in touch

C. in line

D. beside herself

10. Due to an _____ by my bank, there was less money in my account than there should have

been.

A. intent

B. oversight

C. indecision

D. engagement

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1. We are now in a world where the speed at which you distribute information often means the

difference between success and failure, and immediacy _____ quality.

A. supervises

B. supplements

C. supersedes

D. scandalizes

2. A teacher must constantly evaluate her own attitude because her influence can be _____ if she

has personal prejudices.

A. delectable

B. deleterious

C. meritorious

D. deliberate

3. The _____ anthropologist George Murdock has listed seventy-three items that characterize

every known culture, past and present.

A. eminent

B. imminent

C. reminiscent

D. legitimate

4. These computer hackers skip school and lose contact with friends; they may even _____

personal hygiene.

A. forge

B. furrow

C. forgo

D. fortify

5. Education _____ the conviction that you can always learn something new.

A. installs

B. instills

C. fulfills

D. imbues

6. Sadly, the Giant Panda is one of the many species now in danger of _____.

A. immigration

B. extinction

C. distinction

D. extraction

7. Jane was in a _____ as to whether to marry Paul, who was poor, or Charles, who was ugly.

A. paradox

B. stigma

C. dilemma

D. predication

8. Most public places are simply not _____ to the needs of people with a physical handicap.

A. deserted

B. dwelled

C. motivated

D. geared

9. People who like to wear red dresses are more likely to be talkative and _____.

A. vivacious

B. introverted

C. lucrative

D. perilous

10. The _____ who had isolated himself from the outside world for over ten years was found dead

in his hamlet.

A. miser

B. hermit

C. pauper

D. vegetarian

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1. When every country stands with an unconsumed and unsalable surplus on its hands, the

capitalist system will _____ under the terrific structure of profits that it itself has reared.

A. break up

B. break out

C. break in

D. break down

2. Prince Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty of a sin he

could neither _____ nor forget.

A. remedy

B. injure

C. remember

D. save

3. For this reason I never thought of taking any steps towards a complete separation, which

would have made our _____ evident to the world.

A. salvation

B. resolution

C. alienation

D. affection

4. The TV network _____ the organizers of the track and field championships to schedule the

100-meter final for Sunday afternoon.

A. rely on

B. prevail upon

C. dwell on

D. lean upon

5. In such a case, no matter how many are present, all prefer to keep silence: no one will _____,

but all reserve their comments till afterwards.

A. take the part

B. take the role

C. take the initiative

D. take the chance

6. He said he would not forget the _____ he had suffered in looking for work, and he did not

wish to expose himself to that again.

A. beautification

B. ratification

C. mortification

D. fabrication

7. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect of _____ our upper class, vulgarizing our

middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

A. materializing

B. vivifying

C. defending

D. possessing

8. All the rest of the year, the city is in that state of dull _____, between life and death, which

renders it similar to a kind of station between this world and the next-a sublime spot, a resting-place full of poetry and character.

A. gaiety

B. apathy

C. memorial

D. compassion

9. The army under such circumstances may usefully aid the magistrate to _____ a small faction,

or an occasional mob, or insurrection; but it will be unable to enforce encroachments against the united efforts of the great body of the people.

A. suppress

B. oppress

C. depress

D. repress

10. From the day Ulysses left us there has been no meeting of our councilors until now; who then

can it be, whether old or young, that finds it so necessary to _____ us?

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1. The police said that it was thanks to the _____ of a neighbor that the fire was discovered

before it could spread.

A. vigilance

B. diagnosis

C. prescription

D. obscurity

2. Outgoing and _____ by nature, he was as communicative and unbuttoned as his father was

guarded and reserved.

A. addicted

B. identifiable

C. exhilarated

D. exuberant

3. We need to free young men from a destructive culture of manhood that _____ their capacity to

feel other people's hurt, to know others' sadness.

A. refrains

B. impedes

C. deforms

D. expels

4. This latest development has been _____ as a major breakthrough in modern science.

A. shed

B. heralded

C. scrambled

D. inhibited

5. As we approached the house, I had a _____ that something terrible had happened.

A. preconception

B. premonition

C. hypertension

D. admonition

6. Slowly, patiently, skillfully, Betty fanned the spark of life that _____ in the dying soldier.

A. flickered

B. flushed

C. fondled

D. flipped

7. Although at the _____ these schools were attended by only a tiny percentage of the population,

numbers increased during the 19th century as waves of immigrants entered.

A. setback

B. outlet

C. sequence

D. outset

8. He tried to make his views understood by all the people present at the meeting, but to no

_____.