巴苏词汇第五讲练习

2021年1月26日发(作者：面临)
Chapter 5
Quick
quiz
1:
Choose
the
best
word
from
the
four
choices
to
complete
the
following
sentences.
1. The village was ____ because of the danger of a flood.

A) departed


B) removed
C) emptied



D) evacuated

2. We must respect
others’
____ and should not always pry into
others’
personal affairs.


A) isolation


B) attachment
C) intimacy

D) privacy
3. I need to move to a larger apartment. Do you know of any

____ ones in this neighborhood?



A) vacant

B) bare

C) blank


D) empty

4. The small countries joined together into a ____.


A) coalition

B) corporation
C) federation

D) company
5. The original elections were declared ____________ by the former military ruler.

A) void


B) vulgar


C) surplus


D) extravagant

6. Your prospect of success has _____.
A) been lost

B) diminished

C) vanished

D) been invisible

7. The two schools are ___ on the project.
A) uniting

B) conjoining

C) cooperating

D) concurring
8. The royal family is ____ from many of the difficulties faced by the ordinary people.

A) isolated

B) insolated

C) insulated

D) desolated


Quick
quiz
2:
Choose
the
best
word
from
the
four
choices
to
complete
the
following
sentences.
1. The region is undergoing a peaceful ____ from colonial rule to self-government.
A) transfer



B) transformation

C) evolution





D) transition
2. He took the ____ by asking the first question to the visiting scholar at his lecture.
A) injection



B) rejection

C) orientation


D) initiative
3. My boss has always attended to the _______ of important business himself.

A) transaction


B)stimulation


C)transition


D) solution

4. Some studies confirmed that this kind of eye disease was ________ in tropical countries.

A) prospective


B) prevalent


C) provocative


D) perpetual

5. The manager gave her his ______ that her complaint would be investigated.

A) assurance


B) assumption


C) sanction


D) insurance

6. The woman was worried about the side effects of taking aspirins, but her doctor ________her
that it is absolutely harmless.

A) retrieved

C) reassured

B) released

D) revived

7. Some felt that they were hurrying into an epoch of unprecedented enlightenment, in which
better education and beneficial technology would _____wealth and leisure for all.
A) maintain

B) ensure


C) certify

D) console
8. Parents have to learn how to follow a baby's behavior and adapt the tone of their ________ to
the baby’s capabilities.

A) perceptions

B) consultations


C) interactions


D) interruptions
9.
The
post-World
War
II
baby
________
resulted
in
a
43
percent
increase
in
the
number
of
teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s.
A) boost


B) boom


C) production


D) prosperity
10.
Researchers
discovered
that
the
plants
infected
with
virus
give
off
a
gas
that
____
disease
resistance in neighboring plants.
A) contracts


B) activates


C) excites


D) evokes
11.
After
graduation,
he
won
the
famous
Rhodes
Scholarship
and
____
advanced
studies
for
2
years in Oxford University in England.
A) chased


B) pursued


C) sought


D) hunted

Quick
quiz
3:
Choose
the
best
word
from
the
four
choices
to
complete
the
following
sentences.
1. They are sure they have all the facts they need to ___ the existence of a black hole.
A) obtain
B) maintain
C) verify
D) display
2. The new tourist hotel will have
______for more than one thousand people.
A) convenience


B) accommodations

C) capability
D) capacities
3.
The
lady
in
this
strange
tale
very
obviously
suffers
from
a
serious
mental
illness.
Her
plot
against a completely innocent old man is a clear sign of ______.

A) impulse


B) insanity


C) inspiration

D) disposition
4.
The
automatic
doors
in
supermarkets
____________
the
entry
and
exit
of
customers
with
shopping carts.

A) furnish

B) induce

C) facilitate

D) allocate

5. The glass vessels should be handled most carefully since they are _______.

A) intricate

C) subtle

B) fragile

D) crisp

6. We should made laws to curb the _____ of our forests, which is a very bad conduct to harm our
environment.

A) rap



B) rape

C) smuggle



D) rash

7. Such a ____ dining
–
room is capable of holding about six hundred people at a time.
A) solitary

B) sacred

C) spacious

D) spectacular
8. She ____ the new detective story.
A) devoured

B) devoted

C) sucked

D) immerge

9. She gave a ____ laugh, when she heard his interesting answer.
A) vivacious

B) veracious

C) voracious

D) vicious
10. His pet is a ___ dog, which always complies with the master
’
s order.
A) facile

B) docile

C) obstinate

D) untamed


Quick
quiz
4:
Choose
the
best
word
from
the
four
choices
to
complete
the
following
sentences.
1. We managed to reach the top of the mountain, and half an hour later we began to _________.

A) ascend


B) descend


C) decline


D) plunge

2. The children cheered up when they saw hundreds of colorful balloons _________ slowly into
the sky.

A) floating


B) raising


C) heaving


D) ascending

3. I suggested he should _______ himself to his new conditions.

A) adapt


B) adopt


C) regulate


D) suit