测试与评估(二)词汇测验(一).doc

测试与评估（二）
词汇测验（一）
Directions: There is a blank in each of the following sentences. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. The house is a _______ with all the toys scattered on the floor and baby food spilled everywhere.
A. mood B. mess C. dirt D. noise
2. If you make a _______, you arrange for something such as a table in a restaurant or a room in a hotel to be kept for you.
A. reservation B. conservation C. preservation D. conversation

3. If you have a(n) _______―――with someone, you have arranged to see them at a particular time, usually in connection with their work or for a serious purpose.
A. date B. commitment C. appointment D. disappointment

4. _“Doctor, I’ve been feeling so tired lately and I can’t _______in class.”
_ “Are you getting enough sleep at night?”
A. coincide B. concentrate C. contempt D. congratulate

5. Children need to be aware of the _______ effects of smoking.
A. harm B. handful C. hopeful D. harmful

6. They got a special _______from the government to encourage research in cancer-prevention.
A. grant B. gift C. help D. loan

7. If you accuse someone of being _______to something, you mean that they have a complete lack of interest in it.
A. insightful B. indifferent C. indignant D. indigenous

8. Due to the terrible weather, he decided to _______the expedition until the following day.
A.post-war B.post-modern C. postage D. postpone

9. If you _______to do something that you were trying to do, you are unable to do it or do not succeed in doing it.
A. fall B. succeed C. fail D. prevail

10. It seemed _______that people would still want to play football during a war.
A. incorrect B. inconvenient C. incomplete D. incredible

11. She was tested for aspirin poisoning, which proved _______, and then released.
A. negative B. positive C. true D. false

12. An _______is an unexpected and difficult or dangerous situation, especially an accident, which happens suddenly and which requires quick action to deal with it.
A. emerge B. image C. emerging D. emergency

13. Sunday is a big shopping day. What are the _______of finding a parking space right outside the supermarket?
A. odds B. odd C. likely D. possible

14. There are so many traffic accidents these days, and most of the papers don't even _______reporting them.
A. brag B. bargain C. broke D. bother

15. Before going into their meeting, the six foreign ministers _______for photographs.
A. passed B. preserved C. posed D. projected

16. Research suggests that babies learn to see by _______between areas of light and dark.
A. distinguishing B. depositing C. deserving D. dropping

17. My main reason for _______to New Scientist is to keep abreast of advances in science.
A. shuttering B. subscribing C. slotting D. submitting

18. My wife’s been _______a lot of pressure on me to change my job.
A. editing B. electing C. exhausting D. exerting

19. The book’s unusual title _______me into reading it.
A. informing B. intrigued C. issuing D. immigrating

20. It took her a long time to _______her health.
A. relax B. reserving C. regain D. repeating

21. At school, the other children always _______me because I was fat.
A. laughed B. teased C. giggled D. chuckled

22. Most flowers will not _______without water and sunshine.
A. thrive B. thrill C. thread D. threat

23. It is impossible to _______whether she’ll be well enough to come home from hospital next month.
A. forehead B. forbid C. forsake D. foresee

24. This history book has a _______at the end of each chapter.
A. preface B. biography C. footnote D. summary

25. Boys have a stronger _______to fight than girls
A. hobby B. position C. tendency D. promising

26. Each year, many foreign _______visit Taiwan for sight-seeing.
A. thesis B. teases C. scars D. tourists

27. He was pale with _______after all night’s work.
A. tired B. fatigue C. anger D. fright

28. Mother could _______stories that she had heard years ago.
A. recall B. reconsider C. recycle D. rate

29. The bird’s large wings _______it to fly very fast.
A. enlarge B. enforce C. enable D. enclose

30. It is best not to _______in other people’s arguments.
A. interfere B. interact C. intercept D. interview

31. You can _______the dangers of driving, by taking care to obey all the rules of the road.
A. maximize B. maximum C. minimum D. minimize

32. If the coat is too large, the tailor can _______it to fit you.
A. alter B. edit C. adapt D. cut

33. Many students find _______jobs during their summer holidays.
A. permanent B. potential C. temperament D. temporary

34. The refugees are in _______need of medical supplies.
A. urge B. urgent C. urgency D. urging

35. The _______flowers were made of paper and cloth.
A. official B. artistic C. arts D. artificial

36. Small quantities of poison were _______in the dead man’s stomach.
A. defected B. detected C. depicted D. decided

37. He was nearly drowned, but we _______him.
A. revived B. recited C. recreated D. repeated

38. She _______a thorough examination at the hospital according to the doctor’s order.
A. underwent B. undermined C. underneath D. underground

39. Keeping clean is a _______against disease.
A. barrier B. obstacle C. safeguard D. safety

40. The smell of the rotten meat filled her with _______.
A. disgusting B. disgust C. disappoint D. disappointment

41. A part of the program was _______to save time.
A. elucidated B. elevated C. eliminated D. escalated

42. After the farmer’s death his wife and children will _______the farm.
A. invest B. heir C. heritage D. inherit

43. Washing wool in hot water will make it _______.
A. expand B. shrink C. sink D. shriek

44. Don’t _______your health by working when you ought to be sleeping or resting.
A. absent B. abusive C. abstract D. abuse

45. Mother _______my hunger and baked cookies for me.
A. participated B. elucidated C. anticipated D. outdated

46. She showed me her _______by inviting me to dinner.
A. grateful B. altitude C. gratify D. gratitude

47. The young army officer was _______to captain.
A. progressed B. processed C. promoted D. provoked

48. The ______________man put salt in his coffee and sugar on his egg.
A. absent-minded B. single-minded C. open-minded D. narrow-minded

49. My first failure only _______my desire to succeed.
A. severe B. intense C. intensified D. extensive

50. Some words are hard to _______because they have many different uses.
A. confine B. define C. refine D. fine

51. In the United States the sale of liquor is _______to people over twenty-one years old.
A. focused B. restricted C. district D. strict

52. Many people died of hunger during the _______in India.
A. hunger B. starvation C. famine D. storm

53. The doctor had great _______among the members of his profession.
A. precaution B. prescription C. prestige D. predict

54. Some authors are not popular because their writings are too _______.
A. abstract B. abnormal C. abusive D. abuse

55. Through the years he _______sufficient money to buy a farm.
A. accompanied B. assignment C. afford D. accumulated

56. They were _______because there was not enough food for all the guests.
A. elected B. exhausted C. embarrassed D. extended

57. The newly wedded woman has been _______for five month.
A. pregnant B. prescribed C. predicted D. printed

58. After reading a _______of Lincoln I was able to tell many stories about the President.
A. bulletin B. biography C. bargain D. buffet

59. There’s a _______in the middle of the old street to help water flow away when it rains.
A. cabinet B. channel C. candidate D. comedy

60. A fallen tree across the road was an _______to our car.
A.odd B. opposite C. overview D. obstacle

61. He is _______to anybody; he likes to give attention to the needs of others.
A. hospital B. harmful C. hospitable D. hostile

62. You mustn’t be jealous when your sister gets presents; you must learns to behave in a more _______way.
A. mood B. mature C. mess D. maintenance

63. The theory was _______ to make it easier to understand.
A. simplified B. shuttered C. submitted D. supervised

64. A truck _______my furniture to my new home.
A. concentrated B. converted C. conveyed D. corresponded

65. The architect _______the building of the house.
A. shuttered B. subscribed C. surveyed D. supervised

66. The police think that the death was by _______.
A. schedule B. seminar C. suicide D. sculpture

67. The large columns _______the weight of the roof.
A. subscribed B. shuttered C. surveyed D. sustained

68. They lived in a small _______community.
A. rare B. rural C. rent D. recycled

69. The party ended and we all went off to our _______rooms.
A. respective B. resume C. reputation D. recycled

70. The hurricane _______all ferry service for three days.
A. sustained B. suspended C. subscribed D. surveyed