15全新版词汇复习
15全新版（非后续课程）第3-4册词汇复习资料
1. “ I’ll give you an example to _____ my point”, said the speaker.
A. illustrate
B. reveal
C. expose
D. display
2. To protect the environment, scientists and engineers are researching ways to _____ electricity
more cheaply from such renewable energy sources as the wind and sun.
A. generate
B. manufacture
C. construct
D. transform
3. She _____ that it was a trick to get her involved in the matter, for she knew them too well.
A. doubted
B. suspected
C. conceived
D. convinced
4.The money I get from teaching the piano is a useful ______ to my ordinary income.
A. supply
B. completion
C. supplement
D. compliment
5.Construction workers should always have ______ against personal injury.
A. endurance
B. insurance
C. reassurance
D. assurance
6. As the semester is drawing to an end, the student union is calling on all the students to ____ the temptation to cheat on exams.
A. refuse
B. reject
C. resist
D. resolve
7. The shop assistant was straightforward with her customers. If an article was of ______ quality she’d tell them so.
A. miserable
B. minor
C. subordinate
D. inferior
8. Look at the p hoto and you’ll find Diana ____________ her father.
A. takes to
B. takes after
C. takes for
D. takes over
9. I want to buy a new tie to _________ this brown suit.
A. go into
B. go after
C. go by
D. go with
10. What h e has done is _____________ the doctor’s orders.
A. subject to
B. opposite
C. resistant to
D. contrary to
11. What she told me about the affair simply doesn’t make any __________.
A. idea
B. sense
C. meaning
D. significance
12. Why can’t you do this small ___________ for me? I’ve helped you often enough in the past.
A. demand
B. request
C. favor
D. requirement
submitting13. Near the scene of the crime, the police arrested two men whose behaviors appeared ______.
A. ambitious
B. doubtless
C. suspicious
D. notorious
14. As some of the rules concerning foreign trade ran contrary to the principles of the WTO, the government decided to _____ them as soon as possible.
A. abolish
B. accomplish
C. distinguish
D. establish
15. The prisoner fled again, but he knew that the police ____ him rapidly.
A. were closing on
B. was closing on
C. were closing in on
D. was closing in on
16. Because of the mad cow disease, the European Union ___________ a worldwide ban on
British beef and beef product exports.
A. challenged
B. charged
C. forged
D. imposed
17. She cut her hair short and tried to______ herself as a man.
A. decorate
B. disguise
C. fabricate
D. fake
18. The discovery of new facts_____ the rational thinker to reexamine the adequacy of his
previous generalization.
A. repelled
B. expelled
C. constrained
D. compelled
19. I could see that my wife was _____ buying that fur coat, whether I approved of it or not.
A. adequate for
B. intent on
C. short of
D. deficient in
20. The change in government is a (n) _________ event of our time.
A. historic
B. historical
C. permanent
D. eternal
21. She came to my office to ask me for advice _____________ how to write an essay.
A. as for
B. as to
C. as on
D. as about
22. The government is trying to do something to __________ better understanding between the
two countries.
A. raise
B. promote
C. heighten
D. increase
23. Being somewhat short-sighted, she has the habit of __________ at people.
A. starting
B. glancing
C. peering
D. peeping
24. If the fire alarm is sounded, all residents are requested to __________ in the courtyard.
A. assemble
B. converge
C. accumulate
D. crowd