11. Tell your brother to come _____, because it's going to rain in a minute or two.
A. indoors B. outdoors
C. outward D. inwards
[答案] A. indoors
[注釋] 按句子的邏輯意思應(yīng)選indoors adv. 向屋里;在屋里,inwards adv,向
內(nèi),向中心,outward 向外。outdoors 是 indoors 的反義詞。
本文譯文: 叫你兄弟進屋來,因為天馬上要下雨了.
12. I can't advise you what to do. You must use your own _____.
A. opinion B. guesswork
C. justice D. judgment
[答案] D judgement
[注釋] judgement 判斷。guesswork 猜測,justice 正義,公正,ideal 理想。
13. Because of the poor harvest, wheat prices have _____ in the last six months.
A. added B. jumped
C. amounted D. developed
[答案] B. jumped.
[注釋] jump (=rise suddenly in price) 指“(價格)暴漲”。
14. There is a 20 minute parking _____ here, so we must get back to the car very quickly.
A. freedom
B. limit
C. allowance
D. prohibition
[答案] B. limit.
[注釋] parking limit 意為在停車場“停車的時間限制”。a 20 minutes parking limit (停車時間限制為20分鐘).
15. The country needs a _____ government. We have had three Prime Ministers in a year.
A. stationary
B. changeless
C. constant
D. stable
[答案] D. stable.
[注釋] stable 穩(wěn)定的。stationary 靜止的,不變的,固定的。changeless 不變 的 ,無變化的。constant 經(jīng)常不斷的。
16. Having said he would mend the clock, he discovered that he had not brought the _____ tools for the job.
A. concise B. correct
C. right D. precise
[答案] C. right.
[注釋] right 適當(dāng)?shù),恰?dāng)?shù)?He is the right man to do the job。(他是干這 項工作的合適人選) concise 簡明扼要的,correct 正確的;exact 確切的: exact time 確切的時間,exact age 確切的年齡,exact weight 確切的重量; exact weight 確切的重量;exact information 確切的信息;exact cause 確切 的原因;exact meaning 確切的意思。
17. Radium salts, which have been found to _____ in bones, give rise to cancers of the bone.
A. pile up B. build up
C. keep up D. pull up
[答案] B. build up.
[注釋] build up(=accumulate) 積累。pile up 堆積。keep up 保持,維持。 pull up 停車。
18. It has been laid down that each student must _____ a composition to the teacher once a week.
A. turn in B. give up
C. put forward D. bring out
[答案] A. turn in.
[注釋] turn in(=hand in) 上交。
19. Our house is the most _____ one in the street; it is painted red.
A. permanent B. indifferent
C. predominant D. prominent
[答案] D. prominent.
[注釋] prominent 突出的;突起的。indifferent 漠不關(guān)心的;permanent 永久 的;predominant 占優(yōu)勢的,主要的。
20. I shall take you back to Beijing _____ you are well enough to travel.
A. presently B. promptly
C. immediately D. shortly
[答案] C. immediately
[注釋] immediately(=directly) 作連詞用,意為“一……就……”,相當(dāng)于 as soon as .
荊軻,一個四處為家的刺客,他的心猶如浮云,心如飄蓬,是沒有根的,然而高漸離的筑聲,卻成了他愿意停留在燕國這片土地上的原由。