課程代碼：10005

Part Ⅰ: Vocabulary(20%)

Section A (20×0.5%=10%)

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. 

1. With the economy of the country going strong, the ______ mood is one of optimism. (      )

A. presiding                                                  B. circulating

C. floating                                                    D. prevailing

2. She is quite capable, but the problem is that she is not ______. (      )

A. consistent                                                B. insistent

C. beneficent                                                D. resistant

3. The workers of the textile mill ______ that trade union leaders be elected from the workshops. (      )

A. urged                                                      B. related

C. combated                                                 D. adopted

4. We shall offer you advice, but you are under no ______ to follow it. (      )

A. pursuit                                                     B. obligation

C. command                                                D. instruction

5. These technological advances in communication have ______ the way people do business. (      )

A. revolted                                                   B. represented

C. adopted                                                   D. transformed

6. Bill is rich. His house is full of ______ such as expensive high-tech video systems and all the latest computer equipment. (      )

A. luxuries                                                   B. festivities

C. dimensions                                               D. instruments

7. By ______ the styles of Van Gogh and Dufy, the woman painter has produced some highly original works. (      )

A. duplicating                                               B. assimilating

C. transferring                                              D. molding

8. We must keep things in ______ — the overall situation isn’t really that bad. (      )

A. view                                                        B. perspective

C. prospect                                                  D. control

9. The losing team were ______ in their defeat.(      )

A. gracious                                                  B. grateful

C. grand                                                      D. refined

10. It was a shrewd move ______ to buy the house just before property prices started to rise. (      )

A. on her part                                               B. at hand

C. at her expense                                          D. on record

11. The ______ of women to men at my college is about two to one. (      )

A. rate                                                         B. proportion

C. portion                                                    D. percentage

12. In a ______ between the management and the union, a 4% pay raise was agreed on in return for an increase in productivity. (      )

A. promise                                                   B. compromise

C. collaboration                                            D. cooperation

13. Human eyes are accustomed to ______ a specific object, and once this happens, everything around the object seems to be reduced to background.(      )

A. pointing to                                               B. sticking to

C. focusing on                                              D. probing into

14. Samuel is always ______, never complaining about his poor health and other troubles. (      )

A. careless                                                   B. joyful

C. cheerful                                                   D. glad

15. Laws are the means by which science ______ to describe nature, not explain it. (      )

A. attends                                                    B. arranges

C. facades                                                    D. attempts

16. The ______ witness in the case said that he was not concerned with the interest, but cared only about the principle. (      )

A. princess                                                   B. principle

C. principal                                                  D. prince

17. A ______ person is reluctant to see any change. (      )

A. safe                                                        B. radical

C. conservative                                            D. convertible

18. The statement was ______ and to the point. (      )

A. brief                                                        B. uneasy

C. lousy                                                       D. redundant

19. This year the factory ______ almost twice as many motors as it did last year.(      )

A. turned down                                            B. turned over

C. turned to                                                  D. turned out

20. Let’s hang up some paintings on these ______ walls.(      )

A. bare                                                        B. empty

C. blank                                                      D. vacant