1. No one knew the man's age until he __________ it by accident.

A. reviewed    B. revealed   C. recovered     D. recalled

 

2. This discovery marks a significant technological __________.

A. process    B. adventure       C. project    D. advance

 

3. Tornadoes (龙卷风)__________ when a warm weather front meets a body of very cold air.

A. occur       B. happen to       C. result in D. predict

 

4. She __________ the opinion of several experts, but even the experts disagree.

A. thought    B. taught     C. sought     D. bought

 

5. American cars are generally too large for the Japanese market, __________ Japanese cars are popular in the US.

A. which      B. because   C. therefore        D. whereas

 

6. It's a six-hour drive from Penarth to Norwich. I nearly fell __________ at the wheel a couple of times.

A. sleeping   B. asleep     C. sleepy     D. sleep

 

7. Experts are __________ that unemployment will fall slowly next year.

A. predicting       B. preparing       C. previewing    D. preventing

 

8. An airplane had _________ into the mountain, killing all two hundred passengers.

A. cracked    B. crossed   C. crashed   D. crowded

 

9. We've had to _________ our visit to London because Jim is ill.

A. disturb     B. progress C. focus       D. cancel

 

10. I had to wait two hours for the train. It really put me in a bad _________.

A. mode       B. mood      C. move      D. motion

 

11. I have been very much pleased by your _________ of the situation.

A. analysis          B. impact    C. volume   D. focus  

 

12. We couldn't imagine what had happened to _________ him but he wouldn't stop crying.

A. awake      B. spot         C. upset       D. spoil  

 

13. She must learn to _________ herself to English life.

A. arrange    B. admire    C. acquire    D. adjust

 

14. We must work _________ the difficulties until we find an answer.

A. off           B. by    C. through          D. away 

 

15. That teacher is very popular ___________ her pupils.

A. for           B. with        C. in            D. at   

 

 

 

1. He has gone to a hospital in London for special______(treat)

 

2. Public concern about environmental problems has become an ________ important political force. (increasing)

 

3. In case of ________ or divorce, the children's needs should come first. (separate)

 

4. My sister's been feeling really ______since she lost her job. (depress)

 

5. The fertilizer factory gave off a very _______smell. (pleasant)

 

6. Taking plenty of exercise can be both ______and enjoyable. (health)

 

7. All______ who finishes the race will receive a medal. (participate)

 

8. John lost_______ at 8 o'clock in the evening and died in the night. (conscious)

 

 

9. I laughed at my analyst's ______ of my dreams. (interpret)

 

10. I'm looking at the matter purely from the _______ point of view. (science)

 

electrical	reflect	symbol	nonsense
error	tremble	overhead	impact
halt	volume	volunteer	depressed
topic	nightmare	inner

 

 

1. Jim, stop it. That's not a (n) ______for dinner-table conversation.

 

2. The girl carried a slim _____of poetry under her arm. 

 

3. Mother works on Tuesdays as a(n) _____at the hospital. 

 

4. The lion is often used as a(n)_______of courage. 

 

5. The woman was______ over the loss of her baby. 

 

6. Most people struggle for _______ peace. 

 

7. The book _______ the author's own thoughts on the matter. 

 

8. The wind made the branches shake and _______.

 

9. More and more households can now afford ______ appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines.

 

10. I went over my composition and found two or three______.

 

11.The meteor (流星) made a large_______ when it crashed to earth. 

 

12. The aircraft circling______ is waiting to land.

 

13. When the children's play got too noisy, their mother called a (n) _______ to their play.

 

14. The child awoke suddenly from a (n) _______

 

15. If you are going to talk_________, I won't listen.

 

 

IV．Directions: Listen to the following passage and fill in the blanks.

 

The first is face the music. It means to accept the 1)           of what you have done. Here's an example from a Reuters news report. "Britain's Highest Court had ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was legally arrested. Opponents of General Pinochet welcomed the news. One of them said, ‘We have waited for years for this man to face the music.’"

 

No one is sure how the expression began. One story is that it came from a 2)_______           ceremony held when a soldier was forced out of an army. The buttons were cut from the soldier's clothing. He was put on a horse facing the back of the horse and let away. As he laughed, he faced the music of a military band and the soldiers he had served with. Another story says the expression began in the 3)         . New actors shaking with fright were told that the only cure was to go out and face the music. The music was played by the orchestra 4)           in front of the stage.

A similar expression is face up to. It means to accept something that is difficult or 5)         . For example, a man must face up to the fact that he lied about a business deal and will lose his job, or a child must learn to face up to her responsibilities and 6)             her schoolwork.

Meeting someone face to face can be exciting, especially if the other person is 7)         . It is an expression one might use after visiting the White House and meeting the president face to face, or a teacher might ask for a face-to-face meeting with the parents of a student in trouble. It means to talk to someone 8)         , not by telephone.

Another expression is “as plain as the nose on your face”. It means that something is as clear as it can possibly be. Shakespeare used the words almost 500 years ago for a joke in his play Two Gentlemen of Verona. Valentine secretly loves lady Silvia. His servant jokes that Valentine's love for her is as hard to see as the nose on a man's face. Of course, a man's nose cannot be 9)          . A more recent use of the expression appeared in a report in Newsday Magazine. It was about a dispute between the United States and Europe over agriculture. The United States had criticized Europeans for protecting their soybean farmers. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in return, criticized the United States for its huge budget deficits. The report said the OECD seemed to be seen. For God's sake, it is plain as the nose on your face that you must raise taxes.

 

 

Keys:

I. BDACD  BACDB  ACDCB  

 

II.

1.     treatment 2. increasingly  3. separation  4. depressed 5. unpleasant

6.  healthy 7. participants 8. consciousness 9. interpretation 10. scientific

 

III.

1.     topic 2. volume 3. volunteer 4. symbol

5. depressed 6. inner 7. reflects/reflected 8. tremble

9. electrical 10  errors 11. impact 12. overhead

13. halt 14. nightmare 15. nonsense

 

IV．

1. results   2. military  3. theater  4. seated  5. painful  

6. complete   7. famous   8. in person  9. hidden