(单选题)1: When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.
A: off
B: aside
C: out
D: down
(单选题)2: The chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.
A: compelled
B: posed
C: pressed
D: tempted
(单选题)3: Modern sonar makes it possible to ____ an underwater submarine.
A: communicate
B: sink
C: search
D: locate
(单选题)4: It may be necessary to stop ______in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.
A: at case
B: at length
C: at intervals
D: at a distance
(单选题)5: ____ the success of the product depends on its good quality.
A: Objectively
B: Ultimately
C: Absolutely
D: Relatively
(单选题)6: She hit the chair and ____ the coffee.
A: spoiled
B: poured
C: spilled
D: splashed
(单选题)7: _________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.
A: Although he is a socialist
B: Even if he is a socialist
C: Being a socialist
D: Since he is a socialist
(单选题)8: Equipment not______ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.
A: conforming to
B: consistent with
C: predominant over
D: providing for
(单选题)9: He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.
A: accord
B: assist
C: confirm
D: comply
(单选题)10: His contribution to the program was ____ because 99 percent of the work was completed by his colleagues.
A: invisible
B: negligible
C: appreciable
D: considerable
(单选题)11: Each individual is requested to state the ____ on which his judgments are based.
A: requirements
B: measures
C: legislations
D: criteria
(单选题)12: To speed up the ______of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.
A: treatment
B: transmission
C: departure
D: delivery
(单选题)13: He is planning another tour abroad ,yet his passport will ______ at the end of this month.
A: expire
B: exceed
C: terminate
D: cease
(单选题)14: Mr. Smith had an unusual _______ : he was first an office clerk , then a sailor , and ended up as a school teacher.
A: profession
B: occupation
C: position
D: career
(单选题)15: The students showed ____when solving the difficult maths problems.
A: validity
B: purity
C: ingenuity
D: reliability
(单选题)16: Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance in the atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very ____.
A: disputed
B: discarded
C: dismissed
D: distorted
(单选题)17: Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.
A: them
B: /
C: it
D: theirs
(单选题)18: A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.
A: automatic
B: deliberate
C: beneficial
D: customary
(单选题)19: I don’t know if the story is true, but I’ll try to ____ it.
A: verify
B: reinforce
C: identify
D: conform
(单选题)20: The meaning of this poem is very ____; I really do not understand it.
A: conspicuous
B: intelligible
C: obscure
D: dim
(单选题)21: The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once______ .
A: thrived
B: swelled
C: prospered
D: flourished
(单选题)22: The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________too much work last week.
A: take away
B: take out
C: take to
D: take on
(单选题)23: To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming ____.
A: sensational
B: sensitive
C: sentimental
D: sensible
(单选题)24: For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost______ as microorganisms.
A: precisely
B: instantly
C: initially
D: exclusively
(单选题)25: The bank refused to ______him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.
A: loan
B: borrow
C: lease
D: credit
(单选题)26: Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have
to install _________ solar heating device in our home.
A: some type of
B: some types of a
C: some type of a
D: some types of
(单选题)27: I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemed to have
____.
A: vapoured
B: vanished
C: vibrated
D: reduced
(单选题)28: Some people believe that since oil is scarce, the ____of the motor industry is uncertain.
A: estimate
B: terminal
C: fate
D: benefit
(单选题)29: The more a nation‘s companies _______factories abroad, the smaller that country‘s recorded exports will be.
A: lie
B: locate
C: spot
D: stand
(单选题)30: At first, the _____ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible ,but , with the painstaking efforts and at great expense ,it became a reality.
A: transaction
B: transmission
C: transformation
D: transition
(单选题)31: I saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.
A: concentration
B: endeavor
C: tolerance
D: absorption
(单选题)32: Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.
A: displacement
B: elimination
C: exclusion
D: exception
(单选题)33: A square is a flat area having four sides, any adjacent two sides of which ____ a right angle.
A: make
B: advocate
C: adjoin
D: shape
(单选题)34: As he failed to win the first prize in the badminton match, he had to ____ the second.
A: settle in
B: settle for
C: settle up
D: settle with
(单选题)35: The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.
A: objected having
B: were objected to having
C: objected to have
D: objected to having
(单选题)36: Mr.Smith asked his secretary to ______a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.
A: invade
B: install
C: insert
D: inject
(单选题)37: If you know what the trouble is, why don’t you help them to ________ the situation?
A: simplify
B: modify
C: verify
D: rectify
(单选题)38: The defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ______of the murder committed last month.
A: witnesses
B: audiences
C: viewers
D: observers
(单选题)39: I can’t ________ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.
A: figure out
B: draw out
C: look out
D: work out
(单选题)40: You don’t have to install this radio in your new car . It’s an _______ extra.
A: excessive
B: optional
C: additional
D: arbitrary
(单选题)41: If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise
you much better than I can.
A: would be
B: will have been
C: was
D: were
(单选题)42: Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could _____ .
A: descend
B: decline
C: deteriorate
D: depress
(单选题)43: James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.
A: will come
B: was coming
C: had been coming
D: came
(单选题)44: I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.
A: something but
B: anything but
C: nothing but
D: not but
(单选题)45: The local people were joyfully surprised to find the price of vegetables no longer ______ according to the weather.
A: altered
B: converted
C: fluctuated
D: modified
(单选题)46: These overseas students show great ______ for learning a new language.
A: faith
B: authority
C: enthusiasm
D: convention
(单选题)47: The party will ____their leader very determinedly.
A: adhere to
B: coincide with
C: cling to
D: depend on
(单选题)48: Preliminary estimation puts the figure at around $110 billion, _____ the $160 billion the President is struggling to get through the Congress.
A: in proportion to
B: in reply to
C: in relation to
D: in contrast to
(单选题)49: It was no _____ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery .
A: coincidence
B: convention
C: certainty
D: complication
(单选题)50: The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is____80 percent.
A: consequently
B: roughly
C: comparatively
D: incidentally
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