1. Columbus' decision to sail west to reach the East _____ on his belief that the earth was round.
A. existed
B. sat
C. relaxed
D. rested
2. Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the _____ movie could not hold our attention.
A. three-hours
B. three-hour
C. three-hours'
D. three-hour's
3. Difficulties can _____ a person's best qualities.
A. bring up
B. bring out
C. bring about
D. bring to
4. Doctors sometimes _____ old cures when modern medicine doesn't work.
A. fall on
B. fall down on
C. fall back on
D. fall in upon
5. Does brain power _____ as we get older? Scientists now have some surprising answers.
A. descend
B. decline
C. deduce
D. collapse
6. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true _____ it comes to classroom tests.
A. when
B. since
C. before
D. after
7. Don't worry. The company will _____ all your expense.
A. satisfy
B. meet
C. pay
D. submit
8. Eventually, people spread throughout the continent, ______ the entire species.
A. wiping out
B. wiping away
C. wiping off
D. wiping up
9. Experts say walking is one of the best ways for a person to ______ healthy.
A. preserve
B. stay
C. maintain
D. reserve
10. Faced with the ______ difficulties, they are determined to carry on their program.
A. satisfactory
B. attributable
C. innocent
D. intangible
11. Fewer and fewer of today's workers expect to spend their working lives in the same field, ______ the same company.
A. all else
B. much worse
C. let alone
D. less likely
12. Flying in an airplane was once thought to be an impossible ______.
A. task
B. profession
C. promise
D. contest
13. Fresh vegetables are straight from the ______ and raw vegetables are ______.
A. earth...cooked
B. soil...uncooked
C. floor...cooked
D. ground...uncooked
14. From this material we can _____ hundreds of what you may call direct products.
A. derive
B. discern
C. diminish
D. displace
15. Fruit is cheapest _____ season.
A. at
B. on
C. in
D. through
16. Fruit pickers are paid at the _____ of '4.00 an hour.
A. rate
B. scale
C. sum
D. value
17. Fumes from the exhaust of an automobile are ______.
A. notorious
B. anxious
C. noxious
D. delicious
18. George wasn't in class today, Professor Brown excused him ______.
A. from attending
B. of attending
C. to attend
D. attending
19. Class will _____ at a high temperature and will be in a liquid condition.
A. dissolve
B. disappear
C. melt
D. evaporate
20. Hamlet _____ his father's death on his uncle.
A. reversed
B. reverted
C. revenged
D. revealed
参考答案：
1. D 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. A 9. B 10. D
11. C 12. B 13. B 14. A 15. A 16. C 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. C
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