英语专业四级备考丛书之一 英语词汇测试练习
Test 1
Section A
1. We left the city for a ___ home. A. local B. native
C. rural C. walking
D. natural D. footsteps
2. He heard soft ___ coming up the stairs. A. footprints B. paces 3. He __a short tour in the South.
A. went for B. went with 4. Russian is a difficult language to _____. A. catch
B. hold
C. master
D. grab
5. The tiger is pacing _____ in his cage. A. here and there
B. back and forward
C. again and again D. back and forth C. lowered D. bent C. In a way D. In any way
6. Andrew stood with his head ____ , silent. A. dropped B. fallen
7. ____, I agree with your estimate of the situation. A. In the way B. On the way 8. I've never seen so much 9. Please and disorder anywhere.
C. went around D. went about
A. mass B. mess C. mixed D. messy
me a cup of tea from the kitchen.
C. carry D. fetch
D. bright D. cool
set of teeth at the age of 70. B. delicate C. perfect
C. steam
A. take B. look for 10. She still has a A. correct
11. When the thermometer is below zero water will ____. A. boil B. freeze A. introduced
B. invaded
12. Germany ____ Poland in 1939, and that started the Second World War.
C. invested D. invited
C. looks about D. looks down upon C. agreeable D. charming
13. He is so proud of his promotion that he ____ all his former friends. A. looks into B. looks at 14. The weather's so A. awful B. favorable
the only thing to do is to stay in.
15. It won't make much ____whether you go today or tomorrow.
A. relation B. difference C. interrelation D. interpretation 16. He was deeply ____ over his son's financial difficulties. A. troubled B. anxious C. concerned 17. The newspaper has a very good D. careful
of the political situation.
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英语专业四级备考丛书之一 英语词汇测试练习
A. analyse B. analysis C. comment D. report 18. Officially he is in charge, but ____ 19. They will give you, 20. The his secretary does all the work.
A. in fact B. in particular C. in case D. in some sense
, four or five dollars for the watch.
A. at most B. at all C. at any cost D. at the best
of the 50 states forms the United States of America.
A. mixture B. connection C. joining D. combination
21. Both captains thought that it was larger than their own ships, about one hundred metres in __. A. depth B. long C. length D. high 22. Eric is such____ that at the first sign of danger he runs away. A. a traitor B. a coward A. employers B. citizens feeling of satisfaction. A. invest B. irritate
C. introduce D. improve C. turning off D. switching back C. pass D. exert C. worried D. overcome C. occupy D. change into C. unites D. contributes
of glamour.
C. style D. touch
25. Peter invented a device for ____the light automatically. A. turning down B. putting through A. form B. exercise 27. Her parents were very A. responsible B. sorry A. engage B. take up A. flows B. meets A. manner B. form Section B
1. Don't count your chickens before they're bred.
A. laid out B. hatched C. raised D. grown up 2. People differ very much in their ideas.
A. disagree B. distinguish C. dislike D. vary 3. I shall ask all of you to recite the passage one by one.
A. in return B. by turn C. in turn D. in your turn
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C. a fool D. an idiot
23. The management has authorized wage increases for all ____.
C. employees D. residents
24. A meat diet may be said to the temper, as a meal including meat produces in most people a
26. A single act or incident is not enough to__ judgment. One swallow does not make a summer.
because she was out so late that night.
28. After her illness, the old woman was advised to ____ gardening as a hobby. 29. The Missouri River ____ eastward into the Mississippi. 30. The motion picture business in Hollywood gave the area a 英语专业四级备考丛书之一 英语词汇测试练习
4. We have met with some unexpected difficulties.
A. encountered B. charged. C. solved D. overcome 5. The soldier tried not to show his fear when he saw the enemy. A. anger B. frighten A. flats B. roads
C. sorrow D. fright C. directions D. playgrounds C. precious D. essential C. paused D. retired
D. proficient
6. These new apartments have intensified the parking problem. 7. He lost everything that was dear to him. A. close B. expensive A. quitted B. lost
8. She gave up her job to look after her invalid mother. 9. He was a highly skilled flier now.
A. efficient B. sufficient C. confident A. a surprising B. an odd Section A 1. He is 10. The boat had a remarkable passenger, Johnny Appleseed, and a strange cargo, apple seeds.
C. a rare D. an uneven
Test 2
in his conduct.
C. severe
D. stem
A. strong B. obstinate 2. As he continued, pity __her.
A. overthrew B. overset C. overtook D. overwhelmed 3. A little puff of air me.
C. restored D. reinforced C. imposed D. lodged
A. revived B. renewed 4. He his hat and ran.
A. grabbed B. insured 5. She always ____ when she is embarrassed.
A. claps B. clashes C. blushes D. hushes 6. We ____ away the time by talking and playing cards. A. passed
B. took
C. whiled
D. afforded
7. Heyward found it difficult to from smoking. A. deterred B. obstructed 8. The women
C. refrained D. prevented C. muttering D. chattering C. vacant D. empty C. obliged D. used
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in the back yard are like a flock of magpies.
of foundation.
A. saying B. murmuring 9. The theory he put forward is quite A. invalid B. void 10. He was
A. described B. absorbed
in a completely happy and private life of his own.
英语专业四级备考丛书之一 英语词汇测试练习
11. The store had no more black shoes A. in shape B. in store A. foreign B. overseas A. go in for B. go under House of Representatives. A. patent B. job A. fur B. kidneys 16. Many migrant birds have A. gazed B. jumped A. furnish B. look dreams come true.
, so John chose brown ones instead.
C. in step D. in stock C. away D. alien food for several days. C. go without D. go out
for an automatic vote recorder for the C. post D. patience C. loan D. portraits C. perched D. located and enjoy the world. C. lose D. observe
12. Before the war of 1914, over a million persons a year emigrated ____ from Europe. 13. Cut off by the storm, they were forced to 14. In 1868, Thomas Edison received his first
15. Dr. Alexander said that the could handle the increased fluid.
up on the pine tree's branches.
17. Walking exercises give you a chance to
18. Freedom means that there isn't anything ___you ___ from striving to make your finest A. leaving…out B. putting …aside
C. holding…back D. picking …out
19. The National Wildflower Research Center is in a long, low building. A. housed B. generated C. insured D. opposed 20. The historian makes up a hypothesis. Then she or he information, or data. A. gathers B. gestures C. mends D. recommends 21. A land on the bank, startled. hissed the air from its lungs and withdrew to its shell.
C. turtle D. bird
A. animal B. snake A. make ..out A. employed suspicion. A. asserted
B. aroused
C. pinched D. predicted
questions.
25. If we feel like questioning today, we can pose a few
22. I’ve got so fat that I'll have to ____ the waistband ___ several inches.
B. take .. out C. turn out D. let ..out B. involved C. occupied D. engaged
23. The teachers ___ themselves with planning out the work of the coming semester.
24. His refusal to walk through the metal detector before boarding the plane ___ the guard's
A. embarrassing B. disgusting C. awful D. awkward
26. The farmers were more anxious for rain than the people in the city because they had more __. A. off hand B. at stake
C. at sight D. at worst
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