來源：環球時代
英語專業考研基礎英語真題自測第4期
南開大學2004年
Directions: The following 39 short statements are provided each with four items. You are to choose for each the best word or phrase in place of the underlined or missing part. Please write your answer on the answer sheet by marking the corresponding letter in each case.
1. The police the witness about the accident.
A. question B. ask C. interrogate D. inquire
2. The salesman his product when challenged.
A. sold B. spoke of C. stood up for D. stood for
3. She makes a rather living as a novelist.
A. precarious B. precautionary C. cautious D. precocious
4. She the chance to spend a whole day with her father.
A. jumped on B. jumped at C. jumped with D. jumped up
5. The car to avoid hitting the old man.
A. swerved B. rambled C. scurried D. curtailed
6. Anyone who has a sore throat should from alcohol.
A. abstain B. retain C. detain D. pertain
7. Free market economy, they believe, the national economy rather than corrupt it.
A. enforces B. enhances C. intensifies D. strengthens
8. Despite a whole night’s emergency treatment, the boy’s condition is still critical and his life is now hanging by a
A. thread B. cord C. string D. rope
9. The film was banned officially because of the language and scenes it contained.
A. decent B. optimal C. obscene D. vicious
10. China will continue to to control population growth and improve the living standard of Chinese people.
A. stride B. contrive C. strive D. stripe
11. He avowed his commitment to those ideals.
A. acknowledged B. converted C. conformed D. renounced
12. The political dissident was accused of instigating a plot to overthrow the government.
A. devising B. supporting C. funding D. provoking
13. I wish you two would stop bickering.
A. complaining B. quarreling C. bargaining D. murmuring
14. The defendant is facing severe verdict despite the appeal for clemency by his lawyer.
A. forgiving B. release C. leniency D. impartiality
15. The little boy listened, enthralled by the Captain’s story.
A. fascinated B. swindled C. shocked D. bored
16. I was impressed by his expertise on landing craft.
A. encouragement B. special skill C. shrewdness D. eloquence
17. Your action is a breach of our university regulations.
A. observation B. violation C. creation D. attack
18. Subsequent events vindicated his policy.
A. predicate B. swing C. dilate D. bear out
19. Drug smuggling carries a mandatory death penalty in most countries in the world.
A. impulsive B. multicolored C. obligatory D. laughable
20. Morality, for him, was doing what is expedient.
A. undesirable B. unavailable C. advantageous D. inappropriate
21. You』d like this one, ?
A. don’t you B. didn’t you C. hadn’t you D. wouldn’t you
22. Do you happen to know the name of this ?
A. beautiful, little, red, butterfly-like insect
B. little, beautiful, red, butterfly-like insect
C. red; little, beautiful, butterfly-like insect
D. red, butterfly -like, beautiful, little insect
23. My son walked ten miles today. We never guessed that he could walk far.
A. / B. such C. that D. as
24. If talks for the new trade agreements take , food industries in both countries will be seriously affected.
A. much too long B. too much longer
C. too much long D. much long
25. Frankly, I』d rather you anything about it for the time being.
A. do B. didn’t do C. don’t do D. didn’t
26. This is a nation which easily to changes. _
A. adapts B. is adapted C. is adaptable D. is adapting
27. The young man proved his parents』 expectation.
A. worth B. worthy C. worth of D. worthy of
28. After a whole day of hard work, all was a nice meal and a good rest.
A. what he wanted B. which he wanted
C. the thing he wanted D. that he wanted
29. The new literature course differs from the old course the students aren’t
A. which B. what C. that D. where
30. The new literature course differs from the old course the students aren’t required to attend lecture.
A. in which B. which C. in that D. whereas
31. I wonder whether he knows to write a book.
A. how great pains it will cost B. what great pains will it take
C. what great pains it will cost D. what great pains it will take
32. college students should learn more about Chinese history.
A. I consider important that B. I consider it important
C. I consider what is important D. I consider it important that
33. To a highly imaginative writer, is a pad of paper and a pen.
A. all are required B. all required
C. all is required D. all that is required
34. was of no much help to him at that time. _
A. Little could I do B. What could I do little
C. The little of which I could do D. The little that I could do
35. Scientists have reached the conclusion the temperature on the earth is getting higher and higher.
A. when B. but C. that D. for that
36. The teacher said, "It’s time you your oral presentation."
A. began B. should begin C. begin D. are beginning
37. You and I could hardly understand each other, ?
A. could I B. couldn’t you C. could we D. couldn’t we
38. A clue Americans may have been more honest in the past lies in the Abe Lincoln story.
A. as for why B. as to what C. as to which D. as to why
39. Petroleum is to industry blood is to man.
A. that B. as if C. what D. which
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