全国通用2010届高考英语最新词汇精编详解(下)
It is not profitable to provide bus services in districts where the population is widely _____.
A.scattered | B.dismissed | C.separated | D.spread |
There are usually at least two _____ of looking at every question.
A.ways | B.directions | C.views | D.opinions |
He left in such a hurry that I _____ had time to thank him.
A.almost | B.even | C.nearly | D.scarcely |
As more and more cars are produced and used, so the _____ from their exhaust-pipes contains an even larger volume of poisonous gas.
A.exposure | B.distribution | C.expansion | D.emission |
The book seems to have been _____ from various books and articles.
A.pieced together | B.taken off |
C.broken away | D.pulled out |
We had a marvelous holiday: only the last two days were slightly _____ by the weather.
A.damaged | B.hurt | C.ruined | D.spoiled |
I could tell he was surprised from the _____ on his face.
A.appearance | B.view | C.sight | D.expression |
I'd like to take _____ of this opportunity to thank you all for your cooperation.
A.profit | B.benefit | C.advantage | D.interests |
If you ever have the _____ to go abroad to work, you should take it.
A.possibility | B.offer | C.luck | D.chance |
Scientists think they have _____ in their attempt to find the causes of some major dieases.
A.broken through | B.worked out |
C.fallen out | D.got round |
His test results are not very _____. He does well one week and badly the next.
A.invariable | B.consequent | C.continuous | D.consistent |
The new safety regulations were agreed on after _____ with the work-force.
A.conference | B.participation |
C.intervention | D.consultation |
The room was so quiet that she could hear the _____ of her heart.
A.hitting | B.beating | C.tapping | D.knocking |
During World War II Malta managed to _____ most of Italian and German bombers by throwing up an effective anti-aircraft screen.
A.put out | B.shut out | C.come across | D.get across |
I think we should let Maria go camping with her boyfriend. _____, she's a big girl now.
A.Above all | B.After all | C.First of all | D.For all |
Jim's close _____ to his brother made people mistake them for one another.
A.confusion | B.similarity | C.resemblance | D.imitation |
It has been decided that this company has the _____ right to print Mr. Smith's novels.
A.eventual | B.versatile | C.extensive | D.exclusive |
He has recently _____ chess to provide himself with some relaxation.
A.taken on | B.taken up | C.held on | D.held up |
What a terrible experience! _____ , you are safe, that's the main thing.
A.Somehow | B.Anyhow | C.Somewhat | D.Anywhere |
John always tries to _____ people who are useful to him professionally.
A.develop | B.provoke | C.correspond | D.cultivate |
Although he hasn't any formal qualifications, Betas _____ to do well for himself.
A.managed | B.succeeded | C.arranged | D.convinced |
The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to _____ rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways to deal with its own problems.
A.set up | B.put down | C.keep up | D.lay down |
After a short holiday, he _____ himself once more to his studies.
A.applied | B.converted | C.engaged | D.exerted |
She felt _____ of having asked such a silly question when the audience couldn't help laughing.
A.guilty | B.crazy | C.miserable | D.ashamed |
The driver can adjust the heating in winter and the air conditioning in summer to suit his own _____.
A.leisure | B.preference | C.convenience | D.selection |
There is not much time left; So I'll tell you about it _____.
A.in detail | B.in brief | C.in short | D.in all |
She got married although her parents had not given her their _____.
A.allowance | B.consent | C.permit | D.appreciation |
The rain was heavy and _____ the land was flooded.
A.consequently | B.constantly | C.continuously | D.consistently |
Magnificent views over the countryside have often _____ people to write poems.
A.convinced | B.inspired | C.induced | D.attracted |
From the cheers and shouts of _____, I gathered that he was winning the race.
A.stimulus | B.urgency | C.encouragement | D.promotion |
She once again went through her composition carefully to _____ all spelling mistakes from it.
A.withdraw | B.abandon | C.diminish | D.eliminate |
When the little child caught sight of the young woman _____ in white he started brawling immediately.
A.dressed | B.wearing | C.worn | D.putting on |
Some areas, _____ their severe weather conditions, are hardly populated.
A.due to | B.but for | C.in spite of | D.with relation to |
Many university courses are not really _____ to the needs of students or their future employers.
A.associated | B.relative | C.geared | D.sufficient |
If we can _____ our present difficulties, then everything should be all right.
A.get off | B.come across | C.come over | D.get over |
Be careful how you _____ that jug, it will break very easily.
A.pour | B.operate | C.handle | D.employ |
We suddenly saw the bus about to leave and had to run _____ to catch it.
A.hardly | B.awkwardly | C.hard | D.strongly |
He hated the war so much that he decided to leave the army _____.
A.for long | B.once in a while | C.for good | D.once upon a time |
This year the farmers were just able to gather in the _____ before the fine weather came to an end.
A.collection | B.harvest | C.flower | D.plant |
A successful scientist needs _____ if he wants to make hypothesis (假设) of how processes work and how events take place.
A.permission | B.penetration | C.imagination | D.convention |
Tell your brother to come _____, because it's going to rain in a minute or two.
A.indoors | B.outdoors | C.outward | D.inwards |
I can't advise you what to do. You must use your own _____.
A.opinion | B.guesswork | C.justice | D.judgment |
Because of the poor harvest, wheat prices have _____ in the last six months.
A.added | B.jumped | C.amounted | D.developed |
There is a 20 minute parking _____ here, so we must get back to the car very quickly.
A.freedom | B.limit | C.allowance | D.prohibition |
The country needs a _____ government. We have had three Prime Ministers in a year.
A.stationary | B.changeless | C.constant | D.stable |
Having said he would mend the clock, he discovered that he had not brought the _____ tools for the job.
A.concise | B.correct | C.right | D.precise |
Radium salts, which have been found to _____ in bones, give rise to cancers of the bone.
A.pile up | B.build up | C.keep up | D.pull up |
It has been laid down that each student must _____ a composition to the teacher once a week.
A.turn in | B.give up | C.put forward | D.bring out |
Our house is the most _____ one in the street; it is painted red.
A.permanent | B.indifferent | C.predominant | D.prominent |
I shall take you back to Beijing _____ you are well enough to travel.
A.presently | B.promptly | C.immediately | D.shortly |
The writer was always looking for suitable _____ to use in his next story.
A.contents | B.articles | C.notions | D.ideas |
He gave me some very _____ advice on buying a house.
A.precious | B.worthy | C.precise | D.valuable |
You will get to the church more quickly if you take this _____ across the fields.
A.track | B.passage | C.method | D.journey |
A landing on Mars is within the _____ of current physical theory.
A.scheme | B.scope | C.scrap | D.scale |
He was _____ by a bee when he was collecting the honey.
A.scratched | B.pricked | C.stung | D.bitten |
Don't go too far into the sea, children, or the waves will _____ you off your feet.
A.flow | B.cut | C.press | D.sweep |
The store had no more red shoes _____, so Mary chose brown ones instead.
A.in demand | B.in store | C.in need | D.in stock |
Bill is not a fast runner and he doesn't have a chance of winning the marathon, but he will _____ the race even if he finishes last.
A.keep on | B.keep to | C.stick out | D.stick to |
Can you _____ me _____ two hundred copies of this article by tomorrow.
A.give .. out | B.send .. in | C.write .. off | D.run .. off |
The current political _____ of our country is favorable for foreign investments.
A.climate | B.weather | C.state | D.occasion |
It was with great delight that I read in your February _____ the letter to the Editor written by Prof. Johnson.
A.issue | B.printing | C.magazine | D.copy |
What I'm telling you is strictly _____. Do not let anyone know of it.
A.secretive | B.special | C.individual | D.confidential |
The author had qualified as a doctor but later gave up the _____ of medicine for full-time writing.
A.prescription | B.procedure | C.treatment | D.practice |
Julie is one of those women who always _____ the latest fashions.
A.put up with | B.come up with | C.get on with | D.keep up with |
Having made his first film earlier this year, he is _____ starting in a new one.
A.currently | B.actually | C.recently | D.lately |
My house is very _____ for getting to work as it is only a few minutes from the station.
A.comfortable | B.suitable | C.convenient | D.available |
When college students _____ future employment, they often think of status, income, and prestige.
A.demand | B.assume | C.apply | D.anticipate |
Alice _____ her father that both she and her husband would be happy if he would live with them.
A.convinced | B.reinforced | C.pledged | D.required |
. Neither of them thought highly of him and they both tried to _____ him in his work.
A.hamper | B.support | C.depress | D.prevent |
She chose cushions of a color which would _____ her carpet.
A.equal | B.agree | C.help | D.match |
We finally managed to _____ the committee's approval of our plans.
A.secure | B.arouse | C.acquire | D.exert |
I have such a bad cold that I have lost all _____ of smell.
A.degree | B.sense | C.strength | D.scent |
She is so _____ that she cried for days when her pet rabbit died.
A.sensitive | B.sensible | C.imaginative | D.impressive |
The lorry driver was badly _____ when his lorry crashed into a wall.
A.damaged | B.hit | C.hurt | D.harmed |
I caught a _____ of the car before it disappeared around the bend.
A.glance | B.glimpse | C.glare | D.gleam |
The car salesman took the customer for a driver in the new model in order to _____ its improved features.
A.advocate | B.demonstrate | C.exhibit | D.reveal |
The rainbow _____ as the sun came fully out from behind the clouds.
A.dissolved | B.removed | C.resigned | D.disappeared |
All too _____ it was time to go back to school after the glorious summer holidays.
A.often | B.fast | C.soon | D.late |
. Deserts, dry areas with _____ no vegetation, cover more than one-third of the Earth's land surface.
A.surprisingly | B.eventually | C.permanently | D.virtually |
After dinner the minister made a short _____ to the guests.
A.delivery | B.pronunciation | C.conversation | D.speech |
When there's doubt the examiner's decision is _____.
A.right | B.final | C.definite | D.fixed |
Busy and successful as he was, the novelist was willing to _____ any promising young man and give him all the help he could.
A.take up | B.pick up | C.make up | D.look up |
He did not find a job yet because he had no _____ to men who could help him.
A.approach | B.application | C.access | D.approval |
The old man got into the _____ of storing money under the bed.
A.tradition | B.habit | C.use | D.custom |
The beauty of the place is more than I can describe. I am sure whoever sees it will _____ its charm.
A.appeal to | B.stick to | C.keep to | D.yield to |
Children are likely to get _____ if no one cares about their upbringing.
A.out of hand | B.out of order | C.out of place | D.out of work |
When the Greeks had _____ the Persians, a soldier ran from Marathon to Athens.
A.won | B.bitten | C.beaten | D.hit |
There was a large box behind the door and Peter couldn't _____ falling over it in the darkness.
A.help | B.resist | C.avoid | D.prevent |
Maria is a _____ person and never makes any unreasonable demands.
A.sensitive | B.sensible | C.obedient | D.jealous |
Violent programs on television may have a bad _____ on children.
A.affection | B.pressure | C.influence | D.control |
The shop-assistant was straight with his customers. If an article was of _____ quality, he'd tell them so.
A.humble | B.minor | C.inferior | D.awkward |
If you put too many potatoes in that paper-bag it will _____.
A.fail | B.explode | C.crack | D.burst |
One-room schoolhouses can still be found in _____ areas where there are no other schools for many miles.
A.disposed | B.deserted | C.isolated | D.abandoned |
I'm afraid you have no _____ but to come along with us.
A.possibility | B.permission | C.choice | D.selection |
I shall never beat John at tennis; we are clearly not in the same _____.
A.set | B.band | C.group | D.class |
As soon as Charles had _____ a little from his surprise, his one thought was to get away.
A.returned | B.absorbed | C.dissolved | D.recovered |
When I arrived in this country, I had to start learning the language from _____.
A.scratch | B.scrap | C.snatch | D.scrape |
The thieves _____ him _____ in the park, took his wallet and escaped.
A.held .. back | B.held .. up | C.held .. on | D.held .. out |
Japan has to employ an increasing number of overseas workers because there is no easy solution to its labor _____.
A.decline | B.rarity | C.vacancy | D.shortage |
The two dogs started to fight, so we tried to _____ them.
A.split | B.separate | C.tear | D.divide |
The rapidly growing birth rate brings about a lot of environment problems, which the government is supposed to take _____.
A.significantly | B.severely | C.earnestly | D.seriously |
Carl wanted to play a joke on Bob but gave himself _____ by laughing.
A.away | B.in | C.out | D.up |
The government is _____ and will take the necessary steps to maintain security and stability.
A.on the alert | B.out of control | C.on guard | D.in vain |
Many people complain of the rapid _____ of modern life.
A.rate | B.pace | C.speed | D.growth |
She has lost her handbag with the _____ sum of $150 in it.
A.extraordinary | B.important | C.considerable | D.valuable |
Russia's withdrawal of its experts from China did not strangle (压垮) the Chinese people; _____ it stirred up their enthusiasm for greater exertions.
A.on the other hand | B.on the contrary | C.to the contrary | D.in consequence |
. As he had no friends and relatives in the town, the traveler tried to find a _____ somewhere.
A.log | B.lodge | C.landing | D.lodging |
Because the children keep interrupting her whenever she reads a book, she is always _____ her place.
A.loosing | B.missing | C.losing | D.looking for |
The manager said that they had an _____ plan if the plan they had submitted was not accepted.
A.alternate | B.alternative | C.absolute | D.appreciable |
Jim isn't _____, but he did badly in the final exams last semester.
A.gloomy | B.dull | C.awkward | D.tedious |
At first Bob was puzzled by Virginia s waving, but then it _____ his mind that she was trying to tell him something.
A.crossed | B.passed | C.occurred | D.opened |
His job at the hospital did not pay much, so he found another _____.
A.on the rise | B.on the spot | C.on the decline | D.on the side |
The filling station _____ because there were too many others on the street.
A.fell through | B.went under | C.fell out | D.went through |
Air and the sun's rays create much distortion, and whatever tends to _____ their influence is useful to the astronomer.
A.exclude | B.eliminate | C.extinguish | D.impose |
The lady who had invited us heard me telling my wife that the dinner was terrible so I was _____.
A.confused | B.nervous | C.shameful | D.embarrassed |
Animals should not be locked in cages; they should be in their normal _____.
A.environment | B.position | C.residence | D.dwelling |
I'm sorry but what he thinks is not of the _____ importance to me.
A.merest | B.lowest | C.last | D.least |
He offered to _____ her a hand as the suitcase was too heavy for her to carry.
A.lend | B.help | C.show | D.loan |
I have been looking for this book for months, and _____ I have found it.
A.at least | B.in no time | C.at last | D.at present |
It was the largest experiment we had ever had; it _____ six hours.
A.ended | B.finished | C.prolonged | D.lasted |
The _____ stuck on the outside of the envelope said "By Air".
A.label | B.ticket | C.signal | D.sign |
Psychological studies show that some people are quick-tempered _____.
A.at heart | B.on purpose | C.in person | D.by nature |
She was putting on her watch when the _____ broke and it fell to the ground.
A.belt | B.strap | C.tie | D.string |
Feudal landlords, and imperialists are in no way more _____ than wolves.
A.reasonable | B.regardless | C.ridiculous | D.rational |
His name was on the _____ of my tongue, but I just couldn't recall it.
A.end | B.point | C.edge | D.tip |
The authorities declared that because of the war petrol was _____ and had to be rationed (定量供应).
A.inadequate | B.rare | C.lacked | D.scarce |
How did it _____ that the two men arrived to address the same meeting at the same time.
A.fall out | B.take place | C.get around | D.come through |
He looked incredulous(不轻信的) on hearing the news. He seemed to think it _____.
A. incompatible B.incredible C.inclusive D indifferent
In my opinion, your work does not _____ what I expected of you.
A.catch up with | B.add up to | C.come up to | D.go in for |