1. The party’s reduced vote was _____ of lack of support for its policies.

A.indicative B.positive C.revealing D.evident

1.考点：搭配
辨析：indicative --- giving indications of: Is a high forehead indicative of great mental power?
positive --- quite certain: Can you be positive about what you saw?
revealing --- permitting an elucidating glimpse or a perception of something intimate or concealed: a very revealing biography; / a revealing gown.
evident --- easily seen or understood; obvious: It is evident that …
答案：A

2. There has been a _____ lack of communication between the union and the management.

A.regretful B.regrettable C.regretting D.regretted

2. 考点：词形辩义
辨析：regretful --- sad, sorry
regrettable --- to be regretted
regretting --- feeling sorry
regretted --- past form of “regret”
答案： B 以-able结尾的形容词具有被动意义。

3. The teacher _____ expects his students to pass the university entrance examination.

A.confidentially B.proudly C.assuredly D.confidently

3. 考点：词义辨析
辨析：四个答案均由相应的形容词加后缀-ly构成副词，它们的形容词词义为：
confidential --- secret: secret information
proud --- having or showing pride
assured --- confident
confident --- having or showing confidence; certain: He feels confident of passing the TEM4. We are confident of success.
此组单词中，只有assured与confident同义。它们
的区别是：confident --- sure that someone has the ability to do something well: After living in England for a year, he felt much more confident about his English.
assured --- sure that what someone does and think is right: Tom seemed less assured of his success.
答案：D

4. The _____ family in Chinese cities now spends more money on housing than before.

A.normal B.average C.usual D.general

4.考点：词义辨析
辨析：normal --- not special or different: normal car; normal day
average ---- a typical example of a person or thing: average family; average week
usual --- used to describe the situation that usually happens or the thing that someone usually uses: usual chair; usual dictionary
general --- not containing many details; basic: general idea; general instruction
英语中，表达“普通的”时，常用ordinary, average, normal, standard, routine, conventional, day-to-day等，（= not special）
答案B

5. The new colleague _____ to have worked in several big corporations before he joined our company.

A.confesses B.declares C.claims D.confirms

5. 考点：词义辨析
辨析：confess --- agree that you done something wrong: She confessed that she had killed her husband.
We usually use “admit”, “confess” or “own up” to agree that someone has done something wrong: She admitted that she made a mistake. No one owned up to breaking the window.
declare --- make known publicly and clearly: to declare war against … ; declare the results of an election
claim --- say that something is true, even though it has not been proved and people may not believe it: Martin claimed that he was with friends at the time of his wife’s murder.
We used “claim”, swear”, or “deny” to say that something is definitely true or not true:
swear --- promise very seriously that something is definitely true: She swore that she didn’t do that.
deny --- say that you have not done something bad that people say you have done: She denied ever having lied to him. She denied that she copied his essay.
“confirm”, “announce”, “state”, “make a statement” and “say” are used to refer to “say something publicly or officially”: The minister refused to confirm or deny the rumour.
答案：C

6. During the reading lesson, the teacher asked students to read a few _____ from the novel.

A.pieces B.essays C.fragments D.extracts

6.考点：词义辨析
辨析：从上下文可知，学生看的是“小说的部分内容”，与之搭配的是”extracts”, 意为that which has been selected and copied out from a book. (节选)
答案：D

7. During the summer holiday season it is difficult to find a(n) _____ room in the hotels here.

A.empty B.vacant C.free D.deserted

7.可参考2003年的60题。
答案：B

8. The old couple will never _____ the loss of their son.

A.get over B.get away C.get off D.get across

8. 考点：词组
辨析：get over --- overcome
get away --- leave
get off --- dismount
get across --- communicate
答案：A

9. Scientific research results can now be quickly _____ to factory production.

A.used B.applied C.tried D.practiced

9. 考点：搭配
辨析：这几个词在词义上都可理解为“用”，但只有apply能与to搭配。例如：Students should apply their mind to their work.

1. James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _B__ until yesterday.

A. will come B. was coming C. had been coming D. came

解析：come,go,leave,arrive等动词的进行时，可以表示将来的概念，在这里was coming表示过去将来的概念。译为：詹姆士刚刚到，我是昨天才知道他要来的。

2. Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install __A___ solar heating device in our home.

A. some type of B. some types of a C. some type of a D. some types of

解析：some 在这里作“某个、某种”讲，相当于certain 。另外，type of 后跟可数名词单数时不需要用不定冠词。译为：因为燃料供给有限，而且很多人非常浪费，我们将不得不在我们家里安排一种太阳能设备。

3. I know he failed his last test, but really he’s __B__ stupid.

A. something but B. anything but C. nothing but D. not but

解析：anything but解释为“根本不是”，相当于not at all。而nothing but解释为“正是，只是”。译为：尽管我知道他{zh1}一次考试没及格，但他一点也不傻。

4. __C__ you ____ further problems with your printer, contact your dealer for advice.

A. If, had B. Have, had C. Should, have D. In case, had

解析：倒装结构should sb. do表示“万一”。If sb. had 表示虚拟语气。In case 引导的从句中要使用动词原形或使用“should+动词原形”，表示“以免”。本句译为：你的打印机万一还有什么问题，请联系经销商以获取建议。

5. The president explained that the purpose of taxation was to __A__ government spending.

A. finance B. expand C. enlarge D. budget

解析：finance表示“为······提供资金”，而budget表示“事先编列预算”。本句译为：总统解释说，税收的目的是为政府支出提供更多的资金。

6. Mr. Brown’s condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will __C__.

A. pull back B. pull up C. pull through D. pull out

解析：pull through解释为“度过难关，恢复健康”。pull back表示“拉回去”。pull up表示“停止”。pull out表示“开车”。本句译为：看来布朗先生的病情很严重，他能否挺得过来值得怀疑。

7. The priest made the __C__ of the cross when he entered the church.

A. mark B. signal C. sign D. gesture

解析：sign 可指符号、记号，又可指以身体的某个部位，如手、头等作出的动作来示意处内心想要表达的意思。Signal 表示“信号、暗号”，指传达某种信息所用的、人人皆知的或约定俗成的信号。Gesture 表示“姿势、手势、姿态、表示”。本句译为：在进教堂时，牧师用手指划了一个十字。

8. This spacious room is __B__ furnished with just a few articles in it.

A. lightly B. sparsely C. hardly D. rarely

解析：sparsely表示“稀疏地、稀少地”。Lightly表示“程度轻”。Hardly表示“几乎没有”。Rarely表示“稀有”。本句译为：这间宽敞的房间里零零星星摆放着几件家具。

9. The majority of nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a __A__

A. minority B. scarcity C. rarity D. minimum

解析：minority与上文的majority构成对比，表示“少数、少数派”。本句译为：尽管大多数护士都是女性，但是在医疗界高级人员中女性处少数。

10. The heat in summer is no less __C__ here in this mountain region.

A. concentrated B. extensive C. intense D. intensive

解析：intense表示“强烈的，剧烈的”，intense heat 译为“酷暑”。本句译为：这个山区夏天一点也不热。

51. 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

　　52. _________, 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

　　53. His remarks were ________ annoy everybody at the meeting.

　　A. so as to B. such as to C. such to D. as much as to

　　54. James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.

　　A. will come B. was coming C. had been coming D. came

　　55. _________ conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.

　　A. I was and always will be B. I have to be and always will be

　　C. I had been and always will be D. I have been and always will be

　　56. 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

　　57. I went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when I ________ the journey in exactly two days.

　　A. must take B. must have made

　　C. was able to make D. could make

　　58. I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.

　　A. something but B. anything but

　　C. nothing but D. not but

　　59. Do you know Tim’s brother? He is _________ than Tim.

　　A. much more sportsman B. more of a sportsman

　　C. more of sportsman D. more a sportsman

　　60. That was not the first time he ________ us. I think it’s high time we ________ strong actions against him.

　　A. betrayed…take B. had betrayed…took

　　C. has betrayed…took D. has betrayed…take

　　61. What’s the chance of ________ a general election this year?

　　A. there being B. there to be

　　C. there be D. there going to be

　　62. 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

　　63. ________ you _______ further problems with your printer, contact your dealer for advice.

　　A. If, had B. Have, had C. Should, have D. In

　　case, had

　　64. He asked me to lend him some money, which I agreed to do, ________ that he paid me back the following week.

　　A. on occasion B. on purpose C. on condition D. only if

　　65. Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.

　　A. them B. / C. it D. theirs

　　66. ?Why are you staring?

　　?I’ve never seen ______tree before.

　　67. There are still many problem ahead of us, but by his time next year we can see light at the end of the _________.

　　A. battle B. day C. road D. tunnel

　　68. We realized that he was under great _________, so we took no notice of his bad temper.

　　A. excitement B. stress C. crisis D. nervousness

　　69. The director tried to get the actors to _________ to the next scene by hand signals.

　　A. move on B. move off C. move out D. move along

　　70. His ideas are invariably condemned as ________ by his colleagues.

　　A. imaginative B. ingenious C. impractical D. theoretical

　　71. Thousands of people turned out into the streets to _________ against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.

　　A. contradict B. reform C. counter D. protest

　　72. The majority of nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a _________.

　　A. minority B. scarcity C. rarity D. minimum

　　73. Professor Johnson’s retirement ________ from next January.

　　A. carries into effect B. takes effect

　　C. has effect D. puts into effect

　　74. The president explained that the purpose of taxation was to ________ government spending.

　　A. finance B. expand C. enlarge D. budget

　　75. The heat in summer is no less _________ here in this mountain region.

　　A. concentrated B. extensive C. intense D. intensive

　　76. Taking photographs is strictly ________ here, as it may damage the precious

　　cave paintings.

　　A. forbidden B. rejected C. excluded D. denied

　　77. Mr. Brown’s condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will _________.

　　A. pull back B. pull up C. pull through D. pull out

　　78. Since the early nineties, the trend in most businesses has been toward on-demand, always-available products and services that suit the customer’s

　　_________ rather than the company’s.

　　A. benefit B. availability C. suitability D. convenience

　　79. The priest made the ________ of the cross when he entered the church.

　　A. mark B. signal C. sign D. gesture

　　80. This spacious room is ________ furnished with just a few articles in it.

　　A. lightly B. sparsely C. hardly D. rarely

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