1.Directions: Fill in each of the following blanks with an appropriate work or phrase from the box. Change the form if necessary.
Acquaint/ amend/ end up with/ haunt/ intrigue/ spill over/ Endow/ poke fun at/ ponder/ undermine/ compel/ check out/
1) Very naturally this inability to sleep began presently to ___________ my daily life.
2) I should try to persuade the judge not to ___________ me to reveal the source.
3) Is always ___________ me how someone so intelligent could do such stupid things.
4) He _________ his speech by making some additions and deletions.
5) He did considerable work to ___________ the masses of the United States with the elementary problems of Latin America.
6) She was _________ with the beauty of Helen of Troy, and the tongue of a fishwife（骂街的泼妇）.
7) James ___________ his friend by imitating his complaints.
8) A wrongdoer is constantly ___________ by fear of discovery.
9) The party _________ the singing of Auld Lang Syne (友谊地久天长).
10) Brigit did not __________ on these thing too long. The morning was too lovely for problems to gloom.
11) The conflict threatens to ________ into neighboring regions.
12) The police __________ the man’s story with witnesses before they would let him go.
2.Directions: Fill in each of the following blanks with the appropriate form of the word in brackets.
1) The ____________ that gout (痛风) is caused by eating rich foods has not been prove D. (assert)
2) You shouldn’t keep birds in cages — they don’t like _________ any more than we do. (restrain)
3) Bruce behaved in such a strange way that we had doubts about his __________ (sane)
4) The occupation of the country by foreign troops was extremely __________. (oppression)
5) ___________ of the nation’s the nation’s 120 medical schools reached an all-time high of 60,039. (enroll)
6) Unless there are any ___________ problems the whole project should be finished by the spring. (foresee)
7) They know nothing and they read nothing — they’re completely ___________. (literate)
8) Cyprus is a ___________ holiday destination, with a fascinating East-meets-West culture, incredible natural beauty and excellent hotels. (seduce)
9) Rumors of his resignation attracted a ___________ amount of media attention. (proportion)
10) Alternative medicine can sometimes provide a cure that ___________ medicine cannot. (convention)
11) I’m afraid I have only a slight ___________ with his works. (acquaint)
12) Presidential power was reduced by a constitutional ___________ in 1991. (amend)
13) He was found to have been enjoying the company of ___________women. (disrepute)
14) the head decided that I should have another go at the ___________ exam. (matriculate)
15)My second and more ___________ reason for going to Dearborn was to see the Henry Ford Museum. (compel)
3.Directions: There are 15 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.
Ours has always been a nation of contrast- ing wealth and want, but perhaps never more so than today. Amid the 1)______ of 1997, more than 21 million people stood in food lines in America, 2)______ to Chicago-based Second Harvest, the nation’s largest hunger-relief charity, 3)______ supports food banks nation- wide. Since Congress 4)______ welfare reform n 1996, 4.6 million people have stopped 5)______ food stamps. Partly as a result, in 1997 requests for emergency food 6)______ in- creased by 16 percent, a 29-city 7)______ found.
“Society is being cheated,” says Second Harvest president Sister Christine Vladimiroff. 8)______ nutrition retards development. “These children will never reach their 9)______.” Though many of the hungry are ad- dicted 10)_____ mentally ill, 60 percent are working poor and “older Americans who’ve played 11)_____ the rules but ended up with- out enough to 12)_____,” she says. “These aren’t lazy people. They’re 13)_____ people.”
Correspondents Joanne Fowler and Bar- bara Sandler in March 14)_____ the wrenching stories of a handful of people whose 15)_____ led to the Good News Community Kitchen in Chicago.
1)A. happiness B. poverty C. prosperity D. richness
2)A. related B. according C. conforming D. relevant
3)A. whichB. what C. it D. that
4)A. engaged B. ensured C. enforced D. enacted
5)A. receiving B. collecting C. distributing D. applying
6)A. aid B. help C. assistance D. relief
7)A. survey B. investigation C. research D. experiment
8)A. Good B. Bad C. Sufficient D. Poor
9)A. capability B. potentialC. latent D. goal
10)A. or B. and C. but D. yet
11)A. on B. by C. at D. with
12)A. wear B. see C. eat D. feel
13)A. fighting B. working C. struggling D. competing
14)A. told B. caught C. found D. captured
15)A. roads B. ways C. experiences D. paths