(完整版)词汇与语法练习题(1)

1.How do you ____ for coming late for the meeting ？

A) explain B ) excuseC) describe D) account

2.The mother was so _____ at the news that she didn ' t know what to do.

A ) admired B) amazedC) amused D) curious

3.He likes to listen to music with the radio turned on at full ____ .

A) power B) voiceC ) volume D ) sound

4.The coach must take a large ____ of the blame for the failure of the football match.

A) quantity B ) numberC ) share D) amount

5.Although alone in the house ，he was so busy with his research that he felt _______ lonely.

A) all but B) nothing butC) something but D) anything but

6.The introduction of modern technique from abroad makes it necessary for skilled workers to unskilled workers.

A) take place B) take overC) take down D) take the place of

7. __ so few people in the street was unusual.

A) For there to be B) As there to beC) For there being D) As there being

8.There are signs ____ Internet are becoming more and more popular with teenagers.

A) that B) whoseC) what D ) which

9.Bob had been ____ on a meadow sprinkled with dandelion for a long time before he sat up.

A) laid B) lyingC ) lain D) laying

10.Jill would rather that his girl friend ____ in the same department as he does.

A) studied B) should studyC ) study D) had studied

11.She had no objection to ____ the airplane ticket which would send her to Geneva.

A) to take B) taking C) of taking D ) to taking

12.I ' m ______ the impression that you ' ve told me about it.

A) into B) onC) of D) under

13.In the summer holidays ，they have a plan to go to movies at weekly _____ .

A) intervals B) basesC) gaps D) times

14.I have decided to ____ my smoking.

A ) cut up

B ) cut off

C ) cut across D) cut down

15.Many of the imported planes have been lying ___ for years because of the restrictions on the

foreign spare parts.

A) idle B) vacant C) empty D) hollow

16.Electrical ____ are ( is) used to free people from the heavy housework.

A) equipment B) facilitiesC ) appliances D) apparatus

17.The rain came on time and would certainly ease the feat ____ the people of inland.

A ) to face

B ) face C) facing D ) faces

18.They bought a Yamaha piano at the price of 10 ，000 yuan. They liked it so much that they would have paid ________________ for it.

A) twice as much B) as much twiceC) as twice much D) much as twice

19.It was not until she had come downstairs _____ remembered the keys were not with her.

A ) she B) when she C) that she D) and see

20.Mike is very happy. His mark in the English examination is higher than ______ in the class

A) anyone' s B) anyone elseC) anyone else' s D) anyone' s else

21.The first prize goes to _____ makes the greatest contribution to the company.

A) whomever B) whicheverC ) no matter who D) whoever

22.Society is a building ，to the construction of _____ every member brings a brick.

A) that B) which C ) it D ) this

23.The applicant filled in the form ，but he didn' t know which office room _____ .

A) to send it to B) to be sent to C) to have it sent to D) to sent it

24.Young ___ he was，he was trusted with an important task.

A ) because B) althoughC ) as D)since

25.Tom broke the glass of the neighbor ' s window. I ' ll ____________ that he will not do it again.

A ) hope for

B ) be sure C) see to it D) make it so

26. _________________________________________________ T he new cars of the Volkswagon Company are now being _____________________________________________________ at the rate of 1 ，000 every week.

A) turned out B) turned downC ) turned up D) turned on

27.It was urgent that he ____ her immediately.

A) calls B) calledC) call D) would call

28.I don ' t ________ going to the movie.

A) feel for B) feel likeC ) feel out D) feel

29.The meeting drew to a _____ late in the afternoon.

A) near B) close C) point D ) tail

30.John regretted ____ to the meeting last week.

A) not going B) not go to C) not having been going D) not to be going

91.I like reading ____ ( 鲁迅的)works.

92.___ ( 上海的街道) are not as wide as ______ (北京的).

93.The teacher has read ______ (珍妮和汤姆的) compositions.

94.The radio is _____ ( 迈克和约翰的).

95.The woman showed _____ ( 母爱) for the little girl.

96.My mother works at ____ （一家药房）.

97.I like ____ （他鞋子的颜色）.

98.We must get to ____ （小山脚下） before noon.

99.Tonight I will have dinner at _____ （我叔叔家）.

100.Tomorrow the newsman will visit ______ （格林家）.

1.Her father works as a ___________ in a hotel and her mother a ___________ in a private company.

A.cooker, typewriter

B. cook, typist

C. cooker, typist

D. cook, typewriter

2."Why couldn't they meet us at five o'clock?" "Because they were delayed by ____________ ."

A. heavy traffic

B. heavy traffics

C. crowded traffic

D. crowded traffics

She is not a competent driver and can't cope with driving in ___________ .

A. heavy traffic

B. heavy traffics

C. crowded traffic

D. crowded traffics

3.By all __________ , you must try every ____________ to help him.

A. mean, mean

B. means, means

C. means, mean

D. mean, means

Is [Are] there any other means of getting more money?

4.Jim is __________ person, and everyone is willing to be _____________ with him.

A. so kind a, friends

B. so a kind, friends

C. so kind a, friend

D. so a kind, friend

5.She raised her finger to her lips as ___________ for silence.

A. an idea

B. a mark

C. a sign

D. a word

（1） Those black clouds are a sure _________ that it's going to rain.

A. thing

B. mark

C. sign

D. one

（2） Just as a famous Chinese saying goes, a timely heavy snow is a __________________ of good harvest next year.

A. mark

B. track

C. sign

D. appearance

The lion is considered the king of the forest as it is a（n） __________ of courage and power.

A. example

B. sign

C. mark so-tab-count;

D. symbol

6."May I take your order now?" "We'd like three black ________________________ and two green

A. coffee, cups

B. coffees, teas

C. cups of coffee, tea

D. cup of coffees, teas

1.Although she wrote a lot of short stories and poems when she was very young, _____ she was twenty ? ? five.

A. her first real success did not come until

B.her real first success came until not ? ?

C.since her first real success did not come until

D.not until her first real success

2.You should know better than ___ your little sister at home by herself.

A. to leave

B. leaving

C. to have left

D. left

3.As the train will not leave until one hour later, we ____ grab a bite at the snack bar.

A. may well

B. just as well ? ?

C. might as well

D. as well

4.She resorted to ____ when she had no money to buy foods for her children.

A. have stolen

B. steal

C. stole

D. stealing

5.The boy has admitted to ____ the window while playing football yesterday.

A. breaking

B. having been broken ? ?

C. break

D. be breaking

1.It was requested that all of the equipment ___ in the agreed time.

A. erected

B. would be erected ?

C. be erected

D. will be erected

2.The man sitting opposite me smiled dreamily, as if _____ something pleasant in the past.

A. to remember

B. remembered?

C. having been remembered

D. remembering

3.I _____ him the Christmas gift by mail because he came home during the Christmas holidays.

A. ought to have sent

B. couldn ' t have sent ?

C. must have sent

D. needn' t have sent

4.It turned out that the children were not __ for the accident.

A. to blame

B. to be blamed?

C. to be blaming

D. to have been blamed

5.The desegregation was achieved through a number of struggles, __________ b een mentioned in previous chapters.

A. a few of which

B. a few of them ?

C. a few of those

D. a few of that

6.Setting up a committee might be a way ____ the project more efficiently.

A. to be doing

B. doing

C. to do

D. being done

7.It ___ to see so many children in that mountainous area cannot even afford elementary education.

A.pains her

B. makes her pain?

C. is paining

D. is pained

8.Our boss, Mr. Thompson, ___ a raise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.

A.was promising

B. has been promising?

C. promised

D. has promised

9.He was determined to sail around the world ____ his illness and old age.

A. given

B. although

C. despite

D. in spite

10.The board deemed it' s urgent that these invitations ______ first thing tomorrow morning.

A. had to be put in the mail ?

B. must be put in the mail

C. be put in the mail?

D. should have been put in the mail

11. __ drills that have no real topic have to remainas they are.

A. Manufacture

B. Manipulative?

C. Manipulate

D.Manifest

12.This book has been in the works so long that I have lost _____ o f most of the sources found for me by the staff of the library.

A. trace

B. trail

C. track

D. touch

13.The elbows on your coat have worn thin, so I must _____ t hem.

A. mend

B. patch

C. repair

D. pitch

14. _ and wage increases have not kept in step.

A. Production

B. Product?

C. Produce

D. Productivity

15.People under stress have performed ____ feats of strength, like lifting an automobile off an accident victim.

A. specific

B. extraordinary

C. abrupt

D. abnormal

16.Modern appliances _____ us from a good deal of household work.For instance, the dryer frees us from hanging the laundry.

A.escape B . benefit C. liberate D. comfort

17.The audience waited in ___ silence while their aged speaker searched among his note for the figures he could not remember.

A. respective

B. respect

C. respectful

D. respectable

18.The disappearance of her paper has never been _____ .

A. counted for

B. looked up ?

C.accounted for

D. checked up

19.When he was asked about the missing briefcase, the man ____ ever seeing it.

A. refused

B. denied

C. opposed

D. resisted

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/553058492.html,munication between a young couple is a(n) ____ business.

A. sharp

B. dreadful

C. intense

D. delicate

21.After so many weeks without rain, the ground quickly _____ the little rain that fell last night.

A. skipped

B. soaked

C. retrieved

D. absorbed

22.We' ll ____ you as soon as we have any further information.

A. notify

B. signify?

C. communicate

D. impart

23.The fox fell into the ___ the hunters had set forit.

A. bush

B. trap

C. trick

D. circle

24.I don't know you want to keep the letter. I 've ________ it up.

A. torn

B. given

C. broken

D. disposed

25. The old lady and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.

A. slided

B. slipped

C. split

D. spilled

1.Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owing to its always _____ w ith other elements, most

commonly with oxygen.

A. being combined

B. having combined ?

C. to combine

D. combined

2.Physics is the present?day equivalent of _____ used to be called natural philosophy, from

____ most of present day science arose.

A. which, what

B. that, which

C. what, which

D. what, that

3.On no account ____ e ver leave the baby at home alone.

A. should you

B. you should

C. shall you

D. you shall

4.__ the center of our planetary system was considered as heresy by the church in the

Middle Ages.

A. It is the sun and not the earth ?

B. That the sun and not the earth

C. Being the sun and not the earth ?

D. The sun and not the earth

5.The reason that his property was confiscated by the country, it ____________ , was that he was involved in a lot of fraudulent activities during the war.

A. was turned out

B. was being turned out?

C. being turned out

D. turned out

6.I' d rather you ____ b y train because the weather forecast said there would be heavy snow tomorrow.

A. went

B. should go

C. will go

D. go

7.Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 and enjoyed great fame in Germany until the rise of Nazism ? he was expelled from Germany because he was a Jew.

A. when

B. who

C. then

D. which

8.Nowhere but in the remotest region of the country ___ find a place to settle down.

A. can he

B. he can

C. he

D. for him to

9.With one leg broken in that car accident, he cannot even walk, ____ r un.

A. let alone

B. that ' s to say ?

C. not to speak

D. not to mention

10.__ , she led a life of complete seclusion.

A. Being disgraced

B. Disgraced

C. Disgracing

D. She was disgraced

11.Sometimes a bus ___ gets on the bus to check the tickets.

A. agent

B. officer

C. conductor

D. inspector

12.He made a quick ___ from his illness.

A. relief

B. recovery

C. survival

D. relaxation

13.__ the stress of examinations are over, we can all relax.

A. While

B. Even though

C. Now that

D. For

14.My cousin Nancy is often in a poisonous mood; I suppose it ' s because she is ________ child.

A. one

B. a lone

C. a single

D. an only

15.__ the factors already referred to, people sometimes feel insecure because their motives

are misunderstood by others.

A. But for

B. Except for

C. Apart from

D. Except that

16.If the scheme is _____ carried out without waste of time or energy I shall be completely satisfied.

A.relatively

B. noticeably ?

C. appropriately

D. efficiently

17.One day we all may find it useful to have a(n) ____ for sending documents, writing any pictures across the telephone lines.

A. receiver

B. echo

C. extension

D. facility

18.To their credit the Department of Energy ____ these ideas and funded a detailed study.

A. took over

B. took on

C. took up

D. took to

19.Feeling that she was in the right, she took _____ at the dirty remark.

A. protection

B. offense

C. defense

D. guard

20.They agreed to share in common any ____ o f funds after all expenses were paid in full.

A. sufficiency

B. surpass

C. excess

D. surplus

21.He was ___ h er in intelligence.

A. below

B. under

C. beneath

D. down

22.It took a lot of imagination to come up with such an ___ plan.

A. bright

B. clever

C. brilliant

D. ingenious

23.In the refining process, rice and flour lose much of their _____ .

A. acid

B. alcohol

C. vitamin

D. sulphur

24.Individual lines of the poem were very beautiful, but I didn 't see how the lines fit together. To me, the poem wasn' t ________________________ .

A. inherent

B. coherent

C. logical

D. corporate

25.To an especially sensitive child, a simple scolding can be a ______ experience.

A. hysterical

B. grievous

C. gracious

D. sensible

1.All of the plants now farmed on a large scale were developed from plants ____ wild.

A. that once grow

B. once they grow?

C. they once grew

D. once grew

2.By the time you graduate, we ___ i n Australia for one year.

A. will be staying

B. will have stayed ?

C. would have stayed

D. have stayed

3.He appreciated ______ the chance to deliver his thesis in the annual symposium on

Comparative Literature.

A. having given

B. to have been given?

C. to have given

D. having been given

4. ____________________________________________ The government official can hardly find sufficient grounds ________________________________________________ his arguments in favor of the revision of the tax law.

A. on which to base

B. which to be based on

C. to base on which

D. on which to be based

5.Living in the desert involves a lot of problems, ? ____ ? water shortage is the worst. A. not

to mention B. of which? C. let alone D. for what

6.Hydrogen is one of the most important element in the universe ______________ it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.

A.so that

B. but that

C. provided that

D. in that

7.Just as relaxation is an important part of our lives, _____ s tress.

A.so is

B. as it is

C. and so is

D. the same is

8.Victor took a bus and headed for home, ___ if his wife would have him back.

A. not to know

B. not known ?

C. not knowing

D. not having known

9.We can make an exception ___ .

A. in any case of John

B. in case of John ?

C. in case of John ' s

D. in the case of John

10.When the Cultural Revolution was launched in China, his father ___ college.

A. attended

B. had been attending?

C. was attending

D. has been attending

11.My cat is a fussy eater, but my dog is so _____ that she ' ll swallow down anything that is

put in front of her.

A. indiscriminate

B. choosy ?

C. indefinite

D. picky

12.“ This house is more ____ than the federal government! ” Mac complained to his parents. “ You have rules for everything. ”

A. systematic

B. democratic

C. bureaucratic

D. public

13.The American people ' s _____ of being polite is different from that held here in China.

A. mind

B. concept?

C. consideration

D. thought

14.Well, that is probably all I can say about sports. Next time I ' ll take up the topic of some other

activities.

A. refreshment

B. entertainment ?

C. pleasure

D. leisure

15.Where there is an earthquake, energy is _____ in one area along a crack in the earth crust.

A. repelled

B. released

C. run

D. rushed

16.The old gardener used to keep all his tools and do it yourself equipment in a _____ in the

garden.

A. barn

B. room

C. hut

D. shed

17.I' ve got a big coffee ____ on the front of my dress.

A. pore

B. patch

C. stain

D. grease

18.She broke her leg, but the ____healed quickly.

A. fracture

B. injury

C. skeleton

D. cavity

19.You'd better add them up. I ' m not good at ______ .

A. figures

B. characters

C. summaries

D. counters

20.The girl chose some very pretty ____paper for the present.

A. covering

B. wrapping

C. packing

D.collecting

21.The two scholars worked at the task of writing a preface to the new dictionary for three hours ? last night.

A. at length

B. in full

C. on end

D. in time

22.I can' t read the marks and notes Jim made in the margin. They are too _______ .

A.faint

B. foggy

C. transparent

D. misty

23. A highly organized system of irrigation is ____ Chinese agriculture.

A. typical of

B. consistent with?

C. famous for

D. subject to

24.Jack is very ____ about wines.

A. aware

B. knowledgeable ?

C. learned

D. informed

25. As for Ann, I am not sure about her in Italian.

A. fluency

B. clarity

C. coherence

D. excellency

41.She did her work __________ her manager had instructed.

A. as

B. until

C. when

D. though

42. ______ of the twins was arrested, because I saw both at a party last night.

A. None

B. Both

C. Neither

D. All

43.For some time now, world leaders ________ out the necessity for agreement on arms reduction.

A. had been pointing

B. have been pointing

C. were pointing

D. pointed

44.Have you ever been in a situation _______ you know the other person is right yet you cannot agree with him?

A. by which

B. that

C. in where

D. where

45.We' ve just installed two air-conditions in out apartment, ___________________ should make great differences in our life next summer.

A. which

B. what

C. that

D. they

46.AID is said ___________ the number-one killer of both men and women over the past few years in that region.

A. being b. to be C. to have been D. having been

47.She managed to save _______ she could out of her wages to help her brother.

A. how little money

B. so little money

C. such little money

D. what little money

48.Fool ____ Jane is, she could not have done such a thing.

A. who

B. as

C. that

D. like

49.The experiment requires more money than _____ .

A. have been put in

B. being put in

C. has been put in

D. to be put in

50. ______ for the fact that she broke her leg, she might have passed the exam.

A. Had it not been

B. Hadn it been' t

C. Was it not

D. Were it not

51.“ What courses are you going to do next semester? ”

“ I don ' t know. But its about time _______________ on something. ”

A. I ' d decide

B. I decided

C. I decide

D. I ' m deciding

52.The police have offered a large _________ for information leading to the robbers arrest.

A. award

B. compensation

C. prize

D. reward

53.I arrives at the airport so late that I ______ missed the plane.

A. only

B. quite

C. narrowly

D. seldom

54.The popularity of the film shows that the reviewers were complet'ely f e_a_r_s___

A. unjustified

B. unjust

C. misguided

D. unaccepted

55.The head of the Museum was ____ and let us actually examine the ancient manuscripts.

A. promising

B. agreeing

C. pleasing

D. obliging

56.The multinational corporation was making a take-over _____ for a property company.

A. application

B. bid

C. proposal

D. suggestion

57.The party ' s reduced vote was __________ of lack of support for its policies.

A. indicative

B. positive

C. revealing

D. evident

58.There has been a ________ lack of communication between the union and the management.

A. regretful

B. regrettable

C. regretting

D. regretted

59.The teacher _________ expects his students to pass the university entrance examination

A. confidently

B. proudly

C. assuredly

D. confidently

60.The ______ family in Chinese cities now spends more money on housing than before.

A. normal

B. average

C. usual

D. general

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

A. confess

B. declares

C. claims

D. confirms

62.During the reading lesson, the teacher asked students to read a few _________ from the novel.

A. pieces

B. essays

C. fragments

D. extracts

63.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

64.The old couple will never _______ the loss of their son.

A. get over

B. get away

C. get off

D. get across

65.Scientific research results can now be quickly ___________ to factory production.

A. used

B. applied

C. tried

D. practiced