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　　1. When there's doubt the examiner's decision is _____.

　　A. right B. final C. definite D. fixed

　　[答案] B. final.

　　[注釋]final最終的,不會改變的。definite明確的。fixed固定的,不變的;a fixed income(固定收入)。right正確的。

　　2. 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

　　[答案] A. take up.

　　[注釋]take up把......當作被保護人,關照,提攜,列如:This athlete was taken up by several Boston universities.(這個運動員得到波士頓大學的關照。)

　　pick up參閱III.129,130注釋。

　　本題譯文：雖然他是一位繁忙又有成就的小說家,但他愿意提攜任何有前途的年輕人并盡力給予幫助。

　　3. 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

　　[答案] C. access.

　　[注釋]have access to進入的路;能接近，進入,了解或使用(不可數名詞)。列如：1)We had access to his private files.(我們能接觸他的私人檔案。)2)Only a few people have access to the full facts of the ase.(只有幾人能了解案件的全部事實。)3)Only high officials had access to the emperor.(只有高級官員才能接近皇帝。)

　　approach接近,走近,快到;對待處理(事情的)方式;接近(到達)的路:1)He was warned of the enemy.(已警告他敵人已接近。)2)His book represents a new approach to the difficulty.(他的書代表了處理困難的一種新方法。)3)The approach to the house was a narrow path.(通到這幢房子的路是一條小徑。)

　　application申請,申請書。approval贊同。根據題意,此句中不是指身體上的“接近或靠近”,而是指“能接觸到”的某人故選access更切題意

　　4. The old man got into the _____ of storing money under the bed.

　　A. tradition B. habit C. use D. custom

　　[答案] B. habit.

　　[注釋]get into the habit of doing sth.意為“養成了做......的習慣"。habit指個人的習慣,而custom則指社會的風俗習慣。tradition“傳統"。

　　5. 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

　　[答案] D. yield to.

　　[注釋]yield to:屈服于;投降讓步(經常有比較靈活的譯法)。如:The disease yielded to treatment.(=The disease was cured as the result of treatment.)(這病經過治療已減輕或治愈。)

　　appeal to向......呼吁;stick to(=keep to)堅持。

　　本題譯文:該地秀麗的景色無法表達于筆下。我深信,不管是誰看到了它都會折服于它的魅力。

　　6. 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

　　[答案] A. out of hand.

　　[注釋]get(or be) out of hand是習語,意為“無法控制,不受約束":This situation appears to be completely out of hand.(看來形勢已完全失去控制。)

　　out of order有毛病,失靈;out of place不得其所的,不適當的;out of work失業。

　　本題譯文:如果不關心孩子的教育,他們很可能會無法控制。

　　7. When the Greeks had _____ the Persians, a soldier ran from Marathon to Athens.

　　A. won B. bitten C. beaten D. hit

　　[答案] C. beaten.

　　[注釋]beat sb. 打敗某人。beat sb. black and blue(把某人打得鼻青臉腫)。hit,擊,擊中:hit a man on the head(打在人的頭上);hit at sb.(向某人打去)。strike(=hit ,give a blow at blows to)打,擊:strike a man on the chin(打在某人的下巴上)。win贏得,用作此義時,后不能接某人;可以說win a match, a victory, the first prize等。

　　8. 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

　　[答案]C. avoid.

　　[注釋]avoid 避免(后接動詞或名詞): He tried to avoid answering my questions. can't (couldn't) help doing sth. 禁不住做......不由自主地做......。 can't (couldn't) resist doing sth.禁不住做......: I couldn't resist laughing.

　　There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves set aside for them in bookshops , along with the health-diet and home-repair paperbacks . Some of them are so 1 with detailed information and step-by-step instructions for performing the function , that you ' d think this was a new sort of skill which all of us are now required to learn . The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary ， 2 an exotic experience , something only the specially trained can do .

　　Furthermore , you could be led to believe that we are the only 3 capable of being aware of death , and that when the rest of nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying , one generation after 4 ，it is a different kind of process , done automatically and trivially , or more “natural”, as we say .

　　An elm in our backyard 5 the blight (枯萎病)this summer and dropped stone dead , leafless , almost overnight . One weekend it was a normal-looking elm , maybe a little bare in spots but 6 alarming , and the next weekend it was gone , passed over , departed , taken . Taken is right , for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his crew of young helpers and their cherry picker , and took it down branch by branch and carted it off in the back of a red truck , everyone 7 .

　　The dying 8 a field mouse , at the jaws of an amiable household cat , is a spectacle I have beheld many times . It 9 to make me wince . However , early in life I gave up throwing sticks at the cat to make him drop the mouse , 10 the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway .

　　1. A. contained B. embraced

　　C. packed D. littered

　　2. A. and B. even

　　C. yet D. but

　　3. A. races B. creatures

　　C. people D. human

　　4. A. the other B. another

　　C. the next D. the following

　　5. A. caught B. held

　　C. took D. picked

　　6. A. something B. anything

　　C. nothing D. everything

　　7. A. sings B. sang

　　C. sung D. singing

　　8. A. to B. in

　　C. for D. of

　　9. A. was B. was used

　　C. used D. was about

　　10. A. but B. because

　　C. while D. in order that