[0057]《英语词汇学》

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20182

单项选择题

1、This story is a _________ to divert the public attention away from the issue.

1.

blue moon

2.black horse

3.red herring

4.green hand

2、Come on! Cheer up! Don’t just sit here as stiff as a ________.

1.poker

2.patient

3.queen

4.king

3、Overjoyed to see his long-lost friend, Jimmy ________ a toast to the health of them all.

1.suggested

2.spoke

3.proposed

4.raised

4、You were not seriously injured. Don’t make a _________ out of a _________.

1.mountain, molehill

2.mount, molehill

3.hill, molehill

4.molehill, mountain

5、The figure of speech employed in “The past is a bucket of ashes” is _________.

1.

euphemism

2.litotes

3.irony

4.metaphor

6、Our work calls for mutual support. We shouldn’t _________ each other's efforts.

1.active

2.interact

3.counteract

4.activate

7、They all thought that she and her boyfriend were ________.

1.birds of a kind

2.birds of a type

3.birds of a breed

4.birds of a feather

8、After a meal in a restaurant, you ask the waiter for the _________.

1.note

2.receipt

3.bill

4.menu

9、Exercise seems to benefit the brain power of the healthy and the sick, the young and the old ________

1.alike

2.included

3.alive

4.through

10、Words with such clusters as “ch”, “ph”, “pn”, “rh”as in chasm, phone, pneumatic and rhe origin.

1.

German

2.Chinese

3.Greek

tin

11、I waited for Tom for ages, but he didn’t _________.

1.turn in

2.turn up

3.turn on

4.turn out

12、He was ________ of having asked such a silly question.

1.miserable

2.guilty

3.sorry

4.ashamed

13、I took only a _________ of beans with me and left.

1.hand

2.handful

3.handy

4.handed

14、1. According to the divine-source theory, language ________.

1.the result of our ancestors imitating natural sounds around them

2.originated from human physiological adaptation

3.

originated from the link between physical gestures and orally produced sounds

4.is given by God

15、Choked traffic has been a(n) ________ to urban transportation system.

1.archenemy

2.main enemy

3.major enemy

4.primary enemy

16、Flying in an airplane was once thought to be an impossible ________.

1.task

2.problem

3.promise

4.profession

17、No new ideas _______ from the meeting.

1.merged

2.submerged

3.emerged

4.immerged

18、The scientists realized it would be too ________ to ship all people in one boat because it was frag

1.dangerous

2.risky

3.daring

4.bold

19、I took the children to the zoo to ________ for the party they missed yesterday.

1.make away