四级水平词汇测试-- 1

1.What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain because painters __________ their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. translate

2.The teacher’s praise __________ the girl to try even harder and soon she caught up with her classmates. encouraged

3.He applied his skill to the __________ use of words, the brief but vivid description. economical

4.The adult, with trained powers, has an immense __________ over the child in the acquisition of information. advantage

5.We all __________ greatly by lighthouses, even those of us who have never seen the sea and never expect to. benefit

6.Remote places with strange-sounding names __________ the traveller with promises of excitement, different forms of entertainment, and new kinds of food. attract

7.Oceans clearly play an essential role in life on Earth, yet because of their vastness, humans have tended to use their waters as dumping grounds for many __________ materials. waste

8.Unlike Britain and Japan, in the United States there is an additional reason for fashion: Most Americans seem to feel that something is wrong if there isn’t __________ change in their lives. frequent

9.Standard language is usually more appropriate in __________ situations because people have come to expect it on those occasions. formal

10.Americans have a craze for the sun, a(n) __________ that the sun will cure chronic illnesses, and that where there is sunshine there will be a job –or, if not a job, at least a warm, pleasant place to be unemployed. belief

11.Now, most survive. __________, many people have extra cattle to sell, and use the money to pay for school for their children. As a result

12.The novel was made into a movie in 1983 and again in 1998. I prefer the __________ version to the former. latter

13.We often read in novels how a __________ respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. seemingly

14.It’s one thing to _____________ with your friends on the phone, but it is quite another to compose a nice letter explaining the same ideas. communicate

15.I definitely prefer to live in a big city that offers a rich __________ of manyoptions,whether it be for jobs or leisure or cultural or intellectual activities. variety

16.If human beings were always __________ with what they have, we would still be living in Stone Age. satisfied

17.Trees cannot heal: they make no repairs. Instead, they defend themselves from the consequences of ______ and infection by walling off the damage. injury

18.Physiological theories are based on the idea that we dream to exercise various neural connections that ______ certain types of learning, some researchers think. affect

19.According to the __________ in our village, the man and woman should each plant a tree when they get married. convention

20.The automobile company says it cannot cut its prices any more because it has a(n) __________ to all its shareholders. responsibility

21.Many people are asking whether traditional research universities in fact have any future __________. at all

22.He suffered a stroke in 2008, which left him unable to speak, but his mental ___________ was