基础英语第4册练习册1~8单元练习及答案

Unit 1

1. Although most dreams apparently happen__, dream activity may be provoked by external influences.

A. spontaneously

B. simultaneously

C. homogeneously

D. instantaneously

2. She let out a terrified __ when she heard the news of the tragedy happened on September 11 in USA,

A. cheer

B. yell

C. sigh

D. curse

3. The ties that bind us together in common activity are so __that they can disappear at any moment.

A. trivial

B. fatal

C. tentative

D. feeble

4. She __ the person who was in her way

A, swore at B. promised

C. swore in

D. sworn at

5. Mary made steady __ in English after she put her heart into it.

A. advance

B. improvement

C. progress

D. program

6. He is the __ husband for her.

A. idea

B. ideal

C. idle

D. idiot

7. We naturally __ the name of Darwin with the doctrine of evolution.

A. associate

B. vain

C. reveal

D. worship

8. When we had finished dinner, Mary asked the waiter for the __.

A, note B. cheque C. bill D. tip

9. The murderer __ a dagger into her heart.

A. plugged

B. penetrated

C. pressed

D. thrust

10. The women were able to equal or __ the men who worked beside them.

A. surpass

B. exceed

C. overtake

D. lagged

Unit 2

1. For many patients, institutional care is the most __ and beneficial form of care.

A. pertinent

B. appropriate

C. acute

D. persistent

2. Several international events in the early 1990s seem likely to ___ , or at least weaken, the trends that emerged

in the 1980s.

A. revolt

B. revolve

C. reverse

D. revive

3. The elderly Russians find it hard to live on their state __ .

A. pensions

B. earnings

C. salaries

D. donations

4. There is no __ attached to what you are doing, so you shouldn' t be ashamed.

A. stigma

B. enigma

C. dilemma

D. aroma

5. The boat ___ down the river.

A. drifted

B. floated

C. drove

D. drilled

6. The conditions of the contract must be __ exactly.

A. achieved

B. completed

C. fulfilled

D. finished

7. One of his eyes was injured in an accident, but after a __ operation, he quickly

recovered his sight.

A. delicate

B. considerate

C. average

D. general

8. Gentleness was long considered a __ trait.

A. female

B. feminine

C. male

D. childish

9. With great efforts of the peace-loving people all over the world — Iraq __ the

war.

A. survived

B. survived from

C. survival

D. survived to

10. Funeral service is a __ occasion.

A. festive

B. sober

C. disastrous

D. dreadful

Unit3

1. A cold beer would be my

A. salvation

B. save

C. salvage

D. saving

2 The Finance Minister __ economy as the best means of solving the crisis.

A. publicized

B. stimulated

C. opposed

D. preached

3 He offered to be her __ to the dance.

A. help

B. escort

C. colleague

D. representative

4. She suffered from __ headaches.

A. intermittent

B. recycled

C. rhythmical

D. metrical

5.The priests sang a __ of praise to the God.

A. hymn

B. sermon

C. mass

D. amen

6. Don't __ and whine, you are a man, not a boy.

A. cry

B. sob

C.wail

D. weep

7. They tried to __ the scandal but failed

A. silence

B. mute

C. hush up

D. calm down

8. More people are needed to __ the camp against attack.

A. save

B. rescue

C. safe

D. secure

9. Despite almost universal __ of the vital importance of women' s literacy, education remains a dream for far too many women in far too many countries of the world.

A. confession

B. compliment

C. acknowledgement

D. identification

10.Most people tend to think they are so efficient at their job that they are __.

A. inaccessible

B. irreversible

C. immovable

D. irreplaceable

Unit4

1. That’s not a shop I _________ nowadays

A buy B. purchase

C. pay

D. patronize

2. Will someone please __ all this rubbish?

A. remove

B. transfer

C. transport

D. recover

3. The walkman wasn' t working because of a __