武大研究生英语词汇复习整理

Unit One

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill in the blanks with the best choice.

1._______implies an active choice to cling to something, not passively being carried along out

of inability to imagine anything else.

A. Tenancy

B. Tenacity

C. Tendency

D. Tenure

2.In Egypt, I saw the pyramids and the damaged face of the Sphinx, smiling a (an)_______

smile. An amazing journey!

A. inscrutable

B. sweet

C. incredulous

D. incurious

3.The elimination of ________ was believed to be a prerequisite for any successful intercultural

exchange.

A. generalizations

B. judgments

C. doubts

D. stereotypes

4.The Pentagon was planning to launch a 24-hour satellite television channel based in Baghdad

to make it easier to ________ the news media “filter” that Bush Administration officials believe is misleading the public by emphasizing bad news about the occupation of Iraq.

A. circumnavigate

B. circulate

C. circumvent

D. curriculum

5.This class will provide you as a parent with age appropriate songs and activities to enjoy

music at home with toddler that will develop coordination, balance and ________ relationship skills as well as communication and cooperation.

A. scrutiny

B. spacious

C. stereotype

D. spatial

6.It is a _____ to say that the women who teach in India must know the language, the religion,

superstitions and customs of the women to be taught in India. It ought to be the very same case for England.

A. truism

B. genuine

C. tenacity

D. similarity

7. The ______ of “white”in Chinese includes something unhappy. At funerals, Chinese pay

respect to the dead and express their sorrow by wearing white and writing elegiac couplets in white paper. In the West, however, white is the traditional color for the bride at weddings, and to wear white at funerals would be offensive.

A. configuration

B. conjunction

C. connotation

D. connection

8. The just-concluded election in Pakistan is simply a _____for continuing military rule,

according to Selig Harrison, a leading US authority on South Asia, Afghanistan and the region.

A. inflection

B. façade

C.ambiguity

D. fabrication

9. As television, and to an extent the internet have _____further through our society, the effects

are perhaps more significant than even we realize.

A. perpetuated

B. pervasive

C. permanent

D. permeated

10T here’s this new girl coming to my school, and I like her a lot. I want to _____ our friendship before I start a serious relationship.

A. cement

B. lime

C. clay

D. concrete