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Vocabulary and Structure

1. We should try our best to protect wild birds’from being destroyed.

A. habit

B. habitat

C. habitant

D. habited

2. Being told by people of many generations, the story became different from the ____version.

A. initial

B. prime

C. original

D. primitive

3. The boy is _____ honest; he has cheated his parents of their house and money.

A. nothing but

B. everything but

C. something but

D. anything but

4. All the students in the college can have __ access _ to the computer rooms.

A. access

B. authority

C. alternative

D. attention

5. Generally speaking, a dark suit is _____ to a light one for evening wear.

A. favorable

B. suitable

C. proper

D. preferable

6. That Chinese company has been ____ running this factory for decades.

A. enormously

B. effectively

C. infinitely

D. extremely

7. By a _____ of good luck, Tom escaped that severe car accident.

A. stroke

B. hit

C. strike

D. blow

8. Jack his constant failure in the exam to bad luck instead of his laziness.

A. contributed

B. dedicated

C. attributed

D. owned

9. All pupils are to swim in the school lake. Anyone who breaks the rule would get fined.

A. forbidden

B. banned

C. prohibited

D. stopped

10. He was sent to Britain on an important _____ concerning bilateral relations.

A. assignment

B. role

C. task

D. mission

11. The government said that policies would be adopted to ____ the development of agriculture.

A. demote

B. promote

C. decrease

D. increase

12. It turned out that the driver was partly ____ for the car accident.

A. attributable

B. responsible

C. reliable

D. predictable

13. Susan was _____ upset to find that she failed in the final examination.

A. somehow

B. someway

C. somewhat

D. somewhere

14. The rivers and forests of the New World were _____ with fish and game.

A. ample

B. rich

C. abundant

D. plentiful

15. In his article, John Smith _____ explaining the common mistakes in word use.

A. aims at

B. aims for

C. directs to

D. directs against

16. The farmer said all their hopes _____ the support of the local government.

A. decided on

B. rested on

C. based on

D. founded on

17. He is a good dancer, but it doesn’t _____ that he is a good singer.

A. think

B. prove

C. follow

D. indicate

18. They appeal _____ the people of all countries to support them.

A. against

B. to

C. for

D. of

19. The teacher asked each of us _____ to describe how we carried out the experiment.

A. out of turn

B. to a turn

C. on the turn

D. in turn

20. Would you mind _____ your radio a little bit? I can’t concentrate on my work.

A. turning on

B. turning down

C. turning to

D. turning in

21.His back injury has ______ him unfit for work. So he has no alternative but to live

on relief payment.

A) rendered B) devastated C) reckoned D) hindered

22.Poor conditions, bad housing, unemployment and racism take their____ on black

people’s mental health.

A) risk B) harm C) toll D) chance

23.All of the missiles missed their target and the attacks resulted in no ______ and

little damage to property.

A) calamities B) casualties C) consequences D) congestions

24.If the Americans with their peace talks do get the parties together, their first

business will be to arrange a ____ so that food can move.

A) truth B) trace C) truce D) trap

25.Peter knew clearly that he was not strong enough to replace his boss. He reasoned,

therefore, that he must _____ his time.

A) hide B) ride C) slide D) bide

26.The experience of daily living with someone whose “mind is gone” is peculiarly