新编大学英语3的选择题练习

11. It was difficult to ____ how many trees had been destroyed.

A) measure B) test C) estimate D) evaluate

12. The company has ___ some major changes in the last five years.

A) stood B) suffered C) undergone D) tolerated

13. After retiring, he ___ his hobby of stamp collecting.

A) pursued B) pursuit C) followed D) chased

14. At the restaurant, the only ___ to chicken was beef.

A) choice B) option C) selection D) alternative

15. We had to learn chemical ___ at school but I can only remember H2O for water.

A) principles B) prescriptions C) formula D) formulae

16. She’s extremely ___ and intends to be running her own company by the time she’s 30.

A) argumentative B) investigative C) ambitious D) intuitive

17. She _____ stealing when she had no money.

A) seized on B) took stock of C) resorted to D) took inventory of

18. She was caught without a ticket and fined thirty dollars _______.

A) at stake B) on the spot C) in nature D) in reality

19. All career decisions require us to _____ these two kinds of knowledge.

A) identify B) integrate C) crystallize D) overlook

20. Football, basketball and baseball are the _____sports in the USA.

A) dominant B) defensive C) adventuresome D) analytical

• 1. The book shows the very interesting _____ between life now and life in a hundred years ago.

• 2. Don’t _____ on the past---try to be more positive.

• 3. Unemployment can cause feelings of ______ and low self-esteem.

• 4. The president’s speech was _____ rather i naccurately.

• 5. You are ____ when you allow things to happen, but do nothing.

• 6. Breathing is something we do ____ and we very rarely think about it.

•7. I don’t like a job in which I’m ____ to doing only one thing.

•8.We are not yet able to make a ____about when the next earthquake will happen.

•9. It’s a ____ prophecy: expect things to go wrong, and they probably will.

•10. Students often find ____ jobs during their summer holidays.

•11. I’m ____ to agree with what you were saying at the meeting.

•12. He is an _____ vice-president; he is not very smart, and he has only two years of experience in the business

• 1.contrast; 2.dwell; 3.inadequacy; 4.interpreted; 5.passive; 6.spontaneously;

7.confined; 8.prediction; 9.self-fulfilling; 10.temporary; 11.inclined; 12.incompetent

1. In ___ with your pessimistic point of view, I would rather take a positive attitude.

A. control

B. contrast

C. concept

D. contact

2. Unfortunately, his gambling and drinking habits make him a very _______ person.

A. self-reflective

B. self-confident

C. self-conscious

D. self-destructive

3. Barter had been so humiliated that he felt himself to be ___ to every educated man he met.

A. inferior

B. passive

C. reasonable

D. self-fulfilling

4. we _____ to deliver the goods within a week.

A. insure

B. assure

C. guard

D. guarantee

5. He has been ___ from the swimming race because he did not win any of the practice races.

A. reduced

B. deleted

C. eliminated

D. diminished

6. Private employment agencies may not have your best interest ___ heart.