新课标高中英语词汇精练 (4)

新课标高中英语词汇精练(4)

注: 这是2008年高考英语冲刺----高考词汇十天突破的第四天要做的词汇练习，本练习所练习的词汇是以e或f字母开头的单词, 词汇的详细解释请参阅王振明主编的《高中英语词汇手册》78到116页的相关词汇。做题时间限制45分钟。

1. Chemicals in the factory's sewage (下水道) system have changed the _________ of the whole area.

A. engine

B. electricity

C. ending

D. ecology

2. The car almost fell into the river. Fortunately, it stopped just at the _________ of the broken bridge.

A. edge

B. emergency

C. entrance

D. evolution

3. What is learned in books cannot have the same deep _________ on a child’s character as what is learned through experience.

A. effort

B. affect

C. effect

D. expectation

4. Great _________ to increase agricultural production must be made if food shortage is to be avoided.

A. effect

B. experience

C. export

D. efforts

5. Having a cell-phone also makes us feel safer, since we can call for help in case of

an _________.

A. accident

B. emergency

C. escape

D. incident

6. At the beginning of the party, ______ of the guests was given a piece of paper.

A. everyone

B. each

C. every

D. all

7. People were pushing each other out of the way________ to get to the front.

A. eager

B. eagerness

C. hope

D. hopeless

8. Keep ______ hours is a very good habit and it will keep you healthy.

A. easy

B. quick

C. eager

D. early

9. I gave him a warning, ________ he, to my disappointment, turned a deaf ear.

A. of which

B. at which

C. to which

D. to it

10. ---Oh, dear! You appear so worried. What ______ has happened to you?

---Well, Mum. It's a long story.

A. in the fact

B. on the earth

C. in fact

D. on earth

11. Small cars are ___ of fuel, so they have more appeal for consumers.

(2006年高考上海春季卷)

A. free

B. short

C. economic

D. economical

12. The new law will come into ________ on the day it is passed.

A. effect

B. use

C. effort

D. being

13. Showing some sense of humor can be a (n) _____ way to deal with some stressful situation.

A. favorable

B. efficient

C. effective

D. favorite

14. The secret of his success is that he does everything _______. (2002年高考上海卷)

A. efficiently

B. effectively

C. anxiously

D. sufficiently

15. The lady dressed in fashionable clothes is _____ in her appearance, but rude in her speech．

A. evident

B. considerate

C. elegant

D. innocent

16. The ______on his face told me that he was angry. (2006年高考湖北卷)

A. impression

B. expectation

C. appearance

D. expression

17. This dictionary is available in _______ form in this library.

A. electric

B. electronic

C. electrical

D. electricity

18. --- I hear they aren't pleased with the house you've chosen for them.

--- Well, ________ could they live in such comfort? (2003年高考北京卷)

A. where else

B. what else

C. how

D. why

19. The next morning there was always something in anyone else's stockings. Only mine hung there _______.

A. endless

B. nothing

C. full

D. empty

20. The tourist industry should be _______ to supply a variety of jobs.

A. enriched

B. invented

C. produced

D. encouraged

21. When the meeting was _____, they all rose and left.

A. at the end

B. at an end

C. at the end of

D. at an end of

22. Yesterday, we held a meeting about English study. The meeting ____ failure.

A. ended with

B. ended in

C. ending with

D. ending in

23.The poor driver telephoned the police and ______what had happened.

A. told

B. talked

C. expressed

D. explained

24. Drinking too much will _________ drivers’ lives.

A. endanger

B. threaten

C. enable

D. harm

25. My grandfather is as ________ as a young man and hates sitting around doing nothing all day. (2003年高考北京卷)

A. enthusiastic

B. energetic

C. talkative

D. sensitive

26. To gain their _____ after an exhausting game, the players 1ay in the grass.

(2003年高考上海卷)

A．force B．energy C．power D．excuse

27. _____ in writing letters, he had no time to notice me.

A. Engaged

B. Enlarged

C. Interested

D. Surprised

28. Although she did not know Boston well, she made her way________ to the Home Cirele Building. (2006年高考湖南卷)

A. easy enough

B. enough easy

C. easily enough

D. enough easily