高级英语2,选择题

I’d like to buy the radio, but I haven’t got any money on me at the moment. Could you __c__for me for a day or two?

A. put it out

B. take it in

C. put it by

D. lay it in

2. My woollen sweater used to be bigger than this. It ha b in the wash.

A. shortened

B. shrunk

C. reduced

D. lessened

3. The unprecedentedly big floods in our village did not start to __a__ until four days after the torrential rain had stopped.

A. sink

B. reduce

C. lower

D. withdraw

4. The explorers’ hopes of finding their missing colleagues are now beginning to d

A. faint

B. darken

C. shrink

D. fade

5. After the eruption of the volcano there was a serious___b__ of typhoid in the area.

A. outrage

B. outbreak

C. outcome

D. output

6. His test results for the whole term were not very___c_ . He did well one week and badly the next.

A. consequent

B. continuous

C. consistent

D. invariable

7. The novelist is a highly __a__ person with great talent.

A. imaginative

B. imaginable

C. imaginary

D. imaginal

8. Mary is so __d__ that she cried for days when her pet died.

A. sensitive

B. sensible

C. impressive

D. sentimental

9. The rainbow __d__ as the sun came fully out from behind the clouds.

A. dissipated

B. removed

C. dispersed

D. dissolved

10. Now Norman has put himself into the patient _a__ state of mind of a chess player.

A. contemplative

B. attentive

C. pondering

D. thinking

11.The thieves __a___the papers all over the room while they were searching for the money.

A. scattered

B. strewed

C. littered

D. straggled

12. A row of swallows __b__ along the fence, ready to take off at the slightest sound.

A. crouched

B. perched

C. squatted

D. nested

13. The door ___b_ when you open it. You must put some oil on the hinges.

A. crackles

B. creaks

C. clangs

D. cracks

14. It surprises me that no inquiry has been made by a government

__a__ working party into the loss of productivity caused by this

out-dated machine.

A. appointed

B. operated

C. nominated

D. selected

15. Nowadays, a kind of __d_ grain that is twice as expensive as regular grain is becoming popular in Shanghai. A. purified B. clarified

C. whitened

D. refined

16. The excited ___a_ of the small boys playing in the street distracted me from my work.

A. screams

B. howls

C. groans

D. yelps

17. What would Frank Stockton’s _a___ short story be about?

A. forthcoming

B. following

C. eventual

D. actual