大学英语第四册unit1-5词汇测试及练习

第一部分：Unit1-5词汇测试

1) If you have not signed a contract, you are under no ______ to pay them any money.

A) instinct B) influence

C) sympathy D) obligation

2) The thought of seeing her again _____ him throughout the hardest time in his life.

A) contributed B) provided

C) sustained D) favored

3) It was so hot that the butter started to ______.

A) decrease B) dissolve

C) melt D) harden

4) He criticizes the money _______ common among young people.

A) worship B) pray

C) respect D) admire

5) Somewhat to my _______, the police will soon eliminate her from their inquiries.

A) entertainment B) judgment

C) relief D) relaxation

6) The foreign-born Chinese are thought of as yellow on the outside and white on the inside because they only look like Chinese but never think or ______ like Chinese.

A) direct B) accustom

C) adjust D) behave

7) His ________need to be loved springs from a deep sense of insecurity.

A) crucial B) terminal

C) intensive D) desperate

8) After about an hour and a half the party ______ because there was not enough wine that evening.

A) broke off B) broke away

C) broke up D) broke through

9) A series of tragic _______ made Mr. Terres feel he has to face up to his life.

A) accidents B) incidents

C) events D) occurrences

10) For many young people, the late 1960s was a period of _______ against the moral values that had been the pride of the past generations.

A) revolt B) rebel

C) chaos D) challenge

11) Two drivers were killed in a head-on ________ between a car and a taxi last night.

A) collapse B) conflict

C) collision D) crush

12) A few shots of this drug cleared up the disease ______

A) for long B) before long

C) ever since D) for good

13) The citizens in the neighborhood all ______ for the local government's decision

to close the small paint factory.

A) claimed B) cracked

C) clapped D) crashed

14) The girls were all _____ of Grace because she was so pretty, with beautiful hands

and a face like a film-star's.

A) greedy B) controversial

C) competitive D) jealous

15) Japanese banks, once _____ competitors in the British banking market, have all but disappeared.

A) bold B) fierce

C) wild D) harmful

16) You may laugh at my idea but I'm in _____.

A) intensive B) generous

C) earnest D) voluntary

17) When I come back, I feel _____and many new ideas occur to me.

A) renewed B) recreated

C) reshaped D) refreshed

18) According to the Centers for Disease Control, women will soon _____ 80 percent

of those diagnosed with HIV.

A) make up B) build up

C) stand for D) conform to

19) She ______the knives and forks at the lunch table.

A) laid up B) laid off

C) laid down D) laid out

20) ________some other low-income countries in Africa, most children here do

eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years.

A) Contrary to B) In regard to

C) In contrast to D) With respect to