专升本英语词汇习题

专升本英语辅导词汇专项练习

Directions: There are 500 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C), and D). Choose the ONE that best complete

the sentence.

1. Now that all her three children have gone ______ to work or study, Mrs. Wang lives in Hongkong alone.

A) aboard B) abroad C) board D) broad

2. Tom, why were you _____ from school yesterday?

-—I got a bad cold and my mother took me to the doctor’s.

A) absent B) present C) left D) lost

3. He found his uncle ________ in the reading of the Sunday newspaper.

A) interesting B) focused C) absorbed D) involving

4. Mary invited me to her birthday party last night, but since I had to look after my younger brother, I didn’t her invitation.

A) accept B) receive C) answer D) reply

5. Students have to the library during the vacation.

A) admission B) allowance C) approval D) access

6. Last time I ran across Jack, my roommate in high school, by .

A) action B) accident C) incident D) luck

7. While teaching a foreign language, we should take into ____ the differences between

the students’ mother tongue and the target language.

A) thinking B) mind C) account D) count

8. I don’t think anyone can me of being dishonest.

A) accuse B) complain C) charge D) scold

9. The ability to use a language can be _____only by the act of using the language.

A) acquired B) required C) accompanied D) realized

10. _____ language, maths and history, the children are also taught music and art.

A) Beside B) Except C) In spite of D) In addition to

11. There was a serious water shortage in the area as there wasn’t rain for

nearly four months.

A) plenty B) many C) adequate D) efficient

12. You can’t see through a telescope unless it is ____correctly to your sight.

A) appointed B) adjusted C) operated D) shifted

13. The thief to taking the gold watch without paying for it.

A) suggested B) managed C) tried D) admitted

14. The factory has new methods of producing high quality washing machines.

A) adopted B) adapted C) raised D) increased

15. The farmers took of the fine weather to gather in the crops last week.

A) chance B) hold C) advantage D) adventure

16. I don’t think the snow will our plans for a picnic.

A) affect B) effect C) infer D) differ

17. I do like this new car, but I can’t it. I’ve spent almost all my savings on the

decoration of my house.

A) obtain B) apply C) afford D) buy

18. The twins are so much that I can’t tell which is which.

A) likely B) unlike C) alike D) like

19. Children need many things, but they need love.

A) above all B) after all C) all over D) at all

20. The boy was so interested in the radio that he took it to see how it runs.

A) open B) part C) around D) apart

21. The scientists have _______ to the government to take actions against pollution.

A) announced B) appeared C) appealed D) approached

22. Scientific discoveries are often ________ to industrial production methods.

A) provided B) prepared C) applied D) appointed

23. I’ve made an ________ to see Dr. Lewis at 3 o’clock this afternoon,

A) appointment B) application C) attention D) apartment

24. He would much _________ it if you could do him that favor.

A) please B) satisfy C) thank D) appreciate

25. As winter ________ the weather became colder.

A) nearby B) advanced C) passed by D) approached

26.S he would never do anything that was not _______ of by her parents.

A) agreed B) appointed C) approved D) pleased

27. We should consider other of the problem as well as seriousness.