新视野大学英语补充练习

Unit two

1 Multiple choice

1) If a ________ were to reach the gas it would go off at once.

A) spot B) spill

C) spark D) spray

2) 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

3) House purchase is the biggest decision that most people make and the easiest one to _______ for various reasons.

A) postpone B) conduct

C) replace D) last

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

A) entertainment B) judgment

C) relief D) relaxation

5) The political weakness of these countries _________their economic weakness.

A) compromised with B) competed with

C) communicated to D) corresponded to

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

A) accidents B) inc idents

C) events D) occurrences

7) 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

8) 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

9) I promised to_________ the others at 5 a.m.

A) rouse B) stimulate

C) motivate D) prompt

10) Prisoners are reported to have been deliberately _______ without trial.

C) executed D) punished

11) This swimming costume is made of ______ material.

A) elastic B) clumsy

C) coarse D) delicious

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

A) collapse B) conflict

C) collision D) crush

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

A) for long B) before long

C) ever since D) for good

14) 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

15) The government attempts to put down the______ of the president's sex scandal.

A) news B) rumor

C) saying D) proverb

16) The fact that we underestimated our ______ led to our bitter defeat.

A) opponent B) candidate

C) colleague D) advocate

17) 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

18) The Watergate ______ was exposed by two investigative journalists working for the Washington Post.

A) shame B) conviction

C) rumor D) scandal

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

A) bold B) fierce

C) wild D) harmful

20) 5000 people held a protest march and_____ against sexual discrimination.