成人高考学位英语测试题

学位英语测试题5

（试卷一）

Part I Vocabulary and Structure.（30 points）

1. The manager promised to keep me ______ of how our business was going on.

A. to be informed

B. on informing

C. informed

D. informing

2. I _____ that Tom and Jack have finished their homework.

A. worry

B. show

C. display

D. suspect

3. The results are as ______: First was Sweden, then Germany, then Ireland.

A. to follow

B. follows

C. follow

D. followed

4. Her fluency in English gives her an advantage _____ other girls for the job.

A. above

B. over

C. than

D. with

5. The reason I love him so much is _____ he is a very humorous person.

A. why

B. for

C. that

D. because

6. The boss _____ to dismiss me if I didn’t do as he ordered.

A. warned

B. thought

C. threatened

D. pretended

7. The population of Shanghai is twice as large as ______.

A. Now York

B. that of New York

C. it in New York

D. that of New York’s

8. I don’t know which hotel ______.

A. to stay at

B. to stay in

C. staying in

D. staying at

9. The girl in the red hat is the ______ person I’ve been waiting to see.

A. very

B. rather

C. same

D. only

10. He was so foolish ______ his car unlocked.

A. for him to leave

B. that leave

C. to leaving

D. as to leave

11. The secretary and treasurer of our company _____ the meeting.

A. were to attend

B. are to attend

C. is attend

D. is to attend

12. This film is ______, if not better than, the one we saw last week.

A. so good as

B. as well as

C. as good as

D. as better as

13. T he lawyer didn’t keep his remarks to the topic _____ discussion.

A. on

B. under

C. with

D. for

14. He applied for a ______ in the office of the local newspapers.

A. location

B. profession

C. career

D. position

15. We consider _____ the instrument should be adjusted each time it is used.

A. necessary that

B. necessary of it that

C. it necessary that

D. that it necessary

16. When ______, ice will be changed into water.

A. heating

B. heated

C. to heat

D. be heating

17. There is no easy solution to Japan’s labor ______.

A. decline

B. vacancy

C. rarity

D. shortage

18. Liquids are like solids _____ they have a definite volume.

A. in that

B. for that

C. with that

D. at that

19. It’s not so much the language ______ the cultural background that makes the book difficult to understand.

A. but

B. nor

C. as

D. like

20. The police let him go, because they didn’t find him guilty _____ the murder.

A. of

B. in

C. over

D. on

21. We must ______ that the telegram arrives in time.

A. cure

B. accelerate

C. ensure

D. assure

22. Ever since the Smiths moved to the suburbs a year ago, they _____ better health.

A. could have enjoyed

B. had enjoyed

C. have been enjoying

D. are enjoying

23. It is important that a university student _____ at least one foreign language.

A. learned

B. learns

C. must learn

D. learn

24. Our new house _____ warm in winter and cool in summer.

A. feels

B. is felt

C. finds

D. is found

25. _____ at the railway station when it began to rain.

A. Hardly had he arrived

B. Hardly he had arrived

C. No sooner did he arrive

D. No sooner arrived he

26. There was a knock at the door. It was the second time someone _____ me that evening.

A. had interrupted

B. would have interrupted

C. to have interrupted

D. to interrupted

27. It was not until she had come downstairs ______ remembered the keys were not with her.

A. she

B. when she

C. that she

D. and see

28. The rain came on time and would certainly ease the heat _____ the people of inland.

A. to face

B. face

C. facing

D. faces

29. Televisions enable us to see things happen almost at the exact moment ______.

A. which they are happening

B. they are happening

C. which they happen

D. they have happened

30. _____ your cooperation, we could not have succeeded in our experiment.

A. Because of

B. Because

C. But that

D. But for