单项填空5、6

5—1

1、This major change is occurring just as old family support systems are towards extinction.

A marching

B wandering

C tottering

D stalking

2、All the family thought that in spite of Maureen’s

Lifestyle, she looked better and happier than she had for several years.

A arduous

B carefree

C precise

D dissolute

3、Their secrets returned to them 12 years later when the bodies were discovered buried in the grounds.

A highlight

B forgo

C foster

D haunt

4、This behavior is motivated by what has been described as relentless pursuit of thinness, a fear of fatness, and irrational weight phobia.

A morbid

B religious

C discoverable

D steep

5、The dreams that subjects report in the laboratory tend to be and lack the bizarre quality of dreams reported in their personal journals.

A fond

B greasy

C submissive

D mundane

6、He is absolutely right to be scornful of the pretentious organizational plans that often science policy in certain countries.

A pass by

B pass for

C pass up

D pass down

7、It is apparent that four out of five fatal accidents are caused by people who are stone-cold .

A optimistic

B sober

C perilous

D rigid

8、John said that the richer countries of the world should make a effort to help the poorer countries.

A futile

B glittering

C concentrated

D frantic

9、The bad weather prevented people from in large numbers to watch the athletics event.

A turning on

B turning out

C turning over

D turning off

10、The audience disliked the speaker’s manner, for he was always stating his opinions as if they were facts.

A dogmatic

B affectionate

C perpetual

D definitive

5—2

1、It is often to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feeling of failure and states of worry in the child.

A tempting

B unanimous

C irretrievable

D disgusting

2、Immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than value.

A transitional

B sentimental

C transient

D inscrutable

3、The myth that United States is not open to concerns from outside has been at a broke.

A demolished

B preclude

C kindled

D hampered

4、He was an hour late, but he himself in her eyes by giving her a huge bunch of flowers.

A harassed

B redeemed

C crucified

D pestered

5、For every social situation, there is a way to hold

a person’s gaze without being intimate, rude, or aggressive.

A pompous

B permissible

C adoptive

D complacent

6、The airport police who the girl conclude that she was innocent and hadn’t known about the drugs.

A interrogated

B shrouded

C ratified

D muffled

7、The energetic ultraviolet radiation is to life since it tends to break up the complicated molecules on which life depends.

A indissoluble

B indolent

C indiscreet

D inimical

8、The idea that hard work was to be distinguished Americans from Europeans who admired their gentlemen of leisure.

A disregarded

B esteemed

C exclaimed

D hoarded

9、Her later writing so lacked subtlety that is almost read like a of her earlier work.

A parley

B paranoia

C parody

D parole

10、The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever real happiness.

A retarding

B perusing

C detaining

D attaining