专升本英语综合练习题

专升本英语综合练习题

I. Vocabulary and Structure

1. Tom was disappointed that most of the guests ______when he ______at the party.

A. had left,arrived

B.left, had arrived

C. had left, had arrived

D.left, arrived

2. Sir Denis, who is 78, has made it known that much ofhis collection ______ to the nation.

A. has left

B. is to leave

C. leaves

D. is to be left

3. The work ______ by the time you get here.

A. will have been done

B. is done

C. had been done

D. wouldhave done

4. It ______ for a week and the streets were flooded.

A. has rained

B.was rained

C.had been raining

D.should have rained

5. Sorry, but we cannot go to San Diego. Our cousins ____ to see us nextSunday.

A. come

B.are coming

C. have come

D. came

6. The bus is late and Julie is cold. She ____ for thebus for 10 minutes.

A. waits

B. waited

C. has been waiting

D. has waited

7. All of us think it difficult to ______ thedifference between the two things.

A. talk

B. speak

C. lecture

D. tell

8. George is so ______ in debt that he is afraid to show up in thepub in case he meets his six creditors.

A. involved

B.concentrated

C. devoted

D. concerned

9. A new situation is likely to ______ when the schoolleaving age is raised to 16.

A. rise

B.arise

C. happen

D. raise

10. Be quiet! It's rude to ______ people when they arespeaking.

A.interfere

B. introduce

C. interrupt

D. prevent

11. The music adviser taught her how to ______ a song tofind its mood and meaning.

A. compose

B.preserve

C. include

D. analyze

12. Rapid reading means reading something fast just to______ the general idea.

A. master

B. seize

C. grasp

D.imagine

13. Finding it difficult to ______ to the climate in thecity, he decided to move to the North.

A.adopt

B.adapt

C. fit

D. suit

14. They built strong walls round the town as a ______against the enemy.

A.depend

B. defend

C.defeat

D. defense

15. The students were not____to leave the classroomwithout an adequate reason.

A.permitted

B. remitted

C. admitted

D. emitted

16. I don’t think it is easy to ______ your weight ifkeep on eating that way.

A.decrease

B.reduce

C. decline

D. shorten

17. The guide is ____ a line of tourists through thenarrow passage with the help of his torch.

A.concluding

B.containing

C.conducting

D.conquering

18. It _______ the village where we spent our holidayslast summer.

A. reminds me of

B. reminds me to

C.remembers me of

D. remembers meto

19. It’s too expensive for me. I can’t _______it.