英语词汇vocabulary1

Unit 1 Part 10 Vocabulary and Structure

Directions: Choose the best one to complete each sentence.

1. Few of the students understand why language is _______ to human beings.

A. aware

B. unique

C. absolute

D. continual

Correct answer: B

2. The method he used turned out to be _______ in improving the students' English.

A. effective

B. able

C. capable

D. explicit

Correct answer: A

3. The boss refused to give any _______ on the fact that his workers were out of jobs.

A. response

B. comment

C. answer

D. reply

Correct answer: B

4. The police searched the city in an effort to catch the man who ______ murder last week.

A. limited

B. made

C. did

D. committed

Correct answer: D

5. They had to examine the dead tiger before they had a _______ answer as to who killed it.

A. positive

B. senior

C. virtual

D. vital

Correct answer: A

6. He could be ________ about everything else in the world, but not about Manet, his loving child.

A. visual

B. critical

C. favorite

D. essential

Correct answer: B

7. Measures had to be taken in face of the housing problem that ________ in the city.

A. rose

B. raised

C. arose

D. produced

Correct answer: C

8. By the side of the new teaching hall _________ , built in the 1930s.

A. there stands a library

B. stands a library

C. a library stands

D. does a library stand

Correct answer: B

Unit 2 Part 10 Vocabulary and Structure

Directions: Choose the best one to complete each sentence.

1. What a ________ smell! Open the window and air the room.

A. disgusting

B. pleasing

C. powerful

D. disturbing

Correct answer: A

2. The story he is telling is so ________ that some of the listeners begin to ask him to stop.

A. pleasant

B. horrible

C. healthy

D. exciting

Correct answer: B

3. That Sandy wears ________ makeup annoys her mother.

A. very much

B. very

C. that much

D. so

Correct answer: C

4. She was putting on her jeans ________ me to hand her the sweater.

A. while asked

B. asked

C. asking

D. while asking

Correct answer: D

5. No matter what you say, I'm coming ________.

A. anyway

B. any way

C. in a way

D. in the way

Correct answer: A

6. It rains one minute and shines the next. What ________ weather!

A. fine

B. awful

C. radical