名词词义辨析练习及答案

名词词义辨析专练

1.The railway gives free ________ for a certain amount of baggage.

A. rights

B. ticket

C. opportunity

D. transportation

2. I shall never beat Peter at tennis; we are clearly not in the same_______.

A. group

B. class

C. order

D. line

3. Cartoons and comic strips are used to ____ human feelings in other ways than words.

A. excuse

B. express

C. expert

D. explain

4. City life has a quicker ____ than life in the country.

A. step

B. walk

C. pace

D. rate

5.We could make no room for him as the room was full of__________.

A. corners

B. icebergs

C. shades

D. packages

6. It is your ____ to recite the second part of the text, isn't it?

A. time

B. job

C. turn

D. duty

7. The chairman said it gave him great ____ to welcome so many guests.

A. fun

B. pleasure

C. incident

D. clever

8. In spite of the ____ of his teeth he still put off going to see the doctor as long as possible.

A. discomfort

B. trouble

C. difficulty

D. pain

9.The old man usually reads the review in the newspapers to get ____ about which play is good or bad.

A. news

B. words

C. information

D. explanation

10.Jane is as vain as peacock and always wants to be the ____ of attention.

A. object

B. sight

C. emphasis

D. focus

11. A red sky at sunset is a ____ of good weather.

A. symbol

B. signal

C. sign

D. emblem

12. If you don't take away all your things from the desk, there won't be enough________ for my stationery.

A. room

B. area

C. place

D. surface

13. She walked along the counters and examined articles of ____ on display.

A. clothing

B. clothes

C. cloth

D. dress

14.Everybody believes he will be the winner of the 100-metre_________.

A. race

B. competition

C. contest

D. match

15. ____ reached England that the soldiers were receiving very little care.

A. A word

B. The word

C. Word

D. Words

16. Andrew fell in love with Annie at first ____.

A. look

B. view

C. scene

D. sight

17.The housing ____ in Shanghai will be solved in the coming years.

A. situation

B. condition

C. problem

D. solution

18. His father thought it a good ____ to buy a computer for him as a birthday gift.

A. news

B. advice

C. information

D. idea

19. To the young child, money is a ____ of getting things his parents do not give him.

A. method

B. means

C. way

D. channel

20. Please send my best ____ to your family.

A. ambitions

B. desires

C. wishes

D. wills

21. She woke up from the terrible dream with a__________.