大学英语阅读猜词练习

（1）The use of barbed-wire fencing by farmers in the nineteenth century infuriated cattle ranchers, whose herds were often injured after becoming entangled in the sharp spikes.

A. puzzled

B. enraged

C. concerned

D. amazed

（2）In the United States there are more people who are obese than twenty years ago.

A. gainfully employed

B. upwardly mobile

C. excessively overweight

D. privately educated

（3）Although the Moon has not held great prominence in the history of religion, the veneration of the Moon by some societies has been practiced since early times.

A. magic of

B. symbol for

C. worship of

D. dependence on

（4）The difference between the polar and equatorial diameters of Mars has not been unequivocally determined.

A. easily

B. definitely

C. conventionally

D. arithmetically

（5）The western slopes of the mountains of the Sierra Nevada Range are deeply incised by numerous streams.

A. fed

B. cut

C. flooded

D. distended

（6）In Ship of Fools, the vices and follies of a group of passengers are ruthlessly exposed as the narrative and ship flow to their destination.

A. mercilessly

B. clearly

C. artfully

D. gradually

（7）Light from the Sun and distant stars traverses a vacuum in space.

A. fills

B. creates

C. surrounds

D. crosses

（8）Seminal contributions to science are those that change the tenor of the questions asked by succeeding generations.

A. nature

B. results

C. intonation

D. punctuation

（9）Some cells, such as epithelia, proliferate more rapidly when the body is asleep than when it is wake.

A. cluster

B. multiply

C. adapt

D. heal

（10）The inhabitants of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America, early starved because they had squandered t heir provisions.

A. buried

B. wasted

C. lost

D. sold

（11）For some animals, locomotion is accompanied by changes in body shape.

A. evolution

B. movement

C. survival

D. escape

（12）Although plagued with injuries, Sabrina Mar won the All-Around Championship in Gymnastics at the 1987 Pan-American Games.

A. recovering from

B. afflicted by

C. fighting off

D. frightened of

（13）In astronomy, a scale of magnitude from one to six denotes brightness of a star.

A. signifies

B. predicts

C. contrasts

D. examines

（14）The most typical feature of the Moon’s surface is its profusion of craters the largest of which are more than one hundred miles in diameter.

A. abundance

B. type

C. tolerance

D. circle

（15）The farthest southward penetration of glaciers on the Pacific Coast was in the proximity of Puget Sound.

A. forests

B. soil

C. vicinity

D. immensity

（16）Swallows nest in barns, sheds, chimneys and other secluded places.

A. isolated

B. high

C. comfortable

D. rural

（17）To conceal itself, an octopus sensing danger will squirt a black fluid through an opening under its head.

A. strain

B. swallow

C. soak up

D. spurt out

（18）In the days leading up to the American Revolution, both the colonies and the British Crown were reluctant to take the final irrevocable step.

A. irrational

B. irreversible

C. irresponsible

D. irresistible

（19）The quality and number of a city’s public roads offer an excellent means of gauging its prosperity.