英語四級過關真題專項訓練—詞匯題

2002年6月

41.You would be ____ a risk to let your child go to school by himself.

A) omitting         B) attaching           C) affording           D) running

42.He is always here; It's ____ you've never met him.

A) unique      B) strange         C) rare                  D) peculiar

43.There has been a great increase in retail sales, ____?

A) does there     B) isn't there          C) hasn't there              D) isn't it

44.We'd like to ____ a table for five for dinner this evening.

A) preserve        B) reserve         C) retain                D) sustain

45.Although a teenager, Fred could resist ____ what to do and what not to do.

A) being told      B) telling             C) to be told          D) to tell

46.The European Union countries were once worried that they would not have ____ supplies of petroleum.

A) proficient       B) efficient      C) potential       D) sufficient

47.In fact, Peter would rather have left for San Francisco than ____ in New York..

A) to stay       B) stayed     C) staying      D) having stayed

48.He soon received promotion, for his superiors realized that he was a man of considerable ____.

A) ability       B) future      C) possibility    D) opportunity

49.Britain has the highest ____ of road traffic in the world-over 60 cars for every mile of road.

A) popularity    B) density     C) intensity     D) prosperity

50.How is it ____ your roommate's request and yours are identical?

A) if           B) so         C) what        D) that

51.In my opinion, he's ____ the most imaginative of all the contemporary poets.

A) in all              B) at best      C) for all       D) by far

52.He didn't have time to read the report word for word: he just ____ it.

A) skimmed              B) observed    C) overlooked   D) glanced

53.The leader of the expedition ____ everyone to follow his example.

A) promoted     B) reinforced   C) sparked      D) inspired

54.What a lovely party! It's worth ____ all my life.

A) remembering  B) to remember   C) to be remembered   D) being remembered

55.Who would you rather ____ with you, George or me?

A) going        B) to go          C) have gone     D) went

56.The ____ goal of the book is to help bridge the gap between research and teaching, particularly between researchers and teachers.

A) intensive     B) concise      C) joint            D) overall

57.The owner and editor of the newspaper ____ the conference.

A) were attending B) were to attend C) is to attend      D) are to attend

58.We left the meeting, there obviously ____ no point in staying.

A) were             B) being               C) to be               D) having��

59.Their products are frequently overpriced and ____ in quality.

A) influential    B) inferior         C) superior        D) subordinate

60.The neighborhood boys like to play basketball on that ____ lot.

A) valid        B) vain           C) vacant        D) vague

61.These people once had fame and fortune; now ____ is left to them is utter poverty.

A) all that      B) all what         C) all which      D) that all

62.To our ____ ,Geoffrey's illness proved not to be as serious as we had feared.

A) anxiety          B) relief                 C) view                 D) judgment

63.Many people like white color as it is a ____ of purity.

A) symbol          B) sign                  C) signal                D) symptom

64.The residents, ____ had been damaged by the fire, were given help by the Red Cross.

A) all of their homes   B) all their homes   C) whose all homes   D) all of whose homes

65.This research has attracted wide ____ coverage and has featured on BBC television's Tomorrow's World.

A) message       B) information        C) media            D) data

66.I would never have ____ a court of law if I hadn't been so desperate.

A) sought for      B) accounted for      C) turned up        D) resorted to

67.Investigators agreed that passengers on the airliner ____ at the very moment of the crash.

A) should have died B) must be dying    C) must have died  D) ought to die

68.The energy ____ by the chain reaction is transformed into heat.

A) transferred      B) released            C) delivered         D) conveyed

69. ____ their work will give us a much better feel for the wide differences between the two schools of thought.

A) To have reviewed                     B) Having reviewed 

C) Reviewing                        D) Being reviewed

70.During the process, great care has to be taken to protect the ____ silk from damage.

A) sensitive               B) tender                 C) delicate       D) sensible