2009年大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試詞匯活記活用(19)

　　1.The board of the company has decided to ________ its operations to include all aspects of the clothing business.

　　A) multiply

　　B) lengthen

　　C) expand

　　D) stretch

　　2.His business was very successful, but it was at the ________ of his family life.

　　A) consumption

　　B) credit

　　C) exhaustion

　　D) expense

　　3.First published in 1927, the charts remain an ________ source for researchers.

　　A) identical

　　B) indispensable

　　C) intelligent

　　D) inevitable

　　4.Joe is not good at sports, but when it ________ mathematics, he is the best in the class.

　　A) comes to

　　B) comes up to

　　C) comes on to

　　D) comes around to

　　5.Doctors warned against chewing tobacco as a ________ for smoking.

　　A) relief

　　B) revival

　　C) substitute

　　D) succession

　　6.When carbon is added to iron in proper ________ the result is steel.

　　A) rates

　　B) thicknesses

　　C) proportions

　　D) densities

　　7.You should try to ________ your ambition and be more realistic.

　　A) reserve

　　B) restrain

　　C) retain

　　D) replace

　　第一題：

　　multiply:vt. 乘,使相乘;倍增vi. 增加

　　lengthen:vt. 加長(zhǎng),使延長(zhǎng)vi. 變長(zhǎng)

　　expand:vt. 展開(kāi);擴(kuò)大,擴(kuò)充,發(fā)展膨脹,擴(kuò)張;張開(kāi),展開(kāi),使膨脹,使擴(kuò)張;張開(kāi)

　　stretch:n. 伸展,張開(kāi),連綿,一段路,一段時(shí)間a. 可伸縮的,彈性的vt. 伸展,張開(kāi),曲解