大学英语单项选择题

大学英语单项选择题

Unit2

1.The republication of the poet’s most recent

works will certainly ____ his national

reputation.

A) magnify B) enlarge

C) strengthen

2. Humidity (湿度) is so intense in some parts of the tropics that Europeans find they are unable to ____ it.

A) maintain

B) persist D) sustain

3. The suspect’s fingerprints on the gun were the main ____ against him.

A) crime B) information

C) conviction

4. Most people who travel in the course of their work are given travelling ____.

A) income

C) pay D) wages

5. Be careful with those fireworks; they are ____ to go off unexpectedly.

A) easy B) probable

C) available

5. Be careful with those fireworks; they are ____ to go off unexpectedly.

A) easy B) probable

D) liable C) available

6. He ran so fast that he was out of ____.

A) air

B) oxygen D) wind

7. When you go to the doctor he asks you to describe your ____ so that he can make a diagnosis (诊断).

A) indications B) signs

C) symbols 8. In general , the amount that a student spends for housing should be held to one-fifth the total ____ for living expenses.

A) acceptable C) advisable D) applicable

9. His inability to learn foreign languages was a(n) ____ to his career.

A) objection B) defect

D) depression

10. The ratio of the work done by the machine ____ the work done on it is called the efficiency of the machine.

A) against

B) with D) for

11. During the war she always kept a ____ of tinned food in the house.

A) load B) substitute

C) conservation 12. This machine works very well so long as no one ____ with it.

B) disturbs

C) upsets D) interrupts

13. In Britain people ____ four million tons of potatoes every year.

C) exhaust B) swallow D) dispose

s really typical ____ John. He says he’ll come but he never turns up. 14. That’

A) for C) to D) with

15. No effective ____ has been found for this fatal disease which claims thousands of lives each year.

A) settlement B) method

D) prescription

16. She was _____ what she had written so as to make the theme stand out more clearly.

A) repairing D) reforming C) remedying

17. The one pleasure that Einstein ____ his great fame was the ability it gave him to help others.

A) resulted from

C) turned out B) stirred up 18. The rain was heavy and ____ the land was flooded.

aA) consequently

C) constantly B) continuously D) consistently

19. The present difficulties _____ from our failure to deal with the problem when it first arose.

A) step a B) stem

C) steer D) sponsor

20. Universal peace would be ____ to all mankind.

A A) beneficial B) valid

C) advisable D) worthy

21. The local government leaders are making every effort to ____ the problem of poverty.

A) loosen

C) remove D) encounter aB) tackle

22. We have not ______ information to state

the exact damage.

A) abundant aB) sufficient

C) plenty D) efficient

23. The court considers a financial ____ to be an appropriate way of punishing him.

A) option B) duty

aD) penalty C) obligation

24. The explorers were told to ____ themselves with everything they would need for the voyage.

A) associate

C) retreat a B) equip D) feed

25. What he ____ was that you didn’t tell the whole truth.

A) referred

C) inclined a B) implied D) accorded

26. He hopes to ____ his paintings before the public in New York very soon.

a A) exhibit

C) express B) expose D) experience

27. German and Italian courses are held in Munich and Rome ____.

A) relatively B) reluctantly

a C) respectively D) relevantly

28. This vast stock of computerized images has ____ the possibilities open to the artist.

A) speculated

C) generated B) sponsored a D) multiplied

29. We don’t know all the circumstances, so it would be pointless to ____ on what happened.

A) infer

C) guess a B) speculate D) infer

30. This is the first draft of the book. Please feel perfectly free to ____ on it.

A) cope B) complain

D) confirm A C) comment

Uint 3

1. You must take the _____ steps by yourself; after you have begun, I will help you.

A) primitive a B) preliminary

C) primary D) practicable

2. How can you best ______ in your students the speech habits of the English language?

A) civilize

C) evolve aB) cultivate D) train

3. After three hours of heated debate, the _____ bill was passed by a narrow majority .

A) virtual B) universal

a C) controversial D) substantial

4. Richard’s news report covering the conference was so _____ that nothing had been omitted.

aA) comprehensive

C) redundant B) integrated D) productive

5. Shaking hands when people meet each other for the first time is practiced as a _____ way of greeting.

aA) conventional

C) constant B) conservative D) convenient

6. If you _____ a magnet-needle, its two ends can point North and South, and so it can be used to determine directions.

A) overtake

C) highlight B) fix aD) suspend

7. I am afraid that you have to alter your _____ views in light of the tragic

news that

has just arrived.

A) indifferent B) distressing

D) pessimistic aC) optimistic

8. Stamping on any country’s national flag is an _____ to its people.

A) inflation

aC) insult B) ingredient D) invasion

9. When he was a young boy, a serious disease deprived him of the _____ of hearing.

A) organ B) possession

C) conduct aD) faculty

10. If you _____ bright sunlight _____ dry wood with a glass, it will start burning.

A) expose … to

C) aim … at B) concentrate … on aD) focus … on

11. The manufacturers refused to take all _____ for damage caused by misuse.

A) duty aB) responsibility

D) share C) obligation

12. The noise was so faint that you had to ______ your ears to hear it.

A) stir

B) strengthen D) stride aC) strain

13. We’ve done our ______ to make the process as simple as possible.

A) terminal

C) extreme aB) utmost D) supreme

14. What he said was too ______ for me to understand.

A) compound aB) complex

D) conventional C) comprehensive

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

A) influential

C) superior aB) inferior D) subordinate

16. The old buildings blend with the new ones in perfect _____ so a

walk along Nanking Road is an enjoyable discovery.

A) control B) order

D) action a C) harmony

17. One of his eyes was injured in an accident, but after a _____ operation, he quickly recovered his sight.

A) delicate

B) considerate D) sensitive aC) precise

18. If your baby is losing weight, you should _____ your doctor promptly.

A) advocate

C) enquire aB) consult D) investigate

19. I have worked on three _____ Saturdays.

A) continuous

aC) successive B) consistent D) regular

20. With the introduction of _____ technology, information flows faster than it ever did.

A) involved B) complicated

D) complex A C) sophisticated

21. The rest of the family had nearly reached the river, but Jane was _____ behind as usual.

A) declining

C) lacking B) delaying aD) lagging

22. It will be safer to walk on the streets because people will not need to carry large

amounts of cash; virtually all financial _____ will be conducted by computer.

A) transformations B) transmissions

C) transitions a D) transactions

23. While both plans were perfectly sensible, only one seemed _____ in China’s

particular situation.

A) useful

a C) feasible B) available D) desirable

24. Preliminary estimation puts the figure at around $110 billion, _____ the $160 billion the President is struggling to get through the Congress.

A) in proportion to B) in reply to

C) in relation to aD) in contrast to

25. We _____ the cook because her cooking was so poor.

aA) dismissed

C) resigned B) deserted D) withdrew

26. Dogs are often praised for their ______; they almost never abandon their masters.

A) faith

C) trust a B) loyalty D) truthfulness

27. Most parents encourage their children to take an active part in

social events, _____ those events do not interfere with their studies.

A) lest

C) unless B) though a D) provided

28. We must _____ these trash ideas.

aA) discard B) dispose

D) dismiss C) discharge

29. She can run 100 meters in 13 seconds without _____ herself.

A) executing

aC) exerting B) inserting D) devoting

30. Our holiday plans _____ because of transport strikes.

A) fell out

C) fell over

Unit 4

1. If my plan isn’t ______ of by the committee, all my work will have been wasted.

aA) approved

C) agreed B) consented D) admitted aB) fell through D) fell behind

2. Everybody ______ in the hall where they were welcomed by the secretary.

aA) assembled

C) piled B) accumulated D) joined

3. Mr. Bloom is not ______ now, but he will be famous someday.

A) significant

C) magnificent B) dominant aD) prominent

4. The bridge was named ______ the hero who gave his life for the cause of the people.

aA) after

C) by B) with D) from

5. Most people were no longer listening to his long ______ story.

A) annoying

C) tiring aB) boring D) exhausting

6. Each of them had a different ______ of what actually happened, but hers was by far more believable.

A) message

a C) version B) theory D) comment

7. His latest piece of work was ______ by a song he heard on the radio.

A) released

C) assessed aB) inspired D) composed

8. As we know, blood types A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. Type O can give to any other group; hence it is often called the _____ donor.

A) general B) popular

D) common a C) universal

9. Very few scientists _____ completely new answers to the world’s problems.

A) catch up with

C) keep up with a B) come up with D) put up with

10. The socks were too small, and it was only by _____ them that he managed to get them on.

A) spreading

C) lengthening B) extending a D) stretching

11. Most broadcasters maintain that TV has been unfairly criticized and argue that the power of the medium is _____.

A) granted B) implied

D) remedied A C) exaggerated

12. Of all the soldiers they had the _____ of being the fiercest, the most patriotic, the toughest.

A) recognition

C) recreation B) reservation a D) reputation

13. She _____ along the path, glad to be able to take her time.

A) hurried B) marched

a D) wandered C) progressed

14. The company has _____ over the years into a multi-million dollar organization.

A) involved B) resolved

aC) evolved D) revolved

15. During the war, the government _____ many soldiers from the workers and farmers.

A) adopted

C) integrated B) collected a D) recruited

16. Some of his suggestions have been adopted but others have been turned _____ as they are quite impracticable.

A) away

C) out B) back a D) down

17. All the key words in the article are printed in _____ type so as to attract readers’

attention.

A) dark B) dense

aD) bold C) black

18. This story is not real; it is only ______.

a A) imaginary

C) imaginable B) imaginative D) imagined

19. A peculiarly pointed chin is his most memorable facial ______.

A) mark

C) trace a B) feature D) appearance

20. In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Eastern Europe _____ Europe into a great war.

A) imposed B) pitched

C) inserted aD) plunged

21. He bought the house with a(n) _____ to making a quick profit out of it.

A) goal

a C) eye B) purpose D) reason

22. I’m very sorry to have _____ you with so many questions on such an occasion.

A) interfered B) offended

C) impressed aD) bothered

23. They are giving away free _____ of this new kind of cooking oil.

A) illustrations

C) examples B) demonstrations a D) samples

24. The scientists made ______ plans for landing a man on the moon.

A) acute

C) virtual a B) elaborate D) delicate

25. Although they plant trees in this area every year, the tops of some

hills are still ______.

A) blank

C) vacant B) hollow aD) bare

26. All the streets were ______ with flags to welcome the Chinese delegation.

A) supplied B) mended

a C) decorated D) pasted

27. You can’t drive a car unless you hold a driving ______.

A) permission

C) pass B) ticket a D) license

28. Although the cyclist was unhurt, his bicycle was _____ between the lorry and the wall.

A A) crushed

C) split B) clapped D) cracked

29. The wholesale price of this coat is $20 and the _____ price for it is $28.

A) virtual

a C) retail B) massive D) singular

30. Floods cause billions of dollars worth of property damage _____.

A) relatively

aC) annually

Unit 6

. Since many insects have already become ____ to DDT, scientists have to look for some new insecticide.

A) active

C) tough aB) resistant D) gradual B) actually D) comparatively

2. It is a type of desert bush that can ____ extremes of temperature.

A) adapt B) withdraw

D) shade a C) withstand

3. If a man is easily taken in by emotional traps, he will not be able to make ____ judgments.

A) sensitive

a C) sensible B) sentimental D) sensational

4. Whenever he writes to his parents, he ____ a cheque with his letter. a A) encloses

C) reserves B) contains D) invests

5. You should save your work often as a ____ against computer failure.

A) sanction a B) precaution

D) shelter C) shield

6. It took millions of years for order to grow out of the ____ of the universe.

A) adjustment

a C) chaos B) change D) profile

7. According to the weather ____, it’s going to be fine today.

A) prediction

C) provision B) indication a D) forecast

8. Accidents are of frequent ____ on this motorway because the traffic is extremely

heavy here.

A) arrival

C) scale B) proportion a D) occurrence

9. Her pulse was so weak that the doctor had difficulty ____ it.

A) inspecting

C) touching aB) detecting D) contacting

10. There is need to check the ____ of the report.

A) frequency a B) accuracy

C) emergency D) efficiency

11. The old man did not seem to attach any importance ____ the question.

a A) to B) with

D) for C) towards

12. As the plane was getting ready to take off, we all ____ our seat belts.

A) tied B) locked

D) closed a C) fastened

13. Professor Collins was ____ of the latest developments in physics because he had

been in hospital for several months.

A) unconscious

C) robbed B) negative a D) ignorant

14. It has been revealed that some government leaders ____ their authority and position to get illegal profits for themselves.

A) employ

a C) abuse B) take D) overlook

15. Fertilizer will ____ the growth of these tomato plants.

A) accomplish

C) accumulate aB) accelerate D) account

16. Years of ____ labor had hardened his muscles.

A) survival

C) restless B) mental a D) manual

17. Very few plants will ____ without water.

a A) flourish

C) stem B) fade D) cultivate

18. We rarely perceive more than a minute ____ of the sights and sounds that fall upon our sense organs; the great majority pass us by.

A) fiction

a C) fraction B) function D) fragment

19. I guess the whole paper has to be rewritten; only the first few paragraphs may be

____.

A) sustained

C) maintained B) contained aD) retained

20. The police will give you a ticket if you ____ the speed limit.

A) break B) reject

C) suspend a D) exceed

21. The wise man exercises ____ in his behavior and enjoyments.

A) limitation B) interest

C) restriction a D) restraint

22. When Jack was eighteen he ____ going around with a strange set of people and

staying out very late.

a A) took to

C) took up B) took for D) took on

23. Which is the most expensive ____ training equipment, players’ personal

equipment and uniforms?

A) in place of aB) in terms of

D) by way of C) by means of

24. The survival of civilization, as we know, is ____ threat.

A) within a B) under

D) upon C) towards

25. George took ____ of the fine weather to do a day’s work in his garden.

A) chance B) effect

a D) advantage C) occasion

Unit 7

1. Gary has planned to take a tour around the Great Lakes in the coming summer

vacation and _____ great pleasure from the visit.

A) acquires

C) recalls a B) anticipates D) reckons

2. They are two dollars each but if you buy ten, you get a _____ of ten per cent.

a A) discount

C) depression B) recession D) discharge

3. Money _____ as it goes from person to person.

A) speaks

B) scatters D) distributes a C) circulates

4. His hope _____ when he heard that there were some survivors in the shipwreck.

A) highlighted a B) soared

C) inspired D) flourished

5. I bought a washing-machine and asked to have it sent to my house. The

manager

of the store promised to make a prompt _____. a A) delivery

C) supply B) relay D) transport

6. He _____ his rose bushes carefully with insecticide every evening.

A) distributed

C) spread B) discharged a D) sprayed

7. His company went _____ after he failed in the business.

A) decent B) negative

aC) bankrupt D) acute

8. She always makes notes in the _____ of a book.

A) border

a C) margin B) blank D) edge

9. A new spaceship was _____ at Cape Kennedy yesterday.

A) motivated B) released

C) transmitted a D) launched

10. Don’t _____ this news to the public until we give you the go-ahead.

A) relieve a B) release

C) relate D) retain

11. The noise was caused by a dog _____ a cat through the garden. a A) chasing

C) catching B) following D) fighting

12. Although the two players are _____ in the tennis court, they are really good friends.

A) partners

a C) rivals B) enemies D) companions

13. We can _____ the possibility of total loss from our calculations. a A) exclude

C) excuse B) prevent D) discard

14. I felt _____ to death because I could make nothing of the

chairman’s speech.

A) fatigued

C) exhausted B) tired a D) bored

15. The two friends said goodbye and then went their _____ ways.

A) relevant B) relative

a D) respective C) reluctant

16. They _____ the flood after a heroic fight lasting five days and four nights.

a A) conquered

C) won B) combated D) withdrew

17. Two men were _____ a large log over the rough ground with the help of a rope.

A) pushing B) drawing

D) carrying a C) dragging

18. They claimed that _____ 1,000 factories closed down during the economic crisis.

A) sufficiently a B) approximately

D) properly C) considerably

19. Everyone _____ around quietly to avoid waking the baby.

A) cracked

C) crawled a B) crashed D) crept

20. Lower taxes would _____ investment and help economic growth.

A) harness

s C) spur B) highlight D) soar

s so _____. 21. John always arrives on time. He’

A) rapid B) timely

D) likely a C) punctual

22. What’s the Chinese _____ for the English word “refer”?

A) equality B) equal

D) equation a C) equivalent

23. The soldier was _____ of running away when the enemy attacked.

A) scolded B) charged

D) punished a C) accused

24. She _____ all criticism and calmly went on with the project.

A) smashed up

C) hung up B) left off a D) shrugged off

25. Success now seemed very remote and Bernard felt _____. a A) pessimistic

C) positive B) optimistic D) objective

26. This is _____ the most difficult job I have ever tackled.

A) by rights

C) by oneself B) by itself a D) by far

27. The price of beer _____ from 50 cents to $4 per liter during the summer season.

A) altered a B) ranged

C) separated D) differed

28. Only the most sophisticated theories of modern physics can _____ this phenomenon.

a A) account for

C) account of B) count on D) count for

29. On his back the man carried a heavy _____ of old clothes.

A) bulk

C) stock a B) bundle D) mass

30. There was a 0.3 per cent rise in the cost-of-living _____.

A) mark B) grade

a D) index C) indication

Unit 9

1. If my plan isn’t ______ of by the committee, all my work will have been wasted.

A A) approved

C) agreed B) consented D) admitted

2. Everybody ______ in the hall where they were welcomed by the secretary.

a A) assembled

C) piled B) accumulated D) joined

3. Mr. Bloom is not ______ now, but he will be famous someday.

A) significant

C) magnificent B) dominant a D) prominent

4. The bridge was named ______ the hero who gave his life for the cause of the people.

a A) after

C) by B) with D) from

5. Most people were no longer listening to his long ______ story.

A) annoying

C) tiring a B) boring D) exhausting

6. Each of them had a different ______ of what actually happened, but hers

was by far more believable.

A) message

a C) version B) theory D) comment

7. His latest piece of work was ______ by a song he heard on the radio.

A) released

C) assessed aB) inspired D) composed

8. As we know, blood types A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. Type O can give to any other group; hence it is often called the _____ donor.

A) general B) popular

a C) universal D) common

9. Very few scientists _____ completely new answers to the world’s problems.

A) catch up with

C) keep up with a B) come up with D) put up with

10. The socks were too small, and it was only by _____ them that he managed to get them on.

A) spreading

C) lengthening B) extending a D) stretching

11. Most broadcasters maintain that TV has been unfairly criticized and argue that the power of the medium is _____.

A) granted B) implied

D) remedied a C) exaggerated

12. Of all the soldiers they had the _____ of being the fiercest, the most patriotic, the toughest.

A) recognition

C) recreation B) reservation a D) reputation

13. She _____ along the path, glad to be able to take her time.

A) hurried B) marched

a D) wandered C) progressed

14. The company has _____ over the years into a multi-million dollar organization.

A) involved

a C) evolved B) resolved D) revolved

15. During the war, the government _____ many soldiers from the workers and farmers.

A) adopted B) collected

C) integrated a D) recruited

16. Some of his suggestions have been adopted but others have been turned _____ as they are quite impracticable.

A) away

C) out B) back a D) down

17. All the key words in the article are printed in _____ type so as to attract

readers’

attention.

A) dark B) dense

a D) bold C) black

18. This story is not real; it is only ______.

A A) imaginary

C) imaginable B) imaginative D) imagined

19. A peculiarly pointed chin is his most memorable facial ______.

A) mark a B) feature

D) appearance C) trace

20. In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Eastern Europe _____ Europe into a great war.

A) imposed

C) inserted B) pitched a D) plunged

21. He bought the house with a(n) _____ to making a quick profit out of it.

A) goal

a C) eye B) purpose D) reason

22. I’m very sorry to have _____ you with so many questions on such an occasion.

A) interfered

C) impressed B) offended a D) bothered

23. They are giving away free _____ of this new kind of cooking oil.

A) illustrations B) demonstrations

C) examples a D) samples

24. The scientists made ______ plans for landing a man on the moon.

A) acute

C) virtual aB) elaborate D) delicate

25. Although they plant trees in this area every year, the tops of some hills are still ______.

A) blank B) hollow

a D) bare C) vacant

26. All the streets were ______ with flags to welcome the Chinese delegation.

A) supplied

a C) decorated B) mended D) pasted

27. You can’t drive a car unless you hold a driving ______.

A) permission

C) pass a B) ticket D) license

28. Although the cyclist was unhurt, his bicycle was _____ between the lorry and the wall.

a A) crushed

C) split B) clapped D) cracked

29. The wholesale price of this coat is $20 and the _____ price for it is $28.

A) virtual

a C) retail B) massive D) singular

30. Floods cause billions of dollars worth of property damage _____.

A) relatively

a C) annually

B) actually D) comparatively