Vocabulary：
Choose the best word from the four choices to complete each of the following sentences.
1. There has been much opposition from some social groups, ______ from the farming community.
A. straightforwardly      B. notably    C. virtually      D. exceptionally
2. The ______ view in Britain and other Western countries associates aging with decline, dependency, isolation, and often poverty.
A. predominant        B. credulous        C. inclusive        D. sustainable
3. But gifts such as these cannot be awarded to everybody, either by judges or by the most ___ of governments./ rewardrewarding
A. tough    B. demanding    C. diverse      D. benign
4. The foreman read the ______ of guilty fourteen times, one for each defendant.
A. prejudice      B. verification          C. verdict        D. punishment
5. They fear it could have a(n) ______ effect on global financial markets.
A. sizeable      B. adverse(negative)    C. beneficial        D. consequential
6. The UN threatened to ______ economic sanctions if the talks were broken off.
A. engage    B. pursue    C. abandon/ abundant        D. invoke
7. There are at least four crucial differences between the new ______ and the old government.
A. regime      B. hegemony        C. complex        D. federation/ fedal<->federal, confederate)
8. These questions ______ a challenge to established attitude of superiority toward the outside world.
A. evolve        B. Constitute形成        C. tolerate        D. aroused
9. Because of this, a strong administrative ______ was needed to plan the use of scarce resources, organize production and regulate distribution.
A. apparatus        B. constitution          C. insistence        D. promotion
10. I learnt that there are no genuinely ______ animals in this area, all the animals were brought here from other places.
A. endangered        B. domesticated        C. indigenous        D. extinct
1. As the year progressed, the war in Vietnam undermined national unity, compelling the president and his advisers to spend much of their time explaining U. S. policy in Asia.
A. weakened        B. stressed        C. broke            D. split
2. The picture was different from all the others. It consisted of a lot of discrete spots of color.
A. mysterious    B. surprising        C. separate        D. bright
3. The preparation for the great military overseas operations entailed months of careful planning and preparation.
A. entitled        B. required        C. provided        D. deprived
4. It was reported that a 19-year-old college student at Berkeley was taken from her apartment. And two days after the abduction a tape recording was sent to a local radio station.
A. burglary        B. murder        C. hijack        D. kidnapping
5. Mott suffers financially and emotionally as his series of delusional get-rich-quick schemes goes bad.   
A. expected            B. extravagant        C. dreamed        D. drained
6. Then for a number of African Americans the strategy of the Civil Rights Movement was beginning to appear demeaning and even irrelevant.
A. degrading        B. destining            C. deviating        D. descending
7. The member countries of the organization would act only with the sanction of United Nations.
A. punishment        B. sustenance        C. approval        D. authorization
unity 教程8. Miracles are instantaneous they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
A. evident            B. immediate        C. inevitable                D. hidden
9. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that the cost to industry of compliance with the new rules could be as high as $ 1 billion a year.
A. following        B. execution        C. accomplishment        D. agreeableness
10. On the basis of the law, the woman's right is absolute and that she is entitled to terminate her pregnancy at whatever time, in whatever way, and for whatever reason she
alone chooses.
A. pause            B. complete        C. expire                D. stop
1. The demise (death) of the industry has caused untold misery to thousands of hard-working (diligent) tradesmen.
A. size            B. expansion            C. development        D. termination
2. There were difficulties for her about making the whole surgery financially viable (feasible) and eventually (finally) she left.
A. practicable    B. sufficient            C. deficient            D. impractical
3. Learning some basic information about preparing and delivering (~ a speech) formal presentations can help allay (relieve/ reduce) some of the fear involved in public speaking. [oral presentation]
A. ease [(1)n. feel at ~; (2)to relieve pain]            B. express           
C. prevent                                    D. dispose (get rid of)
4. Whatever the cause (may be), the incident could easily cripple (damage/ paralyze) the peace talks.
A. influence        B. damage            C. end                D. complicate (a./ vt.)

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