l         词汇辨析练习

1．They are _____ up to buy tickets for the opera.

A. waiting        B. standing           C. queuing             D. marching

2. We must realize that each student is a highly _____ human being.

     A. private         B. individual           C. particular           D. intelligent

3. The flat _____ three rooms, with a kitchen and a bathroom.

     A. is consisted of     B. is composed of  C. contains            D. includes

4. The project, _____ by the end of 2008, will expand the city’s telephone network to cover 2,000,000 users.

A. to be accomplished                   B. to be acquired

C. to be achieved                          D. to be allowed

5. I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into _____ when judging my examination.

      A. regard        B. account             C. count                D. observation

6. The general’s _____ is to win the war with air power.

     A. skill             B. correspondence  C. word                D. strategy

7. Having settled in that remote area, the young man quickly _____ to the dry weather

     there.

     A. accustomed  B. adopted             C. adored              D. adapted

8. We are interested in the weather because it _____ us so directly what we wear, what we do, and even how we feel.

     A. enables        B. affects              C. appeals              D. effects

9. Nobody _____ that air crash.

     A. looked         B. released             C. survived            D. conquered

10. His parents couldn’t _____ to send him abroad though he was chosen to be the exchange students.

     A. agree           B. allow                 C. assist                D. afford

11. The figures _____ up to 365.

     A. account              B. add                   C. accumulate        D. adjust

12. The old couple decided to _____ a boy and a girl though they had three children of their own.

     A. adapt           B. bring                 C. receive              D. adopt

13. When he asked me how much I earned, I told him to mind his own _____.

     A. affairs          B. affection            C. amount             D. analysis

14. He receives so many letters everyday that sometimes he _____ sufficient time

to read all of them properly.

     A. lacks           B. spends              C. costs                D. takes

15. He could not make himself understood because his vocabulary was too _____.

A. lack             B. absent        C. rare                  D. limited

16. This medicine will _____ him of his cough.

     A. recover        B. restore              C. cure                  D. heal

17. How do you want the beef—rare, _____, or well-done?

A. middle         B. medium             C. minor         D. minimum

18. To _____ his dream of becoming a professional athlete, Tom kept training for three years.

     A. fulfill           B. finish         C. achieve             D. complete

19. There is no _____ upon what should be done.

     A. affair           B. addition            C. action        D. agreement

20. I need a large _____ of money to buy a computer.

     A. number        B. sum                  C. figure         D. quantity

21. The research institute has _____ all of that author’s works.

     A. sold             B. declared            C. published           D. printed

22. The environment is exactly everything that can affect us in any _____.

     A. suspect        B. aspect        C. respect              D. inspect

23. Many bridges were _____ away by the flood.