福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一-0005
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 50 道试题,共 100 分)
1.When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.
A.off
B.aside
C.out
D.down
2.The chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.
A.compelled
B.posed
C.pressed
D.tempted
3.Modern sonar makes it possible to ____ an underwater submarine.
A.communicate
B.sink
C.search
D.locate
4.It may be necessary to stop ______in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.
A.at case
B.at length
C.at intervals
D.at a distance
5.____ the success of the product depends on its good quality.
A.Objectively
B.Ultimately
C.Absolutely
D.Relatively
6.She hit the chair and ____ the coffee.
A.spoiled
B.poured
C.spilled
D.splashed
7._________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.
A.Although he is a socialist
B.Even if he is a socialist
C.Being a socialist
D.Since he is a socialist
8.Equipment not______ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.
A.conforming to
B.consistent with
C.predominant over
D.providing for
9.He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.
A.accord
B.assist
C.confirm
D.comply
10.His contribution to the program was ____ because 99 percent of the work was completed by his colleagues.
A.invisible
B.negligible
C.appreciable
D.considerable
11.Each individual is requested to state the ____ on which his judgments are based.
A.requirements
B.measures
C.legislations
D.criteria
12.To speed up the ______of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.
A.treatment
B.transmission
C.departure
D.delivery
13.He is planning another tour abroad ,yet his passport will ______ at the end of this month.
A.expire
B.exceed
C.terminate
D.cease
14.Mr. Smith had an unusual _______ : he was first an office clerk , then a sailor , and ended up as a school teacher.
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B.occupation
C.position
D.career
15.The students showed ____when solving the difficult maths problems.
A.validity
B.purity
C.ingenuity
D.reliability
16.Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance in the atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very ____.
A.disputed
B.discarded
C.dismissed
D.distorted
17.Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.
A.them
B./
C.it
D.theirs
18.A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.
A.automatic
B.deliberate
C.beneficial
D.customary
19.I don’t know if the story is true, but I’ll try to ____ it.
A.verify
B.reinforce
C.identify
D.conform
20.The meaning of this poem is very ____; I really do not understand it.
A.conspicuous
B.intelligible
C.obscure
D.dim
21.The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once______ .
A.thrived
B.swelled
C.prospered
D.flourished
22.The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________too much work last week.
A.take away
B.take out
C.take to
D.take on
23.To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming ____.
A.sensational
B.sensitive
C.sentimental
D.sensible
24.For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost______ as microorganisms.
A.precisely
B.instantly
C.initially
D.exclusively
25.The bank refused to ______him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.
A.loan
B.borrow
C.lease
D.credit
26.Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install _________ solar heating device in our home.
A.some type of
B.some types of a
C.some type of a
D.some types of
27.I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemed to have ____.
A.vapoured
B.vanished
C.vibrated
D.reduced
28.Some people believe that since oil is scarce, the ____of the motor industry is uncertain.
A.estimate
B.terminal
C.fate
D.benefit
29.The more a nation‘s companies _______factories abroad, the smaller that country‘s recorded exports will be.
A.lie
B.locate
C.spot
D.stand
30.At first, the _____ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible ,but , with the painstaking efforts and at great expense ,it became a reality.
A.transaction
B.transmission
C.transformation
D.transition
31.I saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.
A.concentration
B.endeavor
C.tolerance
D.absorption
32.Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.
A.displacement
B.elimination
C.exclusion
D.exception
33.A square is a flat area having four sides, any adjacent two sides of which ____ a right angle.
A.make
B.advocate
C.adjoin
D.shape
34.As he failed to win the first prize in the badminton match, he had to ____ the second.
A.settle in
B.settle for
C.settle up
D.settle with
35.The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.
A.objected having
B.were objected to having
C.objected to have
D.objected to having
36.Mr.Smith asked his secretary to ______a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.
A.invade
B.install
C.insert
D.inject
37.If you know what the trouble is, why don’t you help them to ________ the situation?
A.simplify
B.modify
C.verify
D.rectify
38.The defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ______of the murder committed last month.
A.witnesses
B.audiences
C.viewers
D.observers
39.I can’t ________ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.
A.figure out
B.draw out
C.look out
D.work out
40.You don’t have to install this radio in your new car . It’s an _______ extra.
A.excessive
B.optional
C.additional
D.arbitrary
41.If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise you much better than I can.
A.would be
B.will have been
C.was
D.were
42.Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could _____ .
A.descend
B.decline
C.deteriorate
D.depress
43.James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.
A.will come
B.was coming
C.had been coming
D.came
44.I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.
A.something but
B.anything but
C.nothing but
D.not but
45.The local people were joyfully surprised to find the price of vegetables no longer ______ according to the weather.
A.altered
B.converted
C.fluctuated
D.modified
46.These overseas students show great ______ for learning a new language.
A.faith
B.authority
C.enthusiasm
D.convention
47.The party will ____their leader very determinedly.
A.adhere to
B.coincide with
C.cling to
D.depend on
48.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
D.in contrast to
49.It was no _____ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery .
A.coincidence
B.convention
C.certainty
D.complication
50.The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is____80 percent.
A.consequently
B.roughly
C.comparatively
D.incidentally
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