福建师范大学英语专业《英美文学选读》作业及答案2

She worked hard at her task before she felt sure that the results would ________ her long effort.

A.justify

B.testify

C.rectify

D.verify

本题答案:
A
Most laboratory and field studies of human behavior. ______ taking a situational photograph at a given time and in a given place.

A.attach

B.compose

C.involve

D.enclose

本题答案:
C
I saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.

A.concentration

B.endeavor

C.tolerance

D.absorption

本题答案:
B
Thousands of people turned out into the streets to _________ against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.

A.contradict

B.reform

C.counter

D.protest

本题答案:
D
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth _______ of American Independence.

A.ceremony

B.anniversary

C.occasion

D.occurrence

本题答案:
B
A man who always ____ his salary can never become very wealthy.

A.anticipate

B.articulate

C.manifest

D.monitor

本题答案:
A
There a canal was being built to ____ commerce between the two countries.

A.allocate

B.facilitate

C.induce

D.furnish

本题答案:
B
Equipment not ______ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.

A.conforming to

B.consistent with

C.predominant over

D.providing for

本题答案:
A
American companies are evolving from mass-production manufacturing to ________ enterprises.

A.moveable

B.changing

C.flexible

D.varying

本题答案:
C
These causes produced the great change in the country that modernized the _______ of higher education from the mid-1860’s to the mid-1880’s

A.branch

B.category

C.domain

D.scope

本题答案:
C
Being ignorant of the law is not accepted as an ______ for breaking the law.

A.option

B.intention

C.approval

D.excuse

本题答案:
D
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

本题答案:
D
The London Marathon is a difficult race. _______, thousands of runners participate every year.

A.Therefore

B.Accordingly

C.Nevertheless

D.Furthermore

本题答案:
C
A series of strikes have ____ many of the basic industries in that country.

A.crippled

B.damaged

C.changed

D.decreased

本题答案:
A
I went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when I ________ the journey in exactly two days.

A.must take

B.must have made

C.was able to make

D.could make

本题答案:
C
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

In no case will they ____ with folded arms.

A.pass by

B.look on

C.go by

D.hold on

He is too young to be able to ______ between right and wrong.

A.discard

B.discern

C.disperse

D.disregard

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

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

He promised to put ____ a word for me.

A.out

B.down

C.forward

D.in

For a little while the girl ____ for her dead cat, but she got over it after a few days.

A.ached

B.depressed

C.grieved

D.upset

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

Such a(n) ____ person has got to the top of the company! That’s more than I bargained for.

A.responsible

B.illegal

C.notorious

D.illegitimate

He asked me to lend him some money, which I agreed to do, ________ that he paid me back the following week.

A.on occasion

B.on purpose

C.on condition

D.only if

James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.

A.will come

B.was coming

C.had been coming

D.came

Poverty is not ______ in most cities although, perhaps because of the crowded conditions in certain areas, it is more visible there.

A.rare

B.temporary

C.prevalent

D.segmental

To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming ____.

A.sensational

B.sensitive

C.sentimental

D.sensible

Within two days, the army fired more than two hundred rockets and missiles at military _____ in the coastal city.

A.goals

B.destinations

C.targets

D.aims

Do you know Tim’s brother? He is _________ than Tim.

A.much more sportsman

B.more of a sportsman

C.more of sportsman

D.more a sportsman

Fuel scarcities and price increases ________ automobile designers to scale down the largest models and to develop completely new lines of small cars and trucks.

A.persuaded

B.prompted

C.imposed

D.enlightened

The bank refused to ______ him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.

A.loan

B.borrow

C.lease

D.credit

His remarks were ________ annoy everybody at the meeting.

A.so as to

B.such as to

C.such to

D.as much as to

I don’t know if the story is true, but I’ll try to ____ it.

A.verify

B.reinforce

C.identify

D.conform

Politically these nations tend to be ______, with very high birth rates but poor education and very low levels of literacy.

A.unsteady

B.unstable

C.rational

D.reluctant

The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her ______ attitude toward customers

A.impartial

B.mild

C.hostile

D.opposing

If you don’t like to swim, you _____ as well stay at home.

A.may

B.can

C.would

D.should

To speed up the ______ of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.

A.treatment

B.transmission

C.departure

D.delivery

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

Yor can hire a bicycle in many places. Usually you’ll have to pay a _________.

A.deposit

B.deal

C.fare

D.fond

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

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

Inside the machine is an ____ arrangement of wires.

A.incredible

B.internal

C.intricate

D.initial

_________ conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.

A.I was and always will be

B.I have to be and always will be

C.I had been and always will be

D.I have been and always will be

He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.

A.accord

B.assist

C.confirm

D.comply

I never trust him because I always thought him as such a _____ character.

A.gracious

B.suspicious

C.unique

D.particular

The old paper mill has been ______ to make way for a new shopping centre.

A.held down

B.kept down

C.cut down

D.turn down

The party will ____ their leader very determinedly.

A.adhere to

B.coincide with

C.cling to

D.depend on

Poor health and lack of money may both be ____ to educational progress.

A.scarcities

B.stains

C.restraints

D.barriers

The old Roman walls may still be seen, but not in their ____.

A.integrity

B.compactness

C.installment

D.flexibility