1. I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into _____ when judging my examination.
A. regard
B. account
C. thought
D. observation
[答案]B. account.
[注释] take sth. into account(=consider)考虑到:We must take local conditions into accoutn.
2. There are three basic ways of _____ language to writing, and all known graphic systems use one or a combination of these.
A. committing
B. attaching
C. comparing
D. relating
[答案]A. committing.
[注释] commit...to 托付,交付:1)He was committed to the care of his aunt.(他被托付给他的姨妈照管。) 2)I have already committed the rules to memory.(我早已记住这些规则了。)
commit sth. to writing(把......写下来)。
3. Roses are quite _____ flowers in English gardens.
A. ordinary
B. common
C. usual
D. general
[答案]B. common.
[注释]common(=usual and ordinary; happening of found often and in many places)普通的;常见的;常常发生的;到处可见的:a common experience(普通的经历);a common tree(常见的树木)。This bird is common throughout Europe.(这种鸟在欧洲很常见。)They can treat most of the common diseases.(他们能治疗大多数常见病。)
usual(=done, found, used or existing most of the time) 经常的,通常的,惯例的,习以为常的;强调时间习惯方面,例如:This is the usual state of the house.(这房子里平常就是这种样子。)
ordinary正常的,普通的,正常的;an ordinary day(平凡的一天),ordinary people(普通人), a piece of ordinary dance music(一首普通的舞曲)。
General普通的。它与common比较,语气稍强,含有很少例外的意外。
可见本题中用common是最佳的选择。
4. American women were _____ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.
A. ignored
B. refused
C. neglected
D. denied
[答案]D. denied.
[注释] deny 1)否认:A. He didn’t deny the facts. B. They couldn’t
deny that it was a serious blow to them. C. He denied having ever there.(他否认曾到过那里。) 2)(=say ’no’ to a request; refuse to give sth. asked for or needed)不给予;Lots of people were denied the right to vote.(许多人被剥夺了选举权。)He denies his wife nothing.(他对他的妻子有求必应。)
5. On turning the corner, we saw the road _____ steeply.
A. departing
B. decreasing
C. descending
D. depressing
[答案]C. descending.
[注释] descend(=come or go down)走下来;传下来:1)He descended from the top of the mountain. 2)Are men descended from apes?(人是不是猿的后代?)
depress 压抑,使沮丧。Depart出发,起程。
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