完成句子练习题

　　1. He was treated like a ____ and cast out from his community.

　　A. ascetic

　　B. prodigy

　　C. prodigal

　　D. pariah

　　E. tyro

　　2. The teacher accused me of ____ because my essay was so similar to that of another student.

　　A. procrastination

　　B. plagiarism

　　C. celerity

　　D. confusion

　　E. decorum

　　3. We live in a ____ age; everyone thinks that maximizing pleasure is the point of life.

　　A. ubiquitous

　　B. propitious

　　C. sporadic

　　D. corrupt

　　E. hedonistic

　　4. Thankfully the disease has gone into ____ ; it may not recur for many years.

　　A. treatment

　　B. sequestration

　　C. quarantine

　　D. remission

　　E. oblivion

　　5. People from all over the world are sent by their doctors to breathe the pure, ____ air in this mountain region.

　　A. invigorating

　　B. soporific

　　C. debilitating

　　D. insalubrious

　　E. aromatic

　　6. As were many colonial administrators, Gregory was ____ in his knowledge of the grammar of the local language, though his accent was ____ .

　　A. deficient - poor

　　B. competent - adequate

　　C. faultless - awful

　　D. well-versed - effective

　　E. erratic - eccentric

　　7. Though Adam Bede is presented to us by the author as ____ fiction, there are none of the life-like meanderings of the story of Amos Barton.sat

　　A. realistic

　　B. romantic

　　C. imaginative

　　D. educational

　　E. entertaining

　　8. There is a general ____ in the United States that our ethics are declining and that out moral standards are ____ .

　　A. feeling - normalizing

　　B. idea - futile

　　C. optimism - improving

　　D. complaint - deteriorating

　　E. outlook - escalating

　　9. Homo sapiens, the proud splitter of the atom, inventor of the electronic computer, ____ of the genetic code may be humbled by a lowly ____ of the sewers and soils - the microbe.

　　A. designer - inhabitant

　　B. discoverer - rodent

　　C. writer - organism

　　D. decipherer - denizen

　　E. author - purifier

　　10. After centuries of obscurity, this philosopher's thesis is enjoying a surprising ____ .

　　A. dismissal

　　B. remission

　　C. decimation

　　D. longevity

　　E. renaissance

　　11. The threat of war, far from ____ , lay heavily in the air, and the villagers, while ____ going about their normal activities, were unable to shake off the feeling of impending catastrophe.

　　A. receding - ostensibly

　　B. diminishing - contentedly

　　C. increasing - apparently

　　D. escalating - joyfully

　　E. subsiding - felicitously

　　12. Although alarmed by the ____ , Professor Symes had no reason to doubt the ____ of his student's results, for this student was nothing if not reliable.

　　A. conclusions - folly

　　B. deductions - impudence

　　C. implications - veracity

　　D. errors - truth

　　E. inferences - invalidity

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参考答案

　　1.Correct Answer: D

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: He was cast out. An outcast is a pariah.

　　(ascetic = one who lives a severe existence without indulgences; prodigy = genius, or very talented; prodigal = wasteful person; tyro = novice, beginner)

　　2.Correct Answer: B

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: ‘because’ gives a reason for the word that is needed. If the essay is so similar it looks as though it is copied. To copy without giving acknowledgement is plagiarism.

　　(procrastination = putting off, delaying; celerity = speed; decorum = good and correct behavior)

　　3.Correct Answer: E

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: The part after the semicolon explains what kind of age we are talking about.

　　So, since we are told that maximizing pleasure is the point, the word we need is hedonistic (pleasure seeking).

　　(ubiquitous = found everywhere; propitious = favorable; sporadic = intermittent, not continuous)

　　4.Correct Answer: D

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: The part after the semicolon explains the first part of the sentence.

　　So, something that may not recur for some time would be in remission.sat

　　(sequestration = isolation; quarantine = isolation; remission = temporary improvement in a disease; oblivion = state of being unaware)

　　5.Correct Answer: A

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: Since the air is described as ‘pure’ we need a positive word. Also, since doctors recommend it, the air must be good for health.

　　Therefore, we choose invigorating which means energizing.

　　(soporific = sleep-inducing; debilitating = weakening; insalubrious = unhealthy; aromatic = pleasant-smelling)

　　6.Correct Answer: C

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: "though" indicates the need for opposites.

　　Therefore, we say that he was faultless (perfect) in his grammar, though his accent was awful. [This is the only pair of opposites.]

　　(erratic = unpredictable; eccentric = odd)

　　7.Correct Answer: A

　　Explanation:

　　Clue : ‘Though’ indicates the need for opposites in the two halves of the sentence. Also, ‘life-like’ indicates realistic is the word needed.

　　The sentence means that, though there are no life-like meanderings, the work is presented as realistic fiction. [Note that to get the meaning out of the sentence it sometimes helps to turn the parts around.]

　　8.Correct Answer: D

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: "and" usually joins things of similar meaning or weight. This suggests that since ethics are declining, moral standards are also declining (deteriorating). Almost any word except "optimism" would have fit the first blank.

　　(futile = useless, ineffective; escalating = increasing)

　　9.Correct Answer: D

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: The first blank requires something that conveys what man has done to the genetic code - the only two suitable words are ‘discoverer’ or ‘decipherer’. But since a microbe is not a rodent, we can eliminate that pair.

　　(rodent = animal like a rat or mouse; decipherer = someone who decodes; denizen = inhabitant)

　　10.Correct Answer: E

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: The sentence tells us that the thesis has been in obscurity (forgotten or neglected) but now it is being revived. We can say it is undergoing a renaissance (revival).

　　(remission = temporary cessation of a disease; decimation = destruction; longevity = length of life)

　　11.Correct Answer: A

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: ‘Far from’ indicates that an opposite point is being made. So, since there is a feeling of impending catastrophe the threat of war is far from getting less. This indicates that ‘receding’, diminishing’, or ‘subsiding’ might be suitable. We can eliminate these last two since their partner words ‘contentedly’ and ‘felicitously’ are inappropriate for a feeling of danger. So the villagers are only apparently (ostensibly) behaving normally.

　　(escalating = increasing ; felicitously = happily, suitably)

　　12.Correct Answer: C

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: ‘Nothing if not’ means ‘very’. So if the student is very reliable the professor would not doubt the ‘truth’ or ‘veracity’ of the results. Since the student is reliable we can eliminate the ‘error’ choice, and choose ‘implications’.

　　(folly = foolishness; impudence = cheekiness; veracity = truth; inferences = something we can deduce)