I. Vocabulary
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
1. An ambulance must have priority as it usually has to deal with some kind of .
A. crisis
B. urgency
C. emergency
D. emergence
2. No one could tell how the magician was able to produce a rabbit from his hat until he his tricks.
A. strayed away from
B. threw light on
C. gave birth to
D. fell back on
3. More than two hundred years ago, the United States __ from the British Empire and became an independent country.
A. got off
B. pulled down
C. broke away
D. dropped off
4. Everybody looked __ the direction of the explosion.
A. to
B. from
C. in
D. into
5. The flood __the townspeople__ from the rest of the world.
A. cut...out
B. cut...away
C. cut...down
D. cut...off
6. During the strike, the electricity was cut off for hours, so we had to __ candles for lighting.
A. manage with
B. turn on
C. carry out
D. keep to
7. I don't think I know the girl with long hair although she __ me of someone I know.
A. remembers
B. recalls
C. suggests
D. reminds
8. They remained full of hope and determination __ their repeated failures.
A. instead of
B. in search of
C. because of
D. in spite of
9. All the information we have collected in relation to that case __ very little.
A. put off
B. hold back
C. put aside
D. hold up
10. The rainbow is one of the most beautiful __ in nature.
A. phenomenon
B. phenomena
C. appearance
D. experience
参考答案及解析
1. 【答案】C
【译文】救护车必须优先通过，因为它通常是为了紧急情况。
【试题分析】词语辨析题。
【详细解答】emergence意为“出现”;crisis是“危机”，一般是政治、经济或情感危机;urgency也是紧急，但更强调意义重大，而emergency则是意料之外的、危险的紧急情况，更符合句意。
2.【答案】B
【考点】短语辨析B)throw/shed/cast light on“阐明，解释”;A)stray away from“偏离”;C)give birth to“ 产生，引起”give birth to a dispute引起一场争吵;D)fall back on“求助于”In an emergency we can fall back on our savings. 紧急时候我们可动用储蓄。
【译文】在魔术师点破他的戏法之前，没有人能说出他是如何从帽子里变出一只兔子的。
3. 【答案】C
【译文】两百多年前，美国脱离了大英帝国，成为一个独立的国家。
【试题分析】词组辨析题。
【详细解答】break away表示“脱离，放弃”。get off表示“下来，动身，摆脱”。pull down表示“****”。drop off表示“离开，减少”。显然A、B、D都与句意不符。
4. 【答案】C
【译文】所有的人都朝着爆炸的方向看去。
【试题分析】介词搭配。
【详细解答】look to指照管，留心，注意，期待，主语通常为人，后面通常跟人或物，跟方向时，主语为物;look from后跟地点或物品，表示从某个方位看;look in加方向表示朝某个方向看，look into指调查事件真相，或朝某物里面看。
5. 【答案】D
句意：洪水切断了该镇居民与外界的联系。A)cut out 切掉;割掉;B)cut away 切掉，逃走;C)cut down 减少 如：You should cut down on smoking. 你应该少抽烟。D)cut off 切断 如：They cut off the enemy’s retreat. 他们切断了敌人的退路。根据句意A, B, C均不符合题意，因此选D。
6. 【答案】A
【参考译文】罢工期间，电被切断好几个小时，我们不得不设法用蜡烛来照明。
【试题分析】此题为词汇题。
【详细解答】manage with设法对付, 想方设法解决;turn…on 开, 打开;carry out执行, 完成任务;keep to保持。
7. 【答案】D
【参考译文】我不认识那位长头发的女孩，虽然她使我想起我认识的一个人。
【试题分析】此题主要考搭配。
【详细解答】remind使回想起;提醒，常用于“remind sb. of sth. 使某人回想起……”结构中。remind me of my childhood使我回想到自己的童年。A. remember记住，记得：I remember her name. 我记得她的名字。B. recall回想起：recall one’s hometown回想起自己的家乡。C. suggest建议;表明：His words suggested his support to our plan. 他的话表明他支持我们的计划。A、B、C项均不能用于…sb. of sth. 结构中。
8. 【答案】D
【译文】尽管遭受多次失败，他们仍然充满希望和决心。
【试题分析】逻辑关系题，要求学生能正确分析句子两部分之间的让步关系。
【详细解答】instead of 指两个动作、行为、事件等只出现其中一个;in search of 指搜寻，探索等;because of表因果关系;in spite of表让步关系。
9. 【答案】此题答案应为add up to，书中有误，D选项应为add up to
【译文】我们所收集的关于这件事的信息加起来也少得可怜。
【试题分析】add up to表示“合计达……”
10. 【答案】B
【参考译文】彩虹是最美的自然现象之一。
【试题分析】此题为词义辨析题。
【详细解答】phenomena是phenomenon的复数形式;phenomenon现象;appearance外表，出现;experience经验，阅历。
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