课程代码：10005
Part Ⅰ: Vocabulary(20%)
Section A (20×0.5%=10%)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.
1. With the economy of the country going strong, the ______ mood is one of optimism. ( )
A. presiding B. circulating
C. floating D. prevailing
2. She is quite capable, but the problem is that she is not ______. ( )
A. consistent B. insistent
C. beneficent D. resistant
3. The workers of the textile mill ______ that trade union leaders be elected from the workshops. ( )
A. urged B. related
C. combated D. adopted
4. We shall offer you advice, but you are under no ______ to follow it. ( )
A. pursuit B. obligation
C. command D. instruction
5. These technological advances in communication have ______ the way people do business. ( )
A. revolted B. represented
C. adopted D. transformed
6. Bill is rich. His house is full of ______ such as expensive high-tech video systems and all the latest computer equipment. ( )
A. luxuries B. festivities
C. dimensions D. instruments
7. By ______ the styles of Van Gogh and Dufy, the woman painter has produced some highly original works. ( )
A. duplicating B. assimilating
C. transferring D. molding
8. We must keep things in ______ — the overall situation isn’t really that bad. ( )
A. view B. perspective
C. prospect D. control
9. The losing team were ______ in their defeat.( )
A. gracious B. grateful
C. grand D. refined
10. It was a shrewd move ______ to buy the house just before property prices started to rise. ( )
A. on her part B. at hand
C. at her expense D. on record
11. The ______ of women to men at my college is about two to one. ( )
A. rate B. proportion
C. portion D. percentage
12. In a ______ between the management and the union, a 4% pay raise was agreed on in return for an increase in productivity. ( )
A. promise B. compromise
C. collaboration D. cooperation
13. Human eyes are accustomed to ______ a specific object, and once this happens, everything around the object seems to be reduced to background.( )
A. pointing to B. sticking to
C. focusing on D. probing into
14. Samuel is always ______, never complaining about his poor health and other troubles. ( )
A. careless B. joyful
C. cheerful D. glad
15. Laws are the means by which science ______ to describe nature, not explain it. ( )
A. attends B. arranges
C. facades D. attempts
16. The ______ witness in the case said that he was not concerned with the interest, but cared only about the principle. ( )
A. princess B. principle
C. principal D. prince
17. A ______ person is reluctant to see any change. ( )
A. safe B. radical
C. conservative D. convertible
18. The statement was ______ and to the point. ( )
A. brief B. uneasy
C. lousy D. redundant
19. This year the factory ______ almost twice as many motors as it did last year.( )
A. turned down B. turned over
C. turned to D. turned out
20. Let’s hang up some paintings on these ______ walls.( )
A. bare B. empty
C. blank D. vacant
