1. He proved himself a ________ successor to the former Prime Minister.

A. worthwhile ? B. worthiness ? C. worthy ? D. worth

2. Your radio is too loud, turn the ________ down.

A. volume ? B. voice ? C. sound ? D. tone

3. The Channel Tunnel is one of the biggest engineering projects ever ________.

A. understated ? B. undertaken ? C. undergone ? D. underneath

4. He comes from a poor country village in the mountains, so it’s very hard for him to pay the whole school year’s ________ at one time.

A. money ? B. fare ? C. fees ? D. tuition

5. Anthony is a very ________ person and never wastes anything.

A. miserly ? B. thrifty ? C. economic ? D. conservative

6. He is seriously ill because his girlfriend has just deserted him. Why don’t you try some occupational ________ to remove his mind from distress?

A. operation ? B. therapy ? C. injection ? D. medicine

7. The government used their emergency powers to ________ the truth about the accident.

A. suppress ? B. manipulate ? C. control ? D. manage

8. The ________ of the member countries is supposed to be held recently at Geneva.

A. summit ? B. summary ? C. suffering ? D. summon

9. The ghostly presence was just a (n)_________ sensation of some people.

A. objective ? B. subjunctive ? C. subjective ? D. objected

10. The company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and thousands of jobs are at ________.

A. danger ? B. loss ? C. threat ? D. stake

答案及解析

1. 答案為C。

worthwhile 意思是“值得花費(fèi)時間、金錢或精力的”。worthy 可以表示“值得尊重或者考慮的”，用這一意思時通常做定語。worthiness 是worthy 的名詞形式。worth 用作表語，意思是“有某種價值的；值得（做某事）”。本句要填入一個作定語的形容詞，所以， C 是正確答案。

2. 答案為A。

volume 意思是“音量，響度”，voice 意思是“嗓音”，sound 意思是“聲，聲音，聲響”，tone 指“音調(diào)，音質(zhì)；語氣，腔調(diào)；（樂器的）音質(zhì)，音色”。

3. 答案為B

understate 意思是“有節(jié)制地陳述或表達(dá)；少說，少報”，undertake 意思是“承擔(dān)，負(fù)起..的責(zé)任”，undergo 意為“經(jīng)歷，經(jīng)受；接受，承受”，underneath 意為“在.. 的下面（介詞）；在下面，向下（副詞）；底部，底面（名詞）”。

4. 答案為D。

money 泛指“金錢，貨幣”；fare 指（公共汽車、輪船、計程車等的）票價； fee 指付給私人教師、醫(yī)生等的服務(wù)費(fèi)，酬金；tuition 尤指大專院校的學(xué)費(fèi)。

5. 答案為B

miserly 意思是“似守財奴的，吝嗇的”，thrifty 意思是“節(jié)檢的，節(jié)約的”， economic 意思是“經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)的，經(jīng)濟(jì)的”，conservative 意思是“保守的，守舊的”。

6. 答案為B。

operation 指“手術(shù)”，therapy 指“療法”，injection 指“注射”，medicine 指“醫(yī)術(shù)，醫(yī)學(xué)；藥”。occupational therapy 指“職業(yè)療法”，即給患者創(chuàng)造性或生產(chǎn)性工作以治療其身心某些疾病的方法。

7. 答案為A。

suppress 意思是“阻止..被知道或看到”，manipulate 指“熟練地控制或操縱（某事物）”，control 意思是“控制”，manage 意思是“負(fù)責(zé)（謀事物），管理，經(jīng)營”。

8. 答案為A。

summit 意思是“峰會，首腦會晤”，summary 意為“小結(jié)”，suffering 指肉體或內(nèi)心的痛苦，summon 意為“傳喚，傳訊；（法院的）傳票”。

9. 答案為C。

objective 意為“客觀的”，subjunctive 意為“虛擬語氣的”，subjective 意為“主觀的”，object 意思是“反對，抗議”，作動詞。

10. 答案為D 。

at a loss 意思是“不知如何是好，茫然，不知所措”，at stake 指“兇吉難卜，好壞無法預(yù)料”?？梢哉fin danger 或under threat,但不可以說at danger 或at threat。