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

A. nothing    B. none     C. without   D. nobody

答案：

1. 答案為C.worthwhile意思是"值得花費(fèi)時(shí)間,或精力的".worthy可以表示"值得

尊重或者考慮的",用這一意思時(shí)通常做定語(yǔ).worthiness是worthy的名詞形式.worth用作

表語(yǔ),意思是"有某種價(jià)值的;值得(做某事)".本句需要填入一個(gè)作定語(yǔ)的形容詞,

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(yǔ)氣,腔調(diào);(樂(lè)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(shuō),少報(bào)",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",貨幣";fare指(公共汽車(chē),輪船,計(jì)程車(chē)等的)票價(jià);

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(zhuān)院校的學(xué)費(fèi).

5. 答案為B.miserly意思是"似守財(cái)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(yíng)".

8. 答案為A.summit意思是"峰會(huì),首腦會(huì)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(yǔ)氣的",subjective意為"主

觀的",object意思是"反對(duì),抗議",作動(dòng)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(wú)法預(yù)料".可以說(shuō)in danger 或under threat,但不可以說(shuō)at danger或at threat.