【7月22日】英语低分到高分专项突破每日一练

　　以下是7月22日英语低分到高分专项突破每日一练

Part I    Vocabulary

　　1.     Beginning with the ________ that there is life on the planet Mercury, the scientist went on to develop his argument.

　　A) premise

　　B) pretext

　　C) foundation

　　D) presentation

　　2.     With several disasters breaking out in nuclear power plants, a ________ has raged over the safety of nuclear energy.

　　A) quarrel

　　B) suspicion

　　C) verdict

　　D) controversy

　　3.     Their diplomatic principles clearly laid bare ( expose ) their ________ for world conquest.

　　A) admiration

　　B) ambition

　　C) administration

　　D) orientation

　　4.     The director gave me his ________ that he would double my pay if I did my job well.

　　A) warrant

　　B) obligation

　　C) assurance

　　D) certainty

　　5.     The Christmas tree was decorated with shining ________ such as colored lights and glass balls.

　　A) ornaments

　　B) luxuries

　　C) exhibits

　　D) complements

　　6.     The two most important ________ in making a cake are flour and sugar.

　　A) elements

　　B) components

　　C) ingredients

　　D) construction

　　7.     Cultural ________ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generation to another.

　　A) translation

　　B) transition

　　C) transmission

　　D) transaction

　　8.     We must look beyond ________ and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.

　　A) justifications

　　B) illusions

　　C) manual

　　D) illustrations

　　9.     No one imagined that the apparently ________ businessman was really a criminal.

　　A) respective

　　B) respectable

　　C) respectful

　　D) realistic

　　10.   If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of spiders that are alive today will have become ________.

　　A) deteriorated

　　B) degenerated

　　C) suppressed

　　D) extinct

　　11.   The ________ of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can succeed in understanding the universe.

　　A) essence

　　B) texture

　　C) content

　　D) threat

　　12.   The old lady has developed a ________ cough which cannot be cured completely in a short time.

　　A) perfect

　　B) permanent

　　C) chronic

　　D) sustained

　　13.   What the correspondent sent us is an ________ news report. We can depend on it.

　　A) evident

　　B) authentic

　　C) ultimate

　　D) immediate

　　14.   Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an ________ force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations.

　　A) inspirational

　　B) educational

　　C) excessive

　　D) instant

　　15.   Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly ________ to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weather sensitive people.

　　A) subjective

　　B) subordinate

　　C) liable

　　D) vulnerable

　　16.   Hurricanes are killer winds, and their ________ power lies in the physical damage they can do.

　　A) accumulate

　　B) destructive

　　C) turbulent

　　D) prevalent

　　17.   In some countries, students are expected to be quiet and ________ in the classroom.

　　A) suspicious

　　B) faithful

　　C) obedient

　　D) subconscious

　　18.   In spite of the ________ economic forecasts, manufacturing output has risen slightly.

　　A) gloomy

　　B) miserable

　　C) sorrow

　　D) obscure

　　19.   The international situation has been growing ________ difficult for the last few years.

　　A) invariably

　　B) presumably

　　C) increasingly

　　D) dominantly

　　20.   The prisoner was ________ of his civil liberty for three years.

　　A) discharged

　　B) derived

　　C) deprived

　　D) dispatched

　　21.   The Japanese scientists have found that scents ________ efficiency and reduce stress among office workers.

　　A) enhance

　　B) amplify

　　C) foster

　　D) magnify

　　22.   All the students have to ________ to the rules and regulations of the school.

　　A) confirm

　　B) confront

　　C) confine

　　D) conform

　　23.   As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he ________ his parents’ strict rules.

　　A) defied

　　B) refused

　　C) excluded

　　D) voted

　　24.   To ________ is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good condition that others may also share the enjoyment.

　　A) conserve

　　B) conceive

　　C) convert

　　D) contrive

　　25.   Put on dark glasses or the sun will ________ you and you won’t be able to see.

　　A) discern

　　B) distort

　　C) distract

　　D) dazzle