1. Tell your brother to come _____, because it's going to rain in a minute or two.
A. indoors B. outdoors C. outward D. inwards

[答案] A. indoors

[注釋] 按句子的邏輯意思應(yīng)選indoors adv. 向屋里;在屋里,
inwards adv, 向內(nèi),向中心,outward 向外。outdoors 是 indoors 的反義詞。
本文譯文: 叫你兄弟進(jìn)屋來,因?yàn)樘祚R上要下雨了。

2. I can't advise you what to do. You must use your own _____.
A. opinion B. guesswork C. justice D. judgement

[答案] D judgement

[注釋] judgement 判斷。guesswork 猜測,justice 正義,公正,ideal 理想。

3. Because of the poor harvest, wheat prices have _____ in the last six months.
A. added B. jumped C. amounted D. developed

[答案] B. jumped.

[注釋] jump (=rise suddenly in price) 指“(價格)暴漲”。

4. There is a 20 minute parking _____ here, so we must get back to the car very quickly.
A. freedom B. limit C. allowance D. prohibition

[答案] B. limit.

[注釋] parking limit 意為在停車場“停車的時間限制”。a 20 minutes parking limit (停車時間限制為20分鐘).

5.The country needs a _____ government. We have had three Prime Ministers in a year.
A. stationary B. changeless nt

[答案] D. stable.

[注釋] stable 穩(wěn)定的。stationary 靜止的,不變的,固定的。changeless 不變的,無變化的。constant 經(jīng)常不斷的。

6. Having said he would mend the clock, he discovered that he had not brought the _____ tools for the job.
A. concise B. correct C. right D. precise

[答案] C. right.

[注釋] right 適當(dāng)?shù)模‘?dāng)?shù)模?br> He is the right man to do the job.(他是干這項(xiàng)工作的合適人選)

concise 簡明扼要的,correct 正確的;

exact 確切的: exact time 確切的時間,exact age 確切的年齡,exact weight 確切的重量;
exact information 確切的信息;exact cause 確切 的原因;exact meaning 確切的意思。

7. Radium salts, which have been found to _____ in bones, give rise to cancers of the bone.
A. pile up B. build up C. keep up D. pull up

[答案] B. build up.

[注釋] build up(=accumulate) 積累。pile up 堆積。keep up 保持,維持。 pull up 停車。

8. It has been laid down that each student must _____ a composition to the teacher once a week.
A. turn in B. give up C. put forward D. bring out

[答案] A. turn in.

[注釋] turn in(=hand in) 上交。

9. Our house is the most _____ one in the street; it is painted red.
A. inant D. prominent

[答案] D. prominent.

[注釋] prominent 突出的;突起的。indifferent 漠不關(guān)心的;permanent 永久 的;predominant 占優(yōu)勢的,主要的。

10. I shall take you back to Beijing _____ you are well enough to travel.
A. presently B. promptly C. immediately D. shortly

[答案] C. immediately

[注釋] immediately(=directly) 作連詞用,意為“一……就……”,相當(dāng)于 as soon as .