TEM-4????Exercise 2

(Grammar & Vocabulary)

1. He was one of the greatest writers _____ had ever lived.
A. who
B. which
C. that
D. as
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2. He would try to ingratiate himself _____ his clients in order to earn more money.
A. into
B. with
C. for
D. from
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3. Her address made a great impression _____ the audience.
A. at
B. of
C. in
D. on
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4. Here is one of the most interesting novels that _____ been published _____ the war.
A. has ... after
B. have ... after
C. have ... since
D. has ... since
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5. His companions have threatened to _____ his crimes to the police.
A. impose
B. express
C. enclose
D. expose
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6. His extravagance reduced him _____ for his living.
A. to beg
B. from begging
C. to begging
D. into begging
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7. His death _____ with age.
A. deteriorated
B. determined
C. detected
D. detained
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8. His long service with the company was _____ with a present.
A. admitted
B. acknowledged
C. attributed
D. accepted
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9. His novel _____ some light on life in China in Ming Dynasty.
A. sends
B. provides
C. throws
D. puts
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10. His tastes and habits _____ with those of his wife.
A. combine
B. compete
C. coincide
D. compromise
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11. His wife is quite lazy. Her reluctance to wash her own clothes is a case _____ point.
A. in
B. on
C. to
D. for
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12. His work is only _____, certainly not distinguished.
A. fair
B. remarkable
C. good
D. wonderful
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13. Hot metal _____ as it grows cooler.
A. contracts
B. reduces
C. condenses
D. compresses
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14. Housewiver who do not go out to work often feel they are not working to their full _____.
A. capacity
B. strength
C. length
D. possibility
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15. How close parents are to their children _____ a strong influence on the character of the children.
A. has
B. have
C. having
D. to have
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16. I _____ with thanks the help of my colleagues in the preparation of this new column.
A. express
B. confess
C. verify
D. acknowledge
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17. I always _____ what I have said.
A. get to
B. see to
C. lead to
D. hold to
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18. I am not used _____ to like that.
A. to being spoken
B. to speak
C. being spoken
D. to speaking
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19. I am sorry that I must _____ your invitation owing to a previous appointment.
A. decline
B. reject
C. accept
D. receive
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20. I appreciate _____ to your home.
A. to be invited
B. to have invited
C. being invited
D. having invited
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21. I can _____ some noise while I'm studying, but I can't stand loud noises.
A. come up with
B. catch up with
C. put up with
D. keep up with
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22. I cannot give you _____ for the type of car you sell because there is no demand for it in the market.
A. an expense
B. a charge
C. a purchase
D. an order
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23. I didn't quite _____ to what you had said. Would you mind repeating it?
A. catch on
B. get hold
C. catch up
D. go on
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24. I didn't say anything like that at all. You are purposely _____ my idea to prove your point.
A. revising
B. contradicting
C. distorting
D. distracting
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25. I felt somewhat disappointed and was about to leave, _____ something occurred which attracted my attention.
A. unless
B. until
C. when
D. while
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26. I have the honor of introducing to you Mr. Alan, who will _____ you on his recent tour abroad.
A. address
B. speak
C. talk
D. converse
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27. I have two boys but _____ of them likes sweets.
A. both
B. neither
C. either
D. none
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28. I like to go to the cinema when I am in the _____ for it.
A. more than to go
B. than going
C. rather than to go
D. more than going
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29. I regret _____ so much time and money on stamps.
A. to waste
B. for wasting
C. having wasted
D. at wasting
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30. I was greatly disappointed _____ that affair.
A. out
B. in
C. to
D. toward
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31. I would like to have a talk with him _____ his convenience.
A. in
B. at
C. for
D. with
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32. I'd rather you _____ those important documents with you.
A. don't take
B. didn't take
C. won't take
D. not take
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33. If a couple are divorced and their child lives with his mother, he is said to suffer from lack of _____ love.
A. maternal
B. fraternal
C. paternal
D. parental
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34. If English is not our first language you can often be puzzled by ways of expression that the native speaker of English does not even have to _____.
A. think out
B. think about
C. think over
D. think for
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35. If it _____ too much trouble, I'd love a cup of tea.
A. isn't
B. wasn't
C. weren't
D. hadn't been
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36. If the fire alarm is sounded, all residents are requested to _____ in the courtyard.
A. converge
B. assemble
C. crowd
D. accumulate
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37. If the United States had built more homes for poor people in 1995, the housing problems now in some parts of the country _____ so serious.
A. wouldn't be
B. wouldn't have been
C. will not be
D. would have not been
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38. If Tom wins tomorrow, he _____ thirty races in the past four years.
A. will win
B. has won
C. would have won
D. will have won
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39. If we believe something is good and true we should _____ to it.
A. hold up
B. keep on
C. hold on
D. keep up
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40. If you _____ James, ask him to phone me.
A. should see
B. must see
C. might see
D. would see
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41. If you are required to do some work, it must be done _____.
A. sooner or later
B. after all others
C. at last
D. in the long run
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42. If you know what the trouble is, why you don't help them to _____ the situation?
A. simplify
B. modify
C. verify
D. rectify
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43. I'm sorry, but what he thinks is not of the _____ important to me.
A. worthy
B. valuable
C. valueless
D. priceless
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44. I'm sure your suggestion will _____ the problem.
A. contribute to solving
B. be contributed to solve
C. contribute to solve
D. be contributed to solving
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45. I'm very much obliged to you _____ the information.
A. on
B. for
C. with
D. of
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46. In American universities, classes are often arranged in more flexible _____ and many jobs on campus are reserves for students.
A. scales
B. ranks
C. grades
D. patterns
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47. In Beijing, the season of the year is probably _____ fall.
A. later
B. last
C. latter
D. late
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48. In spite of the wide range of reading material specially written or ______ for language learning purposes, there is yet no comprehensive systematic program for the reading skills.
A. adapted
B. acknowledged
C. assembled
D. appointed
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49. In that country, guests tend to feel they are not highly _____ if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date.
A. admired
B. regarded
C. expected
D. worshipped
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50. In that country, students will be _____ admittance to their classroom if they are not properly dressed.
A. declined
B. deprived
C. denied
D. deserted
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51. In the meantime, the question facing business is whether such research is _____ the costs.
A. worth
B. worth of
C. worthy
D. worthwhile
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52. In the preface _____ the book, the old scholar attaches great importance to practicalness.
A. to
B. for
C. about
D. of
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53. In this experiment, they are wakened several times during the night, and asked to report what they _____.
A. had just been dreaming
B. have just been dreaming
C. are just dreaming
D. had just dreamt
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54. In this factory the machines are not regulated ______ but are jointly controlled by a central computer system.
A. independently
B. individually
C. irrespectively
D. irregularly
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55. It _____ five years since the famous singer left her hometown.
A. was
B. is
C. has passed
D. had been
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56. It is difficult to tell whether a man is angry or not by _____ looking at his face.
A. right
B. barely
C. just
D. hardly
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57. It is pretty obvious that more than one person has _____ this affair.
A. laid a hand on
B. had a hand in
C. got the upper hand of
D. got into the hands of
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58. It is reported that _____ adopted children want to know who their natural parents are.
A. the most
B. most of
C. most
D. the most of
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59. It is strictly _____ that access to confidential documents is denied to all but a few.
A. secured
B. forbidden
C. regulated
D. determined
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60. It makes me sick to think of his highly _____ manners.
A. artistic
B. artful
C. artless
D. artificial
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61. It pays _____ to buy goods of high quality.
A. in the long run
B. in the short run
C. at a run
D. on the run
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62. It seems oil _____ from this pipe for some time. We'll have to take the machine apart to put it right.
A. had leaked
B. is leaking
C. leaked
D. has been leaking
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63. It was felt that he lacked the _____ to pursue a difficult task to the very end.
A. petition
B. engagement
C. commitment
D. qualification
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64. It will be safer to walk the streets because people will not need to carry large amounts of cash; virtually all financial ______ will be conducted by computer.
A. transactions
B. transmissions
C. transitions
D. transformations
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65. Jim is so _____ after injuring his leg that he has great difficulty in walking.
A. hurt
B. lame
C. wounded
D. uncomfortable
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66. Jim isn't _____, but he did badly in the final exams last semester.
A. gloomy
B. dull
C. awkward
D. tedious
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67. John D. Rockefeller, _______, owned 90 percent of all American oil refineries.
A. as still a young man
B. while still a young man
C. a young man however
D. in spite of a young man
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68. John regretted ______ to the meeting last week.
A. not going
B. not to go
C. not having been going
D. not to be going
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69. John seems a nice person. ______, I don't trust him.
A. Even though
B. Even so
C. Therefore
D. Though
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70. Just as the builder skilled in the handling of his bricks, _____ the experienced writer is skilled in the handling of his words.
A. as
B. thus
C. so
D. like
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71. Language, culture and personality may be considered _____ of each other in though, but they are inseparable in fact.
A. indistinctly
B. separately
C. irrelevantly
D. independently
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72. Last night I _____ my mother on the phone.
A. spoke
B. talked
C. said
D. called
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73. Last year, the crime rate in Chicago has sharply ______.
A. declined
B. lessened
C. descended
D. slipped
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74. Life is a candle _____ to burn ever brighter.
A. being meant
B. meaning
C. to mean
D. meant
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75. Liquids are like solids _____ they have a definite volume.
A. with that
B. for that
C. in that
D. at that
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76. Many artists predict that this brilliant young actor _____ to be a shining star.
A. destines
B. will be destined
C. is destined
D. has been destined
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77. Many people complain of the rapid _____ of modern life.
A. rate
B. pace
C. speed
D. growth
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78. Many people like to watch ______ film.
A. a pleasing
B. an exciting
C. a delighted
D. an interested
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79. Mary wishes that she _____ law instead of history when she was in college.
A. had????studied
B. has studied
C. studies
D. studied
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80. Men's never-ceasing ______ for knowledge continues to broaden our understanding of the earth's atmosphere.
A. request
B. quest
C. investigation
D. research
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81. Milk is indispensable _____ the health of a motherless baby.
A. to
B. at
C. with
D. on
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82. Modern industry abounds _____ opportunities for young men with imagination.
A. for
B. on
C. in
D. of
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83. More than one third of the Chinese in the United States live in California, ______ in San Francisco.
A. previously
B. predominantly
C. practically
D. permanently
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84. More than two hundred years ago the United States _____ from the British Empire and became an independent country.
A. got off
B. pulled down
C. broke away
D. dropped off
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85. Most good writers use every means _____ to make the reader's way smooth and easy.
A. at their disposal
B. at their request
C. at their will
D. at their convenience
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86. No longer are contributions to computer technology confined to any one country; _____ is this more true than in Europe.
A. hardly
B. little
C. seldom
D. nowhere
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87. Nobody _____ that something was wrong at that time.
A. commented
B. committed
C. noticed
D. expressed
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88. Of the thousands of known volcanoes in the world, the _____ majority are inactive.
A. tremendous
B. demanding
C. intensive
D. overwhelming
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89. On knowing that this his novel won the Pulitzer Prize, his friends held a big party _____.
A. in his glory
B. in his honor
C. for his glory
D. for his honor
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90. One study found that job applicants who make more eye contact are _____ as more alert, dependable, confident and responsible.
A. referred
B. perceived
C. recommended
D. presumed
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91. Our research has focused on a drug which is so ______ as to be able to change brain chemistry.
A. powerful
B. influential
C. monstrous
D. vigorous
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92. People have no trust _____ his words.
A. on
B. to
C. with
D. in
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93. People who refuse to _____ with the law will be punished.
A. obey
B. consent
C. conceal
D. comply
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94. People who want progress are hospitable _____ new ideas.
A. towards
B. from
C. to
D. at
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95. Physics is the present-day equivalent of _____ used to be called natural philosophy, from which most of present-day science arose.
A. that
B. all
C. which
D. what
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96. Please be careful when you are drinking coffee in case you _____ the new carpet.
A. crash
B. pollute
C. spot
D. stain
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97. Please come and help me with this form because I don't know how to _____ it.
A. set about
B. set off
C. set aside
D. set up
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98. Please come to the point, you are _____ the subject again.
A. straying from
B. getting off
C. dwelling in
D. giving up
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99. Rejecting the urging of his physician father to study medicine, Hawking close to _____ on math and theoretical physics.
A. impose
B. center
C. overwork
D. concentrate
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100. San Francisco is usually cool in summer, but Los Angeles ______.
A. is rarely
B. is scarcely
C. hardly is
D. rarely is
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