duty, in the first place, because of, hold one’s attention, turn to, think twice, hand over, too… to, go on, hear of, wear an expression of 1. ___ his wife being there, I said nothing about it. 2. She ____ be out when he called.
3. You should ___ about employing someone you’ve never met. 4. An experienced public speaker knows how to ___ the audience’s ___.
5. The illness can develop in two ways: ___, in cases of high blood pressure; in the second place… 6. Why won’t the heating ___?
7. The more depressed he got, the more he ___ drink.
8. She disappeared and was never ___ again. 9. He ___ complete surprise and said: “I don’t understand.”
10. I arrive at the hospital at eight o’clock, but I don’t go ___ until nine.
11. I am resigning as chairman and ___ to my deputy.
12. The offer of a year abroad with all expenses paid seemed ___ good ___ miss.
Key:
1. Because of 2. happened to
3. think twice 4. hold, attention 5. in the first place 6. go on
7. turned to 8. heard of 9. wore an expression of
10. on duty 11. handing over 12. too, to
Lesson5
1. A forced kindness ___no thanks.
A. requests B. deserves C. deserts
D. awards
2. Jacky has always been ___to blue-eyed girls.
Key: B. deserve意思为“应受到，值得”，常跟名词，动名词，动词不定式。表示被动意义时，动词不定式要用被动式，动名词用主动式，如：deserve to be looked after/deserve looking after。 A. part B. particular C. partial
D. parted
Key: C. part部分；particular特别的；parted分开的。 3. The ___of men to women in the union has changed a lot since 1980.
A. portion B. proportion C. rate D. ratio
4. The drawing isn’t ___; the car is larger than the house.
A. on proportion B. in proportion C. out of proportion
D. as proportion
Key: B. proportion指事物在大小、重要性等方面的比较关 系或比例；portion与part近义，指“部分”；rate比率； ratio指事物之间的数字比，倍数比。
Key: B. out of proportion不成比例，题干中已有not，故不选。 5. With the introduction of ___technology, information flows faster than it ever did.
A. involved
B. complicated
C. sophisticated D. complex
Key: C. 这一组词均含“复杂的”之意。complex的复杂含有使人糊涂之意；complicated理论上要比complex还复杂，但不包括confusing的内涵；involved源自其动词involve，指因牵扯面广而引起的复杂，带有我们说的盘根错节的意味；sophisticated的复杂，侧重点在精密、先进，也就是我们所谓的高精尖。
6. Although he was on a diet, the food___ him enormously. [CET-6, 1997. 1]
A. inspired
B. tempted
C. overcame D. encouraged
Key: B. Inspire意为“鼓舞，激发”，多指“勇气，信心，发明”等；tempt意为“引诱，诱惑”，多指“激起欲望”；overcome意为“克服，战胜”；encourage是“鼓励”的意思。
Key: B. Inspire意为“鼓舞，激发”，多指“勇气，信心，发明”等；tempt意为“引诱，诱惑”，多指“激起欲望”；overcome意为“克服，战胜”；encourage是“鼓励”的意思。 6) I am fed up with your fantastic
imagination.
7) There’s no reason ___why people couldn’t travel to Mars.
8) I must ___ that further delay would be unwise.
9) As I ___ say you interrupted me. 10) I ___ when I found the door was locked. 11) We have ___the playing area ___with a white line.
Key: 1) rather than 2) dashed off
3) blamed, for 4) work out 5) set up 6) am fed up with in principle 8) point out
9) was about to 10) was threw into panic 11) marked, off
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