英语专业四级语法词汇详解四十套:第八套

全真模拟试题

1. It was requested that all of the equipment ____in the agreed time.

A. erectedB. would be erected 

C. be erectedD. will be erected 

2. The man sitting opposite me smiled dreamily, as if ____something pleasant in the past.

A. to remember B. remembered

C. having been remembered D. remembering

3. I ____him the Christmas gift by mail because he came home during the Christmas holidays.

A. ought to have sentB. couldn’t have sent

C. must have sentD. needn’t have sent

4. It turned out that the children were not ____ for the accident.

A. to blameB. to be blamed

C. to be blamingD. to have been blamed

5. The desegregation was achieved through a number of struggles, ____been mentioned in previous chapters.

A. a few of whichB. a few of them

C. a few of thoseD. a few of that

6. Setting up a committee might be a way ____ the project more efficiently.

A. to be doingB. doingC. to doD. being done

7. It ____ to see so many children in that mountainousarea cannot even affordelementary education.

A.pains her B. makes her pain

C. is paining D. is pained

8. Our boss, Mr. Thompson, ____ a raise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.

A.was promisingB. has been promising

C. promised D. has promised

9. He was determined to sail around the world ____ his illness and old age.

A. givenB. althoughC. despiteD. in spite

10. The board deemed it’s urgent that these invitations ____first thing tomorrow morning.

A. had to be put in the mail

B. must be put in the mail

C. be put in the mail

D. should have been put in the mail

11. ____ drills that have no real topic have to remain as they are.

A. Manufacture B. Manipulative

C. Manipulate D.Manifest

12. This book has been in the works so long that I have lost ____of most of the sources found for me by the staff of the library.

A. traceB. trailC. trackD. touch

13. The elbows on your coat have worn thin, so I must ____them.

A. mendB. patchC. repairD. pitch

14. ____ and wage increases have not kept in step.

A. ProductionB. Product

C. ProduceD. Productivity

15. People under stress have performed ____ feats of strength, like lifting an automobile off an accident victim.

A. specificB. extraordinaryC. abruptD. abnormal

16. Modern appliances ____ us from a good deal of household work.For instance, the dryer frees us from hanging the laundry.

A.escapeB . benefitC. liberateD. comfort

17. The audience waited in ____ silence while their aged speaker searched among his note for the figures he could not remember.

A. respectiveB. respectC. respectfulD. respectable

18. The disappearance of her paper has never been ____.

A. counted for B. looked up

C.accounted forD. checked up

19. When he was asked about the missing briefcase, the man ____ever seeing it.

A. refusedB. deniedC. opposedD. resisted

20. Communication between a young couple is a(n) ____business.

A. sharpB. dreadfulC. intenseD. delicate

21. After so many weeks without rain, the ground quickly ____the little rain that fell last night.

A. skippedB. soakedC. retrievedD. absorbed

22. We’ll ____ you as soon as we have any further information.

A. notify B. signify

C. communicateD. impart

23. The fox fell into the ____ the hunters had set forit.

A. bushB. trapC. trickD. circle

24. I don’t know you want to keep the letter. I’ve ____it up.

A. tornB. givenC. brokenD. disposed

25. The old lady ____ and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.

A. slided  B. slipped  C. split  D. spilled