英语专业四级语法词汇详解四十套:第18套

1. Little is known of his childhood ____ at a factory at the early age of ten.
A. to begin to work
B. beginning to work
C. save that he began to work
D. about that he worked

2. There is a general understanding among the members of the Board of Directors that chief attention ____to the undertaking that is expected to bring highest profit.
A. is given
B. gives
C. should be given
D. must be given

3. They did not find ____ to prepare for the worst conditions they might meet.
A. worth their while
B. it worthwhile
C. it worth
D. it worthy

4. Quarter horses can start more quickly, turn more sharply, and run faster over short courses ____ breeds can.
A. than the other
B. other
C. than other
D. of all other

5. Most insurance agents would rather you ____ anything about collecting claims until they investigate the situation.
A. do
B. didn’t do
C. don’t
D. didn’t

6. “I’m surely dirty, ____?”
A. am I
B. isn’t I
C. aren’t I
D. am not I

7. ____ illness, he retired.
A. Thanks to
B. According to 
C. Owing to
D. For the sake of

8. This car has many features including ____.
A. stereo, safety devices, air condition, and it saves gas
B. good music, safe devices, air conditioning,and gas
C. stereo, safety devices, air conditioned and good gas
D. stereo, safety devices, air conditioning, and low gas mileage

9. Every boy and girl must have ____ hair neatly combed.
A. his
B. her
C. its
D. their

10. I wish you ____ Jim so much. He is still very depressed.
A. not to hurt
B. didn’t hurt 
C. would not
D. had not hurt

11. Before the school ____ what students must wear, they wore just about anything.
A. managed
B. authorized
C. regulated
D. standardized

12. While the population of the United States includes a great variety ofracial and ethnic backgrounds, Japan’s population is ____.
A. autonomous
B. homogeneous
C. ambitious
D.anonymous

13. The contents of the safety deposit box are ____being held by the police until the trial.
A. theoretically
B. temporarily 
C. rationally
D. naturally

14. ____ of halfstarving foxes were roaming the snowcovered mountain areas.
A. Herds
B. Packs
C. Flocks
D. Crowds

15. The very idea of her winning the English competition is quite ______.
A. strange
B. absurd
C. unlikely
D. sensible

16. The earnest student waited with some slight ____while the teacher was reading his composition.
A. despair
B. upset
C. nervousness
D. hatred

17. The woman in the kitchen ____ to the doctor that the water was hot.
A. motioned
B. mentioned
C. meant
D. motivated

18. Two years later the opportunity came for him to take a ____American look at the Old World.
A. distinctly
B. distinctively
C. distinct
D. distinctive

19. The audience disliked the film thoroughly and were ____by whistling and stamping their feet.
A. protecting
B. protesting
C. projecting
D. proposing

20. In brief, it should be our goal to ____ as much of the original beauty of nature as we can.
A.restore
B. introduce
C. suit
D. supply

21. We should ____ with the difficulties we were confronted with.
A. accord
B. acquaint
C. brood
D. contend

22. She is the person who likes to ____ her knowledge.
A. show up
B. show in
C. show off
D. show round

23. The discovery of gold can bring great ____ to our country.
A. property
B. rich
C. wealth
D. sum

24. I am ____ that many readers are favorably impressed with your writings.
A. confirmed
B. confident
C. indifferent
D. confused

25. His ____ at the meeting yesterday hurt her a lot.
A. conduct
B. action
C. behavior
D. act