2008年10月27日 星期一

活字第二週補充練習

A. Sentence Completion

1. The _________ atmosphere the host provided allowed guests to feel totally at home.

A. delectable

B. tranquil

C. yummy

D. adamant

2. It is a great _________ that all pupils in the city cannot have the same chances.

A. pity

B. pithy

C. foe

D. woe

3. His face is covered with _________.

A. grumbles

B. foes

C. gorillas

D. pimples

4. He _________ her around the head, causing her unconscious.

A. suffered

B. wiped

C. cheated

D. battered

5. The soldiers were _________ as having flu.

A. shot

B. prescribed

C. diagnosed

D. attempted

6. The traditional requirement for Korean women is submissive and _________ to men.

A. deference

B. deferential

C. inferred

D. preferential

7. By measuring the motion of the galaxies in a cluster, astronomers can _________the cluster’s mass.

A. interfere

B. confer

C. infer

D. refer

8. The girl’s parents were burned as they tried to _________ the flames.

A. smother

B. smile

C. smack

D. smoke

9. I _________, as it to say, “Why not?”

A. shrugged

B. glazed

C. shredded

D. shrieked

10. Much of the instability _________ from the economic effects of the war.

A. blossoms

B. is rooted

C. shoots

D. stems

B. Answer Key

1-5: BADDC

6-10: BCAAD

活背字彙第六週談到Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

老師這幾天在逛網路時,發現一個教人禮儀的有趣網站,這個Mr. Manners談到開車禮儀就引用到了Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,他是這樣說的:

Our cars are often one of those instigators of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde behavior. Sometimes perfectly lovely people become absolute monsters when they get behind the wheel of a car. So here are a few tips to help keep Mr. (or Ms.) Hyde in the passenger seat as much as possible.

instigator (n.) 造成者

上課知道典故後,看這段話就很有趣味了吧。

這段話和錄音檔可以到以下這個網址下載:
http://manners.quickanddirtytips.com/driving-manners.aspx


網站裡面還有其他許多有趣的禮儀介紹,歡迎各位同學參觀。


2008年10月20日 星期一

活字第一週補充練習

A. Sentence Completion
1. She looked as calm and _________ as she always did.
A. silky
B. serene
C. futon
D. tedious
2. He tried to speak, but she kept _________ him. In the end, he still
had no chance to speak.
A. interspersing
B. interrupting
C. refining
D. revealing
3. The polluted waste is often dumped, making the surrounding land _________.
A. infertile
B. docile
C. senile
D. juvenile
4. There are hundreds of people standing in a line to purchase the
tickets. It would be too _________ to wait in the queue.
A. international
B. tiresome
C. winsome
D. fulsome
5. He often talks in circles, frequently _________ himself and often
ends up saying nothing.
A. preceding
B. prefacing
C. decreasing
D. contradicting
6. The trial could set an important _________ for dealing with large
numbers of similar cases.
A. prescription
B. prerequisite
C. precedent
D. preview
7. His solution to the puzzle is fast and _________, which surprises
all the students.
A. ingenious
B. ingenuous
C. indigenous
D. congenital

8. With _________ care and love, John won love from his dream girl.
A. previous
B. fragile
C. infinite
D. controversial
9. I cannot remember how the trains turned round to return to Taipei.
Could you please _________ me?
A. persecute
B. enlighten
C. attribute
D. explode
10. There is not a _________ of doubt in the audience.
A. heel
B. fertility
C. sandwich
D. particle

B. Answer Key
1-5: BBABD
6-10: CACBD