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