同等学力英语训练题及答案解析

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　　1. When there's doubt the examiner's decision is _____.

　　A. right B. final C. definite D. fixed

　　[答案] B. final.

　　[注释]final最终的,不会改变的。definite明确的。fixed固定的,不变的;a fixed income(固定收入)。right正确的。

　　2. Busy and successful as he was, the novelist was willing to _____ any promising young man and give him all the help he could.

　　A. take up B. pick up C. make up D. look up

　　[答案] A. take up.

　　[注释]take up把......当作被保护人,关照,提携,列如:This athlete was taken up by several Boston universities.(这个运动员得到波士顿大学的关照。)

　　pick up参阅III.129,130注释。

　　本题译文：虽然他是一位繁忙又有成就的小说家,但他愿意提携任何有前途的年轻人并尽力给予帮助。

　　3. He did not find a job yet because he had no _____ to men who could help him.

　　A. approach B. application C. access D. approval

　　[答案] C. access.

　　[注释]have access to进入的路;能接近，进入,了解或使用(不可数名词)。列如：1)We had access to his private files.(我们能接触他的私人档案。)2)Only a few people have access to the full facts of the ase.(只有几人能了解案件的全部事实。)3)Only high officials had access to the emperor.(只有高级官员才能接近皇帝。)

　　approach接近,走近,快到;对待处理(事情的)方式;接近(到达)的路:1)He was warned of the enemy.(已警告他敌人已接近。)2)His book represents a new approach to the difficulty.(他的书代表了处理困难的一种新方法。)3)The approach to the house was a narrow path.(通到这幢房子的路是一条小径。)

　　application申请,申请书。approval赞同。根据题意,此句中不是指身体上的“接近或靠近”,而是指“能接触到”的某人故选access更切题意

　　4. The old man got into the _____ of storing money under the bed.

　　A. tradition B. habit C. use D. custom

　　[答案] B. habit.

　　[注释]get into the habit of doing sth.意为“养成了做......的习惯"。habit指个人的习惯,而custom则指社会的风俗习惯。tradition“传统"。

　　5. The beauty of the place is more than I can describe. I am sure whoever sees it will _____ its charm.

　　A. appeal to B. stick to C. keep to D. yield to

　　[答案] D. yield to.

　　[注释]yield to:屈服于;投降让步(经常有比较灵活的译法)。如:The disease yielded to treatment.(=The disease was cured as the result of treatment.)(这病经过治疗已减轻或治愈。)

　　appeal to向......呼吁;stick to(=keep to)坚持。

　　本题译文:该地秀丽的景色无法表达于笔下。我深信,不管是谁看到了它都会折服于它的魅力。

　　6. Children are likely to get _____ if no one cares about their upbringing.

　　A. out of hand B. out of order

　　C. out of place D. out of work

　　[答案] A. out of hand.

　　[注释]get(or be) out of hand是习语,意为“无法控制,不受约束":This situation appears to be completely out of hand.(看来形势已完全失去控制。)

　　out of order有毛病,失灵;out of place不得其所的,不适当的;out of work失业。

　　本题译文:如果不关心孩子的教育,他们很可能会无法控制。

　　7. When the Greeks had _____ the Persians, a soldier ran from Marathon to Athens.

　　A. won B. bitten C. beaten D. hit

　　[答案] C. beaten.

　　[注释]beat sb. 打败某人。beat sb. black and blue(把某人打得鼻青脸肿)。hit,击,击中:hit a man on the head(打在人的头上);hit at sb.(向某人打去)。strike(=hit ,give a blow at blows to)打,击:strike a man on the chin(打在某人的下巴上)。win赢得,用作此义时,后不能接某人;可以说win a match, a victory, the first prize等。

　　8. There was a large box behind the door and Peter couldn't _____ falling over it in the darkness.

　　A. help B. resist C. avoid D. prevent

　　[答案]C. avoid.

　　[注释]avoid 避免(后接动词或名词): He tried to avoid answering my questions. can't (couldn't) help doing sth. 禁不住做......不由自主地做......。 can't (couldn't) resist doing sth.禁不住做......: I couldn't resist laughing.

　　There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves set aside for them in bookshops , along with the health-diet and home-repair paperbacks . Some of them are so 1 with detailed information and step-by-step instructions for performing the function , that you ' d think this was a new sort of skill which all of us are now required to learn . The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary ， 2 an exotic experience , something only the specially trained can do .

　　Furthermore , you could be led to believe that we are the only 3 capable of being aware of death , and that when the rest of nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying , one generation after 4 ，it is a different kind of process , done automatically and trivially , or more “natural”, as we say .

　　An elm in our backyard 5 the blight (枯萎病)this summer and dropped stone dead , leafless , almost overnight . One weekend it was a normal-looking elm , maybe a little bare in spots but 6 alarming , and the next weekend it was gone , passed over , departed , taken . Taken is right , for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his crew of young helpers and their cherry picker , and took it down branch by branch and carted it off in the back of a red truck , everyone 7 .

　　The dying 8 a field mouse , at the jaws of an amiable household cat , is a spectacle I have beheld many times . It 9 to make me wince . However , early in life I gave up throwing sticks at the cat to make him drop the mouse , 10 the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway .

　　1. A. contained B. embraced

　　C. packed D. littered

　　2. A. and B. even

　　C. yet D. but

　　3. A. races B. creatures

　　C. people D. human

　　4. A. the other B. another

　　C. the next D. the following

　　5. A. caught B. held

　　C. took D. picked

　　6. A. something B. anything

　　C. nothing D. everything

　　7. A. sings B. sang

　　C. sung D. singing

　　8. A. to B. in

　　C. for D. of

　　9. A. was B. was used

　　C. used D. was about

　　10. A. but B. because

　　C. while D. in order that