【习题训练】 十二、一些词汇的用法

【习题训练】

1. —Look, this digital camera is really cheap! It's only five hundred yuan.

　—The _________, the better. I'm short _________ money, you know.

A. cheaper… of

B. cheap… for

C. expensive… of

D. more expensive… for

2. She _________ me she was leaving for Hangzhou, but she didn't _________ when she was leaving.

A. told… speak

B. spoke… talk

C. told… say

D. talked… say

3. What's the _________ of having a public open space where you can't eat, drink or even simply hang out for a while?

A. sense

B. matter

C. case

D. opinion

4. Mum, what have you cooked for me? Oh, how delicious it _________!

A. looks

B. smells

C. tastes

D. seems

5. After the long meeting, they _________.

A. stopped to have a rest

B. stopped having a rest

C. went on having it

D. have a rest

6. They are training hard in order not to _________ the match.

A. win

B. fail

C. lose

D. give up

7. —Are you happy with your new computer?

　—No, it is _________ me a lot of trouble.

A. showing

B. leaving

C. giving

D. sparing

8. China _________ the WTO and became a new member of it.

A. joined

B. joined in

C. took part in

D. attended

9. I'm thirsty. Will you please give me some _________.

A. cakes

B. juice

C. bread

D. chicken

10. Please _________ your hands before you _________ from your seat to answer the questions.

A. raise… rise

B. raise… raise

C. rise… raise

D. rise… rise

11. The manager _________ that the business would be worse after the stock（股票）went down.

A. talked

B. told

C. said

D. spoke

12. Students are always interested in finding out _________ they can go with a new teacher.

A. how far

B. how soon

C. how often

D. how long

13. Ice and snow _________ houses in the North Pole.

A. are used to make

B. are used to making

C. used to make

D. used to be made

14. In spite of repeated wrongs done to him, he looks _________ to people greeting him.

A. friendly

B. lively

C. worried

D. cold

15. You can _________ what is happening on the other side of the world by phone.

A. hear

B. learn

C. see

D. make

16. I'm interested in animals, so I _________ every Saturday working in an animal hospital.

A. pay

B. cost

C. take

D. spend

17. It's too late to go out now and _________, it's starting to rain.

A. though

B. besides

C. however

D. instead

18. I can't remember where I _________ my pen.

A. forgot

B. left

C. lose

D. lost

19. After studying in a medical college for five years, Jane _________ her job as a doctor in the countryside.

A. set out

B. took over

C. took up

D. set up

20. There are some new words in the passage, _________ in your dictionaries.

A. look them at

B. look up them

C. look at them

D. look them up

21. _________ me carefully, boys and girls. Can you _________ me?

A. Listen… hear

B. Hear… listen

C. Hear… sound

D. Listen to… hear

22. I am _________ the blackboard, but I can't _________ the words.

A. looking… see

B. seeing… look

C. looking at… read

D. looking at… see

23. —How nice the music sounds!

—It does! The peaceful music will make you feel _________.

A. excited

B. bored

C. moved

D. relaxed

24. My brother _________ Japan and will stay there for half a year.

A. has left

B. has gone to

C. has been to

D. went to

25. Meimei is leaving for Beijing by air, no matter how much it _________.

A. pays

B. costs

C. spends

D. takes

26. We are going to _________ the final exams very soon.

A. make

B. enter

C. take

D. join

27. —Did James speak to you this morning?

—No, he _________ me, but he didn't notice me.

A. passed

B. saw

C. greeted

D. knocked

28. The students had to go in for an examination. Here “go in for” means _________.

A. join

B. take

C. go to

D. come to

29. —What's up?

—I can't stand the noise outside. It's nearly__________me mad.

A. keeping

B. turning

C. causing

D. driving

30. If you__________the temperature, the wet clothes will dry quickly.

A. rise

B. raise

C. go up

D. hold up

31. It's raining heavily outside. Remember to__________the raincoat to him when you go there.

A. bring

B. take

C. carry

D. fetch

32. —How are you feeling here?

—It's quite hot. I don't know__________to go or stay.

A. how

B. when

C. whether

D. where

33. We can use paper bags__________plastic ones.

A. in place of

B. to take place

C. instead

D. take place of

34. The computer system__________suddenly while he was searching for information on the Internet.

A. broke down

B. broke out

C. broke up

D. broke in

35. She_________the queen. I still remember__________her somewhere before.

A. maybe… meeting

B. may be… meeting

C. maybe… to meet

D. may be… to meet

36. —Are you going to have a holiday this year?

—I'd love to. I can't wait to leave this place__________.

A. off

B. out

C. behind

D. over

37. Ships of all kinds__________the river so children shouldn't swim there.

A. fill

B. are full of

C. fill with

D. are full with

38. It's already 10 o'clock. I wonder how it__________that she was two hours late on such a short trip.

A. came over

B. came out

C. came about

D. came up

39. If it snows on Christmas Day, we__________it a white Christmas.

A. think

B. call

C. say decide

40. The building around the corner caught fire last night. The police are now__________the matter.

A. seeing through

B. working out

C. looking into

D. watching over

41. It is hard for them to__________a good job.

A. look for

B. find out

C. find

D. discover

42. A： How many books did you borrow from the library?

B: __________.

A. Nothing

B. No books

C. No one

D. None

43. Has the train from Tibet__________? I'm looking forward to meeting my old friends.

A. arrived

B. reached

C. got to

D. arrived in

44. We're going to__________with some friends for a picnic. Would you like to join us?

A. get in

B. get over

C. get along

D. get together

45. The performance__________nearly three hours, but few people left the theatre early.

A. covered

B. reached

C. played

D. lasted

46. We__________the last bus and didn't have any money for taxi, so we had to walk home.

A. reached

B. lost

C. missed

D. caught

47. —How long can I__________the book?

—For about two weeks.

A. buy

B. keep

C. borrow

D. lend

48. As I grew up in a small town at the foot of a mountain, the visit to the village_scenes of my childhood.

A. called up

B. called for

C. called on

D. called in

49. The dictionary is being printed and it will soon __________.

A. turn out

B. come out

C. start out

D. go out

50. Mike didn't play football yesterday because he had__________his leg.

A. damaged

B. hurt

C. hit

D. struck

51. The bus is coming. Let's__________.

A. get it on

B. get it off

C. get on it

D. get it off

52. I thought she was famous, but none of my friends have__________heard of her.

A. even

B. ever

C. just

D. never

53. We are going to have a sports meeting this Sunday. Have you__________any events yet?

A. take part in

B. joined in

C. entered for

D. joined

54. I was still sleeping when the fire__________, and then it spread quickly.

A. broke out

B. put out

C. came out

D. got out

55. He spent__________the whole day reading English.

A. most

B. mostly

C. almost

D. at most

56. You have been sitting on my hat and now it is badly out of__________.

A. date

B. shape

C. order

D. balance

57. You can not imagine how much I__________on this dress. Is it beautiful?

A. paid

B. took

C. cost

D. spent

58. There__________ a film tomorrow evening.

A. will have

B. have

C. is going to be

D. has

59. He could__________neither French nor German, so I__________with him in English.

A. speak… talked

B. talk… told

C. say… spoke

D. tell… talked

60. Can you__________it in English?

A. speak

B. say

C. tell

D. talk

61. It__________several years to build Qinhai Tibet Railway, the highest railway in the world.

A. spent

B. took

C. cast

D. paid

62. What did you__________at the meeting yesterday?

A. speak

B. tell

C. say

D. talk

63. To__________his sick mother, David goes to the hospital after work every day.

A. take charge of

B. take hold of

C. take good care of

D. take the place of

64. The waitress in the restaurant usually gives us a__________before we order dishes.

A. list

B. form

C. bill

D. menu

65. —__________do you go to the theater?

—Once a month.

A. How soon

B. How long

C. How often

D. How much

66. My brother has been in America for half a year. He__________the life there.

A. is used

B. used to

C. is used to

D. uses

67. When we see dark__________in the sky, we know that rain may come soon.

A. stars

B. planes

C. clouds

D. things

68. If you go to the park tomorrow morning,__________.

A. so will he

B. so he will

C. so he does

D. so does he

69. Mr. Smith's son__________a girl from the United States last year.

A. married

B. married with

C. married to

D. married at

70. Millions of Shanghai citizens are learning to__________English for the 2010 World Expro.

A. tell

B. speak

C. say

D. talk

71. —What did the company__________the children with?

—New school-bags.

A. offer

B. give

C. provide

D. show

72. I forgot to take my exercise-book and had to go and__________it.

A. carry

B. fetch

C. take

D. bring

73. I can see how English is used in everyday life__________.

A. also

B. either

C. as well

D. too

74. —Victor, your radio is too loud. Your partner is writing her composition.

—Sorry, Miss Gao. I'll turn it__________a little.

A. on

B. up

C. off

D. down

75. With the help of computers, news can__________every corner of the world swiftly.

A. get

B. arrive

C. reach

D. return

76. We are pleased that more and more people want to__________factories in Liaoning.

A. look up

B. clean up

C. pick up

D. open up

77. __________, the boy won the prize.

A. In surprise

B. To our surprise

C. Be surprised

D. Be surprising

78. Our bodies are strengthered by taking exercise, __________our minds are developed by learning.

A. Pobably

B. Likely

C. Similarly

D. Generally

79. —the invention of television, we can have more fun__________our spare time.

A. Instead of… at

B. Thanks to… in

C. Not until… on

D. Thanks for… during

80. Afternoon tea is__________in the dining room from 3 to 5 p. m. every day.

A. served

B. burned

C. cooked

D. eaten

81. —Great changes have taken place in this city.

—Right. Many modern tall buildings have been__________these years.

A. turned up

B. put up

C. shown up

D. fixed up

82. —How can I tell one tree from another?

—You can mostly tell them by the__________of their leaves.

A. shape

B. size

C. age

D. color

83. —Hi, Mark. How was the musical evening?

—Excellent! Ales and Andy performed__________and they won the first prize.

A. skillfully

B. commonly

C. willingly

D. nervously

84. Let's have a gathering__________next month.

A. some times

B. some time

C. sometime

D. sometimes

85. —Would you please__________the TV a little? Jack is doing his homework.

—Terribly sorry. I will.

A. turn down

B. turn up

C. turn on

D. turn off

86. —Where did you go after we left the library yesterday?

—I went downtown and__________my aunt's on my way home.

A. played with

B. called at

C. waited for

D. looked after

87. Don't be so discouraged. If you__________such feelings, you will do better next time.

A. carry on

B. get back

C. break down

D. put away

88. It's going to rain. Xiao Feng, will you please help me__________the clothes on the line?

A. get off

B. get back

C. get in

D. get on

89. You have to__________a choice. Are you going to leave the job or stay?

A. decide

B. get

C. do

D. make

90. Although badly hurt in the accident, the driver was__________able to make a phone call.

A. still

B. even

C. also

D. ever

91. —He is slow in studying. I wonder how he could get good results in the exam.

—No wonder he is always__________.

A. lively

B. hard-working

C. kind-hearted

D. helpful

92. I used to quarrel a lot with my parents, but now we__________fine.

A. look out

B. stay up

C. carry on

D. get along

93. A cough is usually nothing to worry about unless it lasts for ten days__________.

A. or more

B. instead

C. at most

D. only

94. You have to be a fairly good speaker to__________listeners’ interest for over an hour.

A. hold

B. make

C. improve

D. receive

95. I__________to watch ball games on TV.

A. enjoy

B. keep

C. prefer

D. allow

96. There fell a heavy snow last December, and this year__________a good harvest.

A. proves

B. means

C. allows

D. promises

97. I'm sorry. I can't hear you. What are you__________?

A. telling

B. saying

C. talking

D. speaking

98. Her two-year-old son is clever enough to__________the time.

A. speak

B. tell

C. say

D. talk

99. It's noisy. Please__________the radio a little.

A. turn down

B. turn off

C. turn to

D. turn up

100. This kind of socks__________cotton.

A. are made in

B. is made of

C. are made from

D. are made of