标题: 考博英语词汇练习 [打印本页] 作者: 嘎嘣脆 时间: 2012-5-3 22:33 标题: 考博英语词汇练习 1. The Brownsville area in Texas figured _____ in the early stages of the United States' war with Mexico.
A. resolutely
B. indecisively
C. prematurely
D. prominently
2. Vicky has been sad recently, for her plan to go to college fell _____ at the last moment.
A. out
B. behind
C. in
D. through
3. We were astonished when we heard that the accused person had _____.
A. got off
B. got in
C. got on
D. got through
4. At the last committee meeting, the _____ that the library remain open until midnight was adopted.
A. notion
B. method
C. motion
D. mention
5. These concepts are still in their early stages of developement, but historians of the future may well _____ our time by such terms as the nuclear age, the computer age or the age of space travel.
A. add up to
B. refer to
C. contribute to
D. stand up to
5. B 参考译文：虽然这些原子时代，计算机时代或者太空旅行时代还处于发展早期，但未来的历史学家，或许能称我们的时代为，原子时代，计算机时代或者太空旅行时代。
add up to 合计达
refer to 查阅, 提到, 谈到, 打听
contribute to 捐献
stand up to 勇敢地抵抗
1， The pursuit of leisure on the part of the employees will certainly not _____ their prospect of promotion.
A. spur
B. further
C. induce
D. reinforce
2，In what _____ to a last minute stay of execution, a council announced that emergency funding would keep alive two aging satellites.
A. applies
B. accounts
C. attaches
D. amounts
3，The teacher told the class he would _____ their homework that evening.
A. let them go
B. let them loose
C. let them off
D. let them out
4， _____ of people are assembling in the street. What happened?
A. An attitude
B. An aptitude
C. An altitude
D. A multitude
5， The museum had _____ copies for the original manuscripts to save wear and tear on the latter.
A. tackled
B. substituted
C. tickled
D. testified