六级英语词汇练习
备考12月四六级考试：六级英语词汇练习
CET6专项测试——词汇测试
1. Freshman ______ provides the incoming students with an opportunity to learn about their new environment and their place in it.
A. orientation
B. acquaintance
C. directory
D. dictation
2. The volcano that raised the islands are still ______ in places.
A. inactive
B. enormous
C. energetic
D. lively
3. This law is so difficult to understand that only a lawyer can ______ us.
A. enlighten
B. illustrate
C. explain
D. demonstrate
4. The king _____ his people with terrible taxes and punishment.
A. depressed
B. impressed
C. oppressed
D. expressed
5. I have no ______ but to listen to my boss.
A. privilege
B. respect
C. priority
D. option
6. On hearing her son's voice on the line, all her fears and anxiety ______ .
A. retired
B. relayed
C. dissipated
D. tightened
7. He is a man who believes in strict ______ and he seldom deviates from his principles.
A. wisdom
B. brotherhood
C. worship
D. discipline
8. He has been ______ with a certain form of mental disorder for twenty years.
A. afflicted
B. addicted
C. affiliated
D. consulted
9. A sharp increase in military expenditure brought the cabinet a budget _____.
A. deficit
B. debt
C. red
D. estimation
10. The well equipped swimming pool is the favourite ______ of the boys in summer.
A. residence
B. site
C. haunt
D. hotel
11. Don't mention the failure in Mary's _____ or she will go crazy.
A. distance
B. hearing
C. range
D. neighborhood
1.A
2.C
3.A
4.C
5.D
6.C
7.D
8.A
9.A 10.C 11.B
1. Each week there is a meeting at which workers are encouraged to present their _____ to the managers.
A. annoyances
B. disadvantages
C. grievances
D. criticisms
2. The _____ at the football match became violent when their team lost.
A. spectators
B. groups
C. observers
D. customers
3. Many apartments have doors with a security window so that one may _____ outside and observe visitors without being seen.
A. peer
B. peek
C. peel
D. peen
4. The _____ among his sisters was that he ought to marry the girl as soon as possible to avoid
a scandal.
A. consensus
B. survey
C. statistics
D. concentration
5. The teacher was amazed by the students' ______ in handling the computer.
A. verse
B. version
C. variability
D. versatility
6. Her letter was in such a casual scrawl, and in such pale ink, that it was almost _____.
A. unintelligible
B. vague
C. ambiguous
D. illegible
7. When I went into the dining room the next morning, the _____ of the dinner were still on the table.
A. remains
B. relics
C. remnants
D. surplus
8. She was a shy woman and took _____ behind a rather forbidding bluntness of manner.
A. appearance
B. refuge
C. kindness
D. protection
9. Can man escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly _____ throughout our world?
A. wise
B. scholarly
C. imprudent
D. sage
10. The brothers showed great _____ to their older sister, who had acted as sold parent to them for many years.
A. compliance
B. devotion
C. subjection
D. allegiance
11．Only the _____ of the office manageress, who knew of Alice's personal difficulties, saved her from being dismissed.
A. interpretation
B. inquisition
C. interrelation
D. intervention
12. When we have agreed broadly on what should be said, the secretary will produce a preliminary _____ for the committee's approval.
A. project
B. design
C. draft
D. proof
13. French cars are more elegantly styled than their British _____.
A. counterparts
B. equals
C. ones
D. copies
14. The two small independent countries entered into _____ with each other and they felt less afraid of their powerful neighbor.
A. combination
B. alliance
C. cooperation
D. union
15. He was so _____ in the book that he forgot all about his appointment.
A. distracted
B. attracted
C. gripped
D. engrossed
16. Ask the publishers to send you their latest _____ of English text books.
A. catalogue
B. prospectus
C. brochure
D. pamphlet
17. We are paying _____ for the car in 24 monthly of '55.
A. credits
B. parts
C. installments
D. refunds
18. The _____ painter was sent to a fine art school at the age of 10 without taking the entrance examination.
A. imaginary
B. imaginative
C. fictitious
D. insane
19. He has impressed his employers considerably and he is soon to be _____ promoted.
A. simultaneously
B. eventually
C. virtually
D. accordingly
20. Although they usually did their _____ own painting and papering, on this occasion they brought in a firm of decorators.
A. inside
B. inward
C. interior
D. internal
21. There is often so much traffic on the main road that motorists may be able to travel faster on _____ roads.
A. inferior
B. minor
C. superficial
D. subordinate
22. The police _____ their attention to the events that led up to the accident.
A. confirmed
B. contained
C. conserved
D. confined
23. The police arrested the wrong man mainly because they _____.
A. confused
B. perplexed
C. puzzled
D. bewildered
24. In my opinion standards of workmanship have _____ over the past 20 years.
A. aggravated
B. diminished
C. deteriorated
D. eroded
25. Since 1945 the rivalry in military strength between the world's great powers has produced
a _____ balanced peace.
A. presently
B. precociously
C. precariously
D. deviously
26. By the end of the day the flood water which had covered most of the town had _____.
A. receded
B. returned
C. replaced
D. retired
27. Mildred never dared to question or _____ her husband's judgment.
A. debate
B. decline
C. disperse
D. dispute
28. Armed terrorists are reported to have _____ the Embassy.
A. taken up
B. taken to
C. taken over
D. taken into
29. After his heavy defeat in the local elections, the senator decided to _____ from the campaign for the Presidency.
A. abandon
B. renounce
C. withdraw
D. withhold
30. After failing his driving test four times, he finally _____ trying to pass.
A. gave up
B. gave away
C. gave off
D. gave in
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31. The republication of the poet's most recent work will certainly _____ his national reputation.
A. enhance
B. strengthen
C. enlarge
D. magnify
32. I wish to change my major in postgraduate study, because I know the competition in the computer department of Qinghua is _____.
A. fragrant
B. formidable
C. fierce
D. flexible
33. His parents no longer have any real _____ over him.
A. influence
B. affect
C. power
D. control
34. Her cheerful spirits and bubbling laughter _____ the whole class.
A. contaminate
B. stimulate
C. effect
D. infect
35. If the specific attribute is _____, subsequent generations of offspring can be expected to display it more frequently.
A. inherited
B. inhibited
C. imitated
D. transmitted
36. Having spent so many years in her wheelchair, my niece could walk out of the hospital, after
a _____ operation.
A. considerate
B. precise
C. delicate
D. accurate
37. A long-absent aunt's crying, "Dear me, how you're grown!" may _____ again from the wary child or a blush from the self-conscious child.
A. cite
B. call
C. summon
D. suppress
38. Not only did the book influence many generations, but also it had the _____ of turning its author's attention to questions of language.
A. affect
B. effect
C. effort
D. influence
39. Large doses have been _____ for quite a long period of time. However, little is known about their effectiveness and potential negative side effects.
A. practiced
B. administered
C. ordered
D. watched
40. The psychologist _____ a strong maturational theory to account for individual differences in the acquisition of motor skills.
A. performed
B. sponsored
C. coordinated
D. advocated
41. As governments around the world make big military _____, defense research companies are seeking new commercial markets.
A. minimum
B. shrinking
C. cuts
D. cutback
42. Sociologists argue _____ that it is impossible to restrict the question of population solely to economic factors.
A. inherently
B. vitally
C. virtually
D. identically
43. Why the good of preventing air pollution continues is to receive the utmost national ____.
A. peculiarity
B. prosperity
C. property
D. priority
44. It's reported that buildings of colleges, universities, school and kindergartens as well as classrooms and other buildings cannot be named after _____.
A. patentees
B. donors
C. sponsors
D. estate developers
45. David's brother, as I know, has _____ the air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet.
A. melancholy
B. joyless
C. depressed
D. distressed
46. _____, there's a good reason for her absence, as she doesn't usually stay away from work.
A. Ideally
B. Principally
C. Presumably
D. Originally
47. Great men are those who _____ their way to success through difficulties.
A. cut
B. pave
C. strive
D. deem
48. People tend to ignore the delayed effects of _____ to chemicals because the danger doesn't become apparent immediately.
A. exposure
B. exploit
C. explosion
D. exponent
49. In the early 1990s various measures were _____ to encourage savings, stimulate investment and motivate worker effort.
A. implemented
B. imparted
C. complimented
D. exploited
50. Because of the tighter money policy, _____ defense for the coming year is greatly cut.
A. reservation
B. budget
C. allowance
D. finance
51. As a matter of fact, what impressed me most is Einstein's _____, but not his photoelectric theory for which he won the Nobel Prize.
A. character
B. temper
C. quality
D. personality
52. Closed-circuit televisions make it easy for a large number of students to see everything a teacher _____.
A. illuminates
B. reveals
C. demonstrates
D. revises
53. It is generally agreed that economic controls can _____ inflation by preventing overt wage and price increases from taking place.
A. suppress
B. impress
C. compress
D. express
54. If our company wants to make a profit, we have to make great efforts to reduce the loss of _____ materials.
A. raw
B. primitive
C. tough
D. original
55. The extrovert loves crowds; _____, the introvert is fond of solitude.
A. differently
B. by contrast
C. otherwise
D. in contrast
56. Sometimes we have to _____ chunks of information into manageable portions.
A. break out
B. breaking into
C. break down
D. breaking down
57. Generally speaking, young people have a greater interest in technical innovation, since they don't have _____ ideas.
A. deceptive
B. jealous
C. preconceived
D. stale
58. Do you want to fly first or ______class?
A. economic
B. economical
C. economy
D. economics
59. Since the two countries couldn't _____ their differences, they decided to declare war on each other.
A. resign
B. renew
C. recover
D. restore
60. After all, the food crisis is over and the wood will _____ its long-term upward trend in agriculture production.
A. resume
B. renew
C. recover
D. restore
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