Vocabulary Exercises for Graduate Students
Section A
Directions: There are 100 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A,B,C and
D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
1.In addition to some money in a savings bank account, my _____include property inherited from may father.
A. assess
B. assets
C. assessments
D. access
2.When a psychologist does a general experiment about the human mind, he selects people _____and ask them
questions.
A. at length
B. at random
C. in essence
D. in bulk
3.Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal
powerfully to our minds and_____.
A. sensations
B. passions
C. emotions
D. moods
4.He has failed me so many times that I no longer place my _____on what he promises.
A. reliance
B. belief
C. credit
D. faith
5.The statue would be perfect but for a few small_____ in its base.
A. mistakes
B. weakness
C. flaws
D. errors
6.The machine needs a complete _____since it has been in use for over ten years.
A. amending
B. fitting
C. mending
D. innovating
7.Though he is the preident’s son, that does not _____him to criticize my work.
A. verify
B. justify
C. qualify
D. dignify
8.His career was not noticeably _____by the fact that he had never been to college.
A. prevented
B. restrain
C. hindered
D. refrained
9. I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat_____.
A. disapproval
B. rejection
C. refusal
D. decline
10.The book proved to be very unreliable and so was quite _____to him in his research.
A. invaluable
B. useless
C. negligible
D. unusable
11.If you want to know the train schedule, please _____at the booking office.
A. acquire
B. inquire
C. request
D. require
12.If no importance is attached to collecting information, we cannot survive in such a/n _____competitive society, because it is the basis on which we make our decisions.
A. powerfully
B. forcefully
C. intensely
D. intensively
13.He used to say he liked traveling by train, but now after eight hours standing in the corridor, he changed his_____.
A. sound
B. voice
C. tone
D. tune
14.The period of adolescence may be long or short, depending on social and on society’s definition as to what constitutes maturity and adulthood.
A. anticipation
B. perspective
C. proposition
D. expectation
15.The_____at the highest point in the United States is 20,000 feet at Mt McKinley in Alaska.
A. evolution
B. elevation
C. evaluation
D. elaboration
16.We are trying to make people more _____to the difficulties faced by the laid-off workers.
A. sensible
B. sensational
C. sensitive
D. sentimental
17.The suspect gave a signed _____to the police.
A. confession
B. confusion
C. concession
D. controversy
18.Although there are occasional outbreaks of gunfire, we can report that the rebellion has in the main been_____.
A. canceled
B. destroyed
C. suppressed
D. restrained
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/492228401.html,rge amounts of food imports placed a great strain on the country’s gold_____.
A. storage
B. deposit
C. reservation
D. reserve
20.Near the scene of the crime, the police arrested two men whose behavior appeared_____.
A. ambitious
B. ambiguous
C. suspicious
D. notorious
21.To a first-year student, the doctoral degree is a distant_____.
A. aspect
B. respect
C. prospect
D. spectacle
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/492228401.html,petition, they believe, _____the national character rather than corrupt it.
A. enforces
B. confirms
C. intensifies
D. strengthens
23.I could see that my wife was _____having that diamond, whether I approved of it or not.
A.adequate for
B. intent on
C. short of
D. deficient in
24.After a concert tour in Asia, Canada and the U.S., he will _____work on a five language opera.
A. confine
B. indulge
C. resume
D. undergo
25.He failed to carry out some of the provisions of the contract, and now he has to _____the consequences.
A. answer for
B. run into
C. abide by
D. step into
26.Mr. Black is not _____now, but he will be famous someday.
A. significant
B. dominant
C. magnificent
D. prominent
27.She had on the dress that I used to admire more than anything else in her possession, a light blue one _____prettily with lace.
A. ornamented
B. trimmed
C. furnished
D. decorated
28.Getting enough vitamins is essential to life, although the body has no nutritional use for _____vitamins.
A. exceptional
B. exceeding
C. excess
D. external
29.Some people think that a _____translation, or word-for-word translation, is easier than a free translation.
A. literal
B. literary
C. liberal
D. linear
30.Our camp is so far from the highway that we feel _____from the world while we are there.
A. shut out
B. shut up
C. shut off
D. shut down
31.Anyone who can study abroad is fortunate; but of course, it is not easy to make the _____from one culture to another.
A. transaction
B. transition
C. transmission
D. transference
32.We _____that diet is related to most types of cancer but we don’t have definite proof.
A. assure
B. suspend
C. ascertain
D. suspecte
33.He _____in court that he had seen the prisoner run out of the bank after it had been robbed.
A. testified
B. witnessed
C. justified
D. identified
34.Instead of answering the question, the manager _____his shoulders as if it were not important.
A. raised
B. touched
C. shrugged
D. patted
35.I am sorry for the _____tone of your letter, but I feel sure that things are not so bad with you as you say.
A. apologetic
B. threatening
C. pessimistic
D. grateful
36.A patient who is dying of incurable cancer of the throat is in terrible pain, which can no longer be satisfactorily _____.
A. diminished
B. abolished
C. relaxed
D. alleviated
37.He misled management by giving it the idea that the older and more experienced men were not an ____but a liability.
A. asset
B. award
C. assistance
D. advantage
38.In 400 AD., Chinese children played with a fan-like toy that span upwards and fell back to earth as _____ceased.
A. emission
B. motivation
C. rotation
D. suspension
39.As a good photographer, you must develop an awareness of the world around you and the people who _____it.
A. integrate
B. inherit
C. innovate
D. inhabit
40.The fact that the earth’s surface heats _____provides a convenient way to divide it into temperature regions.
A. infrequently
B. irregularly
C. unsteadily
D. unevenly
41.The television station is supported by _____from foundations and other sources.
A. pensions
B. accounts
C. donations
D. advertisements
42.Professor Wu traveled and lectured throughout the country to _____education and professional skills so that women could enter the public world.
A. prosecute
B. acquire
C. advocate
D. proclaim
43.A major goal of the state travel agency is to _____more people to visit its country at the turn of the century.
A. reduce
B. expect
C. arouse
D. induce
44.The author of the book has shown his remarkable keen _____into human nature.
A. intellect
B. insight
C. perception
D. understanding
45.Though the doctors tried everything they couldn’t save him from the deep _____wound.
A. shot
B. punch
C. pinch
D. stab
46.This apartment could _____a family of nine in a small space by using sofas, and dual purpose furniture, all built-in.
A. reside
B. possess
C. embrace
D. accommodate
47.Although the ac tor’s performance seemed very _____, it was not dangerous as it looked.
A. excited
B. brawl
C. perilous
D. courageous
48.Housewives who do not go out to work feel they are not working to their full _____.
A. capacity
B. strength
C. length
D. possibility
49.It was the custom of many American Indians to wear their hair in _____.
A. brains
B. braids
C. bribes
D. brides
50.Though the model was _____ she insisted on keeping it as a souvenir.
A. authentic
B. erratic
C. absolute
D. out of date
51.Although I like the appearance of the house, what really make me decide to buy it was the beautiful _____ through the window.
A. vision
B. stage
C. picture
D. view
52.The president made a _____speech at the opening ceremony of the sports meeting, which encouraged the sportsmen greatly.
A. vigorous
B. tedious
C. flat
D. harsh
53.He _____a piece of meat from the plate with his fork.
A. stabbed
B. sliced
C. chopped
D. cut
54.Although the two players are _____in the tennis court, they are really good friends.
A. partners
B. enemies
C. rivals
D. companions
55.These young people have much to be dissatisfied with, and they sometimes do _____, but on the whole they study hard, knowing the problems the states is facing.
A. grumble
B. frustrate
C. frown
D. perplex
56.After the elections, the losing candidate congratulated his _____.
A. controversy
B. variation
C. opponent
D. grudge 57.Her eyes _____with tears as she struggled to control her emotions.
A. glistened
B. cried
C. swelled
D. melted
58.We were digging to find some _____of the Viking period.
A. tracks
B. marks
C. trails
D. traces
59.Children used to _____ their parents; now they are inclined to regard from as equals.
A. turn on
B. look up to
C. stand up to
D. hang on to
60.Leading cadres launch rectification campaigns at regular _____ to hear the masses views.
A. interim
B. interruptions
C. intervals
D. intersections
61.The _____motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creates the change of reasons.
A. perilous
B. perfidious
C. constant
D. plausible
62.The problems requiring immediate solutions will be given _____at the meeting.
A. priority
B. urgency
C. superiority
D. emergency
63.According to the law of that country, the Parliament will have to be _____before the General Election.
A. decomposed
B. dispersed
C. dissolved
D. disintegrated
64.I was _____by their kindness and moved to tears.
A.preoccupied
B. embarrassed
C. overwhelmed
D. counseled
65.Now in China many large stores use discount coupons as _____to attract customers.
A. motives
B. incentives
C. awards
D. rewards
66.Football, baseball and basketball are _____sports that is, only a few people actually take part in them while many more only watch them.
A. spectacle
B. spectrum
C. spectator
D. spectacular
67.Convinced of the importance of education, modern states “invest” in institutions of learning to get back “interest” in the form of a large group of _____young men who are potential leaders.
A. enlightened
B. cultivated
C. qualified
D. nourished
68.The students will be ____regarding the entrance examination.
A. condoned
B. deformed
C. emulated
D. notified
69.We had suffered all kinds of _____before we finished this task.
A. affiliations
B. affectations
C. affections
D. hardships
70.If he insists upon being so _____, we will have to settle this matter in court.
A. stubborn
B. indignant
C. abject
D. gauche
71.This step is of great significance when viewed in the _____of the progress of the experiment.
A. prospective
B. respective
C. perspective
D. prescriptive
72.When a hurricane is _____, the National Weather Bureau issues a warning.
A. immaculate
B. impertinent
C. immense
D. imminent
73.Despite the rescuers’ strenuous efforts, hopes of finding the missing climbers are now beginning to _____.
A. decrease
B. fade
C. loose
D. faint
74.Through the method of echo sounding, oceanographers can _____the depth of the ocean at a specific site in a matter of second.
A. presume
B. ascertain
C. evaluate
D. designate
74.Negotiations between the employers and the workers broke down because both sides were too _____.
A. ingenious
B. indispensable
C. incredible
D. incompatible
75.The group of spectators was _____by the police who were at the scene of the accident.
A. dispersed
B. displaced
C. disposed
D. discharged
76.Before the gases are discharged into the atmosphere they must be _____harmless.
A. rendered
B. disposed
C. handled
D. converted
77.He _____after the car accident, although at first he wasn’t expected to live.
A. pilled up
B. pulled off
C. pulled over
D. pulled through
78.But very few fear the slow catastrophe that is _____upon the world through environmental pollution.
A. creeping
B. crawling
C. mounting
D. ascending
79.In spite of the destruction caused by the earthquake, the people tried to _____their own business as if nothing had happened.
A. go over
B. go about
C. go with
D. go through
80.We are prepared to make some concessions on minor details, but we can not _____on fundamentals.
A. concentrate
B. complement
C. compensate
D. compromise
81.As for love of children, this love _____expressed through supplying material comforts, amusements, and educational opportunities.
A. increasingly
B. tolerably
C. dynamically
D. obediently
82.Ralph and his companions would explore the woods on the estate for days_____.
A. on show
B. on time
C. on end
D. on hand
83._____ the difficulty of the task, I shall be lucky to complete it by May.
A. Regarding
B. Given
C. Presuming
D. Accepted
84.So _____are businessmen by the constantly changing numbers that they often cannot determine whether they are making
a profit or not.
A. overwhelmed
B. outgrown
C. overexcited
D. outsold
85.The border incident led to the two countries _____diplomatic relations.
A. pulling off
B. breaking off
C. passing off
D. falling off
86.When it was announced, settlers _____raced into the territory in wagons and on horseback to claim the best land they could find for themselves.
A. literally
B. incidentally
C. dreadfully
D. largely
87.The Food and Drug Administration also demands strict postmarketing _____to make sure the new drug is safe and effective.
A. reviews
B. probes
C. monitors
D. surveys
88.Without a wholehearted _____to a keen forward-looking vision and a deep insight, you can not be a leader.
A. obligation
B. determination
C. resolution
D. commitment
89.Try as we would, they could not be brought to give their _____.
A. consent
B. complaint
C. content
D. completion
90.Some professors prefer to control discussion while others prefer to guide the class without _____it.
A. enforcing
B. dominating
C. enlightening
D. disposing
91.New mineral resources may be discovered during the forthcoming Antarctic _____.
A. expedition
B. execution
C. excursion
D. extraction
92.Only the _____of the general manager, who knew of John’s personal difficulties, saved him from being dismissed.
A. interrelation
B. interruption
C. intervention
D. interference
93.The teacher set up those _____for no other purpose than to challenge the students to overcome them.
A. principles
B. obstacles
C. standards
D. goals 94.Soviet scientists reportedly agree with their American colleagues that warming trend in the Arctic has ______a slow cooling.
A. swelled
B. shifted
C. shed
D. swung
95.An extra part was added to the house in 1850, which spoilt the _____of its front.
A. symmetry
B. synthesis
C. strategy
D. similarity
96.Because the pile of brick is being exhibited, the observers feel _____to debate its artistic merits.
A. reduced
B. obligated
C. like
D. inclined
97.The individual can understand his own experience and _____his own fate only by locating himself within his period.
A. gauge
B. decide
C. change
D. guard
98.Because most Americans find this food, shopping system economical and efficient, the large grocery store chain remains
a _____of our society.
A. basement
B. fixation
C. station
D. fixture
99.Social structure organization is simply the way that people, groups, and institutions are organized with _____to one another.
A. aspect
B. regard
C. respect
D. perspective
100.A social _____is a position in a social structure that determines where a person fits within the social order.
A. stature
B. status
C. state
D. statue
101.A police officer is more likely to _____in his law enforcement tactics when he is not in view of reporters.
A. compose
B. invent
C. improvise
D. create
102.A(n) _____manager has a variety of role relations with people occupying related statuses.
A. personal
B. personnel
C. individual
D. employment
103.He ______himself as gentle and romantic toward a woman he was trying to impress.
A. expressed
B. conveyed
C. demonstrated
D. presented
104.Culture is not merely something ______us, but a sort of shared language, of things and ideas that we both develop and use.
A.imposed on
B. depending on
C. influencing
D. inflicting
105.The interviewer _____the applicant’s late arrival as a sign of disorganization, undependability or lack of interest in th e job.
A. translated
B. interpreted
C. explained
D. understood
106._____ of people are assembling in the street. What happened?
A. An attitude
B. An aptitude
C. An altitude
D. A multitude
107.My aunt _____a brightly-colored thread round her finger so as not to forget her appointment.
A. wound
B. curved
C. wounded
D. bounded
108.Once the contract was signed, the building contractor had to _____to complete the work without failure.
A. Undertake
B. undersign
C. understudy
D. undermine
109.The teacher made strenuous efforts to read the faint, _____handwriting in his student’s exercise b ooks.
A. illegal
B. illiterate
C. illegible
D. illustrative
110.South Africa’s black majority got its first real _____ in governing early last December.
A. say
B. tale
C. speech
D. come through
111. Any child who is _____ made a victim of violence from brothers or sisters will have emotional troubles when he grows up.
A. repeatedly
B. rarely
C. briskly
D. frequently
112. The farmers were more anxious for rain than the people in the city because they had more __.
A. at stake
B. at large
C. in force
D. in line
113. Only by becoming aware of your real feelings will you be able to relieve your anxiety and make a more successful ____ to your situation.
A. modification
B. alternation
C. adjustment
D. conformity
114. The appreciation of works of art is bound to be ___ by a particular world outlook.
A. formulated
B. originated
C. prevailed
D. dominated
115. Grapes and other fruits are ____ to yield the juice from which wine is made.
A. crashed
B. crushed
C. cracked
D. cruised
116. It has been estimated that about half the nation’s seven million handicapped youngsters are not being educated _____.
A. efficiently
B. adequately
C. moderately
D. functionally
117. My boss is totally ____; every time you ask him for a decision or even an opinion he just shrugs his shoulders.
A. incredible
B. inconceivable
C. inconclusive
D. incompetent
118. We find that they frequently _____ avoidable errors because of a failure to reason correctly.
A. come into
B. fall into
C. make into
D. enter into
119. The meeting was ____ over by the mayor to discuss the tax raise in the city.
A. presumed
B. propelled
C. presided
D. pricked
120. A man who could ____ such treatment was a man of remarkable physical courage and moral strength.
A. bear upon
B. take on
C. stand up to
D. substitute
121. A passion for the theater which may demonstrate all the ways of life can be a fairly satisfying ____ for life.
A. substance
B. imitation
C. repetition
D. substitute
122. They _____ those who didn’t conform to their ideas, and took advantage of those who agreed with them.
A. explored
B. persecuted
C. extended
D. pinched
123. According to the international regulation, the playing of the national anthem____.
A. repels
B. remarks
C. precedes
D. requires.
124. We all knew from the very ____ that the plan would fail. Now you see it has become true.
A. outcome
B. outset
C. upshot
D. outbreak
125. His constant attempts to ____ his colleagues’ achievement eventually caused his dismissal.
A. withdraw
B. diminish
C. restrain
D. confine
126. They have ____ the dance many times for the better effect before they perform in the theater.
A. overtaken
B. interchanged
C. entreated
D. rehearsed
127. Perhaps, if we could examine the manners different nations with ___, we should find no people so rude as to be without rules of politeness.
A. impartiality
B. certainty
C. appreciation
D. exactitude
128. Parents take a great interest in the _____ questions raised by their children.
A. nasty
B. naive
C. obscure
D. offensive
129. He would go to endless ____ to help anyone he thought worthy of encouragement.
A. difficulty
B. obstacle
C. trouble
D. nuisance
130. Although turtles are ___ depicted as slow animals, one marine turtle is documented as having swum three hundred miles in only ten days.
A. scientifically
B. literally
C. deliberately
D. delightfully
131. Care should be taken to decrease the length of time that one is ____ loud continuous noise.
A. subjected to
B. filled with
C. associated with
D. attached to
132. She is so careless with her spelling that she often ____ letters in some words.
A. leaves out
B. leaves off
C. leaves in
D. leaves for
133. He stopped the car so ____ that he was hit by the car behind him.
A. barely
B. strictly
C. abruptly
D. previously
134. This small village is only ______ by river.
A. accessible
B. obtainable
C. achievable
D. attainable
135. The curtain had hardly ____ when shot startled the audience.
A. raised
B. arose
C. risen
D. arisen
136. The black people launched civil movement, struggling for ____ of slavery.
A. abbreviation
B. abolition
C. complement
D. abortion
137. Social corruption results from some officials’ ____ of their power, so there must be effective laws to restrict the officials’ power.
A. abuse
B. use
C. acquisition
D. accumulation
138. Although he was given a (n) ____ for a business trip, he always complained about the hardship of the trip.
A. pension
B. reward
C. bonus
D. allowance
139. I like the professor’s lecture because he ____ his lecture with some vivid slide shows.
A. exhausted
B. impressed
C. amplified
D. enhanced
140. The boss made an ____ decision because he was blind to facts.
A. arbitrary
B. affirmative
C. anguish
D. ambitious
141. The museum had ____ copies for the original manuscripts to save wear and tear on the latter.
A. tackled
B. substituted
C. tickled
D. testified
142. Her professional ethics is now being questioned since she often ___ her reports to suit the people she is speaking to. A. piles B. values C. fuels D. angles
143. With the fall in the number of students studying science, we will have lost many with the potential of intellectual______.
A. creativity
B. credential
C. recreation
D. credibility
144. They could not go to the theater together because his free time never ____ with hers.
A. collides
B. complies
C. coincides
D. copes
145. Since I could not see anything through the microscope, ____ my careful adjustment, I gave up.
A. for all
B. above all
C. after all
D. in all
146. The employment ____ for the next year is based in part on contract signed this year.
A. outlook
B. outbreak
C. outcome
D. output
147. After about an early age of 13, ______ have already been formed and ambition cast.
A. particulars
B. premises
C. perceptions
D. proceedings
148. When road traffic ___, the whole town looked very silent.
A. declined
B. decayed
C. diminished
D. dissolved
149. In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Eastern European ____ Europe into a great war.
A. inserted
B. imposed
C. plunged
D. pitched
150. Plastics are lighter and more ___ resistant than metal, but they are not usually as strong.
A. contraction
B. collision
C. corrosion
D. corruption
答案
1.B
2.B
3.C
4.A
5.C
6.C
7.C
8.C
9.C 10.B 11.B 12.C 13.D 14.D 15.B 16.C 17.A 18.C 19.D 20.C 21.C 22.D 23.B 24.C 25.A 26.D 27.B 28.C 29.A 30.C 31.B 32.D 33.A 34.C 35.C 36.D 37.A 38.C 39.D 40.D 41.C 42.C 43.D 44.B 45.D 46.D 47.C 48.A 49.B 50.D 51.D 52.A 53.A 54.C 55.A 56.C 57.A 58.D 59.B 60.C 61.C 62.A 63.C 64.C 65.B 66.C 67.A 68.D 69.D 70.A 71.C 72.D 73.B 74.B 74.D 75.A 76.A 77.D 78.A 79.B 80.D 81.A 82.C 83.B 84.A 85.B 86.A 87.D 88.D 89.A 90.B 91.A 92.C 93.B 94.B 95.A 96.B 97.A 98.D 99.C 100.B 101.B 102.B 103.D 104.A 105.B 106.D 107.A 108.A 109.C 110.A 111.A 112.A 113.C 114.D 115.B 116.B 117.D 118.B 119.C 120.C 121.D 122.B 123.C 124.B 125.B 126.D 127.A 128.B 129.C 130.B 131.A 132.A 133.C 134.A 135.C 136.B 137.A 138.D 139.C 140.A 141.B 142.D 143.A 144.C 145.A 146.A 147.C 148.C 149.C 150.C