福建师范大学《英美文学选读》在线作业一

共50道题 总分：100分

一、单选题(共50题，100分)

1.When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.

A、off

B、aside

C、out

D、down

2.The chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.

A、compelled

B、posed

C、pressed

D、tempted

3.Modern sonar makes it possible to ____ an underwater submarine.

A、communicate

B、sink

C、search

D、locate

4.It may be necessary to stop ______in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.

A、at case

B、at length

C、at intervals

D、at a distance

5.____ the success of the product depends on its good quality.

A、Objectively

B、Ultimately

C、Absolutely

D、Relatively

6.She hit the chair and ____ the coffee.

A、spoiled

B、poured

C、spilled

D、splashed

7._________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.

A、Although he is a socialist

B、Even if he is a socialist

C、Being a socialist

D、Since he is a socialist

8.Equipment not______ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.

A、conforming to

B、consistent with

C、predominant over

D、providing for

9.He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.

A、accord

B、assist

C、confirm

D、comply

10.His contribution to the program was ____ because 99 percent of the work was completed by his colleagues.

A、invisible

B、negligible

C、appreciable

D、considerable

11.Each individual is requested to state the ____ on which his judgments are based.

A、requirements

B、measures

C、legislations

D、criteria

12.To speed up the ______of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.

A、treatment

B、transmission福建师范大学泽学网微信：zexue66

C、departure

D、delivery

13.He is planning another tour abroad ,yet his passport will ______ at the end of this month.

A、expire

B、exceed

C、terminate

D、cease

14.Mr. Smith had an unusual _______ : he was first an office clerk , then a sailor , and ended up as a school teacher.

A、profession

B、occupation

C、position

D、career

15.The students showed ____when solving the difficult maths problems.

A、validity

B、purity

C、ingenuity

D、reliability

16.Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance in the atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very ____.

A、disputed

B、discarded

C、dismissed

D、distorted

17.Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.

A、them

B、/

C、it

D、theirs

18.A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.

A、automatic

B、deliberate

C、beneficial

D、customary

19.I don’t know if the story is true, but I’ll try to ____ it.

A、verify

B、reinforce

C、identify

D、conform

20.The meaning of this poem is very ____; I really do not understand it.

A、conspicuous

B、intelligible

C、obscure

D、dim

21.The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once______ .

A、thrived

B、swelled

C、prospered

D、flourished

22.The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________too much work last week.

A、take away

B、take out

C、take to

D、take on

23.To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming ____.

A、sensational

B、sensitive

C、sentimental

D、sensible

24.For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost______ as microorganisms.

A、precisely

B、instantly

C、initially

D、exclusively

25.The bank refused to ______him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.

A、loan

B、borrow

C、lease

D、credit

26.Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install _________ solar heating device in our home.

A、some type of

B、some types of a

C、some type of a

D、some types of

27.I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemed to have ____.

A、vapoured

B、vanished

C、vibrated

D、reduced

28.Some people believe that since oil is scarce, the ____of the motor industry is uncertain.

A、estimate

B、terminal

C、fate

D、benefit

29.The more a nation‘s companies _______factories abroad, the smaller that country‘s recorded exports will be.

A、lie

B、locate

C、spot

D、stand

30.At first, the _____ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible ,but , with the painstaking efforts and at great expense ,it became a reality.

A、transaction

B、transmission

C、transformation

D、transition

31.I saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.

A、concentration

B、endeavor

C、tolerance

D、absorption

32.Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.

A、displacement

B、elimination

C、exclusion

D、exception

33.A square is a flat area having four sides, any adjacent two sides of which ____ a right angle.

A、make

B、advocate

C、adjoin

D、shape

34.As he failed to win the first prize in the badminton match, he had to ____ the second.

A、settle in

B、settle for

C、settle up

D、settle with

35.The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.

A、objected having

B、were objected to having

C、objected to have

D、objected to having

36.Mr.Smith asked his secretary to ______a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.

A、invade

B、install

C、insert

D、inject

37.If you know what the trouble is, why don’t you help them to ________ the situation?

A、simplify

B、modify

C、verify

D、rectify

38.The defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ______of the murder committed last month.

A、witnesses

B、audiences

C、viewers

D、observers

39.I can’t ________ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.

A、figure out

B、draw out

C、look out

D、work out

40.You don’t have to install this radio in your new car . It’s an _______ extra.

A、excessive

B、optional

C、additional

D、arbitrary

41.If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise you much better than I can.

A、would be

B、will have been

C、was

D、were

42.Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could _____ .

A、descend

B、decline

C、deteriorate

D、depress

43.James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.

A、will come

B、was coming

C、had been coming

D、came

44.I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.

A、something but

B、anything but

C、nothing but

D、not but

45.The local people were joyfully surprised to find the price of vegetables no longer ______ according to the weather.

A、altered

B、converted

C、fluctuated

D、modified

46.These overseas students show great ______ for learning a new language.

A、faith

B、authority

C、enthusiasm

D、convention

47.The party will ____their leader very determinedly.

A、adhere to

B、coincide with

C、cling to

D、depend on

48.Preliminary estimation puts the figure at around $110 billion, _____ the $160 billion the President is struggling to get through the Congress.

A、in proportion to

B、in reply to

C、in relation to

D、in contrast to

49.It was no _____ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery .

A、coincidence

B、convention

C、certainty

D、complication

50.The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is____80 percent.

A、consequently

B、roughly

C、comparatively

D、incidentally