高级英语五级词汇1-10单词练习

Test 1 Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)sphereexult perceivedown peculiarlandscapeparadise notoriously repellentknollmenialbog down 1. In other_, the figures are equally alarming.2. You could buy a house with almost no money _. 3. Apparently westernization is not a straight road to hell, or to _ either. 4. My profession is literature; and in that profession there are fewer experiences for women than in any other, with the exception of the stage - fewer, I mean, that are _ to women. 5. I _ that his trouble was not physical, but mental. 6. Life has a way of being obvious, and yet, its _ difficult to define in absolute terms. 7. They believed it. They _ in it. They stayed in their place, worked hard, and brought up my father to do the same. 8. My weekends were precious and the idea of getting up before dawn on a Saturday, renting a car and driving across the entire state of New Jersey to deliver a lecture was _. 9. A single _ rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. 10. If someone had slept through September 11 and awakened, he would open his eyes on an astonishing _. Test 2Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)orchestraafootpuzzleassert strainlandmarkgraciousbrink lucrativeexcelphantomtrance 1. We must massively _ our dignity and worth. 2. Mr. Chong was very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of an invisible _. 3. It _ imagination that this could be the same country where a generation ago the three most desired luxury items were wristwatches, bicycles and sewing machine. 4. She was sympathetic, charming, unselfish, and _ in the difficult arts of family life. 5. The successful lawyers I had observed were, almost without exception, married to beautiful, _, intelligent women.6. There may be no scientific mystery so tantalizing at the _ of the new millennium and yet so resistant to an answer. 7. It became a constant _ which lay unanswered in the back of my mind.8. She wanted to write so such that she had resigned a _ job with an advertising agency and was giving herself a year in which, living on her savings, she was going to do nothing but write. 9. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old _, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain.10. There is a dialectic _ in the country, a stirring of peaceful purpose that has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, which assumes the public is thinking in red, white and blue, when actually the spectrum of emotions, ideas and opinions is, like American itself, multihued. Test 3Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)interiorchaosoppressflatter discordantplungefitproportion. uniformgalaxystoutexultant 1. We must stand up amidst a system that still _ us and develop an unassailable and majestic sense of values.2. I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most _ hymns.3. He answered immediately, “We now know that order grows out of _.” 4. Though I _ myself that I killed her in the end, the struggle was severe. 5. He _ his hands into the raccoon coat and then his face. 6. The late astronomer Carl Sagan estimated that there are a million technological civilizations in our _ alone. 7. But now I felt a sudden _ of blind terror. 8. Oppenheimer lives in a beautiful house, the _ of which is painted almost entirely white. 9. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of _. 10. The men in suits are telling us what the men in _ are going to do to the men in turbans if they dont turn over the men in hiding. Test 4Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)befallupsetblearyinfirmdutifullyuniqueshatterconcentration thrivefragilityreplicateresidue 1. To _ this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood.2. Over the next year, I practiced like this, _ in my own way.3. You can have a _ culture made of your core culture, but you will be the Chinese of the future, not of the past. 4. It was a real experience and it was an experience that was bound to _ all women writers at that time. 5. I watched her closely as she knit her creamy brow in _. 6. In the past decade organisms have been found _ on our own planet in bizarre, hostile environments. 7. I could hear the _ voices yelling insistently for the battle royal to begin. 8. His skull gives an almost egg-shell impression of _, and is supported by a very thin neck. 9. She had lived to be very old and at last _.10. The attacks in New York and Washington _ the sense of invulnerability that is a hallmark of the American psyche. Test 5Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)lethargycommitmentencounterdevastate importsupplementglimmermire swirlengenderpivotfreak 1. Let me say briefly that we must reaffirm our _ to nonviolence.2. But my mothers expression was what _ me: a quiet, blank look that said she had lost everything. 3. It is cheaper for business to _ talented employees than to train people at home.4. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual _. 5. Suddenly, a _ of intelligence - the first I had seen - came into her eyes.6. The quest for an alien microbe is _ by a continuing effort to find something large, intelligent and communicative. 7. The room spun round me, a _ of lights, smoke, sweating bodies surrounded by tense white faces. 8. We all knew that he was coming, but no one had actually _ him, despite rumored sightings. 9. There are things in nature that _ an awful quiet in the heart of man. 10. We too are _ near the bottom of Maslows pyramid, struggling to regain our lost sense of safety and security. Test 6Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)schedulebuoyancyimmensefiasco patriotismoutnumbersalivadispersetipsyepochalobstaclebombard 1. There will be those moments when the _ of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. 2. I assumed my talent-show _ meant I never had to play the piano again. 3. It was in that year that U.S. service and knowledge workers _ blue-collar factory workers. 4. The _ against her are still immensely powerful and yet they are very difficult to define. 5. With an _ effort of will, I modulated my voice. 6. Contact with an alien civilization would be an _ and culturally challenging event, but exobiologists would settle gladly for the discovery of a tiny fossil, a mere remnant of extraterrestrial biochemistry. 7. I felt myself _ with punches. I fought back with hopeless desperation. 8. We arrived at the conference centre a few minutes before my lecture was _ to begin. 9. Before the dance could begin, a company of soldiers rode out from Fort Sill under orders to _ the tribe. 10. For some of us, _ is a complicated matter, linked with a dedication to the Constitution. Test 7Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)mantlelevelobedientaudaciousfiguredazefundamentalhammer away relegatecharacteristicminusculeinherently 1. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an _ faith in the future. 2. Only two kinds of daughter, those who are _ and those who follow their own mind.3. It is clear that the truly great leap forward here is at the _of ideas. 4. You have only got to _ to yourselves a girl in a bedroom with a pen in her hand. 5. Over and over again I cited instances, pointed out flaws, kept _ without let-up.6. An ability to elude detection and confirmation, particularly by mainstream thinkers, is a presumed _ of the Visitors. 7. I sat _. My eye pained and swelled with each throb of my pounding heart and I wondered if now I would be allowed to speak. 8. He said nothing during my lecture and left as soon as it was over, along with the _ audience that I had traveled five hours by car to address. 9. I dont speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something _ sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow. 10. If we cannt adhere to our own ideals and values, to the standards weve called on other nations to adhere to in the past, then we call into question some of our _ assumptions about who we are. Test 8Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)reverieacquaintoccuredifice equivalentimpalescattertrisection nocturnalaccess flashpointopaque 1. But one day we must come to see that an _ which produces beggars needs restructuring. 2. I just kept playing in rhythm, and Old Chong kept conducing his own private _. 3. Whats happening now is the _ of world power: agrarian nations on the bottom, smokestack countries in between and knowledge-based economies on top. 4. Then it _ to her to do what is simple and cheap enough after all - to slip a few of those pages into an envelope, fix a penny stamp in the corner, and drop the envelope into the red box at the corner. 5. I determined to _ her with my feeling at our very next meeting. 6. As many writers have noted, aliens are, for some people, the secular _ of angels and demons and ghostly spirits. 7. But what excited me, _ here and there, were the gold pieces. 8. If I had had _ to Spenders journals, I would have realized that he was very used to all of this. 9. There were frequent prayer meetings, and great _ feasts. 10. True, 9/11 is the crisis of our time, our national _, but it is only one of many such points in history. Test 9Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Change word forms where necessary and write down your answer in the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)dislodgetrophyimpedelunged demandingapexmansionscarce dictummotionmultihuedstack 1. I am not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I am talking about a strong, _ love. 2. “She bring home too many _, ” lamented Auntie Lindo to my mother. 3. All old-established national industries are _ by new industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. 4. This I believe to be a very common experience with women writers - they are _ by the extreme conventionality of the other sex. 5. She was a fit wife for me, a proper hostess for my many _, a suitable mother for my well-heeled children. 6. Liquid water may be fairly _ in the universe - Europa may help solve that issue - but another presumed ingredient of life, organic molecules, those made up primarily of carbon, are commonplace. 7. I _ for a yellow coin lying on the blue design of the carpet, touching it and sending a surprised shriek to join those rising around me. 8. Spender walked in with a _ of poems written by the workshop members. 9. I lay down with my grandmother and could hear the frogs away by the river and feel the _ of the air. 10. It is a terrible irony that for a short time, while the condemned jet was aloft, the ideal of American democracy also reached its _. Test 10Find a word from the box below to complete each sentence. There are more words than you need to fill in all the sentences. Cha