2009年工程碩士GCT英語考試常用詞匯練習(xí)004

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1. He proved himself a ________ successor to the former Prime Minister.
    A. worthwhile
    B. worthiness
    C. worthy
    D. worth
    2. Your radio is too loud, turn the ________ down.
    A. volume
    B. voice
    C. sound
    D. tone
    3. The Channel Tunnel is one of the biggest engineering projects ever ________.
    A. understated
    B. undertaken
    C. undergone
    D. underneath
    4. He comes from a poor country village in the mountains, so it’s very hard for him to pay the whole school year’s ________ at one time.
    A. money
    B. fare
    C. fees
    D. tuition
    5. Anthony is a very ________ person and never wastes anything.
    A. miserly
    B. thrifty
    C. economic
    D. conservative
    參考答案:
    1. 答案為C。worthwhile 意思是“值得花費時間、金錢或精力的”。worthy 可以表示“值得尊重或者考慮的”,用這一意思時通常做定語。worthiness 是worthy 的名詞形式。worth 用作表語,意思是“有某種價值的;值得(做某事)”。本句需要填入一個作定語的形容詞,所以, C 是正確答案。
    2. 答案為A。volume 意思是“音量,響度”,voice 意思是“嗓音”,sound 意思是“聲,聲音,聲響”,tone 指“音調(diào),音質(zhì);語氣,腔調(diào);(樂器的)音質(zhì),音色”。
    3. 答案為B。understate 意思是“有節(jié)制地陳述或表達;少說,少報”,undertake 意思是“承擔(dān),負起..的責(zé)任”,undergo 意為“經(jīng)歷,經(jīng)受;接受,承受”,underneath 意為“在.. 的下面(介詞);在下面,向下(副詞);底部,底面(名詞)”。
    4. 答案為D。money 泛指“金錢,貨幣”;fare 指(公共汽車、輪船、計程車等的)票價; fee 指付給私人教師、醫(yī)生等的服務(wù)費,酬金;tuition 尤指大專院校的學(xué)費。
    5. 答案為B。miserly 意思是“似守財奴的,吝嗇的”,thrifty 意思是“節(jié)檢的,節(jié)約的”, economic 意思是“經(jīng)濟學(xué)的,經(jīng)濟的”,conservative 意思是“保守的,守舊的”。