2009年工程碩士GCT英語考試常用詞匯練習(xí)005

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1. He is seriously ill because his girlfriend has just deserted him. Why don’t you try some occupational ________ to remove his mind from distress?
    A. operation
    B. therapy
    C. injection
    D. medicine
    2. The government used their emergency powers to ________ the truth about the accident.
    A. suppress
    B. manipulate
    C. control
    D. manage
    3. The ________ of the member countries is supposed to be held recently at Geneva.
    A. summit
    B. summary
    C. suffering
    D. summon
    4. The ghostly presence was just a (n)_________ sensation of some people.
    A. objective
    B. subjunctive
    C. subjective
    D. objected
    5. The company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and thousands of jobs are at ________.
    A. danger
    B. loss
    C. threat
    D. stake
    參考答案:
    1. 答案為B。operation 指“手術(shù)”,therapy 指“療法”,injection 指“注射”,medicine 指“醫(yī)術(shù),醫(yī)學(xué);藥”。occupational therapy 指“職業(yè)療法”,即給患者創(chuàng)造性或生產(chǎn)性工作以治療其身心某些疾病的方法。
    2. 答案為A。suppress 意思是“阻止..被知道或看到”,manipulate 指“熟練地控制或操縱(某事物)”,control 意思是“控制”,manage 意思是“負(fù)責(zé)(謀事物),管理,經(jīng)營”。
    3. 答案為A。summit 意思是“峰會,首腦會晤”,summary 意為“小結(jié)”,suffering 指肉體或內(nèi)心的痛苦,summon 意為“傳喚,傳訊;(法院的)傳票”。
    4. 答案為C。objective 意為“客觀的”,subjunctive 意為“虛擬語氣的”,subjective 意為“主觀的”,object 意思是“反對,*”,作動(dòng)詞。
    5. 答案為D 。at a loss 意思是“不知如何是好,茫然,不知所措”,at stake 指“兇吉難卜,好壞無法預(yù)料”??梢哉fin danger 或under threat,但不可以說at danger 或at threat。