全国通用2010年高考二轮总复习重点词汇讲解及练习三百六十题（中）

一、单项填空

1. 难度：简单

. Don't _____ the news to the public until we give you the go-ahead (许可，准许).

A．release

B．discard

C．relieve

D．retain

2. 难度：简单

The storm sweeping over this area now is sure to cause _____ of vegetables in the coming days.

A．rarity

B．scarcity

C．invalidity

D．variety

3. 难度：简单

Expected noises are usually more _____ than unexpected ones of the like magnitude.

A．manageable	B．controllable
C．tolerable	D．perceivable

4. 难度：简单

The government placed _____ on the numbers of foreign cars that could be imported.

A．limitations	B．restraint
C．requirements	D．restrictions

5. 难度：简单

We won't know whether it will be successful. We won't know whether there will be good _____.

A．ends

B．results

C．effects

D．causes

6. 难度：简单

The writer was always looking for suitable _____ to use in his next story.

A．contents

B．articles

C．notions

D．ideas

7. 难度：简单

It was a great _____ for him to be pleasant to people he didn't like.

A．attempt

B．trouble

C．power

D．effort

8. 难度：简单

The firemen managed to _____ the fire in time.

A．extinguish

B．prevent

C．suppress

D．ruin

9. 难度：简单

The car was completely _____ and the driver seriously injured.

A．broken off

B．taken off

C．written off

D．picked up

10. 难度：简单

His new appointment takes _____ from the beginning of next month.

A．place

B．effect

C．post

D．office、

11. 难度：简单

Mr. Smith gradually _____ a knowledge of the subject.

A．attained

B．achieved

C．required

D．acquired

12. 难度：简单

This is the _____ piano on which the composer created some of his greatest works.

A．actual

B．genuine

C．real

D．original

13. 难度：简单

Too many hotels have been built and this has _____ prices, making holidays cheaper.

A．cut short

B．cut out

C．cut off

D．cut down

14. 难度：简单

Although he doesn't like that law, he will _____ with it.

A．confine

B．conform

C．comply

D．contend

15. 难度：简单

Keys should never be hidden around the house since thieves _____ know where to look.

A．virtually

B．variously

C．unavoidably

D．invariably