◇　名詞、冠詞

1. Apparently, the advertising ______ of the big casinos is working because the hotels are close to being 90% occupied.

A. strategic

B. strategy

C. strategize

D. strategical

【答案】B

【解析】空格處單詞與advertising構(gòu)成復(fù)合名詞，同時(shí)被定冠詞修飾，因此應(yīng)填入名詞。advertising strategy意為“廣告策略”。故選B。apparently顯然地。work成功，順利。occupy占領(lǐng)，占據(jù)(場(chǎng)所等)。strategy戰(zhàn)略。

2. Although ______ are underway between the two countries, it is doubtful that a mutually beneficial trade agreement will be established.

A. reasons

B. negotiations

C. requirements

D. policies

【答案】B

【解析】空格部分表示“協(xié)商正在進(jìn)行”。Negotiation意為“協(xié)商，談判”，在此處符合句意，故選B。underway進(jìn)行中。doubtful懷疑的。mutually互相地。beneficial有益的。agreement協(xié)定。establish建立。reason理由。requirement要求，條件。policy政策。

3. In the 1980s, when deficits soared, real interest rates decreased sharply along with ______.

A. inflate

B. inflating

C. inflation

D. inflated

【答案】C

【解析】空格位于介詞后面，因此空格出需要填入名詞。Inflation意為“通貨膨脹”，符合句意，故選C。當(dāng)名詞與動(dòng)名詞同時(shí)存在時(shí)，名詞優(yōu)先于動(dòng)名詞，故B項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。deficit赤字。soar猛漲。real interest rate實(shí)際利率。sharply急劇地。 inflate(物價(jià)等)上升，(通貨)膨脹。

4. A Lisboa Ltd. spokesman has said that Lisboa would take legal action against Beta AG, seeking total ______ for the loss.

A. compensation

B. commodity

C. compilation

D. complication

【答案】A

【解析】空格部分表示“對(duì)損失要求賠償”。compensation賠償。commodity日用品。compilation編輯。complication復(fù)雜性。故選A。take legal action against對(duì)…采取法律行動(dòng)。compensation賠償。commodity日用品，必需品。compilation編輯，編纂。 complication復(fù)雜性。

5. The ______ of heavy equipment should be left to professionals because of the safety regulations.

A. operate

B. operation

C. operated

D. operator

【答案】B

【解析】句意：按照安全規(guī)則，重機(jī)械應(yīng)由專(zhuān)業(yè)人員操作。空格前定冠詞the，后有介詞of，應(yīng)填入名詞，且此處意為“重機(jī)械的操作”，應(yīng)選擇operation。

6. Domestic financial institutions should participate more actively in the capital market, where foreign investors have a virtual ______.

A. monopoly

B. monopolize

C. monopolizing

D. monopolist

【答案】A

【解析】空格位于形容詞virtual后面，同時(shí)充當(dāng)have的賓語(yǔ)，因此應(yīng)填入名詞。monopoly壟斷。monopolist壟斷者。monopoly符合句意，故選A。domestic國(guó)內(nèi)的。financial institution金融機(jī)關(guān)。participate in參與(參加)…。capital資本。virtual事實(shí)上的。

7. We can now afford to pay all the fees associated with the international ______ in advance of the deadline.

A. reputation　

B. specialty　

C. directory　

D. expansion

【答案】D

【解析】句意：隨著國(guó)際業(yè)務(wù)擴(kuò)張，我們可以提前償還所有費(fèi)用。此處expansion表示“業(yè)務(wù)拓展”。故選D項(xiàng)。

8. New ______ designed to reduce costs and increase efficiency have brought about encouraging results.

A. regulations

B. regulator

C. regulate

D. regulatory

【答案】A

【解析】空格位于形容詞new后面，同時(shí)位于分詞designed前面，因此空格處只能填入名詞regulations。故選A。 efficiency效率。bring about帶來(lái)(結(jié)果)。encouraging鼓勵(lì)的。regulations(一般為復(fù)數(shù))規(guī)則，規(guī)章。regulator調(diào)整者，管理者。 regulate規(guī)定。regulatory管理的。

9. The Applied Engineering Museum holds the greatest ______ of pre-19th century building materials and implements in the world.

A. opposition

B. collection

C. placement

D. merchandise

【答案】B

【解析】句子表示“博物館有最好的收藏品”。opposition反對(duì)。collection積聚；收藏品。placement布置。merchandise商品。根據(jù)句意，故選B。 building materials建筑材料。implement工具，器具。0pposition反對(duì)，對(duì)立。collection收集(品)。placement配置。merchandise商品。

10. The successful candidate must be able to communicate with people of diverse ethnic backgrounds with patience and ______.

A. respect

B. respectable

C. respecting

D. respectfully

【答案】A

【解析】空格和patience一起充當(dāng)介詞with的賓語(yǔ)，因此空格處應(yīng)當(dāng)填入名詞，故選A。 successful candidate合格者。diverse各種各樣的。ethnic人種的。patience忍耐。 respectable值得尊敬的。

11.The uniform adds a sense of ______ to the work place.

A. sophistication

B. sophisticated

C. sophisticate

D. sophisticates

【答案】A

【解析】句意：?jiǎn)T工穿制服使辦公場(chǎng)所具有一種專(zhuān)業(yè)氛圍?？崭裉幾鼋樵~of的賓語(yǔ)，應(yīng)填入名詞。sophistication干練；世故；復(fù)雜。

12. If you are not planning to take your personal ______ with you, you can leave them with the tour bus operator for safekeeping.

A. beliefs

B. qualities

C. arrangements

D. belongings

【答案】D

【解析】根據(jù)主句交給司機(jī)保管可知空格處表示“個(gè)人所有物”，belongings意為“財(cái)產(chǎn)，所有物”，故選D。qualities品質(zhì)，素質(zhì)。arrangements安排，整理。personal個(gè)人的。leave A with B將A交給B負(fù)責(zé)。operator操作者。

13. The ______ released today show a close-up view of an electric blue aurora taken by the new Hubble Space Telescope.

A. garments

B. images

C. concepts

D. similarities

【答案】B

【解析】空格處的單詞表示telescope產(chǎn)生的事物。images意為“圖像”，符合句意，故選B。release公開(kāi)。 electric blue鐵青色。telescope望遠(yuǎn)鏡。 garment服裝。concept概念。similarity相似(點(diǎn))。

14. An accident of this magnitude could easily bring the factory’s production to a ______.

A. block

B. quit

C. stay

D. halt

【答案】D

【解析】句意：一次這么重大的事故很容易導(dǎo)致工廠停產(chǎn)。根據(jù)句意，此處表示“停止”，選項(xiàng)中只有D項(xiàng)符合題意。bring…to a halt意為“使…停止”。

15. KGD’s chief executive officer expected massive layoffs of workers and a ______ in managerial positions as a result of the merger.

A. reduce

B. reducing

C. reductive

D. reduction

【答案】D

【解析】空格處單詞被冠詞a 修飾，因此空格處只能用名詞，故選D。chief executive officer(CEO)即“首席執(zhí)行官，總裁”。 massive layoff大規(guī)模裁員。managerial position管理職位。 merger合并。reductive減少的，削減的。 reduction減少，削減。

16. Considering the time ______, we will have to combine the employee awards with the closing ceremony.

A. obstacles

B. inhibitions

C. constraints

D. curbs

【答案】C

【解析】空格處單詞與前面的time搭配使用，選項(xiàng)中能和time相呼應(yīng)的單詞為constraints，表示“時(shí)間限制”，故選C。 considering考慮…。combine使結(jié)合。award頒獎(jiǎng)(禮)。obstacle障礙(物)。inhibition禁止。curb抑制。

17. The donation is a good representation of GN Labs’continuing ______ to assist local colleges in developing advanced technology programs.

A. remittance

B. commitment

C. motivation

D. speculation

【答案】B

【解析】句子表示“GN研究所對(duì)地方大學(xué)持續(xù)無(wú)私的援助”，remittance匯款。commitment獻(xiàn)身。motivation動(dòng)機(jī)。speculation猜測(cè)。符合句意的只有commitment，故選B。donation捐贈(zèng)(品)。representation表現(xiàn)。assist援助。 advanced先進(jìn)的。commitment to獻(xiàn)身…。 remittance匯款(額)。motivation動(dòng)機(jī)。 speculation猜測(cè)。

18. Those applying for a driver’s license should present the necessary forms and the $15 application ______ to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

A. fare

B. cost

C. fee

D. expense

【答案】C

【解析】句子表示“15美元的申請(qǐng)費(fèi)”， fare意為“票價(jià)，車(chē)費(fèi)”，fee意為“收費(fèi)，手續(xù)費(fèi)”等。cost意為“費(fèi)用，成本”，expense意為“(支出的)費(fèi)用，花費(fèi)”，只有fee放在這里最合適，故選C。apply for申請(qǐng)。present提出。form(文件的)格式，樣式。application申請(qǐng)書(shū)。

19. With the views of a spectacular ______, Hudson Getaway is considered one of the top mountain lodges in the country.

A. technology

B. landscape

C. adventure

D. temper

【答案】B

【解析】句意：從Hudson Getaway可以看到壯麗的景象，因此它被認(rèn)為是國(guó)家的高山小屋之一。Landscape表示“自然景觀，風(fēng)景”，符合句意，故選B。view前景。spectacular壯觀的。consider認(rèn)為，把…看做…。lodge住宿設(shè)施，旅館。

20. Sancola Inc., the world-famous soda manufacturing firm, is proud to announce the ______ of a new line of refreshing beverages.

A. merger

B. ability

C. release

D. surplus

【答案】C

【解析】句意：世界著名蘇打水制造公司自豪地宣布一種新飲料上市了。release意為“(新產(chǎn)品的)上市”，符合題意，故選C。merger 合并。surplus盈余。manufacturing制造(業(yè))。be proud to do很自豪地做…。refreshing清涼的。

21. The ______ of the security initiative was weakened by both major errors in judgment and an inability to respond to unanticipated situations.

A. purpose

B. accomplishment

C. execution

D. liability

【答案】C

【解析】句意：保安計(jì)劃的實(shí)行被判斷的重大失誤和無(wú)法回應(yīng)突發(fā)情況減弱了。因此空格處表示“實(shí)施，執(zhí)行”，故選C。accomplishment完成。liability責(zé)任。initiative主動(dòng)。major主修的，成年的。unanticipated不曾預(yù)料到的。

22. All of the conference ______ will be met at the train station by one of the company’s representatives.

A. participants

B. tenants

C. occupants

D. characters

【答案】A

【解析】句意：公司的代表之一將在火車(chē)站迎接所有的參會(huì)者。根據(jù)句意，此處意為“所有的參會(huì)者”，選擇A。tenant房客，承租人。occupant占有人，居住者。character品質(zhì)；特性；角色。

23. After careful review of both companies’ employment offers, Ms. Costello found significant ______ between them.

A. differ

B. different

C. differences

D. differently

【答案】C

【解析】空格處單詞被形容詞significant修飾，并且位于介詞 between前，因此應(yīng)填入名詞。故選C。significant differences意為“巨大的差異”。 review 檢查。significant相當(dāng)大的，重要的。differ不同。difference差別。

24. With the new regulations, travelers can expect even longer delays on their way through ______ at Birmingham Airport.

A. customer

B. customs

C. custody

D. custodian

【答案】B

【解析】句意：新條例規(guī)定旅客在Birmingham Airport通過(guò)海關(guān)時(shí)可以延長(zhǎng)時(shí)間。custom復(fù)數(shù)形式表示“海關(guān)”，故選B。custody保管；監(jiān)護(hù)。regulation法規(guī)。delay延遲。on one’s way在…的過(guò)程中，在…期間。

25. A poll of over 25,000 certified teachers has revealed that more than three quarters of them report high job ______.

A. satisfaction

B. satisfactory

C. satisfy

D. satisfying

【答案】A

【解析】考查復(fù)合名詞job satisfaction，意為“工作滿意度”，句子表示“表現(xiàn)出較高的工作滿意度”，故選A。poll輿論調(diào)查。certified公認(rèn)的，有保證的。

26. Ms. Arroyo says that when workshop ______ begins to slow down, it may be time to hire more workers.

A. product

B. producer

C. produce

D. productivity

【答案】D

【解析】空格處的單詞要與動(dòng)詞詞組slow down搭配，因此主語(yǔ)應(yīng)表示“工廠生產(chǎn)力”，故選D。productivity生產(chǎn)力。

27. Although Mr. Jacobs is extremely talented, the recruitment committee is reluctant to hire him because he has no formal ______.

A. qualifications

B. documents

C. conditions

D. procedures

【答案】A

【解析】句子表示“他不符合基本資質(zhì)要求”，qualification資格；資格條件，與formal搭配構(gòu)成固定短語(yǔ)formal qualifications，意為“專(zhuān)業(yè)資格”。故選A。be reluctant to do做…很吃力，勉強(qiáng)做…。formal正式的。

28. It is federal law that any qualified job applicant, regardless of ______, should be given a fair chance at employment.

A. aged

B. ageless

C. age

D. aging

【答案】C

【解析】空格位于介詞后面，因此空格處要填名詞，句子表示“不論年齡”，故選C。aging意為“老化”，不符合句意。 federal law聯(lián)邦法。 qualified有資格的。applicant申請(qǐng)人。 regardless of不顧…。

29. If you have not received ______ your order within two business days, please contact our customer service center.

A. confirmation

B. resignation

C. preparation

D. expectation

【答案】A

【解析】句意：沒(méi)有收到和訂購(gòu)有關(guān)的確認(rèn)信息時(shí)，聯(lián)系顧客服務(wù)中心。confirmation與order搭配時(shí)意為“訂單確認(rèn)書(shū)”。故選A。business day營(yíng)業(yè)日，平時(shí)（指一周中的辦公時(shí)間）。contact聯(lián)系。

30. The local company will be the main ______ of the legal change encouraging more competition in the utilities market.

A. legislator　

B. distributor　

C. beneficiary　

D. employee

【答案】C

【解析】句意：在鼓勵(lì)公共市場(chǎng)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的法律變化中，當(dāng)?shù)毓臼侵饕芤嬲?。beneficiary意為“受惠者，受益者”，符合句意，故選C。local地方性的，當(dāng)?shù)氐?。legal法律的。encourage鼓勵(lì)，激勵(lì)。competition競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。

31. The accounting team uses an advanced spreadsheet software program to list company ______ by department.

A. diagrams

B. expenditures

C. applications

D. insights

【答案】B

【解析】句子表示“將公司經(jīng)費(fèi)以部門(mén)為單位整理出來(lái)的程序”。expenditure支出；經(jīng)費(fèi)。符合句意，故選B。advanced最新的。spreadsheet(電腦)空白表格程序。list羅列。

32. The ______ party attacked Mr. Cortenza all week over the scandal involving the funds missing from the ministry’s budget report.

A. consideration

B. intensity

C. opposition

D. limit

【答案】C

【解析】句意：過(guò)去一周，反對(duì)黨就部長(zhǎng)預(yù)算報(bào)告中丟失資金的丑聞對(duì)Mr. Cortenza 進(jìn)行攻擊。復(fù)合名詞opposition party意為“在野黨，反對(duì)黨”。故選C。party政黨。involve牽涉。funds基金。missing失蹤的。ministry政府部門(mén)。

33. The dean will soon give us official notification of the new ______ for the two-day seminar on economic reform.

A. disorder

B. product

C. venue

D. announcement

【答案】C

【解析】句子表示“為期兩天的研討會(huì)的新地點(diǎn)”。 disorder混亂。venue開(kāi)幕地點(diǎn)，演出地點(diǎn)。announcement宣布；通告。venue最符合句意，故選C。dean學(xué)院院長(zhǎng)，系主任。official正式的。notification公告，通知。economic reform經(jīng)濟(jì)改革。

34. ______ at the staff meeting this afternoon is mandatory for all salespeople going on the business trip next week.

A. Attention

B. Attendance

C. Attendant

D. Attending

【答案】B

【解析】句子表示“出席職工大會(huì)”，attendance出席；到場(chǎng)。在此符合句意，故選B。動(dòng)名詞attending后直接跟賓語(yǔ)，因此是錯(cuò)誤的。 mandatory for關(guān)于……的義務(wù)。salespeople銷(xiāo)售人員，營(yíng)業(yè)員。

35. The insurance provider states in its ______ that it will reimburse recipients for invalid checks.

A. relations

B. policies

C. issues

D. customs

【答案】B

【解析】空格部分表示“條款中明示了…”。policy保險(xiǎn)條款，在此符合句意，故選B。insurance保險(xiǎn)。reimburse A for B因B向A償還…。recipient接受人，收款人。invalid無(wú)效的。

36. The CEO wants to meet with the ______ who are going to help refurbish the new offices over the next few weeks.

A. presenters

B. amenities

C. acquisitions

D. contractors

【答案】D

【解析】who后面的定語(yǔ)從句修飾空格處單詞。根據(jù)從句句意“幫辦公室裝修”可知空格處單詞意為“裝修公司或人等”。 Contractor意為“外包公司”，presenters意為“發(fā)表者，頒獎(jiǎng)人”，故選D。help(to)do對(duì)做…有幫助，有助于。refurbish刷新。

37. According to recent reports, the number of ______ in Allenton is expected to double by the year 2010.

A. manufacturers

B. manufacturing

C. manufactured 

D. manufactures.

【答案】A

【解析】空格部分表示“Allenton的制造商數(shù)目”。manufacturer制造商，符合句意，故選A。manufacturing制造業(yè)。manufacture制成品。二者都不符合句意。according to根據(jù)…。the number of……的數(shù)量。expect Atoido預(yù)計(jì)、期望A做。

38. Due to the high ______ of consumer complaints, the board finally decided to order a recall.

A. capacity

B. power

C. volume

D. content

【答案】C

【解析】volume意為“數(shù)量，大量”，high volume of在此處表示顧客投訴的數(shù)量很大。故選C。 complaint抱怨，不滿。recall回收(有缺陷的產(chǎn)品)。

39. It is always advisable to take the necessary ______ when dealing with chemicals on the factory floor.

A. assurance

B. restrictions

C. adherence

D. precautions

【答案】D

【解析】take precautions為慣用表達(dá)，意為“采取預(yù)防措施”，故選D。assurance 保險(xiǎn)。restrictions限制規(guī)定。adherence堅(jiān)持。三者均不符合句意。

40. For a free ______ on our consulting rates, or further information on building compliance codes, visit any Rex Construction branch.

A. numeral

B. notice

C. quote

D. quantity

【答案】C

【解析】空格處為free修飾的名詞，表示“對(duì)咨詢(xún)費(fèi)的概算”，quote開(kāi)價(jià)；引證，符合句意，故選C。consulting咨詢(xún)(為企業(yè)提供的咨詢(xún)服務(wù))。rate費(fèi)用，價(jià)格。further更多。compliance遵守，順從(規(guī)則、命令等)。code規(guī)則。

41. Raw material costs have risen so much that many companies have been forced to drastically revise their profit ______.

A. pressure

B. construction

C. projections

D. nominations

【答案】C

【解析】空格處單詞與profit搭配使用。相呼應(yīng)的關(guān)系，projections意為“預(yù)測(cè)，估計(jì)”，與profit搭配最合適，故選C。nomination提名。 raw material原料。force強(qiáng)迫。drastically徹底地。pressure壓力。nomination提名。

42. Vadmun Plumbing Supplies apologizes for any ______ caused by the delay in your shipment of adhesive materials.

A. boundary

B. consensus

C. exception

D. inconvenience

【答案】D

【解析】空格部分表示“因?yàn)檫f送推遲所帶來(lái)的不便”。inconvenience不便；麻煩，符合句意，故選D。apologize for為…道歉。delay延遲。shipment裝船，出貨。adhesive帶黏性的。

43. The author agreed to include the groundbreaking article from the scientific ______ in the appendix of his new book.

A. calculation

B. periodical

C. containment

D. publicity

【答案】B

【解析】分析句意可知空格部分修飾名詞article，表示article的出處。periodical意為“雜志，定期刊物”，符合題意，故選B。publicity意為“宣傳，廣告”，在此不符合句意。include使包含。groundbreaking開(kāi)創(chuàng)性的。appendix附錄，附屬物。

44. If you have any ______ about the products on display, one of our salespeople will be happy to assist you.

A. incidents

B. instances

C. inquiries

D. innovations

【答案】C

【解析】inquire詢(xún)問(wèn)；打聽(tīng)，符合句意“對(duì)產(chǎn)品的咨詢(xún)事項(xiàng)”，故選C。instances常用于instance of，意為“實(shí)例的”，innovation常用innovation in搭配。product產(chǎn)品。on display陳列的。assist幫助。

45. After six months in the job ______, Ms. Stevenson was finally able to get employment as a salesclerk at Henleys.

A. department

B. feature

C. location

D. market

【答案】D

【解析】考查復(fù)合名詞job market，意為“求職市場(chǎng)，人力市場(chǎng)”，故選D。employment雇傭。salesclerk商店里的店員

46. Ms. Perez is the only member of the University’s foreign languages faculty to have any experience as a ______.

A. translate

B. translator

C. translation

D. translating

【答案】B

【解析】句子的主語(yǔ)是Ms. Perez，空格處只能填表示人賓語(yǔ)。translator翻譯家，故選B。 faculty(集合的)教授陣營(yíng)，(大學(xué))教職員。

47. Although the pedestrian had suffered a painful collision with the vehicle, his ______ in the hospital has been remarkably quick.

A. recovery

B. reuse

C. retrieval

D. restriction

【答案】A

【解析】前半句表示遭遇了交通事故，后半句應(yīng)表示恢復(fù)健康。recovery意為從疾病或傷害中“恢復(fù)”，符合題意，故選A。reuse重新使用。retrieval取回；找回。Restriction約束。pedestrian步行者。collision with……外的沖突。vehicle車(chē)輛。remarkably令人吃驚地。

48. The Save the Planet Foundation arranges regular ______ and teleconference to discuss ways to preserve ecosystem.

A. gatherings

B. gathered

C. gathers

D. gather

【答案】A

【解析】空格被前面的修飾，和and后面的teleconference并列，為“名詞+and+名詞”結(jié)構(gòu)，故空格處應(yīng)為名詞，選擇A。gathering聚會(huì)。arrange安排，計(jì)劃。preserve保護(hù)，保存。ecosystem生態(tài)系統(tǒng)。

49. We had great ______ in announcing that Mr. Nelson will be joining our research team from next month.

A. pleasure

B. pleasing

C. pleasant

D. pleasurable

【答案】A

【解析】句意：我們很高興地宣布，下個(gè)月納爾遜先生將加入我們的研究小組?？崭裉幾志渲凶鱤ad的賓語(yǔ)，且空格前面有形容詞great修飾，應(yīng)填入名詞。

50. Before calling the technical help center, please consult the troubleshooting checklist in the owner’s ______.

A. manual

B. directory

C. file

D. document

【答案】A

【解析】句意：在尋求技術(shù)中心幫助前，請(qǐng)參閱說(shuō)明產(chǎn)品修理要領(lǐng)的手冊(cè)?？崭裉幱小笆謨?cè)”的意思，因此選擇manual，A項(xiàng)為正確答案。 troubleshooting解決問(wèn)題。 directory地址簿，電話簿。file文件夾，(已經(jīng)整理好的)檔案。