【正文】 ai, Guangzhou and Chengdu suggested that nearly onefifth do not want any children. The underlined word “abandoned” means ________ in this passage. A. accepted B. discussed C. given up D. criticized, although some social science majors may still find it more difficult than their technically trained classmates to land the first job, recent graduates report that they don’t regret their choice of study. The underlined word “l(fā)and” probably means ____________. A. keep for some time B. successfully get C. immediately start D. lose regretfully seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble. That’s more or less what happened the night that Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty. “I was on the way to a personalinjury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40, blue lights and sirens going, I fell in behind a Gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder.” The meaning of “panicked” is related to ___________. A. shame B. hate C. anger D. fear my mind, attending my dream university would be the only way to realize my dream of being as writer. My parents understood how I felt. They told me that even though it would be a financial problem, I could go wherever I would be happiest. But as I was always careful with money, I wasn’t sure what to do. One of the schools that offered me a full ride had an information dinner one night in the spring. Considering my parents’ financial difficulties, I decided to drive the 45 minutes and attend. At first, all I had planned to do was smile politely, eat free food, and listen quietly. But I surprised myself. In the passage, “offered me a full ride” can be replaced by “__________”. A. would pay for transport to the school B. would show me around the campus C. would offer free meals at all events D. would charge me nothing for tuition 18th – century statesman Edmund Burke once said, “All that is needed for the success of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing.” One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights to decide whether to be used in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose argument are puzzling the public and threaten advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement attack biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing the false reports of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are puzzled that anyone would harm an animal on purpose. The underlined word “threaten” in paragraph 1 means __________. A. doing a favor B. drawing attention to C. causing a danger to D. making their way to country received its secondplace medals with visible anger after the hockey final. There had been noisy scenes at the hockey match, the losers objecting to the final decisions. They were sure that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponent victory was unfair. Their manager was in great anger when he said, “This wasn’t hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished.” The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension of the term for at least three years. What did the manager mean by saying, “Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished?”A. His team would no longer take part in international games.B. Hockey and the Federation are both ruined by the unfair decisions.C. There should be no more Hockey matches organized by the Federation.D. The Federation should break up21 The reasons for a visit to a lighthouse are not all so backwardlooking in time. It is true that lighthouses were built in outoftheway places. But on a pleasant sunny summer day, this very isolation has a natural beauty that many people will love to experience. Therefore, with the gentle waves touching all round the lighthouse, the visitor is likely to think it 13 a world preferable to the busy and noisy modem underlined phrase outoftheway in Paragraph 4 mean_______.A. faraway B. dangerous C. ancient D. secret22 However, while some seem to be lost in die desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame petition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under petitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success.The underlined phrase the most vocal in Paragraph 3 means _____. A. those who try their best to win B. those who value petition most highly C. those who are against petition most strongly D, those who rely on others most for succes23．People who live in or near cities do not usually keep livestock. However, home builders use the fact that heat rises. This natural law can be used in building houses in these areas. Instead of keeping livestock on the first floor, builders fill it with large rocks. As they are open to the sun’s rays during cold weather, these rocks take in heat. They also give off the heat, and, of course, the warm air rises into the living areas of the houses. So these houses are energysaving.The underlined words “natural law” in the third paragraph refer to the fact that ________.A．heat raises the temperature in the houses 　B．heat goes in the upward directionC．heat goes up if temperature is raised　　　　D．heat increases the temperature of rocks【針對(duì)性練習(xí)】猜詞義 15 BABBC 610 CABBC 1115 AADCC 1620 BDDCA 2123 ACB11