1. Why should anyone want to read ________ of books by great authors when the real pleasure comes from reading the originals.
A. digests
B. insights
C. themes主题
D. leaflets 活页印刷品反页印刷品传单
original原著
answer：A
2. Parents have a legal ________ to ensure that their children are provided with effcient education suitable to their age.
A. impluse冲动
B. obligation
C. influence影响
D. sympathy 【adj. sympathetic 】
answer：D
3. Most nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a ________.
A. scarecity缺乏
B. shortage
C. minimum最小量最低额
D. monority少数少数派少数民族
but转折表示少数
maximum最大量最大额
minimize使最小化
maximize使最大化
answer：D
4. David likes country life and has decided to ________ farming.
A. go back on背弃背叛【back回来 hold back阻碍】
B. go in for以为兴趣参加某件事【疯狂的倾向in=into for代表forward 】
C. go through with完成做完【through从A到B 表示某事完成】
D. go along with陪伴同意
动词+ adv. +介词
看副词
answer：A
5. Jack was about to announce our plan but I ________.
A. cut him short 请把我头发剃短使中断缩短
B. turned him out驱逐迫使放弃
C. gave him up 【give sb. up断绝关系give up sb.放弃】
D. put him through 【put sb. through使某人经受考验】
cut me hear自首
answer：B
6. I am sure I can ________ him into letting us stay in the hotel for the night.
A. speak
B. talk
C. say
D. tell
answer：B
7. Last year, the crime rate in chicago has sharply ________.
A. slipped滑落
B. lessoned减小缩小 - 后面只能为抽象意义的影响或者重要性
C. descended
D. declined下降经济衰退
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If you work under a car when repairing it, you often get very ________.
A. waxy象蜡的
B. slipped光滑的湿滑的也可以形容地面
C. sticky粘性的粘的
D. greasy油污的满身油污的【grease油脂】
answer：D』
非正式文体中crime rate也能被slip
answer：D
8. The publication of the poets most recent works will certainly ________ his national reputation.
A. enhance增加
B. strengthen 使数量形状程度增强
C. enlarge扩大具体的范围或尺寸
D. magnify放大扩大夸大夸张
answer：A
【political image政治面貌influx潮涌一般的多】
9. Recently a number of cases have been reported of young children ________ a violent act previously seen on television.
A. modifying修改
B. stimulation刺激激励
C. accelerating加速
D. duplicating复制模仿
需要的词义为模仿
ac前缀的词
access accession
accede v允诺同意
accelerate加速促进
celer = quick
62题的D. accumulate累计聚集
cumulate = heap up
cumulative累计的
accustom v使习惯
acknowledge使承认
answer：D
10. This kind of material can ________ heat and moisture.
A. delete
B. compel
C. repel抵御驱逐拒绝
D. constrain
answer：C