1. The peotry of Ezra Pound is sometimes difficult to understand because it contains so many ________ references.
A. obscure
B. acute
C. notable重要的显著的
D. objective客观的真实的
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references ：参考书典故推荐信
reference letter = recommendation letter
absurd荒谬的可笑的
obscure晦涩的
ambiguous模棱两可的晦涩难懂的
instant dictionary快速字典
answer：A
2. The major was asked to ________ his speech in order to allow his audience to raise questions.
A. constrain
B. conduct指挥
C. condense浓缩使简介
D. converge豫东物体的集聚和汇合思想和思潮的荟萃
con：前缀代表together
自己判断太简单的单词一定不会考
answer：C
3. The morning news says a school bus ________ with a train at the junction and a group of policemen were sent there immediately.
A. bumped 【bumped against/on运动物体撞静止物体】
B. collided 【collide with两个运动的物体相撞两国冲突】
C. crashed飞机失事砸碎打碎崩溃【关于崩溃的词：crumple、collapse 】
D. struck【strick打击、stikingly令人惊讶地】
boost you up
a bundle of pundits一捆牛人
fist拳头
two-fisted sportsman全能运动员【two-fisted左右开弓】
bite咬着
morphine麻醉剂
hypnosis催眠
bite the bullets咬住子弹
answer：B
4. Sometimes patients suffering from severe pain can be helped by drugs that arent really drugs at all ________ sugar pills that contain no active chemical elements.
A. or rather
B. rather than
C. but rather【nobut rather不是而是】
D. other than
severe：严重的
relieve缓解
sugar pills糖片
therapy疗法
remedy解决问题地方法治愈疾病的方法
comedy喜剧
【常考连词】
orraher = accurately speaking
A rather than B宁要A不要B
if = provided that
all alone 独自独立地
all the +形容词比较级【副词连接副词】
e. g. You will be all the better for a holiday.
你渡一次假会更好。
for certain = certianly
for all that后面跟从句= despite that尽管虽然
in that = because
let alone至于更不用说= not to mention that
but for = except for ; without莫非要不是
but that = except that后面跟从句
but then = on the other hand
now that既然
answer：C