Test for English majors, band 4, vocabulary

1. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
When you have finished with that novel, don’t forget to
return to Tom, ____________?
A. will you B. do you C. don’t you D. won’t you
选A

2. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 这个考点多次出现
When you have finished with that book, don’t forget to
put it back on my desk, _____? (2008年真题）
A. do you B. don’t you C. will you D. won’t you
When you have finished with the book, don’t forget to
return to Tim,_____?(2011年真题)
A. won’t you B. don’t you C. will you D. do you

3. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 这个考点多次出现
When you‘ve finished with the book, don’t forget to put it
back on the shelf. (2015年真题）
A. do you B. haven't you C. will you D. don't you

4. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
Cities have nonprofit associations, usually made up of
Fire Department personnel working on their own time to
provide ____________ inspections.
A. free home fire-safety B. home free fire-safety
C. fire-safety free home D. fire-safety hone free
选A

5. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 相似考点
She was once a young country wife with chickens in the
backyard and a view of _____ mountains behind the
apple orchard. (2018年真题）
B. hazy blue Virginia

6. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
口诀“美小圆旧黄，中国木书房”:美小圆旧黄，中国木书房。
美代表描述类或性质类形容词，小代表大小、长短、高低、胖瘦类形容
词。圆代表形状类形容词，旧代表新旧年龄类形容词，黄代表颜色类形
容词，中国代表来源、国籍、地区、出处类形容词，木代表物质、材料、
质地类形容词，书代表用途、类别、功能、作用类形容词，房代表中心
名词。
hazy意为“朦胧的”，描述性质，对应“美”；blue表示颜色，对应“黄”；
Virginia表示地点，对应“中国”。

7. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
There is no means _______ a man will not resort to
avoid the real labor of thinking.
A. where
B. that
C. when
D. to which

8. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
• resort to something
to do something bad, extreme, or difficult because you
cannot think of any other way to deal with a problem
Eg., Officials fear that extremists may resort to violence.
• resort to doing something
Many homeless teenagers resort to stealing when their
money runs out.

9. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
Person A: Where is Tim?
Person B: He might be next door.
What is the function of the modal auxiliary verb “might” in
the reply?
A. To express relief.
B. To dramatize a fact.
C. To indicate possibility.

10. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
After a confused silence, the speaker attempted a weak reply
only to halt midway to confer with his assistant and finally to
admit that he had made a mistake.” The two infinitive
phrases after “midway” are used to _______.
A. show purpose
B. indicate result
C. indicate manner
D. predict consequence

11. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
Which of the following italicized phrases is INCORECT?
A. The town is now ten times its original size. B. The
seller asked for double the usual price. C. I wish I had
two times his strength. D. They come here four
times every year.

12. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
21. The program includes an _______ of program
teachers.
A. array
B. arrangement
C. agreement
D. assortment

13. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
a group of people or things, especially one that is large
or impressive
an array of ……
a dazzling array of flowers
a vast/impressive/wide array
There was a vast array of colors to choose from.

14. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
assortment
a mixture of different things
assortment of
a wide assortment of friends

15. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
array侧重相同，assortment侧重不同。而在同一人群中，所选
择的项目应该是差不多的，也应为“一批、一系列”的课程更为合理。

16. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
The volcano _______ on Friday, opening up an
800-meter-long crack in its crater.
A. ejected
B. erupted
C. spewed
D. ignited

17. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
eject
• to make someone leave a place or building by using force
eject somebody from something
The demonstrators were ejected from the hall.
• to make someone leave a job or position very quickly
• eject somebody from something
workers have been ejected from their jobs with no warning.
• to suddenly send something out
Two engines cut out and the plane started to eject fuel as it lost height.

18. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
Spew
• spew out/forth
to flow out of something quickly in large quantities, or to
make something flow out in this way
Factory chimneys spewed fumes out into the sky.
• spew from/into/over etc
Brown water spewed from the tap.

19. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
erupt
• if fighting, violence, noise etc erupts, it starts suddenly.
SYN break out
Violence erupted after police shot a student during the
demonstration.
• if a volcano erupts, it explodes and sends smoke, fire,
and rock into the sky

20. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
As previously suspected, the inhabitants of the region
hunter-gatherers living relatively _________ lifestyles.
A. separated B. remote C. lonely D. solitary

21. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021真题：language usage
solitary
• used to emphasize that there is only one of something (SYN single)
the solitary goal of the match
• doing something without anyone else with you
a long, solitary walk
• spending a lot of time alone, usually because you like being alone (OPP
a solitary man
Pandas are solitary creatures.
He led a rather solitary existence.

22. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
The governor posted a statement online saying he
to _________ his comments.
A. clarify B. clear C. cleanse D. clean

23. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
The country is making progress on its bailout reform
commitments but bad bank loans could ______ a
fledgling recovery.
A. divert B. deconstruct C. distract D. derail

24. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
derail
• if a train derails or something derails it, it goes off the
tracks
• to spoil or interrupt a plan, agreement etc
a mistake that might derail the negotiations

25. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
divert
• to change the use of something such as time or money
divert something into/to/(away) from something
The company should divert more resources into
research.

26. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
26. The parents almost collapsed upon learning that their
child had been diagnosed _____ a rare disease.
A. for B. as C. with D. over

27. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2020年真题：language usage
The patient was diagnosed with liver cancer.
The disease was diagnosed as liver cancer.
如果一定要以“人”为主语同时使用“diagnosed as”的话，可以表
达成：The patient was diagnosed as having liver cancer.

28. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
Major airlines have banned the transport of hunting trophies
from Arica in the ____________ of the outrage over the
shooting death of a lion in Zimbabwe.
A. call B. wake C. result D. midst
in the wake of something
• if something, especially something bad, happens in the
wake of an event, it happens afterwards and usually as a
result of it

29. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
in the midst of something
a) if you are in the midst of an event or situation, it is
happening around you
The government is in the midst of a major crisis.
b) in the middle of a place or a group of things or people
We were sitting in the midst of an elegant and well-
dressed audience.

30. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
The ___________ cited study suggested that parental
involvement in homework can boost a student’s
academic performance.
A. widely B. likely C. popularly D. eventually

31. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
Salespeople here are paid on a commission basis;
however, continued employment is based on their ability
to sell service contracts rather than ____________.
A. commodity B. product C. produce D. merchandise

32. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
commodity
• a product that is bought and sold
agricultural commodities
Commodity prices fell sharply.
product
something that is grown or made in a factory in large quantities,
usually in order to be sold
agricultural/dairy/software etc products

33. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
Produce [uncountable]
• food or other things that have been grown or produced on a farm
to be sold
agricultural/organic etc produce
fresh local produce
merchandise [uncountable]
• goods that are being sold
A range of official Disney merchandise was on sale.

34. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
30. Anthropologists were intrigued to learn that
Kennewick Man was ________ different from today’s
native Americans.
A. anonymously B. autonomously C. anatomically D.
analogously

35. 词汇专题精讲 （第5-6课时）
• 2021年真题：language usage
Analogy analogous
Anonymous
Autonomous
Anatomy anatomical