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大学英语六级词汇练习-3
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[单项选择]Online schools, which ______ the needs of different people, have emerged as an increasingly popular education alternative.
A. stir up
B. consent to
C. switch on
D. cater to
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[单项选择]Back in the days when people traveled by horse and carriage, Karl Benz ______ the world with his extraordinary three-wheeled motor vehicle.
A. quenched
B. inhibited
C. stunned
D. extinguished
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[单项选择]The cycles of the sun and moon are simple but ______ forces which have shaped human lives since the beginning.
A. gigantic
B. maximum
C. sensational
D. frantic
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[单项选择]Children’s idea of a magic kingdom is often dancers in animal ______ as they have often seen in Disneyland.
A. cushions
B. skeletons
C. ornaments
D. costumes
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[单项选择]I was so ______ when I used the automatic checkout lane in the supermarket for the first time.
A. immersed
B. delicated
C. thrilled
D. assaulted
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[单项选择]The institution has a highly effective program which helps first-year students make a successful ______ into college life.
A. transformation
B. transaction
C. transmission
D. transition
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[单项选择]America has now adopted more ______ European-style inspection systems, and the incidence of food poisoning is falling.
A. solemn
B. rigorous
C. discrete
D. autonomous
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[单项选择]F.W. Woolworth was the first businessman to erect a true skyscraper to ______ himself, and in 1929, Al Smith, a former governor of New York, sought to outreach him.
A. commemorate
B. exaggerate
C. portray
D. proclaim
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[单项选择]Ever since the first nuclear power stations were built, doubts have ______ about their safety.
A. suspended
B. survived
C. lingered
D. preserved
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[单项选择]In the study, researchers succeeded in determining how coffee ______ different areas of the brain in 15 volunteers.
A. motivated
B. activated
C. illuminated
D. integrated
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[单项选择]In the face of the disaster, the world has united to aid millions of ______. people trying to piece their lives back together.
A. vulnerable
B. fragile
C. susceptible
D. primitive
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[单项选择]Around 80 percent of the ______ characteristics of most white Britons has been passed down from a few thousand Ice Age hunters.
A. spontaneous
B. intelligible
C. genetic
D. random
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[单项选择]AIDS is a global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution, which is not only the responsibility of nations in which AIDS is most ______.
A. vigorous
B. relevant
C. prevalent
D. rigorous
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[单项选择]Is it possible to stop drug ______ in the country within a very short time
A. contemplation
B. compulsion
C. adoption
D. addiction
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[单项选择]We will also see a ______ increase in the number of television per household, as small to displays are added to clocks, coffee markers and smoke detectors.
A. surpassing
B. suppressing
C. startling
D. stacking
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[单项选择]The developing nations want rich countries to help shoulder the cost of ______ forests.
A. constructing
B. conserving
C. upgrading
D. updating
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[单项选择]An effort was launched recently to create the first computer ______ of the entire human brain.
A. simulation
B. saturation
C. repression
D. repetition
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[单项选择]Researchers have found that happiness doesn’t appear to be anyone’s ______; the capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself.
A. hostage
B. domain
C. heritage
D. disposal
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[单项选择]Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and ______.
A. durability
B. capability
C. stability
D. availability
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[单项选择]Habits acquired in youth-notably smoking and drinking-may increase the risk of ______ diseases in a person’s later life.
A. cyclical
B. chronic
C. critical
D. consecutive
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[单项选择]Initially. the scientists and engineers seemed ______ by the variety of responses people can make to a poem.
A. depressed
B. embarrassed
C. bewildered
D. reinforced
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[单项选择]The Beatles, the most famous British band of the 1960s, traveled worldwide for many years, ______ cultural barriers.
A. transcending
B. transferring
C. transplanting
D. transporting
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[单项选择]This clearly shows that crops and weeds have quite a number of ______ in common.
A. tracks
B. traces
C. trails
D. traits
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[单项选择]Various efforts have been made over the centuries to predict earthquakes, including observing lights in the sky and ______ animal behavior.
A. absurd
B. abnormal
C. exotic
D. erroneous
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[单项选择]Ancient Greek gymnastics training programs were considered to be an ______ part of the children’s education.
A. infinite
B. intact
C. inclusive
D. integral
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[单项选择]The panda is an endangered species, which means that it is very likely to become ______ without adequate protection.
A. insane
B. exempt
C. intact
D. extinct
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[单项选择]If you are late for the appointment, you might ______ the interviewer and lose your chance of being accepted.
A. intimidate
B. intrigue
C. iritate
D. irrigate
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[单项选择]When the Italian poet Dante was ______ from his home in Florence, he decided to walk from Italy to Paris to search for the real meaning of life.
A. exiled
B. expired
C. exempted
D. exerted
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[单项选择]Grey whales have long been ______ in the north Atlantic and hunting was an important cause for that.
A. deprived
B. extinct
C. detained
D. extinguished
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[单项选择]Foreign students are facing unprecedented delays, as visa applications receive closer ______ than ever.
A. scrutiny
B. scanning
C. appraisal
D. retention
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[单项选择]After the earthquake, a world divided by ______ and religious disputes suddenly faced its common humanity in this shocking disaster.
A. epidemic
B. strategic
C. ethnic
D. pathetic
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[单项选择]Psychologists suggest that children who are shy are more ______ to develop depression and anxiety later in life.
A. engaged
B. eligible
C. prospective
D. prone
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[单项选择]We want our children to have more job skills; we want their lives to be ______ and their perspectives to be broadened.
A. envisaged
B. exceeded
C. enriched
D. excelled
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[单项选择]They are trying to ______ the risk as much as they can by making a more thorough investigation of the market.
A. summarize
B. minimize
C. harmonize
D. jeopardize
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[单项选择]This kind of songbird sleeps much less during its annual ______, but that doesn’t seem to affect its flying.
A. emigration
B. migration
C. conveyance
D. transference
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[单项选择]Our research confirmed the ______ that when children have many different caregivers, important aspects of their development are liable to be overlooked.
A. syndrome
B. synthesis
C. hierarchy
D. hypothesis
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[单项选择]Because of the ______ of its ideas, the book was in wide circulation both at home and abroad.
A. originality
B. ambiguity
C. subjectivity
D. generality
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[单项选择]From science to Shakespeare. excellent television and video programs are available ______ to teachers.
A. in abundance
B. in operation
C. in store
D. in stock
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[单项选择]The parents of Lindsay, 13, an ______ tennis player who spends eight hours a day on the court, admit that a regular school is not an option for their daughter.
A. equivalent
B. elite
C. exotic
D. esthetic
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[单项选择]To label their product as organic, farmers have to obtain a certificate showing that no ______ chemicals have been used to kill pests on the farm for two years.
A. tragic
B. toxic
C. notorious
D. nominal
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[单项选择]His arm was ______ from the shark’s mouth and reattached but the boy, who nearly died, remained in a delicate condition.
A. repelled
B. retrieved
C. retained
D. restored
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[单项选择]He was given major responsibility for operating the remote manipulator to ______ the newly launched satellite.
A. retrieve
B. retreat
C. embody
D. embrace
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[单项选择]He has ______ to museums hundreds of his paintings as well as his entire personal collection of modem art.
A. donated
B. ascribed
C. designated
D. attributed