超星 - Unit 5 Vocabulary & Grammar - 查题吧

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Man has also ______ the face of the earth by draining marshes and cutting through mountains to build roads and railways.

A. modified
B. duplicated
C. accelerated
D. stimulated

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There was a thin strip of silver beach rising quickly to hills covered to the top with luxuriant ________.

A. sceneries
B. lawns
C. flowers
D. vegetation

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A hammer can be used to build a beautiful kitchen cabinet or it can be used as a weapon of ________.

A. bait
B. barrel
C. assault
D. anchor

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Under their feet, the grass was fresh; beautiful shadows of branches ______ upon it, andspeckled it.

A. sparkled
B. flickered
C. flashed
D. twinkled

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Temperature rose to the _______ limit throughout the country and people were obliged toremain indoors for weeks on end.

A. lethal
B. humid
C. tedious
D. immutable

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His ______ manner of speaking might be occasionally taken by the unwary as a reflection ofthe pace of his mind.

A. appropriate
B. polite
C. considerable
D. deliberate

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Although the guy _______ her feelings for him, he was still taken aback and had never expectedher to react that way.

A. knews as
B. knew of
C. knew
D. knew for

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The two countries will restore full diplomatic relations now that they have _____ their long-standing border dispute.

A. settled
B. concluded
C. dissolved
D. confined

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My parents have absolute trust in my sisters and me. They' ve never interfered with or ______on our friends.

A. made sure
B. took care
C. thought over
D. checked up

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Before the advent of ______ fibers, people had to rely entirely on natural products for makingfabrics.

A. applicable
B. flexible
C. synthetic
D. invariable

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