超星 - Vocabulary 3 - 查题吧

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.My mother always contended that it was never too late to send a thank-you note, but, like all gracious gals of her generation, she never tarried more than a few days anyway.

A. retarded
B. delayed
C. lingered
D. remained

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This is gratitude's dirty side—a thank-you as buttering up or bribery.

A. bride
B. brick
C. corruption
D. bribe

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What I had heard altered the look of the world, induced in me a temporary paralysis of will and impulse.

A. aroused
B. caused
C. deduced
D. seduced

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She was the soul of discretion, so silent, so trustworthy, one could tell her everything, and so on.

A. praise
B. prudence
C. delicacy
D. disdain

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He had received his legacy. She had told him a truth. She had stepped off the kerb to rejoin her lover.

A. reunite
B. return
C. revisit
D. unite

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The man paid no attention to anyone and he ate with frightful voracity.

A. hunger
B. greedy
C. disgrace
D. vagueness

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But at that moment when Jean Valjean stopped at the foot of the bed this cloud was rent asunder as if expressly, and a moonbeam passing through the tall window suddenly illumined the Bishop's pale face.

A. clearly
B. especially
C. obviously
D. plainly

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He could see her now sitting next to old Sir Edward; and making a conquest of that formidable old man, his chief.

A. admirable
B. slightest
C. frightened
D. dissuadable

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Historical friends and crossroads friends seem to maintain a special kind of intimacy—dormant but always ready to be revived.

A. active
B. competed
C. vied
D. static

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If a friend takes you skiing a few times and you reciprocate by sending him a new down jacket, but he'll love the jacket but probably be uncomfortable at now being in debt to you.

A. alternate
B. reward
C. return
D. resent

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