超星 - Vocabulary 2 - 查题吧

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People often choose to________ to another country for economic and political reasons.

A. immigrate
B. immigrant
C. immigration
D. emigrate

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.It had been an abominable afternoon, culminating at about six o’clock in her father’s attempted suicide.

A. pleasant
B. boring
C. terrible
D. pitiful

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.She cross-examined any guests who had pretensions to legal or medical knowledge.

A. claim
B. intelligence
C. excuse
D. attention

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.He was smiling whimsically, a gentle, self-regarding smile of reminiscence.

A. remember
B. memorize
C. recollection
D. recall

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.Sophisticated instruments, which took weeks to analyze the wave’s velocity and pressure, confirmed Fermi’s instant estimate.

A. experienced
B. complicated
C. important
D. beautiful

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.It doesn’t matter whether the discovery is as momentous as determining the yield of an atom bomb or as insignificant as counting pennies in a jar.

A. historical
B. insignificant
C. seriously
D. important

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.There were some people up in front of the desk lieutenant, a dejected looking man with long moustache and a loud, blonde woman.

A. happy
B. rejected
C. disappoint
D. despondent

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.Helen went off, disdainfully holding her long formal skirt up with her hand.

A. contemptuously
B. scornful
C. respectfully
D. angrily

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.He stepped forward timidly and ran his hand over the silk front and touched the smooth mahogany with reverence.

A. reference
B. respect
C. revenge
D. revenue

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Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.They manoeuvered and haggled for half an hour, until at last Dando offered a pound less than Ma had asked for him.

A. bargained
B. offered
C. discussed
D. hanged

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