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17. What is most obvious in this book are all those details of daily living which make Mrs. Richard _____ common.

A. nothing butB. anything butC. above all D.rather than

[答案] B. anything but.

[注釋] anything but (=far from being) 根本不; The boys knew they bad broken the rules, and they were anything but happy when they were called to the office. (=They were unhappy and afraid.) nothing but 只不過; Don't have him for a friend; he's nothing but a criminal. (不要把他當朋友, 他只不過是個罪犯。) I have nothing but two dollars. (我只有2美元。) above all最重要的。rather than 而不是

16. The firemen managed to _____ the fire in time.

A. extinguish　 　B. prevent　 　C. suppress　 　D. ruin

[答案] A. extinguish.

[注釋] extinguish (=put out) vt. 撲滅 (火焰等) 。Stop the fire雖然也可以搭配, 但按本句題意用extinguish為最佳。

15. It was a great _____ for him to be pleasant to people he didn't like.

A. attempt　 　B. trouble　 C. power 　　D. effort

[答案] D. effort.

[注釋] effort (作可數名詞用) (=vigorous attempt) 努力的嘗試：Does it require a great effort of will to give up smoking? (戒煙需要堅強的毅力嗎？)

14. He has impressed his employers considerably and _____ he is soon to be promoted.

A. eventually 　　B. yet　 　C. finally 　　D. accordingly

[答案] D. accordingly.

[注釋]accordingly (=for that reason, therefore) 因此, 所以。

13. I could just see a car in the distance, but I couldn't _____ what color it was.

A. look out 　B. make out　 　C. get across　 　D. take after

[答案] B. make out　　　 [注釋] 詳見III,123注釋。

12. The worker agreed to _____ the strike if the company would satisfy their demands.

A. call for　 　B. call forth　 　C. call off 　　D. call up

　[答案] C. call off　　　 [注釋] 詳見III,25,26注釋。

11. The managing director took the _____ for the accident, although it was not really his fault.

A. guilt　 　B. charge　 　C. blame　 D. accusatio

[答案] C. blame.

[注釋]take the blame for 對......承擔責任。Take charge of 負責管理 (照顧) 。[注意]charge 前無冠詞the.

10. The new secretary has written a remarkably _____ report only in a few pages but with all the details.

A. concise 　B. clear　 　C. precise 　D. elaborate

[答案] A. concise.

[注釋] concise (=brief; giving much information in few words) 簡明扼要的：He gave a concise report of the meeting. (他對會議作了簡明扼要的報道。) clear 清楚的。precise (=exact; correctly stated; free form error) 精確的, 明白無誤的; Please tell me the precise measurements. (請告訴我精確的尺寸。) elaborate (=worked out with much care; carefully prepared) 精心制作的, 豐盛的：Peter worked out an elaborate scheme for raising the money. (彼得制定了一項詳盡得計劃來籌集著筆款項。) 孤立地看, 似乎4個形容詞均能修飾report, 但從句子的邏輯關系看, 后半句中有only in a few pages but with all the details, 故concise 是最貼切的選擇了。

9. More than one-third of the Chinese in the United States live in California, _____ in San Francisco.

A. previouslyB. predominantlyC practicallyD. permanently

[答案] B. predominantly.

[注釋] predominantly (=mostly; mainly) 主要地。 previously (=coming earlier in time or order) 先前, 早先; This is better than any solution previously. (這個辦法比以前提出的任何解決辦法都好。) practically (=really; in a practical way) 實際上。permanently (=going on for a long time) 永久地。

本題譯文：在美國, 華人中有三分之一居住在加利福尼亞洲, 其中主要是在舊金山。

8. No one has _____ been able to trace the author of the poem.

A. still　 　B. yet 　C. already 　D. just

[答案] B. yet

[注釋] yet 常用于現在完成時的否定句中, 意為“尚, 還”。