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四级英语轻松过——《分类突破词汇》(8)

形容词与副词专练(1)

  All things are difficulty before they are easy.

  万事开头难。

  1. It’s quite ______ that until now we didn’t receive her reply.

  A) odds C) peculiar

  B) queer D) odd

  2. Coal is a ______ source of energy compared with other forms of energ

  y such as oil.

  A) plenty C) sufficient

  B) enough D) plentiful

  3. The organizing committee will hold a ______ meeting on Wednesday to

  discuss the schedule.

  A) preceding C) preliminaryB) previous D) prior

  4. The price of the shoes is ______ during the Spring Festival.

  A) low C) expensive

  B) small D) cheap

  5. Though Japan is now an economic giant, it has one vital weakness, that

  is, it lacks the ______ material necessary for its industry.

  A) primitive C) crude

  B) raw D) primary

  [答案与精解]

  1. D 

  [注释]真怪,至今我们都没收到她的回信。odd奇怪的(常指反常或出人意料,因而使人感到“诧异,稀奇,有趣”)。A)odds名词,差异;B)queer指“古怪、神经不正常的”或“可笑的,可疑的”;C)peculiar指“独特,异乎寻常的”。

  2. D 

  [注释]跟其他能源,如石油相比,煤的产量是很大的。plentiful指食品供应等各方面“量”多,很充足;abundant与plentiful近义,指“丰富,丰盛”,含有“盈余”的意味。

  A)plenty接of,修饰名词,指“大量的,许多的”,既可接可数名词又可接不可数名词,只用于肯定句中;否定句中用many或much;疑问句中一般用enough;B)enough指数量、程度足够或充分,多指满足物质的需要,除形容词外,还可用作名词、副词;C) sufficient比enough正式、文雅。

  3. C 

  [注释]组委会周三会召开一个预备会讨论日程安排。preliminary有别于其他三词,多指为某事而作事先准备的,如本句的“预备会”。preceding指“此前的”,多用于指文章中某一处之前的,如the preceding chapter

  上一章;B)previous多指时间发生在前的;D) prior除表示“在前的”的意思外,比previous多一层“优先”的意思。

  4. A 

  [注释]春节期间鞋很便宜。修饰price用low或high,不用cheap或expensive。

  5. B 

  [注释]日本是个经济大国,但它有一个致命的弱点,那就是缺乏工业所必需的原材料。“原材料”为raw material;原油为crude oil;原始人为primitive people。三者不可混淆。
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