2010同等学力英语词汇考点特训

1. "Who is responsible for sending out misinformation?" "Most of the fault lies _____ the administration."

 A. in    B. to    C. on    D. with

[答案]D. with.

[注释]lie with应由.......（承担责任）；（作出决定等）得靠...... 1)The responsibility lies with the driver.(责任应由这个司机承担。) 2)It lies with you to accept or reject he the proposal.(接受还是拒绝这项建议由你决定。)

lie in在于： 1)The difficulty lies in their great poverty.(困难在于他们非常贫困。) 2)the solution lies in social and political reform.(解决方法在于社会政治改革。)

2. People who live in a small village are bound to see a good _____ of each other.

A. sum    B. quantity    C. deal    D. amount

[答案]C. deal

[注释]see a good deal of each other 经常见面。

3. Maria _____ missed the first train so as to travel on the same one as John.

 A. deliberately    B. intensively 

C. decisively      D. objectively

[答案]A. deliberately

[注释]deliberately(=on purpose, intentionally)故意地；存心地。

4. They always kept on good _____ with their next-door neighbors for the children´s sake.

A. friendship    B. relations    C. intentions    D. terms

[答案]D. terms.

[注释]keep (be) on good terms with与......和睦相处。

5. Do you think a wife should _____ her habits and tastes to those of her husband?

A. comply    B. confirm    C. consent    D. conform

[答案]D. conform.

[注释]conform vi遵守，符号：All the students must conform to the rules.(全体学生必须遵守规章。)conform sth. to sth. else(vt)使符合：He conformed the plans to the new specifications.(他使这些集合符合新规范。)      comply with遵守；confirm使坚定，确认，证实；consent (to)同意，赞同。

6. He was afraid that the branch might bend over and break, and he would be sent _____ to the ground.

A. crashing    B. throwing    C. rushing    D. dropping

[答案]A. crashing.

[注释]crash(to the ground)猛跌（到地上）。Crash n.
常指飞机等的“失事”，如：He was killed in an aircraft crash.(他在飞机失事中丧生。)本句中用falling不妥，fall指“落下，掉下”，本身并不强调落下的速度，而crash使“猛跌”，故本题用crashing最佳。