注：1. collaborate (文化艺术方面)合作
in collaboration with 合作
cooperation 合作
2. merge 合并;加强
3. coincide 巧合
4. constitute 构成，组成
[P13-55]
During their fist teacher training year, the students often visited local schools for the _______ of lessons.
A) observation
B) investigation
C) inspection
D) examination
注：investigation 调查
[P13-56]
He attends to the _______ of important business himself.
A) transaction
B) transition
C) transmission
D) transformation
注：1. transaction 交易
2. transition 季节的过度;社会制度的转型
3. transmission 广播电视节目的传送;疾病的传播;文化的传播
4. transformation 改变
[P13-57]
Out of _______ revenge, he did his worst to blacken her character and ruin her reputation.
A) perfect
B) total
C) sheer
D) integral
注：1. sheer 完全的，纯粹的(六级最爱)
2. revenge 报复
3. integral 完整的
integrity 诚实，正直
[P13-58]
A most ______ argument about who should go and fetch the bread from the kitchen was going on when I came in.
A) trivial
B) delicate
C) minor
D) miniature
注：1. trivial 琐碎的;价值不高的
2. fetch 取 fetch water 打水
3. delicate 【林妹妹的N个特征】精细的(尤指眼科手术)
4. minor 次要的，从属的
5. miniature 缩微的模型
[P13-59]
The children cheered up when they saw hundreds of colorful balloons _______ slowly into the sky.
A) floating
B) raising
C) heaving
D) ascending
注：1. ascending 轻的，薄的物体的上升;声音从远处传来
2. floating 漂浮的
3. raise 抚养
4. heave 举重物15.The prospect of increased prices has already ______ worries.
A) provoked
B) irritated
C) inspired
D) hoisted
16.The suspect ______ that he had not been in the neighbourhood at the time of the crime.
A) advocated
B) alleged
C) addressed
D) announced
17.Although the colonists ______ to some extent with the native Americans , the Indians' influence on American culture and language was not extensive.
A) migrated
B) matched
C) mingled
D) melted
18.E-mail is a convenient, highly democratic informal medium for conveying messages that _______ well to human needs.
A) adheres
B) reflects
C) conforms
D) satisfies
19.The wings of the bird still ______ after it had been shot down.
A) slapped
B) scratched
C) flapped
D) fluctuated
20.The disagreement over trade restrictions could seriously ?______ relations between the two countries.
A) tumble
B) jeopardize
C) manipulate
D) intimidate
21.When you put up wallpaper, should you ______ the edges or put them next to each other?
A) coincide
B) extend
C) overlap
D) collide
22.Under the present system, state enterprises must ______ all profits to the government.
A) turn down
B) turn up
C) turn out
D) turn in
23.Oil companies in the U.S. are already beginning to feel the pressure. Refinery workers and petroleum-equipment-manufacturing employees are being _______.
A) laid out
B) laid off
C) laid down
D) laid aside
24.We'll ______ you for any damage done to your house while we are in it.
A) compensate
B) remedy
C) supplement
D) retrieve
25.She cut her hair short and tried to ______ herself as a man.
A) decorate
B) disguise
C) fabricate
D) fake
26. Starting with the ________ that there is life on the planet Mars, the scientist
went on to develop his argument.
A) premise
B) pretext