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2009年3月试题解析 韩诚忠 1. Drink coffee when you’re sleepy; it’s a good ________ and will help to keep you awake.A. incentive B. prompt C. stimulus D. appetite incentive n.: something which encourages a person to do something prompt n.: computer jargon; actor’s help stimulus n.: something that causes growth or activity; something which causes part of the body to react appetite n.: when you feel you want or need something A. There is little incentive for people to leave their cars at home when public transport remains so expensive. B. v. Recent worries over the presidents health have prompted speculation over his political future. C. 1) The tip of the tongue is sensitive to salt and sweet stimuli and the back of the tongue is sensitive to bitter stimuli. 2) The book will provide a stimulus to research in this very important area. D. Ive read an excerpt of the book on the Web and its whetted my appetite (= increased my interest in it). 2. Nearly 1000 people are presumed dead as chances ________ of finding more survivors from the sunken Egyptian ferry. A. bubble B. dwindle C. sway D. shiver bubble v.: to produce bubbles; (bubble up) to rise to the surface or become obvious dwindle v.: to become less in number or smaller sway v.: to move slowly from side to side; to persuade (someone) to believe or to do something shiver v.: (esp. of a person or animal) to shake slightly and quickly because of feeling cold, ill, or frightened A: She laughs, a tinkling musical childs laugh, bubbling up out of her. B: The community had dwindled to a tenth of its former size. C: 1. The trees sway in the wind. 2. Were you swayed by her arguments? D: Your creepy look makes me shiver.Robbins shivered in the chill air. 3. The only way he escaped from the bitter reality was to lose himself in a movie, allowing his imagination to __, viewing himself as a character in it.A. take up B. take on C. take off