词汇记忆补充练习替换.doc

Quick quiz 1: Choose the one from the four choices which has the closest meaning to the underlined word. 1. The tardy progress of the work discouraged the foreman. a. rapid b. definite c. slow d. advanced 2. His boast that he was the strongest man in the village turned out not to be true. a. vaunt b. vault c. vanguard d. vouch 3. Death snatched him at a young age after he had had his first important novel published. a. prevented b. took him suddenly c. discouraged d. delayed 4. The economy experienced a severe recession, i.e. decline in real output, during the first half of the pe