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2011年高级英语自学考试练习题三 PartⅠ Vocabulary(20%) Directions A: There are 10 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. 1. ______ friends helped him to get appointed ambassador to France.（ ） A. Efficient B. Influential C. Impressive D. Effective 2. When you go abroad to study or work, you must ______new customs.（ ） A. address yourself to B. adapt yourself to C. replace yourself with D. convince yourself to 3. Nothing will stop us in our ______ for truth.（ ） A. request B. appeal C. quest D. query 4. Examinations are not the only means of ______a student’s ability.（ ） A. assuming B. asserting C. assigning D. assessing 5. It was a shrewd move______ to buy the house just before property prices started to rise. （ ） A. on her part B. at hand C. at her expense D. on record 6. The behavior of this animal in hot weather is a ______that scientists are finding difficult to solve.（ ） A. myth B. mystery C. dispute D. fantasy 7. They tried to collect all the pictures they could ______ .（ ） A. lay their hands on B. capitalize on C. wash their hands of D. make the best of 8. There is little ______ that she will make a full recovery.（ ） A. promise B. likelihood C. foresight D. announcement 9. Mrs. Smith had ______ debts totally more than $20,000 when she died.（ ） A. gone round with B. figured out C. run up D. bound up with 10. It is ______to talk about these pop singers. People are now showing great interest in football. （ ） A. out of sorts B. out of line C. out of order D. out of fashion Directions B: There are 10 sentences in this section. In each sentence there is a word or phrase underlined. Below each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that can replace the underlined part of each sentence without changing its original meaning. 11. The lawyer was on the tr