48. Whatever he is faced with danger, he always _____ calm.
A.seems
B.remains
C.looks
D.appears

49. If you do not _____ by the regulations, you will get into trouble.
A.adhere
B.stick
C.insist
D.abide

50. Travel will _____ you with new customs.
A.mix
B.contact
C.acquaint
D.compare

51. Mr. Black _____ the conference in Paris last month.
A. participated
B. attended
C. presented
D. represented

52. I hope your _____ for the position of manager will be successful.
A. attempt
B. application
C. endeavor
D. inquiry

53. _____ his father, John likes to draw beautiful pictures of birds.
A. Similar
B. Alike
C. Unlike
D. Despite

54. The sales manager _____ a plan to promote sales in his company.
A. conceived
B. emerged
C. appointed
D. claimed

55. If the committee had _____ the plan he suggested, things would be quite different now.
A. elected
B. commanded
C. decided
D. adopted

56. We are always hoping that a more peaceful solution can be _____.
A. worked out
B. set out
C. tried out
D. run out

57. The past always seems better when you _____ it.
A. look back to
B. look down to
C. look up to
D. look back on

58. Scientists will have to _____ with new methods of increasing the world's food supply.
A. come to
B. come up
C. come around
D. come on

59. The author put much _____ into the novel, which appeals to many young reader.
A. passion
B. procession
C. possession
D. potential

60. Automobile production has been increased _____ .
A. highly
B. greatly
C. infinitely
D. strongly

61. While living there, she _____ the local dialect.
A. picked up
B. put forward
C. learned by
D. looked forward to

62. Our letters and newspapers are _____ at 4 o'clock every afternoon.
A. arrived
B. delayed
C. delivered
D. restored

63. I object _____ like a chil
A. to be treated
B. to being treated
C. against being treated
D. against treating

64. Wealth cannot be _____ with happiness.
A. equal
B. related
C. associated
D. identified

65. I'm obliged _____ you for your good advice.
A. for
B. by
C. to
D. with

66. I _____ Kathy yesterday at the station.
A. ran into
B. ran out
C. ran for
D. ran away

67. The south of England is certainly beautiful, but it can't be _____ the south of France for
sunshine.
A. compared with
B. compared to
C. compared by
D. compared about

68. Joe's explanation _____ the mystery of his uncle's death.
A. sets light on
B. gives lights on

C. puts lights upon
D. throws light upon

69. The results were _____ in comparison with the effort required to achieve them
A. minimum
B. tiny
C. minor
D. indispensable

70. Although the long-term _____ cannot be predicted, the project has been approved by the committee.
A. effect
B. effort
C. affect
D. afford

71. The lady told me that the form should be _____ filled in.
A. regularly
B. comprehensively

C. properly
D. consequently

72. At the end of the meeting the chairman _____ the opinions of the members.
A. added up
B. summed up
C. kept up
D. set up

73. Without further proof, the police had to _____ the suspect.
A. remove
B. receive
C. reveal
D. release

74. USA _____ the United States of America.
A. represents for
B. shows for

C. expresses for
D. stands for

75. Our car _____ to a hundred kilometers per hour.
A. reached up
B. speeded up

C. arrived up
D. ran up

76. He read through the proposal and then said he had no _____ to it.
A. denial
B. opinion
C. blame
D. objection

77. The city government has _____ them permission to open a day nursery.
A. qualified
B. granted
C. promised
D. refused

78. Eliza found it hard to _____ her attention _____ her work with TV on.
A. focus...to
B. focus...on
C. sum...up
D. sum...to

79. English teachers are _____ speak too much in class.
A. related to
B. used to
C. inclined to
D. objected to

80. She has been _____ the rain and is wet through.
A. caught up
B. caught up with

C. caught up by
D. caught in

81. The branches could hardly _____ the weight of the fruit.
A. sustain
B. maintain
C. retain
D. remain
82. The temperature has ______26 below zero.
A. fell to
B. fallen down

C. fallen to
D. falled to

83. The test ______a number of multiple choice questions.
A. composes of
B. composes in

C. consists of
D. consist in

84. Just ______him! I have never ______such nonsense in my life.
A. hear…heard
B. hear…listened to

C. listened…heard
D. listen to…heard

85. The music was so ______that the audience were _______to death.
A. boring…bored
B. bored…boring

C. bored…bored
D. boring…boring

86. We all agreed with him ______his proposals ______a Christmas party.
A. to…on
B. on…for

C. about…for
D. on…of

87. He ________us because he went to an expensive school.
A. looks up
B. looks down
C. looks down upon
D. looks up to

88. Ultrasonic sounds produce pulsed(脉冲的)signals _______various defects in metal can be
detecte
A. as a result of that
B. by means of that
C. as a result of which
D. by means of which

89. Many English words _____ the French language.
A. are derived from
B. gain from
C. derive from
D. source from

90. Martin said he had nothing _____ the damaged door.
A. to do with
B. to do to
C. to make with
D. to make to

91. I don't think this paragraph _____ .
A. gets meaning
B. makes out sense
C. gets out meaning
D. makes sense

92. This boy exactly _____ the description of the lost chil
A. answers to
B. answers with
C. answers for
D. answers into

93. I don't like Rachel. She is always _____ out of nothing.
A. taking fuss
B. taking fussy
C. making a fuss
D. making a fussy

94. Alice kept asking me to go shopping with her, and finally I _____.
A. gave off
B. got off
C. got in
D. gave in

95. No matter what happens I'll _____ you.
A. stand upon
B. back upon
C. stand by
D. back by

96. Smoking _____ his illness.
A. attributed to
B. accounted to
C. owed to
D. contributed to

97. His being here will _____ to us.
A. be indifferent
B. be not a difference
C. make not a difference
D. make no difference

98. We can't go outing today, for the weather has completely _____ our plan.
A. caused
B. effected
C. wrecked
D. interfered

99. Some people are _____ to politics; they don't know what is going on in other places.
A. curious
B. keen
C. sympathetic
D. indifferent

100. His selfless spirit _____ him for the task.
A. qualifies
B. fits
C. promotes
D. matches