词汇题主要测试应试者对大纲词汇和短语的词义、用法和搭配的辨认和运用能力。测试的重点主要有：
一、动词短语和介词短语的搭配和辨义
二、近义词辨异
三、形近词辨义
四、单词辨义
五、固定搭配关系：如动词和名词、名词与形容词、动词、名词、形容词与介词或副词之间的搭配。
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1.Example
a.Select any of these periodicals: Time, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest or The New Yorker.
b.She is studying glaucoma and other disease of the eye.
2.Comparison
a.The snow was falling. Big flakes drifted with wind like feathers.
3.Contrast
a.Most of us agreed, however, Bill dissented.
b.Peter was not fugal since he spent money so freely.
4.Definition
a.The harbor is protected by a jetty—a wall built out into the water.
b.Jane is indecisive, that is , she can’t make up her mind.
5.Restatement
a.He had a wan look. He was so pale and weak that we thought he was ill.
b.Carbon monoxide is a noxious gas which can cause death.
c.I am a resolute man. Once I set up a goal, I won’t give up easily.
6.General Knowledge
a.The door was so low that I hit my head on the lintel.
b.“We have found that no one in the freshmen class can add, multiply, subtract or divide simple sums… Therefore we are starting up a special remedial arithmetic course…”
6.The cat took refuge from the dog behind the tree.
shelter
7.Their hope of finding him alive was shattered when his dead body was found.
Break, smash, destroy,
8.He tilted his chair back too far and fell on the floor.
Incline, leap, slope
9.His belief that he was too clever to be caught in his wrongdoing was absurd.
Foolish, silly, ridiculous
均含“不合情理”、“荒唐”、“可笑”、“愚蠢的”意思。
absurd 强调“不符合人情或常识的”, 如:
It's clear to everybody that the creation of the world by God is absurd.
foolish 强调“缺乏智慧和判断力的”, 如:
What a foolish suggestion!
silly 强调“单纯、糊涂、低能的”, 如:
I can't stand her giggling, she's so silly.
ridiculous 意为“荒谬的”、“令人发笑的”, 常会有“鄙视”之意, 如:
How ridiculous!
Logical, rational, reasonable, sensible
10. She is an amiable girl and gets along with every one in the office.
good-natured, obliging, agreeable, pleasant
hated, ill-natured
11. “The sweet temper” is a figurative expression, but “sweet coffee” is not.
literal
12. Most flowers will not thrive without water and sunshine.
Bloom, boom, develop, flourish, grow, increase, mushroom, prospers,
decline
13. They buy at wholesale and sell at retail.
14. Our country is in great danger; we must mobilize the army.
15. Mr. Eisenhower preceded Mr. Kennedy as president of the United States.
Forerun, head, lead
follow
16. When a person has successfully completed a certain course of study, he is given a diploma by the school.
17. In the museum there is a miniature of the ship “Mayflower”.
minute
18. The poet used the word “flight” as a rhyme for the word “night”.
rhythm
