2010年MBA英語測試附答案（第三周）

　　1. He found it hard to ___ the temptation to get drunk.

　　A) resign B) resist C) refuse D) reserve

　　2. If you don't dry the knife, it will ___.

　　A)  ruin B) rust C) decay D) spoil

　　3. It's too late to change your mind now, so there's no point in ___ tears over it.

　　A) discarding B) streaming C) shedding D) flowing

　　4. She ___ and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.

　　A)  slipped  B) skated C) spilt D) split

　　5. The children had been ___ of the danger, but had taken no notice.

　　A) warned  B) alerted  C) threatened D) persuaded

　　6. Franklin's ability to learn from observations and experience ___ greatly to his success in public life.

　　A) contributed  B) owed C) attached D) related

　　7. Half the students were ___ as they bored with the lessons.

　　A) yielding  B) yawning C) stooping D) straining

　　8. It is not profitable to provide bus services in districts where the population is widely ___.

　　A) scattered B) separated  C) spaced D) divided

　　9.The car accident was ___ to the driver's violation of the traffic regulations.

　　A) assigned B) contributed C) attributed D) transferred

　　10. This meat is rather tough; you have to ___ it for a long time.

　　A) chew B) bite C) eat D) swallow

　　11. This terrorist attack has been ___ by the entire international community.

　　A) condemned B) scolded C) criticized D) blamed

　　12. What these young men were doing ___ a threat to the safety of the whole neighborhood.

　　A) constructed B) constituted  C) contracted  D) contributed

　　13. Natural gas can be used to power cars by ___ their engines.

　　A) converting B) condensing C) transferring D) transmitting

　　14. Humidity is so intense in some parts of the tropics that Europeans find they are unable to ____it.

　　A) maintain B) persist C) endure D) sustain

　　15. The road was so icy that the drivers had trouble stopping their cars from ___.

　　A) drifting  B) cruising C) sliding D) sloping

　　16. Once we'd ___ the subject of Jill's wedding, we had nothing to say to each other.

　　A) exerted  B) executed C) exhausted D) explained

　　17. Despite the rescuers' strenuous（艱苦的） efforts, hopes of finding the missing climbers are now beginning to____.

　　A) decrease B) fade C) loosen D) faint

　　18. Don't ___ to contact me if you need any more information.

　　A) hesitate B) pause C) postpone D) frighten

　　19. After a day's work, people may feel ___ to relax themselves by reading or watching TV.

　　A) inclined  B) intended C) declined D) subjected

　　20. This machine works very well so long as no one ___ with it.

　　A) disturbs B) upsets C) interrupts D) interferes

　　二、完形填空

　　The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases _1_ the trial of Rosemary West.

　　In a significant _2_of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a _3_bill that will propose making payments to witnesses _4_and will strictly control the amount of _5_that can be given to a case _6_a trial begins.

　　In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he _7_with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not _8_sufficient control.

　　9_of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a _10_of media protest when he said the _11_of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges _12_ to Parliament.

　　The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which _13_the European Convention on Human Rights legally _14_in Britain, laid down that everybody was _15_ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

　　"Press freedoms will be in safe hands _16_our British judges," he said.

　　Witness payments became an _17_after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were _18_to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised _19_witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to _20_guilty verdicts.

　　1 A．a(chǎn)s to B．for instance C．in particular D．such as

　　2 A．tightening B．intensifying C．focusing D．fastening

　　3 A．sketch B．rough C．preliminary D．draft

　　4 A．illogical B．illegal C．improbable D．improper

　　5 A．publicity B．penalty C．popularity D．peculiarity

　　6 A．since B．if C．before D．a(chǎn)s

　　7 A．sided B．shared C．complied D．a(chǎn)greed

　　8 A．present B．offer C．manifest D．indicate

　　9 A．Release B．Publication C．Printing D．Exposure

　　10 A．storm B．rage C．flare D．flash

　　11 A．translation B．interpretation C．exhibition D．demonstration

　　12 A．better than B．other than C．rather than D．sooner than

　　13 A．changes B．makes C．sets D．turns

　　14 A．binding B．convincing C．restraining D．sustaining

　　15 A．a(chǎn)uthorized B．credited C．entitled D．qualified

　　16 A．with B．to C．from D．by

　　17 A．iMPAct B．incident C．inference D．issue

　　18 A．stated B．remarked  C．said D．told

　　19 A．what B．when C．which D．that

　　20 A．a(chǎn)ssure B．confide C．ensure D．guarantee

　　答案：

　　詞匯

　　1答案：B

　　譯文：他發(fā)現(xiàn)醉酒之后很難抵御住誘惑。

　　2答案：B

　　譯文：如果你不讓刀干了，他就會生銹。

　　3答案：C

　　譯文：你現(xiàn)在改變主意已經(jīng)太遲了，所以為此而傷心落淚是毫無用處的。

　　4答案：A

　　譯文：她滑倒了，從樓梯最上邊摔倒最低下。

　　5答案：A

　　譯文：孩子們已經(jīng)被警告有危險，但他們對此置之不理。

　　6答案：A

　　譯文：弗蘭克林從觀察和經(jīng)驗中獲取的能力大大有助于他在公眾生活中的成功。

　　7答案：B

　　譯文：一半的學(xué)生都厭倦了這堂課。

　　8答案：A

　　譯文：在人群散布的地方，提供公交車服務(wù)是沒有利潤的。

　　9答案：C

　　譯文：這起汽車事故歸因于司機(jī)不遵守交通規(guī)則，野蠻駕駛。

　　解析：attribute… to  歸因于 assign:  v. 分配,指派 contribute to:  vt. 有助于(貢獻(xiàn)給) transfer to:  轉(zhuǎn)入

　　10答案：A

　　譯文：這肉太硬了，你得多嚼會。

　　bite  咬    eat 吃    swallow   吞

　　11答案：A

　　譯文：恐怖襲擊已被全世界所反對。

　　12答案：B

　　譯文：這些年輕人所做的事情給整個鄰里的安全構(gòu)成了威脅。

　　13答案：A

　　譯文：利用轉(zhuǎn)換發(fā)動機(jī)，天然氣可用于汽車。

　　14答案：C

　　譯文：在熱帶的一些地區(qū)，濕度如此之大，以至于歐洲人難以適應(yīng)。

　　15答案：C

　　譯文：路太滑了，以至于司機(jī)剎車時會有麻煩。

　　16答案：C

　　譯文：一旦我們用盡了Jill的婚禮的主題，我們就互無話可說了。

　　execute    執(zhí)行       explain  解釋

　　17答案：B

　　譯文：盡管營救者付出了艱苦的努力，但找到失蹤登山者的希望現(xiàn)在開始逐漸消失。

　　18答案：A

　　譯文：如果你需要進(jìn)一步的信息，不要猶豫，立即聯(lián)系我。

　　19 答案：A

　　譯文：一天的工作之后， 人們會樂于看看書，看看電視，放松自己。

　　20答案：D

　　譯文：只要沒有人打擾，這臺機(jī)器工作良好。

　　完形填空

　　答案：1 D 2 A 3 D 4 B 5 A 6 C 7 D 8 B 9 B 10 A 11 B 12 C 13 B 14 A 15 C 16 A 17 D 18 C 19 D 20 C