大学英语每日一练（8-3）

141. It’s bad ________ for a man to smoke in the public places where smoking is not allowed.

A. way

B. manners

C. action

D. movement

【答案】B。解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：在禁止吸烟的公共场合抽烟是不礼貌的。way 方式，道路;manners 礼貌，礼节，有道德约束方面的含义;action 指具体的行为动作;movement，运动。故选B。

142. ________ more careful, his ship would not have sunk.

A. Had the captain been

B. If the caption were

C. Should the captain be

D. If the caption would have been

【答案】A。解析：考查虚拟语气。句意：要是船长再小心一点，他的船就不会沉了。根据句意并结合四个选项可知，本句包含一个省略了 if 的条件句。根据主句中的 would not have sunk 可知，句中表示的是与过去情况相反的假设，所以从句谓语动词应用"had+过去分词"形式。另外，虚拟条件句省略if 时，从句要用部分倒装，即将句中的 had, were, should等词提至主语之前。故选 A。

143. Don’t mention that at the beginning of the story, or it may ________ the shocking ending.

A.give away

B.give out

C.give up

D.give off

【答案】A。解析：句意：在故事的开始不要先提那个，否则会泄露令人吃惊的结局(因而故事也不精彩了)。give away泄露、赠送;give out分发、散发;give up放弃;give off散发气/光/热。故选A。

144. He ________ some French while he was away on a business trip in Paris.

A.made out

B.picked up

C.gave up

D.took in

【答案】B。解析：句意：他去巴黎出差时学会了点法语。make out辨认出，理解;pick up捡起、收听、接送、不费力的学会;give up放弃;take in欺骗、吸收、理解。故选B。

145. The engine of the ship was out of order and the bad weather ________ the helplessness of the crew at sea.

A.added to

B.resulted from

C.turned out

D.made up

【答案】A。解析：句意：轮船的发动机出故障了，坏天气增加了在海上救助船员的困难。add to增加;result from起因于;turn out结果是;made up编造、组成、化妆。故选A。

146. He was in hospital for six months. He felt as if he was ________ from the outside world.

A.cut out

B.cut up

C.cut off

D.cut through

【答案】C。解析：句意：住院6个月了，他感觉好像和外部世界隔绝了一样。cut out删去;cut off切断，阻碍;cut up切碎;put off推迟，拖延。故选C。

147. The sports meeting will be ________ next week because of the bad weather.

A.put off

B.put away

C.put up

D.put down

【答案】A。解析：句意：由于天气恶劣所以运动会将被推迟到下周举行。put away收拾、放好、存储;put up放上、举起;put down放下、记下;put off推迟，相当于delay。故选A。

148. Readers can ________ quite well without knowing the exact meaning of each word.

A.get over

B.get in

C.get along

D.get through

【答案】C。解析：句意：不了解每个单词的准确含义，读者(在阅读时)也进展很好(读得懂)。get over克服;get in进入;get through通过;get along well进展顺利。故选C。

149. Tom and Mary’s house bought last year is ________ Lucy’s.

A. the three size of

B. three times the size of

C.as three times large as

D. three times as larger as

【答案】B。解析：考查倍数表达法。句意：汤姆和玛丽去年买的房子是露西的三倍大。考查的是倍数表达法：“倍数+ the +名词+ of”。故选B。

150. The tree, the branches ________ are almost bare, is a very old one.

A. whose

B. in which

C. of which

D. which

【答案】C。解析：考查定语从句的关系词。句意：这棵树枝几乎光秃秃的，是一棵很老的树。树干和树枝为所属关系，关系代词可由“of+which(whom)”来引导。故选C。