2015教师资格考试英语词汇：专项练习（13）

　　中小学教师职业道德规范教师资格证报名条件

　　4. In order to _____ the rising production costs, the subscription rates have been increased.

　　A. add up to

　　B. look up to

　　C. cut short

　　D. keep up with

　　【答案】D. keep up with.

　　【注释】 keep up with跟上。cut short 详见.38;look up to(=admire, respect)赞美，尊敬：We look up to the old workers as our teacher.(我们把这位老工人尊为我们的老师。)本题中rates意为价格，费用。

　　本题译文：为了跟上生产成本的上升，预定费已提高。

　　5. Your essay is quite good: just _____ it _____ with a few illustrations and quotations.

　　A. put up

　　B. touch up

　　C. cut out

　　D. write off

　　【答案】B. touch up.

　　【注释】 touch up(=improve or perfect by small additional strokes or alterations)润色，修饰：(1)The last part of the article needs to be touched up.(这篇文章的最后一部分需要润色。) (2)He touched up the picture by strengthening and shadows.(他把画修饰了一下，使光明部分和阴暗部分的对比度更鲜明。)

　　put up举起，提高，留宿;cut out 删掉;write off取消，勾销。

　　6. I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into _____ when judging my examination.

　　A. regard

　　B. account

　　C. thought

　　D. observation

　　【答案】B. account.

　　【注释】 take sth. into account(=consider)考虑到：We must take local conditions into account.

　　7. There are three basic ways of _____ language to writing, and all known graphic systems use one or a combination of these.

　　A. committing

　　B. attaching

　　C. comparing

　　D. relating

　　【答案】A. committing.

　　【注释】 commit...to 托付，交付：1) He was committed to the care of his aunt.(他被托付给他的姨妈照管。) 2) I have already committed the rules to memory.(我早已记住这些规则了。)

　　commit sth. to writing(把......写下来)。

　　8. Roses are quite _____ flowers in English gardens.

　　A. ordinary

　　B. Common

　　C. Usual

　　D. general

　　【答案】B. common.

　　【注释】common(=usual and ordinary; happening of found often and in many places)普通的;常见的;常常发生的;到处可见的：a common experience(普通的经历);a common tree(常见的树木)。This bird is common throughout Europe.(这种鸟在欧洲很常见。)They can treat most of the common diseases.(他们能治疗大多数常见病。)

　　usual(=done, found, used or existing most of the time) 经常的，通常的，惯例的，习以为常的;强调时间习惯方面，例如：This is the usual state of the house. (这房子里平常就是这种样子。)

　　ordinary正常的，普通的，正常的;an ordinary day(平凡的一天)，ordinary people(普通人), a piece of ordinary dance music(一首普通的舞曲)。

　　General普通的。它与common比较，语气稍强，含有很少例外的意外。

　　可见本题中用common是最佳的选择。

　　9 American women were _____ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.

　　A. ignored

　　B. Refused

　　C. Neglected

　　D. denied

　　【答案】D. denied.

　　【注释】 deny 1)否认：A. He didnt deny the facts. B. They couldnt deny that it was a serious blow to them. C. He denied having ever there.(他否认曾到过那里。) 2)(=say to a request; refuse to give sth. asked for or needed)不给予;Lots of people were denied the right to vote.(许多人被剥夺了选举权。)He denies his wife nothing.(他对他的妻子有求必应。)

　　10. On turning the corner, we saw the road _____ steeply.

　　A. departing

　　B. decreasing

　　C. descending

　　D. depressing

　　【答案】C. descending.

　　【注释】 descend(=come or go down)下降;下倾：1)He descended from the top of the mountain. 2)Are men descended from apes?(人是不是猿的后代?)