There are 15 sentences with a blank in each， followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. （1 point each， 15 points）

　　1.“Oh， no！” he said quickly， smiling at her out of that unfailing _____of contrition — a sort of chivalry.

　　2.At last， with the Vietnam War， Americans are beginning to realize that they are

　　_____ original sin as much as Europeans are.

　　3.The value of snobbery in general， its humanistic “point”， consists in its power to

　　_____ activity.

　　4.It is not altogether easy to decide what is the _____ of the love of excitement.

　　5.The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives， things would _____ well for them.

　　6.I believe that over a period of decades newspapers have become a habit a function.

　　7.Her time was_____， but she continued to sit by the window， leaning her head against the window curtain， inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.

　　8.They are always on trial， always on the _____ of failure， collectively and individually.

　　9. From the start of that campaign， I faced ________ hostility because of my sex.

　　10. A beautiful woman came along and ________ her bunch of violets， and a little boy ran after to hand them to her， and she took them and threw them away as if they‘d been poisoned.

　　11. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to ________ them with the shades of deeper meaning.

　　12. If it be true that our thoughts and mental images are perfectly ________ things， like our books and pictures， to the inhabitants of the next world， then I am making for myself a better reputation there than I am in this place.

　　13. Although I had to search， and did search， for the right words， I seemed to be making this descriptive effort almost against my will， under a kind of ________ from outside.

　　14. ________ a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor he is likely to find more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find.

　　15. And so we are suddenly ________ a sickening situation in this country.

　　A. undisguised B. tangible C. stimulate D. verge

　　E. infuse F. compulsion G. ridge H. dropped

　　I. faced with J. screened K. escalated into L. provided

　　M. vanguard N. root cause O. rather than P. subject to

　　Q. turn up R. retrenching S. increased T. retaining

　　U. turn out V. pretending W. reason X. impulse

　　答案：

　　1. X 2. P 3. C 4. N 5. U

　　6. O 7.D 8. V 9. A 10. H

　　11. E 12. B 13. F 14. L 15. I

　　4.选题

　　考核学生对词义的正确理解，学生根据上下文选择正确答案勾出。

　　Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words