备考2007年12月四六级考试：六级英语词汇练习

1. Each week there is a meeting at which workers are encouraged to present their _____ to the managers.
A. annoyances
B. disadvantages
C. grievances
D. criticisms

2. The _____ at the football match became violent when their team lost.
A. spectators
B. groups
C. observers
D. customers

3. Many apartments have doors with a security window so that one may _____ outside and observe visitors without being seen.
A. peer
B. peek
C. peel
D. peen

4. The _____ among his sisters was that he ought to marry the girl as soon as possible to avoid a scandal.
A. consensus
B. survey
C. statistics
D. concentration

5. The teacher was amazed by the students' ______ in handling the computer.
A. verse
B. version
C. variability
D. versatility

6. Her letter was in such a casual scrawl, and in such pale ink, that it was almost _____.
A. unintelligible
B. vague
C. ambiguous
D. illegible

7. When I went into the dining room the next morning, the _____ of the dinner were still on the table.
A. remains
B. relics
C. remnants
D. surplus

8. She was a shy woman and took _____ behind a rather forbidding bluntness of manner.
A. appearance
B. refuge
C. kindness
D. protection

9. Can man escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly _____ throughout our world?
A. wise
B. scholarly
C. imprudent
D. sage

10. The brothers showed great _____ to their older sister, who had acted as sold parent to them for many years.
A. compliance
B. devotion
C. subjection
D. allegiance

11．Only the _____ of the office manageress, who knew of Alice's personal difficulties, saved her from being dismissed.
A. interpretation
B. inquisition
C. interrelation
D. intervention

12. When we have agreed broadly on what should be said, the secretary will produce a preliminary _____ for the committee's approval.
A. project
B. design
C. draft
D. proof

13. French cars are more elegantly styled than their British _____.
A. counterparts
B. equals
C. ones
D. copies

14. The two small independent countries entered into _____ with each other and they felt less afraid of their powerful neighbor.
A. combination
B. alliance
C. cooperation
D. union

15. He was so _____ in the book that he forgot all about his appointment.
A. distracted
B. attracted
C. gripped
D. engrossed