Section 2 Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in each of the blanks.(10%)
21. Little girls and elderly ladies in kimonos ______ teenagers and women in western dress.
a. rubbed shoulders with
b. rubbed shoulder with
c. rubbed the shoulder with
d. rubbed the shoulders with
22. Don’t to the temptation to have just one cigarette.
a. submit
b. surrender
c. succumb
d. subscribe
23. The temple was with lights.
a. bedecked
b. festooned
c. garlanded
d. bejeweled
24. We met Mary and her husband at a party two months ago. ____ we’ve
had no further communication.
a. Thereof
b. Thereby
c. Thereafter
d. Thereabouts
25. It would be ______, but no more than waiting here for certain detection.
a. perilous
b. hazardous
c. parlous
d. chancy
26.At last this intermezzo ______, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.
a.came to end
b. came to the end
c. came to an end
d. came to ending
27. Everyone who has visited the city agrees that it is ____ with life.
a. vibrant
b. violent
c. energetic
d. full
28. He is a man of competitiveness.
a. congenital
b. hereditary
c. ingrained
d. inbred
29. After the sparring over legalities, Darrow got up to make his opening statement.
a. preliminary
b. prefaced
c. introductory
d. groundwork
30. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all of blandness gone.
a. deception
b. pretense
c. simulation
d. affectation
