雅思词汇：雅思词汇量自测

猜词练习：不用词典，猜测下面这些加粗单词的意思。(先别看后面的答案)

1. To carry out his economic programs, Roosevelt had to contend with a Supreme Court that was deeply opposed to those programs.
a. travel
b. surrender
c. struggle
d. join

2. Being unable to write clearly is a liability in a business career. In business, one must often express opinions and ideas in writing.
a. drawback
b. surprise
c. necessity
d. penalty

3. The idea that off-track betting will work in Alaska because it works in New York is a questionable analogy. New York and Alaska may not be alike when it comes to off-track betting.
a. comparison
b. purpose
c. contrast
d. requirement

4. Indigenous life forms—the cactus and the camel in the desert, the polar bear and the seal in the Arctic, and so on—are suited to their environment in very specific ways.
a. native
b. dangerous
c. extinct
d. recent

5. There is an optimum way to approach each kind of exam question. For a multiple-choice item, for example, first eliminate any clearly wrong answers. For an essay question, jot down an outline first.
a. inconvenient
b. best
c. annoying
d. time-consuming

6. Studies indicate that a predisposition to schizophrenia is inherited. People who are schizophrenic are more likely than others to have schizophrenic children.
a. tendency
b. understanding
c. fear
d. avoidance

7. By giving military aid to dictatorships in Latin America, the United States has seemed to sanction their cruel policies.
a. criticize
b. approve
c. remember
d. create

8. A provocative question can be an effective way to open an essay. Students have begun essays with such interesting questions as, "What do you think your name means?" and "How long do you think it would take you to count to one billion?"
a. funny
b. arousing interest
c. unanswerable
d. very brief

9. Manic depression is an emotional disorder in which the patient alternates between feeling delightfully euphoric and being plunged into deep gloom.
a. overjoyed
b. bored
c. exhausted
d. curious

10. What makes up a true work of art? Although no single criterion seems adequate, the novelist James Joyce suggested three standards: "wholeness, harmony and radiance."
a. novel
b. question
c. artist
d. standard

11. Anthropologists，learned scientists who devote their lives to the study of man as a member of the animal kingdom， have taken these bones and they have been able to reconstruct our earliest ancestors with a fair degree of accuracy.

a. biologist

b. psychologist

c. specialist studying science of human being

d. specialist studying human’s nature

12. Admiration of one quality often leads us to admire a person as a whole, and he becomes an identifying figure. We use some people as models over a wide range of situations, imitating much that they do. We learn that they are dependable and rewarding models because imitating them leads to success.

a. serves as a model for others

b. is always successful

c. can be depended upon

d. has been rewarded for his success

13. If we so desire，we can smoke，drink excessively，refuse to wear seat belts，eat whatever foods we want，and live a completely sedentary life style. without any exercise.

a. inactive

b. with complete freedom

c. decent

d. vice

14. There are the hassles over bathrooms, telephones and privacy. Some families, however, manage the delicate balancing act.

a. agreement

b. disadvantages

c. worries

d. quarrels

15. Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. But in the executive circle, beauty can become a liability.

a. misfortune

b. instability

c. disadvantage

d. burden

16. To determine the consequences of sleep deficit, researchers have put subjects through a set of psychological and performance tests requiring them, for instance, to add columns of numbers or recall a passage read to them only minutes earlier.

a. the performance tests used in the study of sleep deficit

b. special branches of knowledge that are being studied

c. people whose behavior. or reactions are being studied

d. the psychological consequences of sleep deficit.

17. As a crossroads (where two roads cross each other) people have four alternatives. They can choice to go straight ahead, to the left, to the right, or back where they came from. At a fork in the road(where a road split), people have only three choices.

a. a place where two road meet

b. the road straight ahead of a person

c. one of the things that a person can choose

d. a spilt in road

18. The family wanted to buy a new car, so they added up their money. However, they found that they could not afford a new one. They did, nevertheless, have enough money for a good used car.

a. to have enough money to buy something.

b. to add up one’s money

c. to be a family

d. to use a car well

19. The train schedule stays the same all year. The hours for the train to leave, to stop at the stations, and to arrive in the c