英語20分鐘專題突破：名詞

1. I want to go to the post office, but I’m afraid I’m not going in the right _____.

   ― _____. Go ahead.

A. way; No        B. distance: No       C. direction; Yes      D. side; Yes

2. He managed to reach the summit of his career, but it was at the      of his health.

A. consumption       B. credit                     C. exhaustion              D. expense

3. In France it is the_________ to shake hands with people in the office every morning.

A. custom          B. behavior         C. habit              D. act

4. As we all know, the Internet will let people have       to huge amounts of information from their own homes.

A. entrance               B. way                      C. means                      D. access

5. The financial crisis has put the world economy in a difficult _________.

A. occasion       B. condition         C. evaluation         D. situation

6. ―Paul has gone abroad to try his luck.

―In my _______, his decision is not wise.

A. word         B. view             C. sight             D. way

7.  ―Jack Brown is very clever and he studies hard as well.

―No ________ he comes out first in the exams.

A. answer         B. question          C. wonder           D. problem

8. As is well known, the brain performs a very important _______, which controls the nerve system of the body.

A. motion          B. action            C. function           D. fact

9.  ―She got her first science fiction published. It turned out to be _________.

―when was that?

―It Was in 2008__________ she was still in college.

A. success; that       B. a success；when      C. success; when    D. a success; that

10. US President Barack Obama is expecting the economy to show some _________ of recovery.

A. attempts        B. signs       C. contents      D. waves

11. The_______is just around the corner and you won’t miss it.

A. shoe’s shop      B. shoe shop    C. shoes shop           D. shoes’ shop

12. What the expert has said and done will be _______ to the department managers.

A. value        B. benefit        C. of valuable    D. of benefit

13. Giving small children some money as a gift during the Spring Festival is a common ______ in China, which may seem strange to foreigners?

A. sense         B. practice        C. ground          D. habit

14. The research showed beyond ________ that smoking contributes to heart diseases.

 A. wonder       B. doubt      C. problem        D. use

15. It is a spectacular __________ as the fireworks are set off and light up the who sky during the Spring Festival.

A. look          B. view       C. scenery         D. sight

16. The Chinese are looking forward to the first _______to land on the moon after three Chinese astronauts’ successful trip to space.            

A. measure           B. attempt         C. purpose        D. desire

17. I shouldn’t have accepted the man’s present, but I found it difficult to turn down his ______.

A. offer           B. request         C. suggestion      D. plan

18. Recently CCTV Station has taken great pains to make a program that reviews the   important_____0f 2008.

A. affairs          B. events           C. matters       D. things

19. She is in a poor        of health, which worries her mother much.

A. position             B. situation            C. state           D. condition

20. The experiment turned out to be ________, which wasn’t ______ they wanted.

A. a completely failing; as              B. a complete failure; what

C. completely failure; that              D. failed; 不填

1. C  2. D  3. A  4. D  5. D  6. B  7. C  8. C  9. D  10. B  11. B  12. D

13. B  14. B  15. D  16. B  17. A  18. B  19. C  20. B