1. "Who is responsible for sending out misinformation?"

"Most of the fault lies _____ the administration."

A. in    B. to    C. on    D. with

[答案]D. with.

[注釋]lie with應由.......（承擔責任）；（作出決定等）得靠...... 1)The responsibility lies with the driver.(責任應由這個司機承擔。) 2)It lies with you to accept or reject he the proposal.(接受還是拒絕這項建議由你決定。)

lie in在于： 1)The difficulty lies in their great poverty.(困難在于他們非常貧困。) 2)the solution lies in social and political reform.(解決方法在于社會政治改革。)

2. People who live in a small village are bound to see a good _____ of each other.

A. sum    B. quantity    C. deal    D. amount

[答案]C. deal.

[注釋]see a good deal of each other 經常見面。

3. Maria _____ missed the first train so as to travel on the same one as John.

A. deliberately    B. intensively

C. decisively      D. objectively

[答案]A. deliberately.

[注釋]deliberately(=on purpose, intentionally)故意地；存心地。

4. They always kept on good _____ with their next-door neighbors for the children´s sake.

A. friendship    B. relations    C. intentions    D. terms

[答案]D. terms.

[注釋]keep (be) on good terms with與......和睦相處。

5. Do you think a wife should _____ her habits and tastes to those of her husband?

A. comply    B. confirm    C. consent    D. conform

[答案]

[注釋]conform vi遵守，符號：All the students must conform to the rules.(全體學生必須遵守規章。)conform sth. to sth. else(vt)使符合：He conformed the plans to the new specifications.(他使這些集合符合新規范。)      comply with遵守；confirm使堅定，確認，證實；consent (to)同意，贊同。

6. He was afraid that the branch might bend over and break, and he would be sent _____ to the ground.

A. crashing    B. throwing    C. rushing    D. dropping

[答案]A. crashing.

[注釋]crash(to the ground)猛跌（到地上）。Crash n.

常指飛機等的“失事”，如：He was killed in an aircraft crash.(他在飛機失事中喪生。)本句中用falling不妥，fall指“落下，掉下”，本身并不強調落下的速度，而crash使“猛跌”，故本題用crashing最佳。

7. High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage    B. decrease    C. disturb    D. disgust

[答案]A. discourage

[注釋]discourage sb. from doing sth.使認為某事不值得做：Tht wet weather discouraged people from going to the sports meeting.(下雨天使人覺得不值得去看運動會。)