2008高考英语总复习词汇380题详解291---310

291. Tell your brother to come _____, because it's going to rain in a minute or two.
A. indoors    B. outdoors    C. outward    D. inwards
[答案] A. indoors
[注释] 按句子的逻辑意思应选indoors adv. 向屋里；在屋里，inwards adv，向内，向中心，outward 向外。outdoors 是 indoors 的反义词。
本文译文: 叫你兄弟进屋来，因为天马上要下雨了.
292. I can't advise you what to do. You must use your own _____.
A. opinion    B. guesswork    C. justice    D. judgment
[答案] D judgement
[注释] judgement 判断。guesswork 猜测，justice 正义，公正，ideal 理想。
293. Because of the poor harvest, wheat prices have _____ in the last six months.
A. added    B. jumped    C. amounted    D. developed
[答案] B. jumped.
[注释] jump (=rise suddenly in price) 指“(价格)暴涨”。
294. There is a 20 minute parking _____ here, so we must get back to the car very quickly.
A. freedom   B. limit C. allowance D. prohibition
[答案] B. limit.
[注释] parking limit 意为在停车场“停车的时间限制”。a 20 minutes parking limit (停车时间限制为20分钟).
295.The country needs a _____ government. We have had three Prime Ministers in a year.
A. stationary B. changeless C.constant D.stable
[答案] D. stable.
[注释] stable 稳定的。stationary 静止的，不变的，固定的。changeless 不变的，无变化的。constant 经常不断的。
296. Having said he would mend the clock, he discovered that he had not brought the _____ tools for the job.
A. concise    B. correct    C. right    D. precise
[答案] C. right.
[注释] right 适当的，恰当的:He is the right man to do the job。(他是干这项工作的合适人选) concise 简明扼要的，correct 正确的；exact 确切的： exact time 确切的时间，exact age 确切的年龄，exact weight 确切的重量； exact weight 确切的重量；exact information 确切的信息；exact cause 确切的原因；exact meaning 确切的意思。
297. Radium salts, which have been found to _____ in bones, give rise to cancers of the bone.
A. pile up    B. build up    C. keep up    D. pull up
[答案] B. build up.
[注释] build up(=accumulate) 积累。pile up 堆积。keep up 保持，维持。 pull up 停车。
298. It has been laid down that each student must _____ a composition to the teacher once a week.
A. turn in B. give up C. put forward D. bring out
[答案] A. turn in.
[注释] turn in(=hand in) 上交。
299. Our house is the most _____ one in the street; it is painted red.
A. permanentB.indifferentC.predominant D. prominent
[答案] D. prominent.
[注释] prominent 突出的；突起的。indifferent 漠不关心的；permanent 永久的；predominant 占优势的，主要的。
300. I shall take you back to Beijing _____ you are well enough to travel.
A. presently B. promptly C. immediately D. shortly
[答案] C. immediately
[注释] immediately(=directly) 作连词用，意为“一……就……”，相当于 as soon as .
301. The writer was always looking for suitable _____ to use in his next story.
A. contents    B. articles    C. notions    D. ideas
[答案] D. ideas.
[注释] idea(= thought； picture in mind)念头，思想，想法。
302. He gave me some very _____ advice on buying a house.
A. precious    B. worthy    C. precise    D. valuable
[答案] D. valuable.
[注释] valuable 宝贵的，有价值的，常可修饰advice， suggestion， assistance， discovery等名词。 precious“贵重的”如: precious metals(贵金属)，precious stone(宝石)。
303. You will get to the church more quickly if you take this _____ across the fields.
A. track    B. passage    C. method    D. journey
[答案] A. track.
[注释] track(=path made by frequent use)意指“(常走而踏成的)小径”，如:a track across the moor(越过荒野的小径)。passage“通路”，如:force a passage through a crowd(在人群中挤出的一条通路). 可见此处选passage不妥.
304. A landing on Mars is within the _____ of current physical theory.
A. scheme    B. scope    C. scrap    D. scale
[答案] B . scope.
[注释] scope 范围，活动范围，理解犯围: 1 Many words are outside the scope of this dictionary. (许多单词是超出了这本词典的范围.) 2 Very hard words are not within the scope of a child's understanding。(非常难懂的词是超出了一个孩子的理解范围.) 3 Economics is beyond the scope of a child's mind.(经济学是孩子理解不了的.)
305. He was _____ by a bee when he was collecting the honey.
A. scratched    B. pricked    C. stung    D. bitten
[答案] C. stung.
[注释] sting 刺，蛰，叮。在英语中蜜蜂蛰用 sting ；而蚊子“叮”用 bite，如: A mosquito just bit me.(狗、蛇，咬)，钧用 bite ，scratch 搔，prick vt. 扎(穿)，刺(穿)
306. Don't go too far into the sea, children, or the waves will _____ you off your feet.
A. flow    B. cut    C. press    D. sweep
[答案] D. sweep.
[注释] sweep sb，off sb's feet 由两层意思，直义为“(浪等)把某人冲倒”，转义是“使产生强烈的好感，使完全信服”，如: His speech swept them off their feet。(他的演说使他们五体投地.)
307. The store had no more red shoes _____, so Mary chose brown ones instead.
A. in demand B. in store C. in need D. in stock
[答案] D. in stock.
[注释] in stock(=having sth. ready to sell or use；in present supply) 有现货供应: The shop has suger in stock.(这个商店有白糖供应.) in demand(=needed；wanted；) 有需求: The book about dogs was much in demand in the library.(=Many people wanted to read the book about dogs that in the library.) in need(=in poverty，in trouble)在贫困中，在困难中: A friend in need is a friend indeed。(A friend who helps when one is in trouble is areal friend.) in store(=saved up in case of need； ready for use for some purpose) 储备待用:于If the electricity goes off，we have candles in the closet.(=We have candles put away if we need them for light.)(如果电灯灭了，我们壁橱里还备有蜡烛.)
[注意] in stock 强调商店备有现货以供出售，而 in store 则指储备物品以供急需使用。此外 in store 还可以表示“等待着，必将发生”。例如: I have a surprise in store for you.(我有一个你料想不到的消息要告诉你。)
本题译文: 这家商店没有红鞋供应，所以玛丽买了一双宗色的鞋.
308. Bill is not a fast runner and he doesn't have a chance of winning the marathon, but he will _____ the race even if he finishes last.
A. keep on    B. keep to    C. stick out    D. stick to
[答案] C. stick out.
[注释] stick out(=keep on doing sth。until it is done，no matter how long，hard，or unpleasant) 坚持下去: Mathematics is hard，but if you stick it out you will understanding it(=Mathematics is hard，but if you keep on working hard at it you will learn it.) 此外，stick on 还可表示 (stand out) 突出: The skyscraper sticks out against the bkue sky.(这幢摩天大楼映着蓝图显得格外突出.)
[注意] stick out与keep to 均有“坚持”的含义。stick out 特指“坚持下功夫干一件事，不完成决不收兵”；而keep to 则强调“坚持、遵守、坚守”诺言、规则、原则、精神、岗位。可见，keep to 的英文释义为 ability by；adhere to，stick closely to。例如: keep to one's promise(遵守诺言)；keep to the rules of a game(遵守比赛规则)；keep to a principle(坚持原则)；keep one's pos(坚守岗位)。因此，我们可以说keep to相当于 stick to，而区别于 stick out.
309. Can you _____ me _____ two hundred copies of this article by tomorrow.
   A. give .. out     B. send .. in
   C. write .. off    D. run .. off
[答案] D. run…off.
[注释] run off(=produce with a printing press or duplicating machine)印刷，复印：The print shop ran off a thousand copies of the newspaper.(=The print shop printed 1000 copies of the newspaper.)
write off报废，勾销。参阅Ⅲ.200.注释。give out分发，发出。send in 呈报，递交，送上: 1 Have you sent in your application?(你是否已递交了你的申请书?) 2 He sent in two oil paintings for the exhibition.(他送上两幅油画参展.)
310. The current political _____ of our country is favorable for foreign investments.
A. climate    B. weather    C. state    D. occasion
[答案] A. climate.
[注释] climate 指某一地区的长期气侯，而weather则指某一天的“天气”。本题中的climate(=the general temper or opinion of a group of the people or period of history) 指“某一团体历史时期的总的状况和民意”。例如: climate of the political unrest 不稳定的政治状况. state(=condition) 状态；be in a state of 处于某种状态. 例如: 1 The room was in a very dirty state. 2 She is in a state of confusion.(她处于慌乱状态.) 由上可见，climate 最合题意.
本题译文: 我国目前的政治气候有利于外国的投资.

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