5、The figure of speech employed in “The past is a bucket of ashes” is _________.
1. euphemism
2. litotes
3. irony
4. metaphor
6、Our work calls for mutual support. We shouldn’t _________ each other's efforts.
1. poker
2. patient
3. queen
4. king
3、Overjoyed to see his long-lost friend, Jimmy ________ a toast to the health of them all.
1. suggested
2. spoke
3. proposed
1、This story is a _________ to divert the public attention away from the issue.
1. blue moon
2. black horse
3. red herring
4. green hand
2、Come on! Cheer up! Don’t just sit here as stiff as a ________.
1. German
2. Chinese
3. Greek
4. Latin
11、I waited for Tom for ages, but he didn’t _________.
1. turn in
2. turn up
3. turn on
4. turn out
12、He was ________ of having asked such a silly question.
1. alike
2. included
3. alive
4. through
10、Words with such clusters as “ch”, “ph”, “pn”, “rh” as inchasm, phone, pneumaticandrhetoricare most probably of _________ origin.
4. is given by God
15、Choked traffic has been a(n) ________ to urban transportation system.
1. archenemy
2. main enemy
3. major enemy
4. primary enemy
16、Flying in an airplane was once thought to be an impossible ________.
1. dangerous
2. risky
3. daring
4. bold
19、I took the children to the zoo to ________ for the party they missed yesterday.
1. make away
2. make up
3. make it
4. raised
4、You were not seriously injured. Don’t make a _________ out of a _________.
1. mountain, molehill
2. mount, molehill
3. hill, molehill
4. molehill, mountain
4. birds oaurant, you ask the waiter for the _________.
1. note
2. receipt
3. bill
4. menu
9、Exercise seems to benefit the brain power of the healthy and the sick, the young and the old ________.
1. active
2. interact
3. counteract
4. activate
7、They all thought that she and her boyfriend were ________.
1. birds of a kind
2. birds of a type
3. birds of a breed
4. make of
20、The Old English word stān means ________ in modern English.
1. miserable
2. guilty
3. sorry
4. ashamed
13、I took only a _________ of beans with me and left.
1. hand
2. handful
3. handy
4. handed
14、1. According to the divine-source theory, language ________.
1. task
2. problem
3. promise
4. profession
17、No new ideas _______ from the meeting.
1. merged
2. submerged
3. emerged
4. immerged
18、The scientists realized it would be too ________ to ship all people in one boat because it was fragile.
1. the result of our ancestors imitating natural sounds around them
2. originated from human physiological adaptation
3. originated from the link between physical gestures and orally produced sounds