（B）fortuitous
（C）impeccable
（D）solicitous
11 When she handed in her term paper late, Diane ______ a story that her computer had crashed. The truth is that she doesn't even use a computer.
[考研类试卷]2016年中国海洋大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷
一、Vocabulary
1 The great ballplayer and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson was the______of both physical and moral strength.
（C）survived; destroyed
（D）was survived; was destroyed
14 I'll be with you in______.
（A）one quarter of an hour
（B）a quarter of one hour
（C）a quarter of an hour
（A）insinuated
（B）fabricated
（C）misconstrued
（D）derided
12 The writer Thoreau had no liking for______. He wrote in his journal, "That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
（A）fluctuate
（B）persevere
（C）rehabilitate
（D）recapture
5 Professor Rubin never______during a lecture. Even his jokes related to the day's topic.
（A）succumbed（A）opulene（B）proximity
（C）affinity
（D）sagacity
13 The building______the earthquake but then______by a fire.
（A）was survived; destroyed
（B）survived; was destroyed
（C）vibrant
（D）vicarious
9 Bob can't get his boss to say whether or not he intends to give him a raise. When Bob asks him, he ______, saying, "You've been doing good work, Bob."
（C）fluorescent
（D）comprehensive
4 Most prisons make little effort to______inmates so that they can lead productive, wholesome lives after their release.
（B）infamous
（C）grisly
（D）hypocritical
7 Melissa is so______that she wants to be with other people even when she's studying.
（A）ostentatious
（B）gregarious
（C）scrupulous
（D）dexterous
8 If you can't afford to travel, reading guidebooks can give you a (n) ______experience of traveling in foreign countries.
（A）optimum
（B）sensory
（A）as patient teacher
（B）a patient a teacher
（C）as patient as teacher
（D）as patient a teacher
17 ______Derek nowadays; he's so busy at the office.
（A）epitome
（B）episode
（C）animosity
（D）apotheosis
2 Those vicious Hollywood reporters often______movie stars, forever damaging their public images.
（A）absolve
（A）blurs
（B）equivocates
（C）inundates
（D）disavows
10 When she auditioned for the play, Julie gave a (n) ______performance. She read the lines perfectly.
（A）reprehensible
（D）a quarter of hour
15 John was the first person I saw______hospital.
（A）on leaving
（B）by leaving
（C）in leaving
（D）on to leave
16 She was______as anyone could have had.
（B）curtailed
（C）distracted
（D）digressed
6 Dr. Segura has a ______ sign on his office door: "I'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in?"
（A）facetious
（B）applaud
（C）impair
（D）malign
3 In______disregard of his parents' stated wishes, Steven wore a T-shirt and jeans to their dinner party.
（A）conventional
（B）flagrant