This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies as jumping sheep and c...

李老师

This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies as jumping sheep and crooked pictures, and evoke the phantom of a crushing, stupendous Bore.
        A. lose sight of        B. give up                C. play with                D. make up for
2. In the story, there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth’s poems is the only sure ________.
        A. incredulous        B. soporific                C. solitary                D. indispensable
3. There is much work which is exceedingly irksome.
        A. pleasant                B. satisfactory        C. annoying                D. dissatisfactory
4. The Army would rescind the magazine’s accreditation to cover the war.
        A. give honor to        B. pay attention to  C. pay respect to        D. put an end to
5. The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth.
        A. attraction                B. praise                        C. worship                D. form
6. It was in the ________ light of the early dawn that I saw a man moving towards me.
        A. dark                        B. dim                        C. damp                        D. dizzy
7. He ________ for a whole week before making that important decision.
        A. thought of                B. depended on        C. meditated                D. wondered
8. Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery.
        A. great pleasure                                        B. serious mistake       
C. hard and dull work                                D. important duty
9. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold and million-dollar treasures, the wrecks and their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all.
        A. knowledge                B. attraction                C. luxury                D. glare

10. The cult of beauty must therefore be symptomatic of changes that have taken place outside the economic sphere.
        A. superior to        B. the signs of        C. bringing about        D. sympathized by
11. In short, a lot of television usurps one of the most precious of all human gifts, the ability to ________ your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it.
        A. seize                        B. use                        C. apply                        D. focus
12. After twenty years of antagonism, the two countries were finally ______.
A. friendly                B. agreeable                C. peaceful                D. reconciled
13. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to ________ his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find.
        A. gain                        B. impair                C. recover                D. loosen
14. There’s no longer any moral indignation. And if there is, it comes from people who are almost exhausted from past indignities inflicted on them.
        A. agreement                B. approval                C. anger                        D. standard
15. Driving after drinking Whiskey is ________ to cause traffic accidents.
        A. about                        B. tempted                C. apt                        D. assured
16. The incredible precision of the equipment is ________ to the mechanical skill of the engineers who built it.