史上最強のボキャビルクイズ

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
(制限時間20分)

(1)To complete each item, choose the best word among the ten choices.

1.	The painter's style is very ( 　　　 ) and defies easy categorization.
2.	We warned her about the ( 　　　 ) of pursuing a career in politics.
3.	The tax ( 　　　 ) for a single pensioner is ￡445.
4.	Several local businesspeople will ( 　　　 ) the concert season.
5.	The destructive forces ( 　　　 ) cannot be brought under control.
6.	His ( 　　　 ) was often cited as the perfect squelch.
7.	The salesperson was so ( 　　　 ) that many of his customers suggested that he become a comedian.
8.	His head was totally bald-not shaven, for there were no ( 　　　 ) black spots on his scalp.
9.	It is a theme which commonly gets ( 　　　 ) treatment in the media.
10.	The ( 　　　 ) of the satin was enhanced by the candlelight.

eclectic, jocose, pitfall, rejoinder, salacious, sheen, telltale, threshold, underwrite, unleash

10問×3点＝30点　

(2)To complete each item, choose the best word among the four choices.

1.	Surreptitiously rifling through people’s drawers is morally ( 　　　 ), to say the least.
	1. transient 2. uncontroversial 3. unconscionable 4. eradicable

2.	Acting on a ( 　　　 ) that the new company's stock price would rise, I phoned my broker and bought 100 shares.
	1. zest 2. snap 3. gist 4. hunch

3.	By the year 1956 nearly all of North Africa was freed, but France continued to fight an ( 　　　 ) war to retain Algeria.
	1.accumulated 2. embedded 3. embittered 4. agitated

4.	The quality that distinguishes serious scientists and scholars is perhaps the ( 　　　 ) of their curiosity, which causes them to spend months or even years on a single quest.
	1. arrogance 2. futility 3. spontaneity 4. persistence

5.	The Hollywood movie received one ( 　　　 ) review after another, but that didn't stop millions form turning out to see it.
	1. smashing 2. smacking 3. scathing 4. lavish

6.	Officials today began the ( 　　　 ) task of recovering the bodies of the 250 passengers and crew members killed in the plane crash.
	1. idyllic 2. gruesome 3. ghostly 4. benign

7.	So intense was his ambitions to attain the pinnacle of worldly success that not even the opulence and lavishness of his material possessions seemed adequate to the ( ) of that ambition.
	1. fervor 2. ebullience 3. languor 4. transience

8.	A : How much do you think we'll need for development of the new project? B : Our forecast is that $10,000 should ( 　　　 ).
	1. prevail 2. suffice 3. transpose 4. redress

9.	The accused ( 　　　 ) the thorny questions put forward concerning his involvement in the case. T
	1. purged 2. pursed 3. parried 4. parched

10.	I can think of nothing more ( 　　　 ) than arriving at the theater and discovering that I had left the tickets at home.
	1. vicious 2. erroneous 3. vexatious 4. banal

10問×3点＝30点　