1. It isn't so much whether he works hard; the question is whether he works _____.
A. above all B. in all C. at all D. after all

[答案]C. at all.

[注釋]at all全然，真地（常用于肯定句中）：
If you do it at all, do it well.(你若真做，就得做好。)

not...at all全不，毫不：
He doesn't seem at all interested in my plane.(他似乎對我的計劃毫無興趣。)

above all(=most important of all)最重要的。

in all總計：
We were fifteen in all.(我們總計15人。)

after all畢竟，終究。
本題譯文：他是否努力工作到并不重要，問題是他是否真正地做了。

2. Mary had taken _____ to see that her guests had everything that they could possibly want.
A. efforts B. pains C. attempts D. endeavors

[答案]B. pains.

[注釋]take pains to do sth.下苦功夫做某事：
I'm grateful because you have taken pains to show me how to do the work.

3. He ate what he could, and gave the _____ of the food to the birds.
A. remain B. uneaten C. rest D. part

[答案]C. reset

[注釋]the rest (of)剩余部分，其余。remain作“剩余物”(=what is left)解時常用復數(shù)形式，如：the remains of a meal(殘羹剩飯)。[ALI]《新英漢辭典》認為也可以用單數(shù)，可作參考。

4. The government placed _____ on the numbers of foreign cars that could be imported.
A. limitations B. restraint
C. requirements D. restrictions

[答案]D. restrictions.

[注釋]restriction(可數(shù)名稱)限制性規(guī)定：
It is a club with rigid restrictions on its membership.

Limitation局限性，不足之處，不利之處（可數(shù)）：
1)I know my limitations.(我了解我的不足之處。)
2)Every from of art has its limitations.（每種藝術形式都有其局限性。）

5. We won't know whether it will be successful. We won't know whether there will be good _____.
A. ends B. results C. effects D. causes

[答案]B. results.

[注釋]result意為“由某種活動或某種原因所產(chǎn)生的結果”，如：
obtain(=get, attain, gain win, secure)good results（取得好結果），publish the results（公布成績）。

6. No one imagined that the apparently _____ businessman was really a criminal.
A. respectful B. respectable C. respective D. respected

[答案]B. respectable.

[注釋]respectable受到尊敬的
本題譯文：沒有一個想象到這個看起來令人尊敬的商人竟是一個罪犯。

7. At first the institute refused to purchase the telescope, but this decision was _____ revised.
A. occasionally B. consequently
C. successively D. subsequently.

[答案]D. subsequently.

[注釋]subsequently(=afterwards)隨后，其后。

8. The speaker _____ several other subjects in the course of his talk but mostly kept himself to the main topic.
A. held on B. worked out C. touched on D. kept out of

[答案]C. touched on

[注釋]touch on簡單談到。

9. Comrade Li Dazhao, _____ librarian of Beijing University, was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party.
A. sometimes B. sometime C. some time D. some times

[答案]B. sometime.

[注釋]sometime(=former)過去的，以前的：
Alice Brown, a sometime pupil of our school, is now a teacher there.?

10. Alice was very sorry to hear that her grandmother had _____ two days before.
A. broken off B. passed off
C. given away D. passed away

[答案]D. passed away.

[注釋]pass away(=die)死亡，是“死亡”的委婉語。
break off中斷；give away給掉；泄露；pass off中止，中斷。