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新课标高中英语词汇系列练习题（六） 1. 单项选择: 1) He knocked over a bottle of ink and _________ the table cloth. A. damaged B. harmed C. ruined D. destroyed 2) You can ask for replacement or repairs, or even ______ when they have caused special losses. A. damages B. damage C. damaged D. damaging 3) He rescued a child at the ______ of his own life and then left without being noticed. A. danger B. risk C. cost D. expense 4) Only a few journalists _______ the story, which was about the president. A. dared covered B. dare covered C. dare to cover D. dared to cover 5) ---Do you know when the Chinese custom ______ from? ---Its hard to say. But its characteristics _______ the Tang Dynasty. A. began; prove B. started; show C. is; appear D. dates; suggest 6) He was lying in the hospital __________, with his ribs broken. A. half dead B. deadly C. death D. died 7) In ten years of time, the population of China will begin to _______. So there will be fewer and fewer students in schools. A. faint B. reduce C. fall D. decline 8) The old lady ______ smilingly to be helped up the stairs. A. rejected B. declined C. refused D. denied 9) They dived ______ into the forest and felt ______ frightened. A. deeply; deep B. deeply; deeply C. deep; deep D. deep; deeply 10) Doctors have said that as many as 50 percent of patients don’t take medicine as ________. A. described B. determined C. directed D. depended 11) John was late for the business meeting because his flight had been ________ by a heavy storm. A. defended B. stopped C. slowed D. delayed 12) The mother _______ other things to the task of looking after her sick child. A. delays B. puts off C. spends D. forgets 13) Some laid-off workers _______ took up the well-paid work to wait on patients in hospitals. A. delightedly B. challen