华慧考博-考博英语词汇分析(三十五)

1. The girl was ______ a shop assistant; she is now a manager in a large department store.

A. preliminarily

B. presumably

C. Formally

D. formerly

D【句意】这个女孩以前是一个售货员，而她现在却成为了一个大型百货商店的经理。

【解析】副词词义辨析。preliminarily“初步地”；presumably“大概”；formally“正式地”；formerly“以前”；根据题干信息“她……是售货员，现在是经理”可以推断题目中是在对比其以前与现在的身份变化，故D项“以前”正确。

2. Diana could hardly believe her eyes when she saw in the mirror how pretty she was in that ______ dress.

A. Deliberate

B. Tentative

C. Ingenious

D. exquisite

D【句意】当在镜子里看到自己穿着那件精美的裙子是多么漂亮时，戴安娜几乎不敢相信自己的眼睛。

【解析】形容词词义辨析。介词短语“in that ______ dress穿着那件……裙子”作状语，由关键信息“how pretty she was她是多么的漂亮”可知“exquisite精致的”符合语境，故D项正确。deliberate“故意的”；tentative“试验性的，暂定的”；ingenious“新颖的，灵巧的”。

3. When they had finished playing, the children were made to ______ all the toys they had taken out.

A. put off

B. put out

C. put up

D. put away

D【句意】在玩完玩具后，孩子们被要求去把他们拿出来的所有玩具收拾起来。

【解析】词组辨析。put off“延期，推迟”；put out“熄灭；伸出”；put up“举起；建造；供给……住宿”；put away“把……收拾起来”。由句中关键词“When they had finished playing在他们玩完玩具后”与“the children were made to孩子们被要求去”的对应知“把……收拾起来”符合语境，故D项正确。