127. High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage　 B. decrease　 C. disturb　 D. disgust

[答案]A. discourage

[注释]discourage sb. from doing sth.使认为某事不值得做：Tht wet weather discouraged people from going to the sports meeting.(下雨天使人觉得不值得去看运动会。)

126. He was afraid that the branch might bend over and break, and he would be sent _____ to the ground.

A. crashing　 B. throwing　　 C. rushing　　 D. dropping

[答案]A. crashing.

[注释]crash(to the ground)猛跌(到地上)。Crash n.

常指飞机等的“失事”，如：He was killed in an aircraft crash.(他在飞机失事中丧生。)本句中用falling不妥，fall指“落下，掉下”，本身并不强调落下的速度，而crash使“猛跌”，故本题用crashing最佳。

125. Do you think a wife should _____ her habits and tastes to those of her husband?

　 A. comply　　 B. confirm　　 C. consent　　 D. conform

[答案]D. conform.

[注释]conform vi遵守，符号：All the students must conform to the rules.(全体学生必须遵守规章。)conform sth. to sth. else(vt)使符合：He conformed the plans to the new specifications.(他使这些集合符合新规范。)　　　 comply with遵守；confirm使坚定，确认，证实；consent (to)同意，赞同。

124. They always kept on good _____ with their next-door neighbors for the children's sake.

A. friendship　 B. relations　 C. intentions　 D. terms

[答案]D. terms.

[注释]keep (be) on good terms with与......和睦相处。

123. Maria _____ missed the first train so as to travel on the same one as John.

　 A. deliberately　　 B. intensively

　 C. decisively　　 　D. objectively

[答案]A. deliberately.

[注释]deliberately(=on purpose, intentionally)故意地；存心地。

122. People who live in a small village are bound to see a good _____ of each other.

　 A. sum　　 B. quantity　　 C. deal　　 D. amount

[答案]C. deal.

[注释]see a good deal of each other 经常见面。

121. "Who is responsible for sending out misinformation?"

"Most of the fault lies _____ the administration."

　 A. in　　 B. to　　 C. on　　 D. with

[答案]D. with.

[注释]lie with应由.......(承担责任)；(作出决定等)得靠...... 1)The responsibility lies with the driver.(责任应由这个司机承担。) 2)It lies with you to accept or reject he the proposal.(接受还是拒绝这项建议由你决定。)

lie in在于： 1)The difficulty lies in their great poverty.(困难在于他们非常贫困。) 2)the solution lies in social and political reform.(解决方法在于社会政治改革。)

120. He's _____ drink and never does a stroke of work.

　A. gone to　　 B. taken to　　 C. taken up　　 D. gone for

[答案]B. taken to.

[注释]take to养成(某种习惯)。A stroke of一件。本题译文：他以成了酒徒，从来没有干过一件工作。

119. Glemp's heroic flight into space entitled him _____ a place in history.

　 A. for　　 B. with　　 C. to　　 D. of

[答案]C. to.

[注释]entitle sb. to sth.(=give a right to)给予权利： 1)He is entitled to special treatment because of his rank(由于他的级别他有权享受特殊待遇。) 2) Officers are entitled to travel first class.(军官们有权乘头等车旅行。)

118. We could see that he was trying to _____ his own responsibility for the delay, instead of accepting his fault.

A. run over　 B. smooth over　 C. pass off　 D. turn down

[答案]B. smooth over.

[注释]smooth over(=make smooth, put right, balliate)使平息，使恢复正常的，掩饰：1)I will try to smooth their quarrel over.(我将设法平息他们的争吵。) 2)Don't try to smooth over your fault.(不要设法掩饰你的过错。)

run over 详见Ⅲ.145,146.注释；pass off详见Ⅲ.126.注释；turn down详见Ⅲ.180,181.注释.