294. There is a 20 minute parking _____ here, so we must get back to the car very quickly.

   A. freedom    B. limit    C. allowance    D. prohibition

[答案] B. limit.

     [注释] parking limit 意为在停车场"停车的时间限制"。a 20 minutes parking limit (停车时间限制为20分钟).

293. Because of the poor harvest, wheat prices have _____ in the last six months.

   A. added    B. jumped    C. amounted    D. developed

[答案] B. jumped.

     [注释] jump (=rise suddenly in price) 指"(价格)暴涨"。

292. I can't advise you what to do. You must use your own _____.

   A. opinion    B. guesswork    C. justice    D. judgment

[答案] D judgement

     [注释] judgement 判断。guesswork 猜测，justice 正义，公正，ideal 理想。

291. Tell your brother to come _____, because it's going to rain in a minute or two.

   A. indoors    B. outdoors    C. outward    D. inwards

[答案] A. indoors

     [注释] 按句子的逻辑意思应选indoors adv. 向屋里；在屋里，inwards adv，向

内，向中心，outward 向外。outdoors 是 indoors 的反义词。

本文译文: 叫你兄弟进屋来，因为天马上要下雨了.

290. A successful scientist needs _____ if he wants to make hypothesis (假设) of how processes work and how events take place.

   A. permission     B. penetration

   C. imagination    D. convention

[答案] C. imagination.

     [注释] imagination 想象力；penetration 穿透；permission 允许; convention 惯例，常规。

289. This year the farmers were just able to gather in the _____ before the fine weather came to an end.

   A. collection    B. harvest    C. flower    D. plant

[答案] B. harvest.

     [注释] gather in "收获(庄稼)": The farmers are gathering in the corn.

288. He hated the war so much that he decided to leave the army _____.

   A. for long    B. once in a while

   C. for good    D. once upon a time

[答案] C. for good.

     [注释] for good (=permanently)永久地:He says he's leaving the country

for good. for long 长久地。按本题题意，用 for long 不妥。once upon a time 从前。once in a while 偶尔。

287. We suddenly saw the bus about to leave and had to run _____ to catch it.

   A. hardly    B. awkwardly    C. hard    D. strongly

[答案]C hard.

[注释]run hard意为"使劲跑"，句中hard是副词。Hardly"几乎不"，是否定副词，与本题不符。

286. Be careful how you _____ that jug, it will break very easily.

   A. pour    B. operate    C. handle    D. employ

[答案]C. handle.

[注释]handle意为"用手拿......":Wash your hands before you handle my books.

285. If we can _____ our present difficulties, then everything should be all right.

   A. get off    B. come across    C. come over    D. get over

[答案]D. get over.

[注释]get over (difficulties)克服（困难）。