大学英语介副词填空练习

I. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate preposition or adverb.

1. There was no real need for a calendar or a watch to keep track ____of___ the hours, days, months, and years.

2. The seasons rolled _____by___ and we sowed seed and harvested and ate and played and married our cousins and had babies.

3. A big snow caused the roof on the mayor’s house to cave ___in_____.

4. The story was incorporated ____into____ Magdaluna’s calendar.

5. Sometimes the arguments escalated _into_______ full-blown, knockdown-dragout fights.

6. Finally the teacher talked Li Yuan ___into_____ taking part in the English Speaking Contest.

7. When the truck came ___into_____ view, everybody dropped what they were doing and ran to Abu Raja’s house…

8. Some of the rich villagers walked right into the store and stood ____by____ the elbows of the two important-looking men.

9. “Where is the new mayor?” a third voice chimed ____in____.

10. The women complained __to_____ one another __about______their men’s unfaithfulness.

11. They attended ____to____ their endless chores.

12. ____on____ a good day, I ran nice to ten of those errands.

13. In the evenings, the laughter and noise of the men trailed ____off____ and finally stopped.

14. Im Kaleem was also a kind of confessor and troubleshooter, talking sense ___of_____ those men who were having family problems, especially the younger ones.

15. They delivered the hostages ___to_____ the terrorists.

II. Word formation.

1. I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small _____lebanese_____ village in the terraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon. (Lebanon)

2. He overworked and I detected a faint note of ______weariness____in his voice. (weary)

3. I am embarrassed by my complete _____ignorance_____ of history... (ignore)

4. Abu Raja grabbed the receiver and turned the crank __forcefully_______. (force)

5. Fish and oranges fall from the sky, which is ___increditable_______ in my eyes. (credit)

6. That little clearing was always packed full of noisy kids with big brown eyes and ____sticky______ hands,…(stick)

7. Jack is the owner of a hotel with a ___homey_______ atmosphere. (home)

8. I am catching evidence for the man’s __unfaithfulness________ to his wife. (faithful)

9. The Bible describes the ____creation______ of the world as a divine act. (create)

10. After the death of his father, his family led a wretched ____existence______. (exist)