单选题

Passage 4
There is nothing illogical or synthetic about the humility of great bookmen in calling attention to the limitations of the book. No book can {{U}}(1) {{/U}} us to know everything that is to be known, or feel everything that is to be felt. A book is part of life, not a substitute {{U}}(2) {{/U}} it. It is not a fit {{U}}(3) {{/U}} for worship or enshrinement. It loses its charm and much of its value when accepted uncritically. No one would have been more {{U}}(4) {{/U}} than Aristotle if he could have known of the excessive and {{U}}(5) {{/U}} veneration that would be given to his ideas in centuries to {{U}}(6) {{/U}} When his works became the last words of advance knowledge, such knowledge became neither advanced nor vital.
The particular occasion for these remarks is that there are {{U}}(7) {{/U}} here and there that some of us in the book world may be {{U}}(8) {{/U}} ourselves too seriously. In the effort to increase book reading some extravagant things are being said about books. It is made to{{U}} (9) {{/U}} that nothing is happening now that has not happened before, and that the only true approach to understanding is {{U}}(10) {{/U}} books. We do neither service nor justice to books by {{U}}(11) {{/U}} upon them such omnipotence and omniscience. Many of the answers we need today are not necessarily to be found between {{U}}(12) {{/U}} . There are elements of newness in the present {{U}}(13) {{/U}} of man that will not readily be {{U}}(14) {{/U}} of by required reading or ready reference. Books are not slide rules or blueprints for {{U}}(15) {{/U}} automatic answers. What is needed is a mighty blend of the wisdom of the ages with fresh, razor-edged analytical thought.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】本题测试搭配。inform意为“通知，告知”，通常构成inform about/of短语；promise意为“允诺，答应”，通常构成promise sb. sth.或者promise sb.+that从句；enable意为“使能够”，通常构成enable sb. to do sth.短语；train意为“训练，培养”，通常构成train sb. to sth.短语。根据句子可知，应该选enable。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】本题测试近义词。subject意为“主题，话题”，指论述或谈话的主题；issue意为“问题，议题”，指公众关心的事物；matter意为“事情，问题”，指客观存在的或有待处理的问题；image意为“形象，概念”，指大众认可的对某事的意见或概念。根据句子可知，应该选subject。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】本题测试形近词。disturb意为“妨碍，打搅”，指打断或破坏安定的状态；disguise意为“伪装，掩饰”，指改变举止或外表以便不让人认出来；intervene意为“干涉，干预”，指阻碍或改变某一行动；interrupt意为“打断，干扰”，指通过突然插进，来阻碍或停止某人的行动或过程。根据句子可知，应该选disturb。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】本题测试异义词。dreadful意为“可怕的”，指引起恐惧的；respectful意为“恭敬的”，指表现适度尊敬的；harmful意为“有害的”，指造成或能够造成损害的；fruitful意为“硕果累累的”，指大量出产某物的。所填之词应该与前面的excessive一样是贬义词，所以应该选harmful。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】本题测试近义词。trace意为“痕迹”，指因人、动物或物体通过而造成或留下的可见记号；sign意为“标志”，指显示事实、情况或性质存在的某物；mark意为“标记”，指看得见的痕迹或印记；trail意为“痕迹”，指移动或被拖曳的某事物留下的记号或痕迹。根据句子可知，应该选sign。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】本题测试搭配。所填之词应该与后面的upon搭配。confer和install一般不与upon搭配；concentrate upon意为“集中在……，专心于……”；impose upon意为“强加于……”。根据后面的omnipotence and omniscience(无所不能，无所不知)可知，应该选impose。