2016考博英语词汇单选练习（4）
2016考博进入复习冲刺阶段，新东方在线考博频道整理了2016考博英语词汇单选练习供考生们练习自测，也可以借由词汇题背诵单词，加深印象。
46. For the modem housewife, even the _________ of domestic chores has a new status.
a. drudgery b. disorientation c. dispensation d. doggerel
47. State legislatures occasionally pass special appropriations for those who have been exonerated, but such efforts can take years and are _________ to government budget processes and political whims.
a. disputable b. object c. disposed d subject
48. I am afraid we have to _________ a set of rules called etiquette and politeness to make our frequent meetings tolerable.
a. confide to b. dedicate to c. concur on d. dispense with
49. Suddenly the daily fear and uncertainty _________ into full-scale terror, and the ship echoed with screams.
a. evaporated b. escalated c. evacuated d. exaggerated
50. The word "lady" has _________ of refinement and, excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
a. affections b. icons c. connotations d. assumptions
51. Every child knows the _________ of a dropped apostrophe (the parent's "Don't do that "shifting into the more slowly enunciated "Do not do that" ), and every believer; the ignominy of having his faith reduced to "faith".
a. menace b. trap c. appeal d. quest
52. It must be a country happily _________ between Nature and Man, blending what was best worth retaining from the past with what best represents the spirit of our own age, a country as rich in noble towns as it is in trees, birds and wild flowers.
a. negotiating b. conjuring c. compromising d. enumerating
53. Language, culture and personality may be considered independently of each other in thought, but they are _________ in fact.
a. autonomous b. equivocal c. pervasive d. inseparable
54. Even when his reputation was in _________, almost everyone was willing to admit that he tad genius.
a. eclipse b. ascendancy c. differentiation d. rebuttal
55. The search _________ pointing the telescope towards the millions and millions of stars in the Milky Way and selecting a tiny sector containing about 10,000.
a. evolves b. involves c. complies d. insulates
56. Potential computer buyers have come to expect versatility, energy efficiency, and simplicity as _________ components of new equipment.
a. tangible b. nominal c. temperate d. exterior
57. We will encourage every school to _________ its character, ethos and areas of special interest within a more flexible National Curriculum framework.
a. facilitate b. enhance c. acquaint d. install
58. Cold, dry winds from Siberia _________ over the mainland from December to February.
a. precede b. presume c. prevail d. prompt
59. The purpose of the United Nations, broadly speaking, is to _________ international peace arid security and to promote international cooperation and to prevent invasion.
a. detain b. revoke c. contain d. maintain
60. Business leaders, while paying lipervice to the concept of these principles, fight stealthily against their formal _________ as they fear such "voluntary" concepts may someday be given the force of law.
a. endorsement b. defects c. efficacy d. edifice