JAN 16, 2009 Volume 3 -- word family, #1 (12)

lintelleUID: 2297267

The moderator will post one multiple choice question everyday, and post the answer key and detailed explanation to the very question on the 2nd floor of the thread on the next day. Participants should try to answer the question in the following 24 hours after the questions are posted. First 3 people with the correct answer will be rewarded 15 GTB.

The multiple choice questions are mainly designed to build up your vocabulary, sometimes idiom questions will emerge as well.

1. The captured territory was one of the main areas of _______ between the two countries.
2. Statistics bear out his _______ that many runners are undertrained for this event.
3. He unscrewed the top of the flask and drank the _______.
A) content
B) contention

lintelleUID: 2297267

B) contention
B) contention
A) content

content：
as noun
1 a state of satisfaction : the greater part of the century was a time of content.
2 a member of the British House of Lords who votes for a particular motion.

contention
1 heated disagreement
2 an assertion, esp. one maintained in argument

[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2009-1-17 09:19 编辑 ]

艾惟UID: 2502625

1.B
2.B
3.A

frank_chowUID: 2524907

1  B
2  B
3  A

这次的题目比较少啊，而且感觉挺简单的……说句实话，我查了字典再做；算不算违背了楼主原来的意愿呢？

lintelleUID: 2297267

不算。看的越仔细越好。你们以前做错的几道题，其实如果有看字典的话，都是能作对的。我的题目不是考人，是帮大家背红宝，所以题目出的也比较慢，就是希望给大家时间消化。不知道词义就做题才是违背了我的初衷。;)

艾惟UID: 2502625

我有些看了字典也错了，那我是什么:funk: :funk:
泪奔ING.....

lintelleUID: 2297267

学习就是这样的嘛。就是会有自己看也不明白的东西啊，不然要老师干什么？;) 重要的是好好学习，一心向上的决心