In each of the following sentences, choose the item that is best for WORD COLLOCATION.


(1) My encouragement has (raised, aroused, lifted, ascended) David to serious action.


(2) From experience we know that one can sell more through the (announcement, advertisement, broadcasting, publication) in the mass media.


(3) Napoleon should be regarded as a (great, huge, gigantic, splendid) figure, though he did not win all the battles.


(4) The police went to the drug-takers' hiding place and (grasped, snatched, seized, arrested) many smuggled goods there.


(5) Since you have been in a tropical country for a few years, are you certain of the constant change of (temperature, weather, tempest, forecast) there?


(6) It is believed that ancient Egyptians were the first to (invent, create, explore, discover) South America, isn't it?


(7) Why are they so noisy over there? Could you ask them to keep (calm, still, quiet, serene)?


(8) When we returned to the old city 20 years later, we could not (acknowledge, recognise, realise, distinguish) it any more.


(9) Although we feel sympathetic towards you, it is not within our (power, strength, force, energy) to assist you.


(10) It has been reported that our birthrate has been (reducing, diminishing, withdrawing, lessening). Why is it so?


(11) Something has gone wrong with his car (machine, machinery, engine, apparatus). Please get a mechanic to look into it.


(12) Please keep this matter secret. It should not be (indicated, exhibited, revealed, displayed) at this moment.


(13) The boy stood on the river bank, throwing (bits, fragments, particles, atoms) and pieces of bread to the fish.


(14) It seems that Jason (alone, only, merely, lonely) can perform that difficult task.


(15) The scientist has come out with a good theory many researchers are keen on (adapting, attaching, adopting, modelling)


(16) A person's skin is good for (defending, guarding, safeguarding, protecting) his body from different sorts of danger.


(17) At first, we thought his story was true, but later, it was found that we had been (tricked, deceived, frustrated, ill-treated).


(18) Don't let the enemy cross the border and (conquer, vanish, occupy, invade) our fortress.

>>>答案

(1)aroused

(2)advertisement

(3)great

(4)seized

(5)weather

(6)discover

(7)quiet

(8)recognise

(9)power

(10)diminishing

(11)engine

(12)revealed

(13)bits

(14)alone

(15)adopting

(16)protecting

(17)deceived

(18)occupy