Homonyms練習006

手邊還有一些homonyms的

材料，把它湊成一集。人對新事物的興趣都有一種increasing at a decreasing rate規律，我們學習新東西也是一樣。各位如果還是熱情不減，那我們就練習007，008...續下去。如果各位覺著應該move on to something new，我們就開始新的篇章。

下列每題有兩至三個選擇詞，他們讀音(美音)相同但詞義不同。選擇準確的(次序)填入空內，有的選擇項要用到一次以上。

101. You will be ______ big dollars if you ask those guys to ______ that patio in your backward.
       a. billed               b. build

102. People in _____ eat _____ food. Do they have ______ weather there?
       a. chilli                 b. chilly                c. Chile

103. The farmer's wife did so much for this family; she made home-______ beer for her husband, kept five _____ hens, and fed three kids.
       a. brood              b. brewed

104. The bushes bear a kind of edible _______ on the this hill and the ______ dwellers, adults and children, in this community love to collect them.
       a. current            b. currant

105. He used to ____ a handsome salary, but he chose to keep his money in his secret ____ instead of depositing it in a bank.
       a. earn                b. urn

106. During the exam, she looked so sick as if she was about to _____ away, but actually it was a _____ she played to distract proctor's attention so that her friend could flip the textbook and copy the answers. 
       a. faint                b. feint

107. The judge _____ this recidivist burglar $1,000 and could not ____ anything else to do about him.
       a. find                  b. fined

108. This job with a decent pay eventually _____ him from debt, but the new marriage and family burden will ______ his desire to buy the sports car he wants so much. In addition, his wife starts to bring home a ______ of visitors, making him spend extra money on food and drinks to cater her friends.
       a. frees                b. freeze             c. frieze

109. Some believe that his new piece of melody is just _____, while others think it is a pure noise that only _____s on their nerves.
       a. great                b. grate

110. Having become the new champion of this year's tournament, he was rewarded with this ____-edged plaque, but he felt the _____ of injuring his opponent so badly during the last match.
       a. gilt                   b. guilt

111. Right now, the salary for engineers is getting ______ and ______ in the market. That makes it very difficult for this small company to ____ any additional engineers.
       a. hire                  b. higher

112. This small ____ temple is an asset ______ owned by local believers.
       a. wholly               b. holy

113. In the morning he worships his personal ____ for two hour and then stays ____ at home for rest of the day.
       a. idle                   b. idol

114. The spelling ___ also loves Shakespeare's and one of his mottos is "to ___ or not to ___".
       a. be                    b. bee

115. Because of the contradictory racial issues, the school president ______ those three pieces of music from being performed by the marching ____.
       a. banned              b. band

116. These ____s have ____ well-cooked.
       a. bean                 b. been

117. On his 16th _____-day, he got a starting _____ on the basketball team of his school.
       a. berth                 b. birth

118. This is a ______ area between the two countries and this boarding school is the only school in this area. Those ______ are from both countries.
       a. border                b. boarder

119. A _____ from the local church suggested that this old _____ be kept in the local museum.
       a. canon                 b. cannon

120. This stingy man was really a _____-skate, saying so little while sitting there for a whole hour, except _____ing few single words.
       a. cheap                 b. cheep

A little humor:

Waiter, will the pancakes long? -- No, sir, round.