梵高奶奶的世界泛读教程4

2021年1月26日发(作者：万光泰)

WORD PRETEST
Word pretest
Unit 1

What is your assessment of this state of affairs?


A. evaluation




B. prediction






C. position


He teaches a remedial class for first-graders.


A. elementary






B. advanced



C. helping

We received a lift from his speech.

A. message





B. encouragement







C. disappointment

The ability to speak several languages was among his attainments.


A. merits






B. achievements



C. virtues

He drove at a constant speed.

A. unchanging






B. various




C. great

We made plans for a visit, but subsequent difficulties with the car prevented it.


A. unexpected


B. continuous



C. later

The prospective member of Parliament for our town will be introduced to the local party tonight.

A. ambitious






B. promising






C. expected

I didn’t know anything about any of the books so my choice was quite arbitrary.

A. based on facts










B. based on reason






C. based on chance or personal opinion

Unit 2
The camera panned from her face to a middle-aged man.

A. turned off














B. fixed









C. was moved

The candle flickered in the breeze.

A. shined brightly















B. shined steadily






C. shined unsteadily
The message extinguished her hopes of Richard’s return.

A. raised











B. destroyed





C. questioned

The explosion sent the aircraft plummeting towards the sea.

A. falling headlong







B. shooting upward






C. flying quickly
The gang tried to intimidate the merchant.

A. encourage



















B. frighten


















C. catch
The author’s latest book eclipses all his previous ones.

A. displays






B. casts a shadow upon





C. surpasses

It is 250 years since the wolf became extinct in Britain.

A. still living













B. no longer in existence






C. not easily found
The stern old faiths have all pulverized.

A. become stronger








B. been shattered





C. been crushed

By some fluke the judges passed over the obvious choices and chose her.

A. success















B. accident













C. breeze

The blizzard brought 60-mile-an-hour winds and 2 feet of snow.

A. wind


















B. earthquake










C. snowstorm
The widow gave a plaintive wail at the grave side.

A. sad



















B. hysteric






C. lonely



Unit 3
Those
who
left
for
reasons
other
than
a
well-founded
fear
of
persecution
were
designated
for
repatriation.

A. punishment





B. imprisonment





C. sending back to their own country
We mustn’t let things fester.

A. remain the same











B. change for the better






C. become worse
He sought asylum in Brazil.

A. mental hospital
B. protection given to a person by his home country
C. protection given to a person by one country from arrest in another
He has been an exile for fifteen years.

A. a person who has been living abroad
B. a person who has been involved in political activities
C. a person who has been forced to leave his home country for political reasons
Wherever he goes, he readily accommodates to new circumstances.

A. adapts himself to








B. finds a lodging in





C. makes a close study of
He gave her a gold brooch as a token of esteem.

A. an expression











B. a gift
















C. a badge

The main impediment to development is the country’s huge foreign debt.

A. aid















B. block









C. way
The country is now undergoing economic rehabilitation.

A. reform












B. crisis












C. recovery


Unit 4
Galilee had been under siege for months.

A. imprisonment




B. surrounding and attacking



C. pressure

Puffs of smoke were swirling up.

A. moving back and forth






B. moving round and round





C. moving to and fro

The university conferred an honorary degree on him.


A. created
















B. gave




















C. received
We fought with tooth and nail to get our plans accepted.


A. teeth and fists







B. great force or determination




C. biting and hitting


How could they have justified all the violence unleashed on the prisoners?


A. released













B. used
















C. controlled
The assistant coveted the boss’s job.


A. desired














B. refused














C. did
Both sides offered statistics to bolster their arguments.


A. weaken














B. present














C. support
He finally succumbed to the temptation to have another drink.


A. gave up













B. gave in















C. gave out


Marx spoke of emancipation of mankind.



A. struggle














B. revolution











C. liberation




Unit 5
Personally, I do not have any animosity against him.


A. hatred
















B. hospitality















C. sympathy


His voice is imbued with so much enthusiasm that we all get moved.


A. infected















B. embedded










C. filled


Modernization helps countries to transcend the political and economic boundaries.


A. abolish















B. ignore













C. go beyond


This kind of plants is indigenous, and cannot be found in other areas.


A. new

















B. local



















C. fragile


Neighboring
countries
usually
form
various
kinds
of
blocs
to
strengthen
their
political
and
economic links.


A. blocks















B. alliances
















C. treaties


Only one country refuses to be a participant of the entity.


A. illusion














B. program
















C. being


Good communicative skills are considered to be a prerequisite to get adapted to this job.


A. qualification









B. precondition













C. strength


The honor will give
you further impetus to surmount whatever difficulty
you
may
encounter in
your pursuit.


A. force















B. motivation















C. speed




Unit 6
I don’t want to get married because I don’t want any commitments.


A. responsibilities












B. housework















C. worries
Against all the odds he recovered from his illness.


A. probability

















B. strangeness









C. expectations


Anti-Semitism refers to hatred of ________.


A. Christians

















B. Muslims












C. Jews

Of the ten board members, only one dissented.


A. disagreed
















B. agreed




















C. refused
Jack underwent three successive operations on the leg in two weeks.


A. happening now and then




B. happening one after another



C. successful
“Honesty is the best policy” was his creed in all his business dealings.


A. slogan



















B. way





















C. belief
The passage across Belfast was very rough.

A. corridor


















B. journey










C. excerpt


I admire their enterprise in trying to start up a new business.


A. entertainment













B. company










C. boldness


We are fighting to retain some independence.


A. get





















B. keep





















C. win

Unit 7
Crossing the country in wagons did not daunt the early pioneers.


A. encourage
















B. confuse












C. frighten


The mountain climbers were in imminent danger.


A. immense

















B. immediate










C. future


She speaks with a pronounced French accent.


A. strongly marked











B. thinly disguised





C. surprisingly strange
No model can ever be a perfect analogue of nature itself.


A. something that is different from another thing
B. something that is similar to another thing
C. something that is better than another thing
The success of the operation attests the surgeon’s skill.


A. proves















B. denies






C. assesses


There are only three extant copies of the book.


A. extinct















B. precious









C. existing


The book is out of print and difficult to procure.

A. keep




















B. sell



















C. obtain
The spectre of neo fascism, as he put it, was stalking the streets of Sophia and other big cities.

A. moving silently through




B. blocking completely







C. marching noisily on
The war caused great detriment to the nation’s economy.


A. damage

















B. improvement















C. change
The fog dissipated when the sun came out.


A. formed


















B. disappeared














C. wasted



Unit 8
They have been overcoming difficulties since the inception of the enterprise.


A. conception















B. formation








C. birth


The main plank in their election programme is the promise to cut taxes.


A. plan























B. policy
















C. wooden board


An irrevocable decision was finally made by the committee.

A. unalterable

















B. inevitable







C. changeable


The smuggled goods were confiscated by the customs authorities.


A. collected


















B. seized







C. received


They were guilty of barbarous atrocities.


A. actions

















B. cruelties










C. instances

I made what I thought was a perfect innocuous remark and he got most upset.


A. casual



















B. harmless













C. hurting
When the soldiers act in defiance of orders, they will be severely punished.


A. defence












B. disobedience










C. violation


She couldn’t f
athom why McCurry was causing such a scene.


A. measure








B. understand











C. believe
He is under the delusion that he can beat his opponent.


A. opinion













B. false impression






C. belief


Chalk and cheese are disparate substances.


A. similar


















B. different













C. relevant



Unit 9


Her nervous behavior testifies to her guilt.


A. denies





















B. shows

















C. contradicts


He rectified the earlier judgment.


A. changed



















B. modified















C. corrected


Don’t compound your mistake by lying to the police.

A. exacerbate

















B. simplify
















C. repeat


Their attempt to recapture Calais was foiled by a traitor.

A. discovered
















B. thwarted
















C. helped
The only alternative to being taken prisoner was to die fighting.
供选择的

A. decision



















B. option

















C. action


The government has taken action to restrain inflation.


A. stop























B. solve
















C. control


He sits on the consultative committee.


A. budget



















B. public relations











C. advisory


They are making efforts to improve the bilateral relations.


A. affecting one party









B. affecting two parties









C. affecting three parties



IDIOMS

a. burns the midnight oil














b. hits the books.
c. does back-breaking work











d. works like a dog
e. falls down on the job















f. works her fingers to the bone

He _________In other words, he studies hard.
Jane________. In other words, she studies very late at night.
Mike________. In other words, he fails to do well.
Sally__________. In other words, she studies in a serious way.
He__________. In other words, he does very difficult physical work.
Tom_________. In other words, he works hard and seriously.

a. is a breeze
















b. has a green thumb
c. is easy as pie














d. has a golden touch
e. has two left feet












f. has a nose for something

Ann’s garden is beautiful. She can make anything grow. Her friend says she____________.

Understanding geometry is no problem for Frank. He thinks it__________.
Henry cannot dance very well at all. He is always tripping over his partner. Henry________.
Jan made her first million dollars when she was only nineteen. People say she_________.
Bruce
is
a
good
newspaper
reporter.
He
always
seems
to
know
where
to
go
for
the
news.
He
________a good story.
Mary is very good at standing on her head. For her, it________.





a. down to earth









b. thinks himself is the God’s gift to mankind.

c. show off














d. put someone in someone’s place

e. put on airs












f. blowing one’s own horn.


You can depend on Ann. She is very_________.
Stop________
. You’re just human like the rest of us.

Carl__________. Whenever he his with others, he stars to sing. I am tired of listening to Carl.

Andy ___________He came in first, and makes sure that everybody knows it.
The headmaster used his authority to ___all the boys________.
Tom is always ________Is he really as good as he say he is?


a. buried the hatchet














b. button her lips
c. flows with the tie















d. held his tongue
e. let sleeping dogs lie.













f. mind his own business
g. rocks the boat.

















h. see eye to eye.

It is a good thing Jim_______. If he had talked back, the police officer might have given him a
ticket.
Paul and his wife ______Whatever Paul wants to do, his wife does too.
Jan told Steve to___. He had been telling her how to do her job and she did not want his help.
Everyone
had
agreed
to
spend
the
day
at
the
beach.
Then
John
changed
his
mind
and
said
he
wanted to go to the mountains. John _______
Sam and Bill____. After fighting for weeks, they agreed to stop.

Bill did not like what his friends had decided to do, but he went along with it anyway. He_____.
Sally’s teacher told her to
_______. She was so noisy that she was disturbing the class.
Barb did not tell her mother that she had broken her mother’s favorite vase. Instead, she bought a
new one. She thought it was better to __________


a. faces up to























b. points his finger at
c. left us high and dry















d. will shoulder the responsibility
e. passes the buck



















f. worn out of

Polly________.
She
agreed to
be
our
treasurer,
and
then
she
suddenly
resigned
with
nobody
to
replace her.
Pat always_____ things. She never tries to avoid what is unpleasant.
Jack always_________. He always blames someone else when things go wrong.
Mary________. You can always depend on her.
Paul is trying to _______it. He said he would do it, and now he says he cannot because he has too
many other thongs to do.

Tom always _________someone else. He never takes the blame for anything he does.



a. all or nothing




















b. meet people halfway
c. give-and-take




















d. middle-of-the-road
e. sticks to her guns

















f. find middle ground

Lynn is willing to_________. She feels that if people do not give a little on their position, nothing
will ever get done. She does not think people should
be so stubborn that they refuse to change
their minds.
With Mike it is_______. If
he cannot have everything
he wants in the way that he wants it, he
would rather not have it at all.
Florence likes to_______. She feels it is important to make decisions that everybody can accept.
She will give up part of what she wants for the sake of reaching an agreement.
Ellen_______. She will not listen to people who say she is wrong. No matter how much others try
to get her to see their point of view, once she has formed an opinion, she holds on to it.
Allan is a ________man. He can always see the worth of both sides of the argument. He feels that
the best decisions are always between the two opposite points of view.
Henry is for______. He feels that in order to reach an agreement, people have to give up part of
what they want. He thinks that if people do that, everybody will benefit.


a. go through with












b. I hang in there
c. give up



















d. stick with
e. sweat out

Even though things get hard, d
on’t
_______.
We decided to __________the new highway.
I know if__________, things will come out okay.
I’ll
________ my ideas whether you like them or not.
I had to wait for her in the reception area. It was a long wait, but I managed to____ it ____.


a. is a copycat
















b. cut the apron strings
c. is a yes-man















d. has a mind of her own
e. on her own
















f. lead her by the nose
g. stand on her own two feet

Cindy is ______now. She has graduated from college, got a job, and is supporting herself
Mary_______. Whatever Cheri does, she does.
Betty lets Bob________. She does whatever Bob wants her to do.
Rob finally________. He moved away from home into his own apartment.
Frank_______. He always does what his boss tells him to, even if he thinks it is a bad idea.
Barbara_______. She does what she feels is best, even if her friends do not agree with her.
Dave has learned to_______. He makes all of his decisions now.

a. was as cool as a cucumber












b. went to pieces


c. was tough as nails



















d. hold his head up
e. keep your chin up



















f. felt apart
g. pulled herself together


When other children made fun of Annie because her dress was torn, she_______.
When Mrs. Skelley heard that her son was in a bad automobile accident, she______.
Just _________and tell the judge exactly what happened.
Even though Mr. Kidder was very much in debt, he tried to ________in public.
Although the crowd disliked his speech and called him names, Senator Thompson______.
When Mrs. Smith was fired from a job she had had for twenty-five years, she______.
After Franny was attacked on the street and her pocketbook was stolen, she _______and went to
the police.



a. was hot- headed anyway












b. blew up
c. counted to ten




















d. gritted his teeth
e. reached the boiling point











f. held her temper

Stanley________
. He slammed the door in Paul’s face.

Cindy______. She called Paul all sorts of names.
Carl_________. When he saw Paul, he tried to be friendly.
Becky___. The others could not understand why she did not tell Paul what she thought of him.
Helen, who________, told Paul she never wanted to see him again.
When Margie saw Paul, she________. Afterward, she was not quite so angry.



a. was cool towards me












b. icy stare
c. gave me the cold shoulder







d. turns his nose up at
e. turns her back

















f. welcome us with open arms

Margaret’s
_____could freeze a polar bear.
She ______when I asked her to the party.
Sally introduced her new boyfriend to me at a party. I shook hands with him , and tried to make
conversation, but he ________and didn’t seem interested in talking to me.


I’m sure they wanted us to stay for dinner. They
_______.
You r at a party and see a classmate. You wave to him across the room, but he ____ you and does
not wave back.



Sandy ______just about everyone.


a. is a loner















b. brainstorms


c. joined forces












d. pools her resources
e. goes it alone












f. put heads together
g. lend me a hand










h. two heads are better than one

If Dick______, it means that he avoids the company of others and prefers to work by himself.
Sandy and Alice decided to study together because_______.
If Jane ______with Al, it means she confers with him to solve a problem.
If Larry________, it means he leaves others in order to do sth by himself.
If Ken and Gene_______, it means they work as a team to solve problem.
We ______with the police to search for the lost child.
If Karen ________with others, it means she combines her strengths with them.
Could you _________with this piano?


a. be hard-hearted










b. be tight-fisted
c. be warn-hearted









d. go to bat for someone
e. has a heart














f. has heart of gold
g. has a heart of stone

Someone who ________ is unfeeling.
Someone who ________another helps that person in time of trouble of need.
Someone who ________is generous and sympathetic.
Someone who ________is generous and giving.
Someone who ________is pitiless and unfeeling.
Someone who ________is reluctant to give or spend money.
Someone who ________is loving and considerate.


a. be down in the dumps














b. feel blue
c. be in seventh heaven















d. be on top of the work
e. be on cloud nine



















f. walk on the air
g. be out of sorts





















h. is ticked pink

Steve was accepted at all the universities he applied to. He______.
Jan failed her math exam. She_______.
Bob’s parents gave him a trip to Europe for a graduation pr
esent. He______.
Sue does not feel well today. She________.
Karen likes her new car very much. In face, she ______with it.
John lost his dog the other day. He______.
Gene found the traveler’s checks he had lost. He
_______.
Mary came in first in a ten-mile race. She________.


GENERAL

VOCABULARY

EXERCISE



The
candidates
who
wish
to
__________
from
the
examination
must
notify
the
secretary
immediately.
A. resign




B. remove


C. suspend



D. withdraw

Gradually the balloon ____________ out and rose into the air.
A. swelled


B. expanded






C. stretched



D. enlarged

When you take medicine, be careful not to ___________ that amount printed on the bottle.
A. exceed



B. substitute




C. surpass


D. overcome

The current political ___________ of our country is favorable for foreign investments.
A. weather


B. climate


C. temperature






D. state

Our spokesman has ___________our position on this question.
A. verified


B. certified


C. testified




D. clarified

A teacher should give attention to each ___________ student in his class.
A. personal


B. private



C. own




D. individual
The population of Hong Kong is ___________ Chinese.
A. popularly



B. regularly


C. commonly


D. predominantly

Children feel that their parents do not give enough ___________ to the problems of young people.
A. consent




B. appeal






C. affection



D. recognition

He wears a red hat to make himself ___________ so as to arrest the driver’s attention.

A. conspicuous





B. subconscious




C. ambiguous







Anything you say will be ___________ and maybe used in evidence.
A. taken down




B. taken off




C. taken at








D. taken away


A helicopter is a very convenient means of transportation. It is able to ______ and land vertically.
A. take away








B. take off









C. take up





D. take down
I cannot lend you any money because I still ___________ one hundred dollars on that car.
A. charge








B. owe









C. own









D. loan


The income from the estate probably ___________ about $$8,000 a year.
A. amounted to




B. amounted





C. added to





D. added up


She ___________ her homework immediately after breakfast.
A. set aside



B. set off



C. set back




D. set about


I cannot ___________ myself that she has already left.
A. remind





B. convince




C. confirm




D. convict


They talked about their business ___________ a cup of tea.
A. with







B. for








C. at










D. over
The old man’s ruddy complexion gave an ___________ of good health.

A. idea







B. fancy




C. imagination




D. illusion


The cold drink ___________ him after the long hours of hard work.
A. reduced





B. refreshed




C. released







D. recovered

When he entered the room, he found that newspapers and magazines were ___________ all over
the floor.
A. separated




B. splashed





C. spread






D. scattered

People usually judge a man by the ___________ he keeps.
A. company


B. companion


C. companies


D. companionship

The__________ of marijuana does not prevent many people from using it. (legal)