provisional大学英语期末复习资料及答案

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Unit 1

I. Vocabulary

1. There was something __

c

___ about Julia’s quiet dignity.

A. impress

B. impression

C. impressive

D. impressed

2. Social services were strongly __

D

___ for not taking more action to protect children

at risk.

A. critic

B. critical

C. criticism

D. criticized

3. I braced myself __B___ the results of my blood test.

A. to

B. for

C. in

D. with

4. Vitamin A helps build resistance __B___ infection.

A. to

B. for

5. Rob was __A___ enthusiasm.

A. brimmed with

B. brimmed to

C. brimming with

D. brimming to

C. in

D. with

6. I can’t __

D___ what color to paint the house.

A. take out

B. look out

C. make out

D. figure out

7. During the most _C____ time in her career, she wrote five novels.

A. produce

B. production

C. productive

D. producing

8. The world’s __

A___ resources must be used wisely.

A. definite

B. infinite

C. finite

D. definition

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Without

proper

lessons,

you

could

__B___

a

lot

of

bad

habits

when

playing

the

piano.

A. keep up

B. pick up

C. draw up

D. catch up

10. He decided to speed up the research _A____at

completing it ahead of schedule.

A. shot

B. shoot

C. short

D. shooting

11. We__D___ into my car and set off.

A. was cramming

B. cramming

C. was crammed

D. crammed

12. I made a phone call to __B___ his address.

A. check in

B. check out

C. check up

D. check on

13. The government __B___ heavy tax on the city dwellers.

A. exposes

B. imposes

C. opposes

D. composes

14. The boy did not like to mop the floor, but he made the _B____ of it.

A. use

B. best

C. worst

D. good

15. On the whole, _C____ students are more likely to succeed in their studies than are

those with little _____.

A. ambition

ambitious

C. ambitious

ambition

II. Cloze

Putting

your

dreams

1

the

back

burner

until

the

circumstances

are

right

means

that they’ll be

2

never be realized. Our only regrets in life are the things that we don’t

do. We

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it to ourselves to go out and do them now

4

it’s too late. Tomorrow? It’s all a

lie; there isn’t a

tomorrow. There is only a

5

note that we are often not in a position to

cash. It doesn’t even exist. When you wake up in the morning it’ll be

6

again and all

the

same

rules

will

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.

Tomorrow

is

just

another

8

of

now,

an

empty

field

that

will

remain so

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we start planting some seeds. Your time, which is ticking

10

as we speak

(at about 60 seconds a minute

11

; a bit faster if you don’t invest it wisely), will be

gone and you’ll have

12

to show for it but

13

and a rear-

view mirror full of “could

haves”, “should haves” and “would haves”. So what I’m thinking is if we

14

and our

allotted time is

15

, why the hell aren’t we doing all the things we want to do now?

B. ambition

ambition

D. ambitious

ambitious

C1. A. in

B. off

C. on

D. under

2. A. apparently

3. A. owe

4. A. when

B. likely

C. definitely

C. ascribe

C. after

D. probably

D. stick

D. until

D. promises

D. daylight

D. affect

D. version

D. unless

D. by

D. chronologically

D. everything

D. soreness

D. are dying

D. infinite

B. access

B. before

B. promised

B. yesterday

B. devote

5. A. promising

6. A. tomorrow

7. A. apply

C. promissory

C. today

C. concern

C. description

C. but

C. over

8. A. paraphrase

9. A. if

B. adaptation

B. lest

B. away

10. A. off

11. A. consequently

B. subsequently

12. A. nothing

B. anything

C. accordingly

C. something

C. regret

13. A. disappointment B. apology

14. A. died

15. A. fixed

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Unit 2

B. die

B. finite

C. have died

C. unfixed

I. Vocabulary

1. Amy was very__B___ about her intention to travel around the world.

A. infinite

B. definite

C. define

D. definitely

2. I marveled _A

____ my mother’s ability to remain calm in a crisis.

A. at

B. on

C. in

D. with

3. Thousands of years ago the surface of the earth was __B___ desert.

A. bare

B. bold

C. barren

D. bear

4. Their country relies heavily on their air _D____.

A. superior

B. inferior

C. inferiority

D. superiority

5. Japan recession has prompted consumers_B____ on buying cars.

A. to cut up

B. to cut back

C. cutting back

D. cutting up

6. One day he called me into his room during the__C___.

A. assess

B. process

C. recess

D. excess

7. There was a remarkable_B____ between him and Pete.

A. resemble

B. resemblance

C. assemble

D. dissemble

8. When the national income rises, so does the _D____.

A. consumer

B. customer

C. consume

D. consumption

9. The country stepped up _B____ security.

A. external

B. internal

C. exterior

D. interior

10. Your scholarship and research _C____ will be questioned if any of the above

applies to your proposal.

A. compete

B. competition

C. competence

D. competitive

11. Don’t let credit _

B____

you to buy something you can’t afford.

A. temperature

B. tempt

C. temptation

D. temper

12. I thought long and hard about how to _B____ him, how to persuade him to change

his mind, but nothing I said made any difference.

A. talk with

B. reason with

C. hand with

D. handle with

13. Don’t _

B____ your boss and co-workers, even if you think they deserve it.

A. tell off

B. talk off

C. take off

D. give off

14. She takes exception _D____ the assumption that simply because she is young and

she is not able to discern fact from fiction.

A. for

B with

C. to

D. from

15. I have to _D____ the children before I go out.

A. go to

II. Cloze

I can see the enormous

1

that have taken place in children’s lives and in the ways

they are thought about and treated.

2

further back I can see vast differences between

contemporary and

3

childhoods. Today, children have

4

responsibilities, their lives are

characterized

5

play not work, school not paid labor, family rather than public life and

6

instead of production.

7

this is all relatively recent. A hundred years ago, a 12 year

old

working

in

a

factory

would

have

been

perfectly

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.

Now,

it

would

cause

social

services’

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and

the

prosecution

of

both

parents

and

factory

owner.

These

changing

ideas

about

children

have

led

many

social

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to

claim

that

childhood

is

a

“social

construction”. They use this term to mean that understanding of

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are not the same

everywhere and that

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all societies acknowledge that children are different

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adults,

how

they

are

different

and

what

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are

placed

on

them,

change

according

to

the

society in

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they live.

1. A. transmissions

B. transitions

C. transformations

2. A. Looked

B. Looking

B. historic

B. a little

B. of

C. Look

D. transactions

B. get to

C. take to

D. tend to

D. Having looked

D. historian

3. A. historical

4. A. little

C. history

C. few

C. on

D. a few

D. by

5. A. with

6. A. consume

7. A. Yet

B. consumption

C. costume

D. custom

B. As

C. So

D. Because

8. A. acceptable

B. adaptable

C. affordable

D. accountable

9. A. interaction

B. intervention

C. interview

D. interpretation

10.A. linguists

B. psychologists

11.A. adulthood

B. childhood

12. A. when

13. A. from

B. where

C. archeologists

D. scientists

C. girlhood

C. what

C. to

D. boyhood

D. while

D. in

B. with

14. A. assumption

B

. dependence

15. A. that

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Unit 3

C. expectations

D. presumption

C. what

D. which

B. where

I. Vocabulary

1. I hope you are not doing this just _B____ the money.

A. for sake of

B. for the sake of

C. for your sake of

D. in your sake of

2. Ninety percent of the boat people did not _A____ as refugees.

A. qualify

B. qualified

C. qualification

D. quality

3. They still __C___ that their policy was successful.

A. proclaimed

B. reclaimed

C. acclaimed

D. claimed

4. Some birds have a/ an _D____ to travel north in winter.

A. instinctive

B. nature

C. instinct

D. sense

5. She needed some time to _B____ her answer to the question.

A. dispose

B. compose

C

. impose

D. repose

6. This means politicians and leaders in all sectors must speak out openly about AIDS

and not _D____ difficult issues like sex, sexuality and drug use.

A. shy away from

B. shy away

C. shy from

D. give away from

7. If we cannot ___B__ exactly what we are supposed to be managing, how can we

manage it?

A. write down

B. note down

C. pin down

D. put down

8. One of the gallery

’

s most prized possessions is the _____ of Da. Vinci.

A .description

B. portrait

C. feature

D. figure

9. My husband loves adventurous life while I enjoy a more peaceful _____ life.

A foreign

B. domestic

C. interior

D. national

10. The car has a surprisingly spacious _____.

A. interior

B

. exterior

C. inferior

D. superior

11. The paper was accused of _____ the truth.

A. retorting

B

. distorting

C. misleading

D. correcting

12. Some economic statistics are _____ negative signals.

A. taking off

B. giving off

C. making off

D. putting off

13. Eventually your child will leave home to lead her own life, but in the _____ she

relies on your support.

A. sometime

B. while

C. meantime

D. same time

14. As far as _____, he is not qualified for this job.

A. I concern

B. I am concerned

C. I am concerning

D. I concerned

15. If you understand this point, you can understand the rest _____ analogy.

A. with

II. Cloze

In the beginning it was only the rich and famous who had their

1

painted. But

from the Renaissance

2

things changed. Firstly, the growing importance of the middle

classes

led

many

ordinary

people

to

3

paintings,

often

of

members

of

their

family.

B. to

C. at

D. by