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大学英语综合课程（二）第三单元
: Quiz
Part 1 Fill in the blanks with the help
of the first letter(s)
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每小题：
1
分，满分
1
0
分
)
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the
help of the first letter(s).
1.I learned at a very young age how to
eliminate tasks and appointments that could
possibly
____________me
from
doing
what
needed
to
be
done.(Suggested
first
letter(s):
dis )
and more urban people are turning to
organic food, and anything that is
__________as
gh
his working experience _________mine, he is hired
as a manager while I
am only a computer
operator in the company.(Suggested first
letter(s): pa )
chairman
was
very
persuasive
and
repeatedly
gave
more
details
to
_________his
argument
until
finally
no
one
could
argue
with
him.(Suggested
first
letter(s):
re
)
skillful magician, though very young,
___________his audience into thinking
that he had really sawed the woman in
half.(Suggested first letter(s): de )
maintains if you don't throw away a
lot of worthless ideas, you are unlikely
to come up with creative and
__________ones, either.(Suggested first letter(s):
sen )
refused
to
exclude
the
possibility
of
__________to
force
to
interfere
with
an
independent
country
if
all
the
diplomatic
efforts
failed.(Suggested
first
letter(s): re
)
appealed for information
from anyone who had __________the accident,
particularly
people
who
were
there
at
about
the
same
time.(Suggested
first
letter(s):
wit )
s Booth
described how each country in Europe had its own
________flavor
because of its
distinctive building structures.(Suggested first
letter(s): pe )
teenager
felt
he
was
mature
enough
to
think
for
himself
and
bitterly
_________being
treated
like
a
child
by
his
parents.(Suggested
first
letter(s):
re
)
Part 2 Fill in
the blanks with the given words
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每小题：
1
分，满分
20
分
)
Directions: Fill in the blanks in the
sentences with the words given in the box.
Change the form where necessary.
Questions 1 to 10 are based
on the following passage or dialog.
deceive
snap
witness
distract
rouse
acquaint
confuse
affirm
hesitate
surrender
1.
More
and
more
unexpected
stress
and
pressure
began
to
get
to
her,
and
one
morning
she just (1) _________as she could no
longer bear them.
2.
The
young
and
handsome
speaker
was
standing
in
front
of
a
large
crowd
of
people,
attempting to
(2)____________ the crowd with a cry for
action.
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3. No matter
where we are, we must not let cultural, racial, or
social barriers
(3)__________ us from
the job that must be done on our
responsibility.
4.
The
government
has
(4)___________ itself
to
the
pressure
from
big
business
and
companies and eventually
brought down interest rates.
5.
The
fresh
air
and
bright
sunlight
(5)___________ me
into
thinking
I
might
still
have
some youthful energy left in these old bones of
mine.
6. The man denied
having (6)___________ the accident because he was
afraid of
getting himself involved in a
long process of investigation.
7. The press gave a completely
different version of the events, which greatly
(7)___________ those who tried to
understand the truth.
8. He
continued to (8)___________ that the introduction
of divorce would make it
more difficult
for people to lead
9. Staff
members were asked to (9)____________ themselves
with what had been
discussed and
covered if they were absent from the meeting
yesterday.
10.
The
young
writer
(10)__________
,
reluctant
to
destroy
any
part
of
his
own
work,
for which he had
devoted all his time for quite a few
years.
Questions 11 to 20
are based on the following passage or
dialog.
considering
apart
commercial
somewhat
up-to-
date
peculiar
somehow
contemporary
overnight
hollow
1.
There
is
a
feeling
among
a
lot
of
people
that
the
1980s
generation
of
novel
writers
in China have become too
(11)___________ in their writing.
2. Religious and
private
schools receive
little
or no
support from public funds
in
the United States, so they are usually
(12)_____________ expensive to attend.
3.
He
was
young,
yet
his
face
(13)____________ gave
people
the
impression
that
he
was approaching 60,
especially when he was deep in thought.
4. It shouldn't be too difficult to
bargain with the company, (14)______________
the overwhelming evidence you've
already collected against your
employer.
5. In my opinion,
the language the author used in this book seems
overused and out
of touch with the
(15)___________ society and reality.
6.
Your
standards
and
abilities
may
have
been
perfectly
fine
for
the
level
you
were
at a
year ago, but
have
you
worked to keep your
skills
(16)____________ with
your
position?
7.
It
was
really
a
big
challenge
for
the
local
government
to
evacuate
more
than
500
children
(17) ____________who were at risk in that
disastrous earthquake.
8. I
almost forget the exact age difference between my
friend Mark and his brother
Brian
—
they're about two or three
years (18)____________ .
9.
No matter how people look at it, it was something
of a (19)_________ victory
—
she won the case but lost
all her bank savings in legal fees.
10.
A
symptom
like
this
one
is
strange,
rare,
and
(20)_____________
,
and
it
is
often
of great
importance to the doctor who diagnoses
it.
Part 3 Fill in the
blanks with prepositions or
adverbs
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每
小题：
1
分，满分
10
分
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Directions:
Fill
in
the
blanks
in
the
following
sentences
with
appropriate
prepositions or
adverbs. Fill in each blank with only ONE word.
1.I might as well resign
myself ________ the fact that I'm not going to get
a job
as a TV producer because it's too
challenging.
is nothing
attractive about the house apart ________ the fact
that it has
a good view and easy access
to freeway.
's
interesting
to
see
that
very
often
some
people
are
likely
to
fall
__________
a
sleeplike condition when they are in deep
thought.
online
learning
you
can
have
a
responsible
teacher,
who
is
never
tired
__________ repeatedly
answering your questions at any time and at any
place.
company
makes
the
best
possible
use
of
its
staff,
and
it
is
very
strict
________
respect to work ethics and the
relationships between employer and
employees.
of
the
problems
for
hand-raised
birds
is
that
they
are
bond
__________
humans
so they are unable to socialize with
their own kind.
non-smokers
are
not
kept
separate
__________
smokers,
the
smoke
will
do
great
harm to
non-smokers, even more harmful than it will to the
smokers.
mes
we
tend
to
focus
on
others'
looks
when
we
make
some
decisions,
and
much
of
the
impression
we
get
from
them
is
based
____________
their
physical
appearance.
en
usually
follow
their
parents
implicitly,
so
smoking
by
parents
could
have
a negative effect
__________ their children.
10.I
can
see
that
I
may
have
some
difficulty
explaining
the
first
part
of
my
story,
especially to anyone not acquainted
___________ the academic life.
Part 4 Banked Cloze
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每小题：
1
分，满分
10
分
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Directions:
Fill
in
the
blanks
in
the
following
passage
by
selecting
suitable
words
from the word bank.
Each word can be used only once.
Questions 1 to 10 are based on the
following passage.
A.
mysterious
D. liquid
G. miserable
J. implicit
M.
tends
B. previous
E. indispensable
H. labeled
K. exploit
N.
intends
C. fluid
F. stable
I. shift
L.
explore
O. frame
I
don't
want
any
sort
of
traditional
stability
in
my
life
right
now.
The
thought
of
marriage,
staying
in
one
place
and
doing
one
thing,
will
make
me
feel
1.
______because there are too many things
on my to-do list. Don't take me wrong that
I won't 2.______ to marriage, but
certainly not yet.
The
3._________
four
common
life
phases,
childhood,
adolescence,
adulthood
and
old
age,
are
now
added
with
two
more,
4.__________
and
retirement
Of the
new ones, the less understood is odyssey that
frequently occurs between
adolescence
and adulthood.
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For
our
parents'
generation,
adulthood
5.___________
to
be
defined
by
achieving
certain
things.
We
all
know
them
–
owning
a
house,
having
a
6.______________
career,
getting married and
ultimately having children.
We
use
ourselves
to
7.
_________the
concept
of
the
odyssey
years,
but
it's more important for
us to understand the 8.____________ meaning: the
pursuit
of knowledge and making use of
the accessibility of information and experiences
around us.
In a
time when everything is 9._________ , it seems
that the old recipes and
time
frames
for
accomplishing
things
don't
apply.
We
don't
have
the
same
expectations
as we once had. We 10.______________
to find our own meanings to things and give
voices
to
our
hearts.
It
seems
it
becomes
more
important
to
find
out
why
we
are
here
before
we choose to settle.
Part 5
Paragraph Translation
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每小题：
5
分
)
Directions: Translate the
following paragraphs into English.
几千年来，
中国人一直都很重视家庭。
由于传
统的中国家庭受儒家思想影响很大，
大家庭受
到高度的重视。<
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几代人一起生活在一个屋檐下是很常见的。
四世同堂被认为是家庭
繁荣和幸
福的标志。
年纪最大的男性是家庭的领导者，
有最大的权力决定所有重要的事情，
譬如年轻
家
庭成员的教育、婚姻、和职业生涯。即使年轻人不同意长辈的决定，他们最终也会服从
（
obey
）长辈的意愿，并会在他们的晚年时照顾他们。确实，
孝顺——尊重和照顾家庭中的
长辈——在传统上被认为是所有素
质中最重要的。
Part 6 Vocabulary
and Structure
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每小
题：
1
分，
15
分
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Directions:
For each of the following sentences there are four
choices marked A,
B, C and D. Choose
the best one to complete each sentence.
winter was very severe,
especially at night, so the mom had to put an
extra
blanket over the baby for fear
that __________.
A. he
catches a cold
B. he be
catching a cold
C. he caught
a cold
D. he would catch a
cold
might have been killed
__________ the timely arrival of the ambulance and
immediate operation in the
hospital.
A.
besides
B. except
for
C. but for
D. except
are
aware that coal, which has gone to mass
production, is still a finite
resource,
though _________ than either oil or
gas.
A. a much more abundant
energy source
B. the much
more energy abundant source
C. much more energy abundant
source
D. energy source more
abundant
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of
the
shortage
of
money,
they've
set
up
a
plan
__________
they
can
spread
the cost over a quite long
period.
A.
whereabouts
B.
wherever
C.
whereas
D.
whereby
though they were in
danger, they did not find __________ to prepare
for the
worst conditions they might
meet.
A. worth their
while
B. it worth
C. it worthwhile
D. it worthy
__________,
this
nuclear
power
station
will
supply
all
the
neighboring
towns
and villages with clean and low-cost
electricity.
A.
completed
B. it
completed
C. it being
completed
D. it
completes
ising is
distinguished from other forms of communication
__________ the
advertiser pays for the
message to be delivered.
A.
in which
B. in
that
C. in order
that
D. in that
way
you have never planted
anything, you won't be able to know the pleasure
of
watching the thing you have planted
__________.
A.
grow
B. to grow
C. grown
D. to be
grown
9.I
will
take
your
suggestion
into
consideration
as
it
is
beneficial
to
the
company
and I am sure it will __________ the
problem.
A. contribute to
solve
B. be contributed to
solve
C. contribute to
solving
D. be contributed to
solving
the flights
__________ because of the snowstorm, we had to
take the train
instead, though it would
take much longer time.
A.
were canceled
B. had been
canceled
C. having
canceled
D. having been
canceled
days the president
of the college, together with the deans,
__________
planning a conference for
the purpose of laying down a series of
regulation.
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A.
were
B. are
C. was
D.
is
our research so far has
not produced any answers to the problem, we need
to adopt a different __________ to
it.
A. approach
B. manner
C.
style
D. method
wanted to become a writer, but his
father didn't think it was a __________
profession, so he had to give it a
second thought.
A.
respectful
B.
respective
C.
respectable
D.
respecting
__________
degree
was
awarded
to
him
by
Cambridge
for
his
great
contribution
in the
theoretical physics.
A.
honorable
B.
honorary
C.
honored
D.
honoring
audience applauded
enthusiastically as the girls from the ballet
school
performed a __________
dance.
A.
grateful
B.
gracious
C.
gradual
D.
graceful
Part 7 Skimming and
scanning
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每小题：
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分，满分
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Directions:
You
are
going
to
read
a
passage
or
passages
with
10
statements
attached
to each. Each statement contains
information given in one of the paragraphs.
Identify the paragraph from which the
information is derived. You may choose a
paragraph more than once. Each
paragraph is marked with a letter.
Questions 1 to 10 are based on the
following passage.
1. More
youngsters
move
out
of
their
parents'
home
when
the
economic
situation
is
favorable while they stay home for a
longer time during the recession.
2. The recession has a great effect on
the family construction/formation and
childbearing plan.
3. Due
to
the
unfavorable
employment
situation,
many
youngsters
have
had
to
return
to school in order to be more
competitive in the future employment.
4. Many parents offer to help adult
children pay their education, rent, vehicle
expenses and so on.
5. Many
parents
are
willing
to
offer
the
help
to
their
children
so
that
their
kids
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won't be
faced with too many financial difficulties.
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