新视野英(一)练习题A

新视野英语（一）练习题

A

Ⅰ

. Vocabulary

Directions

: Fill in the blanks by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each

choice

in the

Word Bank

is

identified

by

a

letter. You

may

not

use

any

of

the

words

more

than

once. And please write your answers

on your ANSWER SHEET.

A. occasion

B. trembled

C. graduated

D. rewarding

E. sign

1. The years he spent in the countryside proved to be a _____ experience.

2.

He

managed

to

hide

his

______

and

moved

to

a

new

town where

people

would

not

know

him.

3. He translated books not only from English, but also, on _____ from French.

4. I remember that when I was a child I was very ______ with how many toys you have.

5. Each of us might ______ the concept of freedom in slightly different way.

6. The university I _____ from with honors in 1998 is one of the besting China.

7. When the boss told her she was fired, she was pale and ____ with shock.

8. He has given up running in order to ______ on the long jump.

9. We would not have the picnic unless more people ______ up for it.

10. Micheal won the competition, ______ to everyone

’

s expectation.

Ⅱ

. Reading Comprehension

Passage 1

A

wise man said, “Of the making of books there is no end.” There are millions of books in

the world, and thousands of new books come out every year. It is no good hoping to read all these

books. However hard we may try

, we can read only a few. So we must be careful in deciding what

to read, for there are bad books as well as books really worth reading. We may read good novels,

but most of our readng should be serious

—

science, technology, lives of great men, history and

so on. If we get into the habit of reading earniestly and with a purpose when we are young, we

shall be grateful for it all our lives. For reading gives a man great pleasure, trains his mind, makes

him think, and teaches him much.

11

. The wise man’s saying

means that ________.

A. books will continue coming out as time goes on

B. books without an ending will go on being produced

C. the making of some books has no ending

D. making books has nothing to do with an end

12. It is no good hoping to read all these books because _______.

A. there are too many books to read

B. reading some of the books is not good to us

C. reading these books takes up too much time

D. a little learning is a dangerous thing

13. We can read only a few of the books in the world ________.

F. identity

G

. contrary

H. focus

I. impressed

J. define

A. if we do not try reading books in some new way

B. because we are often not in the right habit of reading

C. even if we try hard ot read few of them

D. no matter how hard we may try to read all of them

14. We must be careful in making up our minds about

what we’ll read, for ________.

A. bad books are as good as books worth reading

B. there are some bad books worth reading

C. there are too many bad books as well as books worth reading

D. we should read only the good books not the bad ones

15. We may read good novels but _________.

A. we should read them thoroughly and critically

B. we should read the most serious books

C. our reading should be most serious

D. we should read first of all serious books

Passage 2

Poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered Wales to celebrate the tradition

(

传统

)of storytelling.

“It might seem strange that people still want to listen to instead of watching television, but

this is an

unusual art form whose time has come again,” said David Ambrose, director of

Beyond

the Border, an international storytelling festival (

节

) in Wales. “Some of the tales, like those of the

Inuit from Canada, are thousands years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to

connect us with the distance of tim

e,”

he said early this month.

Two

Inuit women,

both

in

their

mid

60s,

are

among the

few

remaining

who

can

do

throat

singing,

which

has

few

words

and

much

sound.

Their

art

is

governed

by

the

cold

of

their

surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively. Ambrose started the festival in 1993,

after several years of working with those reviving (coming back into use or existence) storytelling

in Wales.

“It came out of a

group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions and as all the

Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands

here.”

Ambrose said.

16. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling ________.

A. will be more popular than TV

B. will be popular again

C. started in Wales

D. are in the hands of some old people

17. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn_______.

A. about their life as early as thousands of years ago

B. why they tell the stories in a throat singing way

C. how cold it has been where the Inuit live

D. how difficult it is to understand the Inuit

18. According to the writer, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Storytelling once stopped in Wales.

B. Storytelling has a long history in Wales.

C. Storytelling is always well received in Wales.

D. Storytelling did not come back until 1993 in Wales.

19. The underlined phrase

“in good hands”

m eans

“

______

”.

A. controlled by rich people

B. grasped by good storytellers

D. protected by kind people

C. taken good care of

20

. What’s “Beyond the Board”

in Para 2?

A. People will go across the board.

B. People can go abroad.

D. It’s nothing.

C. It’s an international storytelling festival in

Wales.

Passage 3

This is not the world we know. This world is controlled by computers. Men and women can

be seen, but they are following orders given to them by machines. The machines were designed by

mad scientists, but at some point even the mad scientists were taken over by their super-inventions

(

超级发明

).

Does this sound familiar? Y

ou have probably read something like it in magazines or books, or

seen

it

in

a

film.

Why

is

it

so

popular?

One

of

the

reasons

is

that

it

reflects

the

fears

of

many

people; fear of the unknown, fear of what is not

understood or, at least, fear of something that is

not completely understood.

The fact is that every day it seems that computers take control of another area of our lives.

Some factory jobs are now done by robots and the robots are controlled by computers. Our bank

accounts are managed by computers. At the airport, our tickets are sold by a computer. Certainly,

many of these operations are made more efficient by computers, but our admiration is sometimes

mixed with unsafe feelings. And this lack of safety is caused by the fact that we do not know how

computers do these things, and we really don

’

t know what they might do next.

But

we

can

find

out

how

computers

work,

and

once

we

understand

them,

we

can

use

computers

instead

of worrying

about

being

used

by

them.

Today,

there

is

a

new

generation

of

computer wizards (

奇才

) who

know

exactly

how computers

get

things

done.

These

young

men

and women, usually university students, are happy to sit for hours, sometimes for days, designing

programs, not eating, not sleeping, but discovering what can be done by these wonderful slaves

which

they

learned

to

control.

These computer

wizards

have

learned

to

use

the

computer

and

search for new tasks for their machines.

21. We can know that the scientists who designed the machines ______

A. are careless in their daily life

B. are unkind and cruel

C. are out of their mind

D. have great abilities

22. The reason why many people are afraid of computers is that ______.

A. they don

’

t know anything about computers

B. they haven

’

t really understood computers

C. there are so many computer games

D. computers are often down

A. computers can be controlled by man

B. there should be more people devoted to computers

C. only young people are interested in computers

D. more time and energy is required to control computers

23. The author mentions computer wizards in order to point out that ______.