大学英语精读第三册课后close练习题

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Choose

the

best

word

or

phrase

for

each

blank

from

the

four

supplied

in

brackets.

Whether

you are a CEO, engineer,

firefighter, teacher, or sales professional,

the

(1) ______ (ability, capacity

, chance, opportunity)

to persuade

individuals to believe

you,

(2) ______ (otherwise, still,

then,

yet) act on what

you are saying,

is critical to

your

success

and

central

to

your

economic

well-being.

No

matter

(3)

______

(how,

when, who, whoever) you are, you have something to sell. Frequently, in the course of

your career you will be (4) ______ (called upon, put upon, seized on, urged on) to sell

either

yourself or

your

ideas.

(5) ______ (Either, Neither, Weather, Whether)

you are

selling

yourself

in an

interview

for a job, or

selling a product, service, philosophy

,

or

idea

—

everybody sells (6) ______ (anything, everything, nothing, something)!

Perhaps engineers constitute (7) ______ (less, more, the least, the most) sales and

promotion

—

oriented

group

I

know.

Engineers

like

to

(8)

______

(live

on,

rely

on,

resort to, stick to) facts, number, and technology to lead people (9) ______ (backward,

forward,

sideward,

toward)

making

the

right

decisions.

Y

et

they

still

(10)

______

(have

to,

ought

to,

must,

should)

sell.

If

you

need

to

convince

a

board

of

directors,

company president, or

your supervisor why a project

needs

more

funding, additional

support, or even

more time,

you have a (11) ______ (sale, saleable, sales, selling) job

ahead of you.

The

most common (12) ______ (form, pattern, shape,

way) of selling today

may

be

simply

finding

a

job.

Even

firefighters

have

to

(13)

______

(cut

through,

go

through,

enroll

in,

participate

in)

a

series

of

in-depth

interviews

in

which

they

are

probed on why they should be selected over hundreds of other candidates (14) ______

(applied,

applying,

to

apply

,

having

applied)

for

the

same

position.

These

men

and

women

have

to

explain

why

they

would

be

assets

to

the

department.

(15)

______

(What,

Whatever,

Which,

Whichever)

position

you

are

applying

for,

you

have

to

know

how

to

sell

yourself

and

your

ideas.

Just

getting

in

the

door

for

an

interview

frequently requires you to justify why people should bother talking to you.

5

Choose

the

best

word

or

phrase

for

each

blank

from

the

four

supplied

in

brackets.

The

lawyer

is a person with a very special knowledge of the

law

—

both civil and

criminal.

(1)

______

(According

to,

Because

of,

Regardless

of,

Thanks

for)

this

knowledge

the

lawyer can

help plan their

(2) ______

(affairs,

family, trial, situation)

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in accordance with the

law. In other

(3) ______

(expressions, phrases, terms, words)

he or she

helps people

get out of trouble as well as

helping those who are (4)

______

(already

,

ever,

still,

yet)

in

trouble.

He/She

helps

to

ensure

freedom

of

(5)

______

(belief, idea, opinion, thought) and action and to bring about peace (6) ______ (about,

among, between, of) person and person, and person and government. He/She prepares

(7) ______ (agreements, documents,

instruments, statements) and contracts by which

one

person

makes

sure

that

another

person

will

carry

(8)

______

(forward,

on,

out,

through)

his

promises.

He/She

prepares

wills

and

documents

(9)

______

(changing,

moving,

shifting,

transferring)

property

.

He/She

gives

advice

to

people

on

domestic

and

family

(10)

______

(associations,

connection,

links,

relationships)

and

on

business problems.

Most of a

lawyer

‘

s work,

is carried on outside the courtroom, although the cases

the

(11)

______

(people,

population,

prosecution,

public)

hears

or

reads

about

are

those

(12)

______

(that,

what,

which,

who)

come

to

court.

In

court,

the

lawyer

(13)

______

(describes,

examines,

introduces,

presents)

or

defends

claimed

violations

of

right,

or

disputes

(14)

______

(arising,

rising,

rose,

arises)

out

of

differences

as

to

what

has

happened or what

is

(15)

______

(fair,

legal, permissible,

right) and just.

In a civil action the court hears claims between private persons about private

matters,

family

matters,

and

negligence

or

accident

cases.

In

criminal

cases

lawyers

either

prosecute

or

defend

public

wrongs

against

the

community,

state,

or

nation,

such

as

murder, robbery

, and other crimes or offenses.

6.

Choose

the

best

word

or

phrase

for

each

blank

from

the

four

supplied

in

brackets.

During the whole of a dark, cloudy day near the end of the year, I had been riding

my

horse

along

country

roads

with

little

life

or

beauty

.

When

evening

fell,

I

found

myself (1) ______ (at, on, with, within) view of the House of Usher. I do not know (2)

______

(how,

what,

when,

why)

but

my

first

sight

of

it

made

my

heart

(3)

______

(cheerful, heavy,

light, sorrowful). I stopped

my

horse at the (4) ______ (edge,

ledge,

ridge, sledge) of

the black and quiet

lake

that

(5) ______ (lie,

lying,

laid,

lay) beside

the building. Looking down into the water I saw a reflection of the (6) ______ (brand

new, new brand, dark old, old dark) house and the dying tress around it. There was (7)

______ (nothing, something, the figure of a man, the shape of a fish) in that reflection

that bought fear to my heart, (8) ______ (even, if, though, while) I could not tell what

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it was.

I looked up at the house itself, (9) ______ (when, why

, what, which) was made of

stone. None of the

walls

(10) ______ (were

falling, were

fallen,

fell,

had

fallen) but

many stones appeared to be

loose.

There seemed to be a break (11) ______ (in

front

of, in the front, on front of, on the front of) the building, going down the wall from the

top

(12)

______

(as,

before,

when,

until)

it

became

lost

in

the

dark

waters

of

the

lake.

I

had

come

to

visit

a

childhood

friend,

Roderick

Usher.

I

had

not

seen

him

for

many

years,

and

I

knew

very

little

about

him.

But

he

had

written

me

a

little,

(13)

______ (asking, calling, demanding, requiring)

me to come. He

was sick

in body and

in

(14)

______

(emotion,

heart,

mind,

thought)

and

he

wanted

to

see

me,

his

best

and

old

friend.

I

could

not

refuse.

But

now,

something

(15)

______

(about,

as

to,

concerning,

in) the

house

frightened

me. (Adapted

from

Edgar

Allan Poe

‘

s

―

The Fall

of the House of Usher

‖

)

9.

Choose

the

best

word

or

phrase

for

each

blank

from

the

four

supplied

in

brackets.

Mike took

up the

story

.

―

I

got

married when I

was a

young

man of 22, but

my

wife

was

killed

a

year

later

in

a

car

accident.

I

was

completely

(1)

______

(broken,

damaged, destroyed,

shattered). I put all

my energies (2) ______ (for,

into, on,

with)

my work and spent many years abroad with my firm. Then I came back to England to

work at Head Office and (3) ______ (know, realized, saw, understood) how empty my

life

had

become.

I

didn't

(4)

______

(completely

,

exactly,

just,

quite)

want

work;

I

wanted a

wife and children.

I

needed someone

to

make

my

house

into a

(5) ______

(family,

home,

paradise,

shelter).

I

wasn't

interested

in

young

girls,

but

(6)

______

(how, what, when, whether) could I find a mature, (7) ______ (lovable, loving, lovely

,

lover) woman to share my life? I think my sister and brother-in- law (8) ______ (could,

must, ought to, should)

have

guessed

how I

was

feeling.

They (9) ______ (arranged,

introduced,

recommended,

suggested)

me

to

a

charming

older

couple

one

evening.

After they'd.

gone

home

I remarked

how (10) ______ (well- combined,

well-married,

well-paired,

well-suited)

they

seemed

and

my

sister

told

me

why

--

they'd

met

(11)

______ (at, by

,

from, through) a Marriage Bureau.

?

Y

ou should give

it a try

,' she said.

So I did.‖

Mike phoned a bureau the very next day and went for an interview the following

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