致用英语综合教程4练习

《致用英语综合教程4》练习

Part I Vocabulary (1 point for each, 20 points total)

Section One (1 point for each, 10 points total)

Directions: Match the words in Column A with their meanings in Column. Then you should put the corresponding words in the brackets on the Answer sheet numbered 1 through 10.

Column A Column B

1. ecology a. a Christian priest or minister

2. ethnic b. clever plan, especially to do something into a vehicle

3. slip c. to go somewhere without attracting other people’s

attention

4. acquaint d. to make familiar

5. scheme e. of a national, racial or tribal group

6．absorb f. to interest someone so much that they do not pay

attention to other things

7. monastery g. a mention of an occurrence or a situation

8. reference h. a place where mocks live

9． grip i. the way holds something

10. parson j. the way in which plants, animals, and people are

related to each other and to their and to their

environment.

Section Two (1 point for each, 10 points total)

Directions: fill in the blanks with the words or expressions given below. Change the

12. The two pictures are similar, but there are some ______ differences between them.

13. Two girls were _______ from school for taking drugs.

14. He _________this stamp at an auction at a high price.

15. Police searched _______ for the missing gunman.

16. She had finally ________ her promise to quit smoking.

17. The troops were exhausted after months of fierce ________.

18. To _____for a healthy heart you must take regular exercise and stop smoking.

19. The government _______ pressure and dropped the proposal.

20. Travelers came to _______their eyes on the natural beauty of the region.

Part II Structures (1 point for each, 10 points total)

Directions: There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on your answer sheet.

1. Have you any __________ that you were not there at 9 o'clock last night?

A. statement

B. causes

C. words

D. proof

2. The children looked up as the planes passed __________.

A. overall

B. overhead

C. outward

D. forward

3. Charles Dickens __________ many wonderful characters in his novels.

A. invented

B. discovered

C. uncovered

D. created

4. Many young people find it harder to appreciate __________ music than pop music.

A. simple

B. light

C. ancient

D. classical

5. If the wounded soldier had been given first __________, he would not have died.

A. helps

B. aid

C. care

D. attention

6. Since he left the university, he __________ in an accounting company.

A. has been working

B. had worked

C. had been working

D. was working

7. The weather in China is different from__________.

A. America

B. in America

C. that in America

D. one in America

8. It was not until dawn __________ their way out of the forest.

A. when they found

B. that they found

C. did they find

D. that they didn't find

9. __________ he says or does won't make me change my mind at all.

A. Whatever

B. However

C. Which

D. How

10. We all believe that it'd be hard for him to __________ extra responsibilities now.

A. take apart

B. take up

C. take on

D. take back

Part III Paraphrase (3 points for each, 15 points total)

1. But for him she would certainly have died.

2. In all our dealing with him lies implicit the delusion that he has nothing to complain of, and that he ought to be ashamed of rolling in wealth whilst others are starving.

3. Sometimes the morphology even takes over the word, as in the case of ugly.

4. We humans can protect ourselves, create images, entertain, court and perform so many other tasks without using any other organs than our mouths.

5. Her life was a gift… a miracle.

Part IV Reading Comprehension (1.5 points for each, 30 points total) Directions: In this section here are several passages followed by twenty questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

Passage One

In the debates about how a particular piece of land is to be used, the priorities often conflict. What should you do, for example, if you find out that under the fertile fields of a there is a thick bed of coal which can be strip mined? Strip mining rips up top soil and vegetation. But mining may create jobs, bring money to the towns businesses. Those who approve of strip mining say that the coal is needed, and they point out that it is quicker and cheaper to get coal from the surface than to go deep into the earth to get it by standard mining techniques. On the other hand, it takes nature 500 years to create an inch of top soil. As the countryside fills up, people are becoming more need for open space. Nearly every proposal for a new power plant, highway, or airport draws fierce opposition. Everyone wants the big, land-eating “uglies t” to be in someone else’s

backyard. Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, for example, have been debating about the site of a future airport for years. Yet if a new airport is needed, it will have to go somewhere.

How do we find our way out of the land-used problem? One way might be to reexamine our values, to think in new directions. Does everyone have to have a car with its need for highways and parking lots? What about developing mass transit systems that use less land? Do suburbs have to sprawl? Can they be designed so they use less space? Do we have to have more energy? If we do, do we really have to strip-mine coal to provide it?

However difficult they may be to arrive at, choices will have to be made if we want to preserve the beauty and usefulness of the land. For there is at least one point on which all of us can agree: The land does have its limits.

1. The word “priorities” in the sentence means ____.

A) the various needs

B) the most important goal

C) the number one necessity

D) the first thing to be considered

2. “…, people are becoming more need for open space.” tells us that ____.

A) people are thinking to develop their living space into the sky

B) people noticed the need for unoccupied land

C) people are struggling to get more land from the space

D) people are becoming more active on the space issue

3. How do we find our way out of the land use problems?

A) One way might be to reexamine our values, to think in new directions.

B) Everyone has to have a car with its need for highways and parking lots.

C) We have to have more energy. We need strip mine coal to provide it.

D) We may develop mass transit systems which use less land.

4. “Everyone wants the big, land-eating ‘uglies t’ to be in someone else’s backyard.” shows that ____.

A) people don t want more big projects

B) people don t want to live in the neighborhood of the big projects

C) people regard the large construction pro jects are “ uglies t ”

D) people don t like the undesirable building projects

5. The main idea of this article is ____.

A) The Limits of Land

B) Land

C) Land and Our Life Styles

D) Land and Space

Passage Two

Television, or TV, the modern wonder of electronics, brings the world into your own home in sight and sound. The name television comes from the Greek word tele, meaning “far”,and the Latin word videre, meaning “to see”. Thus, television means “seeing far”. Sometimes television is referred to as video, from a Latin word meaning “I see”. In Great Britain, the popular word for television is “telly”.

Television works in much the same way as radio. In radio, sound is changed in to electromagnetic waves which are sent through the air. In TV, both sound and light are changed into electromagnetic waves. Experiments leading to modern television took place more than a hundred years ago. By the 1920s, inventors and researchers had turned the early theories into working models. Yet it took another thirty years for TV to become an industry.

As an industry, TV provides jobs for hundreds of thousands who make TV sets and broadcasting equipment. It also provides work for actors, technicians, and others who put on programs.

Many large schools and universi ties have “closed—circuit” television equipment that will telecast lectures and demonstrations to hundreds of students in different classrooms; and the lecture can be video taped to be kept for later use. Some hospitals

use TV to allow medical students to get close-up view of operations.

In 1946, after World War II, TV began to burst upon the American scene with a speed unforeseen even by the most optimistic leaders of the industry. The novelty of seeing TV pictures in the home caught the publics fancy and began a revolution in the world of entertainment. By 1950, television had grown into a major part of show business. Many film and stage stars began to perform on TV as television audiences increased. Stations that once telecast for only a few hours a day sometimes telecast around the clock in the 1960s.

6. “… others who put on programs. ”means that ____.

A) people get on their clothes with programs printed on

B) people prepare and present the programs on TV

C) people like the programs

D) people acted in the TV programs

7. “… to allow medical students to get close up view of operations ” suggests ____.

A) the students can have view of operations with enlarged details

B) the students can operate through TV

C) the students were allowed to learn operations

D) TV is being used by students

8. “… TV began to burst upon the American …” indicates that ____.

A) in 1946 TV sets exploded in American families

B) TV may injure people

C) TV suddenly became available to many American families

D) TV was very popular in 1946

9. “TV pictures in the home caught the public s fancy …” tells us ____.

A) TV pictures are better than movies

B) TV pictures can be seen at home

C) TV pictures can hurt people s eyes

D) TV pictures had aroused people s interests

10. “… sometimes telecast around the clock in the 1960s. ” means ____.

A) TV telecast used to have a round clock

B) people watch TV with around clock nearby

C) TV telecast 24 hours a day in the 1960s

D) TV was on show everyday

Passage Three

Solar energy for your home is coming. It can help you as a single home owner. It can help the whole country as well. Whether or not solar energy can save your money depends on many things. Where you live is one factor. The type of home you have is another. Things like insulation present energy coasts and the type of system you buy are added factors.

Using solar energy can help save our precious fuel. As you know, our supplies of oil and gas are very limited. There is just not enough on hand to meet all our future energy needs. And when Mother Nature says that’s all. The only way we can delay hearing those words is by starting to save energy now and by using other sources, like the sun.

We won’t have to worry about the suns running out of energy for another seve ral billion years or so. Besides begin an endless source of energy, the use of the sun has other advantages as well. The sun doesn’t offer as many problems as other energy sources. For example, fossil fuel plants add to already high pollution levels. With solar energy, we will still need sources of energy, but we won’t need as much. That means we can cut down on our pollution problems.

With all these good points, why don’t we use more solar power? There are many reasons for this. The biggest reason is money. Until now, it was just not practical for a home owner to put in a solar unit. There were cheaper sources of energy. All that is changing now. Solar coats are starting to equal the costs of oil and electricity. Experts say that gas, oil and electricity prices will continue to rise. The demand for electricity is increasing rapidly. But new power plants will use more gas, oil or coal. Already in some places the supply of electricity is being rationed. Solar energy is now in its infancy. It could soon grow to become a major part of our nations energy supply.

11. Which statement best expresses the main idea?

A) Something about Solar Energy and Pollution. B) Solar Energy.

C) Energy and Pollution D) Energy and Money.

12. Solar energy can help us save ____.

A) the earth and natural resources B) mother nature

C) the sun D) our precious fuel

13. The sun is an endless source of energy, it will not run out of it for ____.

A) several million years B) several hundred years

C) several billion years D) several thousand years

14. Which of the following statements is correct?

A) Energy from coal would not pollute our living environment.

B) Energy from natural gas would not pollute our living environment.

C) Energy from the sun would not pollute our living environment.

D) Energy from oil would not pollute our living environment.

15. Solar energy is now in its infancy, ____.

A) but it will be considered as an important part of our nation s energy supply

B) yet we will build more power plants

C) and the supply of electricity will be rationed

D) but we don t need practice energy rationing now

Passage Four

It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history, six times more deadly than the Titanic.

When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II, more than 10,000 people - mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany - were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. “I’ll never forget the screams," says Christa Ntitzmann, 87, one of the 1,200 survivors. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave - and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century. Now Germanys Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children - with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn’t dwell on the sinking; its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: "Nobody wanted to hear about it, not here in the West (of Germany) and not at all in the East." The reason was obvious. As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn’t have the energy left to te ll of our own sufferings. The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable - and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their country’s monstrous crimes in the Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize (使...不得势) the neo- Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today’s unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they ye now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy.

16. Why does the author say the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst tragedy in maritime history?

A) It was attacked by Russian torpedoes.

B) Most of its passengers were frozen to death.

C) Its victims were mostly women and children.

D) It caused the largest number of casualties.

17. Hundreds of families dropped into the sea when

A) a strong ice storm tilted the ship

B) the cruise ship sank all of a sudden

C) the badly damaged ship leaned toward one side

D) the frightened passengers fought desperately for lifeboats

18.The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy was little talked about for more than half a century because Germans

A) were eager to win international acceptance

B) felt guilty for their crimes in World War II

C) ~ad been pressured to keep silent about it

D) were afraid of offending their neighbors

19. How does Gunter Grass revive the memory of the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy?

A) By presenting the horrible scene of the torpedo attack.

B) By describing the ships sinking in great detail.

C) By giving an interview to the weekly Die Woche.

D) By depicting the survival of a young pregnant woman.

20, It can be learned from the passage that Germans no longer think that

A) they will be misunderstood if they talk about the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy

B) the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy is a reasonable price to pay for the nations past misdeeds

C) Germany is responsible for the horrible crimes it committed in World War II

D) it-is wrong to equate their sufferings with those of other countries

Part V. Translation (3points each, 15 points total)

Directions: Translate the following sentences from English into Chinese.

My own escape is hardly complete. A creature of habit more than habitat, I have yet to spend a day without once looking at a clock or asking the hour. My vacation itself is restricted. I have only a certain amount of time given to timelessness. It will end at a predetermined moment. I will go home according to the boat schedule, write on deadline. But on this day the ghostly white mark left by the watch on my arm has finally browned. I can barely see its imprint on my life.

Part VI. Writing (10 points total)

Directions: Write on ANSWER SHEET a composition of about 100 words on the following topic:

How to Keep Healthy

参考答案

Part I. Vocabulary (1 point for each，20 points total)

Section A (1 point for each, 10 points total)

1—5 j e c d . b 6—10 f h g. I . a.

Section B (1 point for each, 10 points total)

11 come into being 12 subtle 13 expelled 14 purchased 15 in vain

16 carried out 17 combats 18 sum up 19 responded to 20 feast

Part II. Structures (1 point for each, 10 points total)

1---5 DBDDB 6—10 ACBAC

Part III. Paraphrase (3 points for each, 15 points total)

1 She would have died if there had not been this dog who took good care of her.

2 We wrongly assume that a millionaire has nothing to complaint of. We believe that he

should be ashamed of rolling in so much money whi le poor people don’t even have enough to eat.

3 The prefixes or suffixes of some words persist in language, while the original words

have already disappeared. The word “ugly” is an example.

4 We can do a lot of things only by using mouth.

5 It is an unusual case that she could survive. It is something uncommon.

Part IV. Reading Comprehension (1.5 points for each, 30 points total)

1—5 DBABA 6 — 10 BACDC

11—15 BDCCA 16—20 DCBDA

Part V. Translation（3 points for each, 15 points total）

我很难做到真正地逃离时间。已经成为了一个按习惯而不是习性生活的人，我还从没真正有过一整天不看时间、不询问时间的时候。我的假期本身就是有时间限制的，我只有短暂的能真正忘却时间的时间。这一短暂的时间会按预定时间结束。我会按照航程安排踏上归途，会依照最后时限撰写稿件。但是，就在今日，我手臂上那条白色的表带印记还是褪去了。我几乎看不到它曾在我生命中留存的痕迹了。