北外大学英语3练习题

北外大学英语3练习题单选题1. When we talk about “parts of speech”, we know that a describing word we use to describe a noun is a/an ______; a word that can be used instead of a noun is a/an _______;a word used in front of a countable or uncountable noun is a/an ___________.A、pronoun, article, adjectiveB、article, adjective, pronounC、adjective, article, pronounD、adjective, pronoun, article答案与解析：D TB Task 3, p 6 本句直接出自课本，考查“词性”的定义。

2. The new secretary is quick and _____. Since she came, the ______ of the department has been increased.A、efficient, efficiencyB、efficiency, efficientC、effective, effectD、efficient, effect答案与解析：A 这句主要考查了词类和近似词的区别。

Efficient是形容词，意思是“效率高的”；而efficiency是名词，意思是“效率”。

Effect 是名词，“效果，结果”。

Effective, “有效的”，一般是某物做主语，或者修饰“物”，比如：The new medicine is very effective in treating cough.3.The following sentence has four underlined parts marked with A, B, C, and D. Please choose the one that is not appropriately used.It pays off to spend time and money on physical exercises.ABCDA、pays offB、spendC、onD、exercises.答案和解析：A It pays to do sth. 意为“做…是有益的”，是较为固定的说法。

而pay off表示“还清、做成功”，比如：He finally paid his overdraft off. (他最后终于还清了透支额。

) Teamwork paid off. (团队合作很有成效。

)4.The following sentence has four underlined parts marked with A, B, C, and D. Please choose the one that is not appropriately used.A group of volunteers is going to swim cross the English Channel tomorrow to raise moneyABCfor the blind people.DA、isB、swim crossC、raiseD、the blind people答案和解析：B cross可用作动词或者名词，这里应该用介词across（穿过，越过），本句把二者混淆在一起。

raise money是“募款”的意思。

5. I found it _______ to concentrate on my work at the weekend. I _______ had an idea when the phone rang. Then I decided to work ______ in the following week.A、hardly, hard, hardB、hard, hardly, harderC、hard, hard, harderD、hardly, hardly, hard答案与解析：B 这个题考查的是hard词性的变化。

Hardly是副词，意思是“几乎不…”；而hard可以是形容词也可以是副词。

做形容词时基本意思是“困难的，坚硬的”；作副词时是“努力地、费劲地”。

这道题第一个空应该填形容词；第二个空应该填副词；第三个空应该填副词的比较级形式。

6. While __________ the play show, the students had to refer to the scripts for details __________, for they ________ their lines only two days ago.A、getting ready for, for now, look upB、preparing for, as well, read throughC、getting ready for, from time to time,look upD、preparing for, from time to time, readthrough答案与解析：D be preparing for表示“在准备”，而“getting ready for”表示“已经准备好了”。

但是get prepared for也表示“已经准备好了”。

scripts, 剧本。

read through 通读一遍。

7.The following sentence has four underlined parts marked with A, B, C, and D. Please choose the one that is not appropriately used.I decided to carry on with taking that course, although it required lots of work and the professor wasABCvery demanding.DA、carry on withB、althoughC、requiredD、demanding答案与解析：A carry on意思是“继续…”，后面可以接动词的-ing形式或名词；carry on with后面只能接名词，比如：I decided to carry on with my course. （我决定继续修我的课程。

）本句中with属多余。

demanding意思是“苛刻的”。

8. If you meet ___ new word and you are not sure what ____ means, try to infer the meaning of ____ new word from ____ way it is used.A、a, it, the, theB、the, that, a, aC、a, it, this, aD、the, it, the, the答案与解析：A p3/task 1 这句主要考查冠词和代词。

名词第一次出现时前面要用不定冠词a或an，以后再提到这个词时要用定冠词the。

Way 后面有修饰成分“it is used”所以前面要用定冠词the。

9. He spent several days in the wind and snow, ______ and _______.A、coldly, hungrilyB、cold, hungrilyC、cold, hungryD、coldly, hungry答案与解析：C 《张道真语法》307页形容词可以直接做状语。

coldly是副词，意思是“冷酷地、冷漠地”，例如：Janet looked at him coldly. Hungrily是副词，意为“贪婪地”。

10. You can improve your spoken English by practicing a lot, ____ don’t depend on meeting native speakers, _________ it isoften hard to meet foreigners in real life ____ foreigners sometimes may not wish to be “used” by you.A、and, but, becauseB、but, and, becauseC、but, because, andD、and, because, but答案与解析：C SB, Task 8, p 21 本题主要考查辨析句间逻辑关系的能力。

意为：你可以通过大量练习来提高英语口语，但不能依靠英语为母语的人，因为生活中很难遇到讲英语的人，况且有时候他们也不愿被你利用”。

11. You may _____ a new word while reading if it does not hinder your understanding, but make sure you do not _____ those words which are very important.A、focus on, neglectB、ignore, focus onC、neglect, ignoreD、ignore, neglect答案与解析：D ignore和neglect都有“忽略”的意思，但ignore是“有意识”地“忽略”，而neglect则是“无意识”地“忽视、疏忽”。

所以，整句的意思是：如果一个生词不妨碍理解，就可以忽略这个词的意思；但是一定不要忽视那些重要的词。

12. Diana and Charles met each other ____ their friend’s birthday party. At that time, Diana was ___ a black evening gown sitting _______ a group of girls. Charles noticed her while walking ____ the stairs.A、in, in, with, alongB、at, in, among, downC、at, in, with, onD、in, at, among, through答案与解析：B at 表地点或者场合，例如at the conference/meeting。