川外大二期中复习题综英

综合英语4复习检测题1-4单元I.’)1. By 2002, the corporation was making a loss, for prices had fallen ______ as advanced economies underwent a profound transition. (catastrophe)2. When the accident happened, no one would answer for the consequences, which was very _______. (annoyance)3. The company fears noisy brightly-lit shops are ______ older customers. (alienation)4. After an early Saturday robbery and three days of ________ investigation by the local police, Atlanta’s Museum of Arts was reopened. (exhaust)5. Johnson isn’t tired of Tokyo, it seems, but appearances can be _______. (deceive)6. The minister had decided not to release a statement explaining the reason of his resignation, but later, he _______ and let it out. (relentness)7. By the first century BC, Buddhism was in danger of _______ into small sects. (fragmentation)8. _______ of singing depends upon the precision with which the singer can voluntarily adjust the contractions of muscles related to sound making. (accurate)9. _________ in face of obstacles and setbacks is the quality people most admire in others. (persevere)10. The dress _________ her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom. (exaggeration)11. Some eager to resume studies, others _________ about going back inside the scene of last spring’s deadly shooting riot. (apprehend)12. He knew only too well that his opponent was much more powerful than he was, but he still fought ___. (flinch)13. The government has carried out ________ few of their promises. (lament)14. He never forgot the hardships he witnessed during the Great _______ of the 1930s. (depress)15. Rescuers were using blowtorches to cut into the _______ train compartments where more bodies might be found. (wreck)16. In _______ they resorted to violence. (desperately) desperation17. Synthetic fabrics are less susceptible to ______ than natural ones. (shrink)18. Cars are tested to see how much damage they suffer in _____ crashes. (simulation)19. They voted against the _______ of the existing tax system. (continue)20. He was in an ________ mood on the night of the party. (expand)21. The news that they were well ________ us. (gratification)22.Let’s learn and practice _______ navigation techniques using the stars and the sun. (survive)23. From this chapter, the main thread _____ into a succession of dramatic sub-plots. (proliferation)24. She is a TV ______ and watches as much as she can. (addiction)25. Trends toward the_of industry have dramatically affected food production in that country. (globe)26. Although a step forward had been taken, their religious ______ prevented them from taking up arms. ( convict)27. Every hour, whether he willuse the car or not, he checks the car as a matter of ______. (routinely)28. Y ears of experience as a soldier has developed great powers of _______ to dangers. (intuitive)II.T ext Comprehension. Explain the following underlined phrases in English. (1.5*18=27’)1.I came down here at your Head Master’s kind invitation in order to cheer myself... ____________.2.I was standing in a line snaking around some tired velvet ropes. ________3.It is my potential belief that he human potential can only be realized by the ideas. ____________4.Hiroshima had largely escaped the camera’s lens in the first day after the bombing._______________________________________5.They do not always expect that each day will bring up some noble chance of war. _____6. The phrase “ personal space” has a quaint, seventies ring to it. _____7. The Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users. _______________________8. A third picture shows a girl who has somehow survived unwounded and smiling an unearthly smile. _____________________9. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in. ____________________10. Or perhaps the proliferation of coffee bars in Manhattan is infusing so much caffeine into the already jangling locals. _________________11. He said that he was “addicted”, and has “forced” himself to go off-line. ____________________12. The photographs display the fate of a single city, but their meaning is universal._________________________13. Anything less than a hug may come across as chilliness. ____________14. As they surf the web, some folks might be confronted with cognitive overload. __________________________15. The human imagination had stumbled to exhaustion in the wreckage of the first ruined city.________________16. I’ve also noticed an increase in the ranks of what I think of as space invaders. ___________________________17. Some would argue that the virtual existences created by some users are in fact not real.____________________18. Y et the bombing of Nagasaki is the fitter symbol of the nuclear danger that still hangs over us. _____________ V. T ranslation (2*30=60points)1. But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough._________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Like the twelve-mile limit around our national shores, personal space is our individual border beyond which nostranger can penetrate without making us uneasy._________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Giving the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent ofinternational waters. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. That absence, even more than wreckage, contains the heart of the matter. The true measure of the event lies not in what remains but in all that has disappeared.__________________________________________________________________________________________5.Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across the slate. ____________________________________6.Manners, it seems to me, are about giving people space, not stepping on toes, granting people their private domain. ________________________________________________________________________________7. But at the expense of the time that would have otherwise been available for involvement in other activitieswhich might foster a sense of community in their villages, towns and cities.________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed.________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Ultimately, personal space is psychological, not physical: it has less to do with the space outsideus than with our inner space. ___________________________________________________________________ 10. At first, this might sound like an apparent contradiction: how can something, that is on the one hand responsible for global unification by enabling free exchange of ideas, alienate the participants?________________________________________________________________________________________11. 你无法仅凭想象判断形势是否会变得对我们不利。