大学英语三级Unit2练习

Unit 2
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I.Fill in the gaps with words or phrases chosen from the box.
Change the form where necessary.
1)China’s economic success over the past three has raised the living standards of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens.
2)Citibank(花旗银行) picked the chief executive of as its first Chinese customer Thursday to open an account at its new branch in the Peace Hotel along Shanghai’s fabled waterfront.
3)The United States last Wednesday tariffs of up to 30 percent on a range of foreign steel imports to help protect its domestic industry.
4)Although he was raised as a Christian, he’s not really very .
5)Y ou can distinguish between frogs and toads in the following way: frogs have bodies, long limbs, and a smooth skin, and toads have stouter bodies, shorts limbs and dry skin.
6)From the airplane window I could see a of city streets.
7)Aunt Pat smiled at her little niece and her to eat.
8)Dr. Rich Hamilton is planning his own World Wide Web on the Internet to provide assistance to anyone who asks for medical help.
9)It is difficult to estimate the number of people doing part-time jobs on the .
10)The president has his foreign minister, Nr. Burns, to act as representative to the international conference to be held in Tokyo next month.
11)Advances in telecommunications have meant that it is just as easy to work from a computer at home as it is from a town center office.
12)Until the new gym is built, you have no option but to existing buildings which may or may not suit your immediate requirements.
Translation:
1.虽然受到全球金融危机后果的巨大影响，但是我们仍然相信我们能够面对挑战，克服危机。

（confident)
2.在持续不断的沙尘暴的威胁下，我们被迫离开我们喜爱的村庄，搬迁到新的地方。

(threat, compel, settlement)
3.根据最近的网上调查，许多消费者说他们也许会有兴趣考虑购买电视广告中播放的产品。

(motivate)
4.看到卡车司机把受污染的废弃物（contaminated waste）倒在河边，老人马上向警方报告。

(spot, alongside)
5.一些科学家坚信人们总有一天会喜欢转基因农作物（genetically modified crops)的，因为他们能够提高产量，帮助发展中国家战胜饥荒和疾病。

(conviction, come to …)
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I. Difficult Sentences
1.This act of peaceful disobedience started protests in Montgomery that eventually
led to legal changes in minority rights, ushering in a new era of the civil rights movement in the United States.
2.She explained later that this seemed to be the place for her to stop being pushed
around and to find out what human rights she had, if any.
3.But black groups in Montgomery considered her to be the right citizen around
whom to build a protest because she was one of the finest citizens of the city.
4.He said: “There are very few people who can say their actions and conduct
changed the face of the nation. Rosa Parks is one of those individuals.”
Language Practice:
2. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases chosen from the box. Change the form where necessary.
1) A man is due to go on at Liverpool Crown Court later today accused of murdering his wide.
2) Lu Xun studied medicine in Japan, but abandoned it to become a full-time writer and political .
3) Does have to mean sameness for spouses in order to have equal power and status in our most basic family relationships?
4) The police spokesman reported that the suspects had been shortly after the terrorist attacks.
5) New and extended underground railways, such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in San Francisco, USA, help ease problems of urban .
6) Permanent have long been sent from one country to another, in order to obtain information, safeguard their own country’s interests, and to foster trade and cultural links.
7) Consumers have the right to demand their money back if a product is faulty.
8) Apart from intervals for the two World Wars, and despite various politically motivated , the Olympic Games have continued ever since.
9) In the 1980s, Stevens found and the album was re-released and eventually sold more than 100,000 copies.
10) Throughout the ages women had been largely excluded from education, from the ownership of property, from economic independence, and from political .
11) Y esterday’s match between Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers the start of the NBA season.
12) Since Mao Zedong passed away in 1976, his body has in the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall.。