内师大研研究生英语期末考试复习资料—英语1(unit8)

新视角研究生英语复习资料 Unit 8 研一英语期末考试复习资料——（IMNU ZZM）

2 Unit 8 一、Vocabulary Part A 1. Slender and graceful in light furs, the model wore a jeweled girdle, fine clothes and a gorgeous hat. 2. During these amazing years of unprecedented expansion, Greater London grew at a much faster rate than the national population as a whole and faster than the suburbs of any provincial city. 3. Complete your visit with a leisurely stroll around Cardiff Bay and enjoy the remarkable historic buildings and the delightful specialty shops. 4. As a judge who believed that there was either good or evil, with no gray area in between, he was stern with lawbreakers but generous to the poor. 5. The new ruler was condemned for his introduction of a repressive political system that allowed no freedom. 6. The pressure of population growth within the confines of a small island of only 29 square miles led to the development of an innovatory, intensive system based on very effective soil conservation techniques. 7. Then I pretended to notice him for the first time and engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner. 8. Roughly one-half of the world’s population, including almost all of East and Southeast Asia, depends on rice as its principal staple food. 9. The bank planned to charge card holders a ten-yuan annual fee from next year, which invited strong opposition from its customers. 10. Intrinsically motivating activities are those in which people will engage for no reward other than the interest and enjoyment that accompanies them. Part B 1. While the new college was being built in Oxford Street, the students worked in a makeshift laboratory in apartments rented in a nearby street. A. alternate B. alternative C. poorly-equipped D. temporary 2. He has great zeal for nature and dreams to be a biologist when he grows up. A. demand B. diligence C. eagerness D. warmth 3. It is only when foreign brands land on our doorsteps and people flock to buy them that the local manufacturers will respond to the competitive threat. A. begin B. gather C. prefer D. refuse 4. She refused to travel abroad unless accompanied by massive quantities of prescribed drugs because she could only survive the small hours by swallowing 研一英语期末考试复习资料——（IMNU ZZM） 3 incautious numbers of sleeping tablets. A. the early morning B. the flight time C. the short journey D. a very short time 5. Nearly everyone had a very positive outlook and the plans for action to revive the area were discussed. A. animate B. explore C. rescue D. revitalize 6. When she stayed away from him, he would wander out into the stony streets, hoping to bump into her, to glimpse her sitting in a bar or on a park bench. A. blow into B. collide into C. run into D. shake into 7. Many Fine Art graduates take up professional practice as artists, and this course encourages them to consider their role as artists in the community by providing opportunities for short-term placements outside the Faculty. A. accept B. adopt C. occupy D. start 8. I was in some doubt as to whether the Corporal had stumbled upon us accidentally on his way out of the town. A. crashed on B. bumped into C. fell against D. puzzled about 9. She took the report, went out into the department and threw herself into her work with tight-lipped determination. A. brought herself back to B. busied herself with C. freed herself from D. rushed herself towards 10. The statement said the people of Srebrenica appealed to the presidents of the United States and France to help halt the offensive. A. aroused B. attracted C. used D. urged 二、Close Japan’s rise from the devastation of World War II to economic prominence was not without human cost. People cannot work for ten or twelve hours a day six and seven days a week, year after year, without suffering 1) physically as well as mentally. But during the first three postwar decades no one paid any special 2) attention to the larger than usual number of men in their 40s and 50s who died of brain and heart ailments. It was not 3) until the latter part of the 1980s, when several high-ranking business executives who were still in their 4) prime years suddenly died without any previous sign of 5) illness, that the news media began picking up on what appeared to be a new phenomenon. This new phenomenon was quickly 6) labeled karoshi, or “death from overwork”, and once it had a name and its symptoms were broadcast far and wide, it just as quickly became obvious that Japan was 7) experiencing a virtual epidemic. It is 8）estimated in 1990 that over 10,000 people were dying each year from overwork.