2018级成考专本连读英语专业12月份考试资料综合英语(三)复习资料

《综合英语（三）》复习资料（一）

I.Decide which of the words given below would best complete each of the sentences if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY.

utterly with anxiously closed ashamed

melancholy acquire off maximize for

1.University is not just a place to ______ knowledge passed on to us from the past,

it should also be a place to explore new ideas.

2.Naturally we are all _______ to know the result of the test.

3.She promised to take over my job. That really took a big load ______ my

shoulders.

4.This music is too ______. Let’s have something more cheerful.

5.The new mayor is sick ____-_ anxiety about the growing gap between the rich

and the poor, and he keeps warning the rich not to show off their wealth.

6.The new Pope is described as a man with an open heart but a______ mind.

7._____ the record, I have tried almost every drug and liked none, disproving the

popular theory that a whiff of opium will enslave the mind.

8.The earthquake and tsumami were ______ shocking, and the total loss of property

amounted to trillions of Japanese yen.

9.The general manager is job is to ______ profits and minimize cost.

10.In those days were _____ ashamed of being seen because teh whole family had

only one garment.

II. Translate the following sentences.

1.Some countries refuse to get involved in this dispute and they resent any foreign

interference.

2.They talked for hours at a stretch, but they still failed to settle their differences.

3.In ancient times, our philosophers believed that a good king should be to the

people as a good father is to his children. He must never treat them cruelly on any account.

4.His troops successfully checked the advance of the enemy whose original

intention was to make a surprise attack.

5.He said that he would rather die than be confined to bed all his life and isolated

from the outside world.

6.Private businesses aren’t asking the government to shield them against

competition.They just hope not to be discriminated against.

7.整个会议过程中，她一直受到严厉的攻击。但她一句话也没说。(attack)

8.只有这样我们对他的这种古怪行为才能给予合理的解释。(account for)

9.要想在竞争中获胜，我们必须适应新的形势。(adjust)

III. Cloze

Decide which of the words given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Write the letter for each word on the ANSWER SHEET.

A. role

B. enormous

C. Instead of

D. muttering

E. striking

F. mediated

G. originally

H. perpetual

I. In spite of

J. emerging

K. gesture L. mistreatment M. abolish N. parade O. practically

Many countries have a holiday to celebrate workers’ righ ts on or around May 1, but Labour Day in Canada is celebrated on the first Monday of September. Canada’s Labour Day was (1) ______ celebrated in the spring but it was moved to the fall after 1894. The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto Trades Assembly organized Canada’s first significant (2) _____ for worker’s rights. The aim was to release the 24 leaders of the Toronto Typographical Union who were imprisoned for (3) ______ to campaign for a nine-hour working day. At this time, trade unions were still illegal and what they did was seen as a criminal conspiracy to disrupt trade. (4) ____ this, the Toronto Trades Assembly was already a significant organization and encouraged workers to form trade unions, (5) _____ in disputes between employers and employees and signaled the (6) ______ of workers. There was (7) ______ public support for the demonstration and the authorities could no longer deny the important (8) ____ that the trade unions had to play in the (9) ______ Canadian democratic society. A few months later, a similar demonstration was organized in Ottawa and passed the house of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John Macdonald. Later in the day, he appeared before the gathering and promised to