Book 3-Unit 3&4练习题

Comprehensive Exercise (Unit 3 & Unit 4)

I. Vocabulary (2’ x 20=40’)

1.In a time of social reform, people’s state of mind tends to keep ____ with the rapid changes

of society.

A.step

B.progress

C.pace

D.touch

2.An important property of scientific theory is its ability to _____ further research and further

thinking about a particular topic.

A.stimulate

B.renovate

C.arouse

D.advocate

3.As you have seen, the values of a nation’s currency is a ____ of its economy.

A.reaction

B.reflection

C.response

D.revelation

4.Medical supplies have been __________ among families affected by the epidemic.

A.appeared

B.spread

C.assigned

D.distributed

5.When he applied for a ______ in the office of the local newspaper Ed was told to see the

manager

A.location

B.profession

C.career

D.position

6.At first, the speaker was referring to the problem of pollution in the country but halfway in

her speech, she suddenly ______ to another subject.

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B.switched

C.favored

D.transmitted

7.Friendship is _________ mutual concern and understanding, common interests, trust, and

faith.

A.set up

B.made on

C.built on

D.reflected on

8.He must decide what to __________ and what to leave in when making a plan of his study.

A.leave alone

B.leave behind

C.leave off

D.leave out

9.Bob didn’t turn up at the party; I had an _________ that something must have gone wrong.

A.inspiration

B.imagination

C.intuition

D.incentive

10.You have taken such good care of our children during our absence that we feel we shall

never be able to ________ your kindness.

A.renovate

B.repay

C.convince

D.analyze

11.Federal law places limits on when and how many military reservists the President or

secretaries of the services can ________ to active duty.

A.call in

B.call off

C.call upon

D.call up

12.She made an official ________ to the media which aroused more suspicions that the rumor

was true.

A.editorial

B.response

C.version

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13.The listener must use the sounds of speech to identify the words spoken, understand the

pattern of organization of the words (sentences), and finally ________ the meaning.

A.interpret

B.justify

C.utter

D.prescribe

14.________ quantities of water are being used nowadays with the rapid development of

industry and agriculture.

A.Excessive

B.Extensive

C.Extreme

D.Exclusive

15.I am a college undergraduate, female, aged 20. I would like to take up a job during the

summer vacation so as to _______ my social experience.

A.bring back

B.add to

C.curl up

D.take out

16.American university students are usually under pressure of work because their academic

performance will _______ their future careers

A.react

B.affect

C.effect

D.attach

17.We need help from other countries. But we do not _______ on others for support.

A.engage

B.involve

C.strip

D.lean

18.The main living areas are placed on the south side for _______ exposure to sunlight

A.minimum

B.medium

C.maximum

D.average

19.She made ________ preparations for the party, but no one showed up.

A.physical

B.fancy

C.fruitful

D.elaborate

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following day.

A.coverage

B.associate

C.performance

D.reliance

II. Cloze (1’ x 20=20’)

There is evidence that the usual variety of high blood pressure is, 21 part, a familial disease. Since families have similar genes as well 22 similar environments, familial diseases could be 23 to shared genetic influences, to shared environmental factors, or to 24 . For some years, the role of one environmental factor commonly 25 by families, namely dietary salt (i.e. sodium chloride), 26 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. These studies suggest that frequent excess salt intake can 27 high blood pressure in man and animals. Some individuals, however, and some rats consume large amounts of salt 28 develop high blood pressure. No 29 how strict environmental factors were controlled in these experiments, some self-fed animals never developed high blood pressure 30 a few rapidly developed very serious high blood pressure 31 by early death. These marked variations were interpreted to 32 from differences in genetic constitution.

___33 mating in successive generations only those animals that failed to develop high blood pressure from salt intake, a resistant strain (the "R" strain) has been 34 in which consumption of large qualities of salt fails to influence the blood pressure significantly. In 35 , by mating only animals that quickly develop high blood pressure from salt, a sensitive strain ("S" strain) has also been develop.

The ability of these two strains permits investigations not possible 36 . They provide a likely laboratory model on 37 to investigate some clinical aspects of the human types of high blood pressure. More important, there might be the 38 of developing methods by which genetic likelihood of human beings to develop high blood pressure can be defined without waiting 39 its appearance. Radioactive sodium 22 was an important "tool" in 40 out characteristics of the sodium chloride metabolism.

21. A. by B. in C. at D. for

22. A. as B. like C. / D. to

23. A. like B. because C. seem D. due

24. A. both B. them C. all D. these

25. A. had B. influenced C. shared D. transported

26. A. has studied B. has been studied C. studies D. studied

27. A. lead to B. change C. guide D. reduce

28. A. with B. unless C. without D. but

29. A. event B. fact C. later D. matter

30. A. whereas B. where C. as D. but

31. A. acquired B. persuaded C. attacked D. followed

32. A. come B. go C. result D. take

33. A. By B. After C. From D. To

34. A. involved B. evolved C. developed D. evolution

35. A. similarity B. comparison C. the same D. contrast

36. A. obviously B. presently C. formerly D. latterly

37. A. that B. which C. what D. those

38. A. possibility B. ability C. chance D. probable

39. A. for B. to C. on D. with

40. A. taking B. judging C. working D. doing

III. Reading Comprehension (2’ x 20=40’)

Passage 1

A cobbler passed his time in singing from morning till night; it was wonderful to see and wonderful to hear him. He was more ___(41)___ in shoes than any of the seven sages. ___(42)___, his neighbor, who was rolling in wealth, sung but little and slept less. He was a banker. When by chance he fell into a ___(43)___ at day-break, the cobbler ___(44)___ him with his song. The banker complained sadly that God had not made sleep a saleable commodity, like edibles or drinkables. Having at length sent for the songster, he said to him, "how much a year do you earn, Master Gregory?" "How much a year, sir?" said the merry cobbler laughing, "I have reckon in that way, living as I do from one day to another; somehow I manage to reach the end of the year; each day brings its meal." "Well, then, how much a day do you earn, my friend?" "Sometimes more, sometimes ___(45)___;but the ___(46)___ of it is, –and, without that our earnings would be very tolerable – a number of days occur in the year on which we are forbidden to work; and the curate(牧师), moreover, is constantly adding some new saint s to the list.” The banker, laughing at his simplicity, said, "in the future I shall place you above want. Take the hundred crowns, ___(47)___ them carefully, and make use of them in time of need." The cobbler fancied he beheld all the wealth which the earth had produced in the past century for the use of mankind. Returning home, he buried his money and his ___(48)___ at the same time. No more singing; he lost his voice the moment he acquired that, which is the ___(49)___ of so much grief. Sleep quitted his dwelling; and cares, ___(50)___, and false alarms took its place. All day, his eye wandered in the direction of his treasure; and at night, if some stray cat made a noise, the cat was robbing him. At length the poor man ran to the house of his rich neighbor, "Give my back," said he, "sleep and my voice, and take your hundred crowns."

Passage 2

He is waiting at the airline ticket counter when he first notices the young woman. She has glossy black hair pulled tightly into a knot at the back of her head--the man imagines it loosed and cascading to the small of her back--and carries over the shoulder of her leather coat a heavy black purse. She wears black boots of soft leather. He struggled to see her face -- she is ahead of him in line -- but it is not until she has bought her ticket and turns to walk away that he realizes her beauty, which is pale and dark-eyed and full-mouthed, and which quickens his heartbeat. She seems aware that he is staring at her and lowers her gaze abruptly.

The airline clerk interrupts. The man gives up looking at the woman -- he thinks she may be about twenty-five -- and buys a round trip, coach class ticket to an eastern city.

His flight leaves in an hour. To kill time, the man steps into one of the airport cocktail bars and orders a scotch and water. While he sips it he watches the flow of travelers through the terminal -- including a remarkable number, he thinks, of unattached pretty women dressed in fashion magazine clothes -- until he catches sight of the black-haired girl in the leather coat. She is standing near a Travelers Aid counter, deep in conversation with a second girl, a blonde in a cloth coat trimmed with gray fur. He wants somehow to attract the brunette's attention, to invite her to have a drink with him before her own flight leaves for wherever she is traveling, but even though he believes for a moment she is looking his way he cannot catch her eye from out of the shadows of the bar. In another instant the two women separate; neither of their directions is toward him. He orders a second scotch and water.

When next he sees her, he is buying a magazine to read during the flight and becomes aware that someone is jostling him. At first he is startled that anyone would be so close as to touch him, but when he sees who it is he musters a smile.

“Busy place,” he says.

She looks up at him -- is she blushing -- and an odd grimace crosses her mouth and vanishes. She moves away from him and joins the crowds in the terminal.

The man is at the counter with his magazine, but when he reaches into his back pocket for his wallet, the pocket is empty. Where could I have lost it? He thinks. His mind begins enumerating the credit cards, the currency, the membership and identification cards; his stomach churns with something very like fear. The girl who was so near to me, he thinks -- and all at once he understands that she has picked his pocket.

What is he to do? He still has his ticket, safely tucked inside his suit -- he reaches into the jacket to feel the envelope, to make sure. He can take the flight, call someone to pick him up at his destination -- since he cannot even afford the bus fare -- conduct his business and fly home. But in the meantime he will have to do something about the lost credit cards -- call home, have his wife get the numbers out of the top desk drawer, phone the card companies -- so difficult a process, the whole thing suffocating. What shall he do?

First: Find a policeman, tell what has happened, describe the young woman; damn her, he thinks, for seeming to be attentive to him, to let herself stand so close to him, blush prettily when he spoke, and all the time she wanted only to steal from him. And her blush was not shyness but the anxiety of being caught; that was most disturbing of all. Damned deceitful creatures. He will spare the policeman the details -- just tell what she has done, what is in the wallet. He grits his teeth. He will probably never see his wallet again.

He is trying to decide if he should save time by talking to a guard near the X-ray machine

when he is appalled and elated to see the black-haired girl. She is seated against a front window of the terminal, taxis and private cars moving sluggishly beyond her in the gathering darkness; she seems engrossed in a book.

A seat beside her is empty, and the man occupies it.

“I've been looking for you,” he says.

She glances at hi m with no sort of recognition. “I don't know you,” she says.

“Sure you do.”

She sighs and puts the book aside. “Is this all you characters think about -- picking up girls like we were stray animals? What do you think I am?”

“You lifted my wallet,” he says. He is pleased to have said “lifted”, thinking it sounds more worldly than stole or took or even ripped off.

“I beg your pardon?” the girl says.

“I know you did -- at the magazine counter. If you'll just give it back, we can forget the whole thing. If you don't, then I'11 hand you over to the police.”

She studies him, her face serious. 'All right,' she says. She pulls the black bag onto her lap, reaches into it and draws out a wallet.

He takes it from her. “Wait a minute,” he says. “This isn't mine.”

The girl runs; he bolts after her. It is like a scene in a movie -- bystanders scattering, the girl zigzagging to avoid collisions, the sound of his own breathing reminding him how old he is -- until he hears a woman's voice behind him.

“Stop, thief! Stop that man!”

Ahead of him the brunette disappears around a corner and in the same moment a young man in a marine uniform puts out a foot to trip him up, He falls hard, banging knee and elbow on the floor of the terminal, but manages to hang on to the wallet which is not his.

The wallet is a woman's, fat with money and credit cards from places like Sack's and Peck & Peck and Lord & Taylor, and it belongs to the blonde in the fur-trimmed coat—the blonde he has earlier seen in conversation with the criminal brunette. She, too, is breathless, as is the policeman with her.

“That’s him,” the blonde girl says. “He lifted my billfold.”

It occurs to the man that he cannot even prove his own identity to the policeman.

Two weeks later -- the embarrassment and rage have diminished, the family lawyer bas been paid, the confusion in his household has receded -- the wallet turns up without explanation in one morning's mail. It is intact, no money is missing, all the cards are in place. Though he is relieved, the man thinks that for the rest of his life he will feel guilty around policemen, and ashamed in the presence of women.

51. In an airport cocktail bar, he can’t attract the girl’s attention because she is talking with her friend. ( )

52. It’s difficult to contact the card companies to describe the lo st credit cards. ( )

53. He decides to find a policeman immediately instead of calling home. ( )

54. After weighing the advantages and disadvantages, the girl yields to his demand. ( )

55. Both he and the blonde are victims. ( )

56. His friend picks him up at his destination. ( )

57. He is sent to prison because he cannot prove his own identity to the policeman. ( )

58. The most disturbing moment is that ____________________________________________

59. The reason why the girl could steal his money so easily is that _______________________

60. He will feel _____________________________ in the presence of policemen and women.