Test 1 for U5
I. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
1. I don't know _______or not.
A. whether he is at home B. if he is at home
C. that he is at home D. whether is he at home
2. This depends on_______ the weather is fine.
A. which B. whether C. if D. that
3. The teacher asked the new student _______class he was in.
A. which B. where C. if D. that
4. I don't know _______Mr Green will come to see us. He'll help us with our English.
A. why B. when C. how D. where
5. — Be careful! Don't break the bottles. Do you hear_______I said, David?
— Yes, Mum.
A. what B. that C. why D. if
6. — Do you know _______ Mr Black's address is?
— He may live at No.18 or No. 19 Bridge Street. I'm not sure of_______.
A. where; which B. where; what C. what; which D. what; where
7. There is not much difference between the two. I really don't know_______.
A. what should I choose B. which I should choose
C. which should I choose D. what I should choose
8. — What did your parents think about your decision?
— They always let me do _______I think I should.
A. when B. that C. how D. what
9. Please remind me _______he said he was going. I may be in time to see him off.
A. where B. when C. how D. what
10. Mary wrote an article on _______the team had failed to win the game.
A. why B. what C. who D. that
Section B
Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion — 1 world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try 2 (imagine) the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: 3 (know) neither joy nor pleasure, neither anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them 4 acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience 5 this emotionless world would lack rewards and punishments.
Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world 6 friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds among members of groups. Society’s economic functions 7 (destroy): since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would be no motivation 8 （work）. In fact, there would be no motivation of any kind. As we will see, motivation implies a capacity to enjoy certain activities.
Section C
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
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A. allow B. advantage C. replaced D. advance E. developed F. perfectly G. inexpensive H. examine I. easily J. display |
For thousands of years people thought of glass as something beautiful to look at. Only recently have they come to think of it as something to look through. Shops 1 their goods in large glass windows. Glass bottles and jars that hold food and drink 2 us to see the contents. Glass is used to make spectacles, microscopes, telescopes, and other useful and necessary objects. Spectacles or glasses, are used by people who cannot see 3 or by people who want to protect their eyes from bright light. Microscopes make tiny things larger so that we can 4 them. Telescopes make objects that are far away appear much closer to us.
Although in recent years plastics have 5 glass under conditions where glass might be 6 broken. There are new uses being 7 from glass that were never imagined in the past. Perhaps the greatest 8 of glass is that its raw materials are 9 and can be found all over the world.
II. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the con text.
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always 1 such people, but I also explain that there's a big 2 between 'being a writer' and 'writing'.
In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, 3 the long hours spent alone typewriting. 'You've got to want to write,' I say to them, 'not want to be a writer.'
The 4 is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by 5 there are thousands more whose longing is 6 rewarded. When I 7 a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer, I had no prospects(前景) at all. What I did have was a friend who found me a room In a New York apartment building. It didn't 8 matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a (an) 9 manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so, 10 , I still hadn't gotten a break and began to 11 myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I 12 made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write.
I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn't going to be one of those people who die 13 'What if?' I would keep putting my dream to the 14 even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of 15 , and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
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1. A. |
advise |
B. |
encourage |
C. |
tell |
D. |
warn |
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2. A. |
step |
B. |
advance |
C. |
gap |
D. |
difference |
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3. A. |
and |
B. |
but |
C. |
not |
D. |
for |
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4. A. |
reality |
B. |
idea |
C. |
news |
D. |
reason |
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5. A. |
writing |
B. |
readers |
C. |
fortune |
D. |
others |
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6. A. |
never |
B. |
always |
C. |
sometimes |
D. |
only |
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7. A. |
began |
B. |
found |
C. |
left |
D. |
put |
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8. A. |
ever |
B. |
just |
C. |
even |
D. |
greatly |
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9. A. |
used |
B. |
new |
C. |
useful |
D. |
old |
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10. A. |
consequently |
B. |
therefore |
C. |
unluckily |
D. |
however |
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11. A. |
scold |
B. |
doubt |
C. |
beat |
D. |
hate |
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12. A. |
almost |
B. |
partly |
C. |
poorly |
D. |
barely |
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13. A. |
regretting |
B. |
wondering |
C. |
dreaming |
D. |
depressing |
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14. A. |
point |
B. |
best |
C. |
test |
D. |
most |
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15. A. |
time |
B. |
death |
C. |
hope |
D. |
life |
Section B
Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several ques tions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Fish hear sounds, though they simply have no ears outside their bodies. However, fish do have ears inside their bodies near the brain and they hear very well with them. Some fish have been taught to recognize the difference between sounds better than some human beings do.
Many underwater animals make noises only by chance while they are doing some thing else. Other sounds are real communication of a simple sort, telling one fish of the presence and direction of another. A few noises may be warning messages on finding food. The earliest report on fish sounds referred to one of these.
A new field in science is learning to recognize and use underwater sounds. It relies on the same skill that man has shown in recognizing birds and other land creatures by their calls. But this method is a greater challenge than bird watching, for many of the ani mals of the sea cannot be followed in any other known way. Their voices cry for atten tion. Yet we still have too little of what the call makers will someday be made known more fully. It is as though the great oceans were for daring men to invade and to learn the secrets of the place from which his forefathers came so long ago.
1. Which of the following is true of the noises made by underwater animals?
A. Some make no sense. B. None of them make sense.
C. All are actual communications. D. Human beings cannot hear them.
2. Recognizing sounds made by underwater animals_______.
A. is more or less like a battle
B. costs a lot of money and labor
C. is more difficult than recognizing land creatures' calls
D. is totally different from recognizing those of land creatures
3. From the last sentence we learn that_______.
A. only brave people can make use of the great oceans
B. human beings have invaded the oceans for long
C. many secrets of the great oceans are to be found out
D. people are fighting each other to become master of the oceans
(B)
Honeybees cannot live alone. Their body structure and instincts(本能) equip them for life in a colony or community, where they have a complex social organization and the various duties are divided among the individuals according to physical fitness and age. An individual worker bee cannot reproduce itself.
While it may continue to live if forcibly isolated from its mates, it fails to care for it self adequately, and soon dies. Most insects have the ability to hibernate in winter, but the honeybee seems to have lost this. Since at low temperatures the bees will die, it must have the ability to make its own environment, so far as temperature is concerned. This makes a colony necessary to the bees in winter, so that they may collectively warm each other. Efficiency, if not necessity, demands that the work of the colony be divided, and such a division of labor tends to enhance the need to maintain the colony. The physical structure of the honeybee is further suited for the defense. The bee's barbed(有倒刺的) sting(刺) is used only once and is made more effective by the fact that it is left behind in the victim. With the loss of the sting, however, the bee dies. This kind of defensive weapon is not of service to the individual, but to the community.
4. According to the passage, bees are fitted for communal life by virtue of their_______.
A. flexibility and initiative B. intelligence and sensitivity
C. independence and endurance D. instincts and form
5. According to the passage, a worker bee may survive for a short time if it is_______.
A. deprived of its sting
B. denied access to oxygen
C. isolated from other bees
D. exposed to a wide range of temperatures
6. It can be inferred from the passage that at one time bees had the ability to_______.
A. increase their activity in lower temperatures
B. leave cold climates during winter
C. remain dormant(休眠的) through periods of cold weather
D. construct insulated(隔热的) hives(蜂房)
7. According to the passage, bees differ from most other communities of insects in their need to_______.
A. reproduce in large numbers
B. control the temperature where they live
C. divide the work of their colonies
D. have a complex defense system
(C)
I hear many parents complaining that their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are clutching at one an other's hands for reassurance.
They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up huddled round lis tening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon(蚕茧;) into a larger cocoon.
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of today's parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.
But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don't care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go for it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come with the people who respect you for who you are. That's the only kind of popu larity that really counts.
8. The author's purpose in writing this passage is to tell_______.
A. readers how to be popular with people around
B. teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves
C. parents how to control and guide their children
D. people how to understand and respect each other
9. According to the author, many teenagers think they are brave enough to act on their own, but, in fact, most of them_______.
A. have much difficulty understanding each other
B. lack confidence
C. dare not cope with problems single-handedly
D. are very much afraid of getting lost
10. The author thinks of advertisements as _______.
A. convincing B. influential
C. instructive D. authoritative
11. During the teenage years, one should learn to_______.
A. differ from others in as many ways as possible
B. get into the right season and become popular
C. find one's real self
D. rebel against parents and the popularity wave
III. Translation.
1. 这部电影的故事情节是根据真人改编的。(base)
2. 直到那时我才意识到我干了一件蠢事。(Not until..., aware)
3. 为了纪念那些勇敢的消防战士，一部电影即将开拍。(memory)
4. 乍一看，这块手表没有什么特别之处，但实际上它是一部手机。(there be)
5. 尽管名字一样，这部电视剧与那本小说没有一点共同之处。(common)
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