Test 1 for U4

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. The conference has been held to discuss the effects of tourism_______ the wildlife in the area.

A. in ??????????????B. on ????????????????C. at ??????????????D. with

2. Alan is a careful driver, but he drives _______of my friends.

A. more carefully ?????B. the most carefully ???C. less carefully ?????D. the least carefully

3. More than a dozen students in that school_______ abroad to study medicine last?year.

A. sent ????????????B. were sent ??????????C. had sent ?????????D. had been sent

4. Only when you have obtained sufficient data,_______come to a sound conclusion.

A. can you ?????????B. you can ???????????C. would you can ????D. you will

5. _______are the days when teachers were looked down upon.

???A. Go ?????????????B. To go ????????????C. Gone ????????????D. Going

6. By no means _______to our plan for the trip.

A. agrees she ???????B. will she agree ??????C. she will agree ?????D. will agree she

7. Little Tom is an orphan. ______ he has to make a living by himself.

A. A child as he is ????B. Child as he is ??????C. Child as is he ?????D. A child though he is

8. The company has a free long-distance telephone number _____ customers may call with any questions they have about its products.

A. so that ?????????B. although ??????????C. as ??????????????D. even if

9. Terrorism in the world means more deaths and heavier losses and ________ , it's our duty to fight against it.

A. altogether ???????B. otherwise ??????????C. therefore ????????D. moreover

10. I missed the bus and had to walk home._______, it was raining and I got all wet.

A. What's more ????B. More or less ???????C. Although ?????????D. Therefore

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.

When giving a lecture about the significance of punctuation, the academic professor was interrupted and arrested by the police for murdering his wife, a receptionist of a kindergarten. The police found some photos he deleted from their e-album ___1___(show) that they used to have a gay life. But, fed up with her wrinkled face, he murdered her instead of divorcing her __2___(avoid) fortune division. He cut up a kind of seashell ___3__ a sharpened knife, and hammered it into powder on a skateboard, and made at most one gram, which was enough to accelerate one’s pulse __4___he or she dies. This kind of poison can date back to 10,000 BC ___5___ people rubbed it on spears to kill beasts. The professor mixed the poison with onion, watermelon and yogurt ___6__ his wife. Howling and scratching her chest, she felt dizzy and died soon.

After tentative examination, the police assumed ___7__ died of heart disease. But systematic botanical analyses showed that the watermelon spit on the messy mat and the quilt was ___8____(poison). Regardless of exhaustion and starvation, the acute and skilful policemen __9__ (use) radioactive equipment to make sure the category of the poison. Primitive and not ample __10____ their alternative equipment was, they got perfect accuracy somehow. ?

People applauded the police and the woman’s family can look ahead with relief now.

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.

The term "home schooling" means educating children at home or in places other than a normal setting such as a public or private school. There are many reasons why parents choose home schooling for their children. Some parents are????????1?with the quality of education in the public schools. Others do not want their children to have to worry about pressure from friends. They say it may have a bad ????2 ???on the child's studies.

Bullying from other students is another worry. Still other parents choose this type of ????3 ???for religious reasons. Whatever the reason may be, it is ???4 ????that more and more children are being taken out of normal schools every year. As a result, many questions have ????5 ??,?encouraging the debate over home schooling against public schooling.

What then is the future of education? Will this new model of schooling ????6 ????normal schools? As the debate continues, so do the questions about what home schoolers are studying at home. How can parents ????7 ????that their children are prepared well enough for college?

Finally, there are questions ????8 ????the children's emotional development. Are they too isolated from their fellow students? Are they missing the opportunity to get the social ????9 ????of being in a large classroom of students? As with any debatable issue, the answers to these questions are neither simple nor one-sided.

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 context.

We were late as usual. My husband had insisted on doing his ??1 ?????by himself, and when he discovered that he couldn't ??2 ?????he asked me for help at the last ??3 ??. So now we had an hour to go to the airport. Luckily, there wasn't much ???4 ???on the road and we were able to get there just in time. We 5 ???in and went straight to the departure hall to wait for our flight to be ???6 ???. We waited and waited but no ???7 ??was made. We asked at the information desk and the girl there told us that the plane hadn't????8 ??arrived yet. In the end there was an announcement telling us that passengers waiting for Flight LJ 108 could collect a ???9 ??meal ticket and that the plane hadn't left Spain because of technical?problems. We thought that it wasn't safe for the plane to fly. We waited again for????10 ????until late evening when we were given tickets to spend the night at the airline's????11 ????in a nearby hotel.

The next morning after a ???12 ???night because of all the planes taking off and landing,?we returned to the airport. Guess what had happened while we were ???13 ???! Our plane had arrived and taken off again. All the other passengers had been ???14 ????up in the night to catch the plane, but for some reason or ???15 ???we had been forgotten. You can imagine how we felt!

1. A. packing ???????????B. wrapping ???????C. binding ????????????D. filling

2. A. succeed ???????????B. manage ?????????C. handle ????????????D. deal

3. A. time ??????????????B. end ????????????C. bit ???????????????D. moment

4. A. vehicles ????????B. transportation ????C. traffic ????????????D. passengers

5. A. checked ???????????B. examined ???????C. entered ????????????D. appeared

6. A. named ????????????B. told ????????????C. called ?????????????D. made

7. A. statement ???????B. declaration ??????C. announcement ??????D. arrangement

8. A. ever ??????????????B. even ???????????C. however ???????????D. forever

9. A. charged ???????????B. paid ????????????C. costly ?????????????D. free

10. A. length ???????????B. ages ????????????C. times ??????????????D. minutes

11.A. money ???????????B. expense ?????????C. kindness ???????????D. concern

12. A. sound ???????????B. deep ????????????C. sleepless ???????????D. poor

13. A. overslept ?????????B. oversleeping ?????C. sleepy ?????????????D. asleep

14. A. woken ???????????B. awake ??????????C. awoken ????????????D. woke

15. A. another ??????????B. other ???????????C. else ???????????????D. more

Section B

Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions?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)

Not very long ago, a special family system existed in certain parts of South India. In this system, the actual head of a family unit was the mother's eldest brother, though the mother also had an important position in the family. In families of this kind, a husband was actually no more than a visitor. He did not live with his wife, but with his own mother, brothers and sisters in another house. He saw his sons and daughters sometimes, but the man who actually fed and cared for them and acted as their father was their uncle— their mother's brother.

But this system, in which brothers and sisters take the place of the father, no longer exists in South India except in a few villages. Economic changes have had a great effect on family life. Family life began to change when men went out to work in factories and offices instead of working with their mothers, brothers and sisters on the land. When a man went out to work he had money of his own and could buy his own land and build his own family, instead of depending on his mother and brothers. He wanted to be independent. This is an example of the way in which economic relations can have an effect on family relationships.

1. The best title for this passage is_______.

A. Husband, actual visitor in family

B. Family system in South India

C. Wife has important position in family

D. Economic relation affects family relationship

2. Who had the actual control of a family in certain parts of South India not long ago?

A. The mother. ????????????????????B. The mother's eldest brother.

C. The father. ?????????????????????D. The father's mother.

3. In this system, the husband lived together with_______.

A. his wife ???????????????????????B. his sons and daughters

C. his mother, brothers and sisters ?????D. his wife's brother

4. Now in South India there are_______ of this system in which a husband has no control of his family.

A. very few families ????????????????B. many more families

C. families ???????????????????????D. not any families

(B)

It is difficult to imagine that about 100,000 ships would be needed to carry all the oil produced in the world in a single year.

Every oil ship is divided into many compartments (隔間) which are carefully ventilated (通風(fēng)) so as to reduce the fire danger. At the same time, the oil is not kept too cold because then it is difficult to pump. Modern ships are made so that other products such as iron ore （鐵礦石) can also be carried.

Today most people would agree that oil is the most important material in the world. That is why oil-producing areas such as the Middle East and Sahara are of such value. Without oil there would be no modern country. Planes and cars wouldn't be able to run, and all machinery would stop. It is for these reasons that every country is trying to discover?as more oil-fields as possible, and oil-fields are sometimes a cause of bitter quarrelling among nations.

Besides the obvious uses of oil as lubricant (潤(rùn)滑劑) and fuel to drive motor engines, there are a large number of chemical by-products (副產(chǎn)品). In fact there are more than 5,000 such by-products of oil. Isn't it interesting to think that the deep-brown liquid which comes out of oil wells looks so ugly, and smells so terrible is so useful to our twenty-first century civilization?

5. The writer thinks that oil means_______.

A. wealth ??????????????B. pollution ?????????C. trouble ???????D. modern civilization

6. The nations sometimes have a bitter quarrelling because of_______.

A. chemical by-products ??????????????????????B. oil selling markets

C. oil-fields ????????????????????????????????D. oil ships

7. Which of the following statement is not true?

A. In cold weather the oil is difficult to pump. ??

B. Without oil there would be no modernization.

C. People can make many things out of oil. ????

D. People don't like oil because it looks ugly and smells terrible.

(C)

During her childhood, Rachel showed an interest in nature and in writing. After high school, she enrolled in Pennsylvania State College for Women, intending to become a writer. She switched to biology, however, thereby setting the course of her life. Rachel went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for further study and became a member of the zoology staff at the University of Maryland.

For fifteen years, Rachel worked for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, writing and editing publications. Fortunately, her employer encouraged her to reach a larger audience. Rachel's poetic style of writing in three books about the ocean caught the imagination of the general reader. Her rare talent as both a physical scientist and a gifted writer earned her the National Book Award for The Sea Around Us.

Rachel's next book marked her as a leading conservationist and a crusader (努力消除公害的人) for the preservation of the natural environment. She began writing Silent Spring, knowing that she would be personally attacked and ridiculed. She continued writing despite the ill health that slowed her progress. Upon completing the book, she wrote to a close friend, 'I have felt bound by a solemn(神圣的) obligation to do what I could—if I didn’t?at least try I could never be happy again in nature. But now I can believe I have at least helped a little.'

Rachel Carson did more than help a little. Although both government and industry opposed her, specialists in public health, the press, and the public itself all supported her fight against the irresponsible use of insecticides. Her book eventually led the government to ban DDT.

8. This passage is concerned mainly with_______.

A. the environmental revolution in the United States ??????

B. Rachel Carson as a poetic writer

C. the popularity of The Sea Around Us and Silent Spring ??

D. Rachel Carson as a conservationist

9. Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

A. As a child, Rachel loved books and the natural world.

B. Rachel started her higher education aiming at becoming a writer.

C. She decided to switch her major to biology in Johns Hopkins University.

D. Rachel won the National Book Award for The Sea Around Us.

10. She began to write Silent Spring because_______.

A. her employer encouraged her to do so

B. she felt obliged to fight against the poisoning of the earth

C. her poetic writing style was very much appreciated by the general reader

D. she knew that it would not bring her any personal harm

11. The underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph implies that_______.

A. she played a significant role in the environmental preservation

B. she had proved herself to be an outstanding writer, poet and scientist

C. she knew the importance of what she was doing and she succeeded

D. she devoted her whole life to helping friends and those suffering from the poisoned environment

III. Translation

1.他對(duì)廣播節(jié)目厭倦了，于是就換了個(gè)頻道。 ????????????????????(bored)

2.因?yàn)橛性S多共同點(diǎn)，這兩位不同國(guó)籍的年輕人很快就成了好朋友。 (common)

3.一開(kāi)始，由于缺乏證據(jù)，只有少數(shù)人將幽靈的存在當(dāng)回事。 ??????(absence)

4.隨著樹(shù)木的大量砍伐，自然界的平衡遭到了嚴(yán)重破壞。 ?????????(disturb)

5.快付錢(qián)的時(shí)候，我突然想起了我忘帶信用卡了。 ???????????????(occur)

6.他們沒(méi)有明白我的意思，我只好再解釋一遍。 ????????????????(get one’s point)

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