Additional exercises(2)
Ⅱvocabulary and structure
1. Of the ten plays which she has written, the first three were_____.
A) much the best B) better
C) more good D) best
2. He put his coat over the baby for fear that she _______cold.
A) catches B) caught
C) should catch D) will catch
3. We had to read the book, ______?
A) shouldn't we B) would we
C) mustn't we D) didn't we
4. _____ in 1995 _____ they came to know each other in Beijing.
A) Only... and B) It was… that
C) Only... that D) It was ... then
5. ______ and the lecture began.
A) In the professor comes B) In the professor comes
C) In came the professor D) In comes the professor
6. The old woman is _____ composer as any younger.
A) as good a B) such good a
C) as a good D) so good a
7. He has ______ the courage she has.
A) as twice B) twice
C) twice as much D) twice as
8. Wear your ______ dress and you will look more beautiful.
A) silk white new B) white new silk
C) white silk new D) new white silk
9. _______ a young woman, the office was empty.
A) But for B) Besides
C) Except for D) Except
10. Please tell her your story exactly ______ you have told it to me.
A) as B) that
C) like D) which
11. The dictionary is to the student _____ the tool is to the worker.
A) which B) what
C) whichever D) whatever
12. It was merely _____ chance that he discovered the mistake.
A) in B) on
C) from D) by
13. The woman who had been ______ in an accident was taken to hospital.
A) hurt B) broken
C) injured D) wound
14. I was held up in a traffic____.
A) crush B) jam
C) crash D) block
15. The flat _____of four rooms, with a kitchen and a bathroom.
A) consists B) contains
C) composes D) includes
16. The pupil was so _____ that he didn't hear what the teacher said.
A) disappointed B) exhausted
C) confused D) absent-minded
17. We were ____ that he could walk on his hands.
A) scared B) shocked
C) amazed D) frightened
18. Measles _____ a long time to get over.
A) cost B) take
C) bring D) spend
19. The manager announces with ____ that the prices must be increased.
A) pity B) blame
C) regret D) sympathy
20. It was necessary to _____ the factory.
A) grow B) increase
C) extend D) broaden
21. The holiday was spoiled by _____ of rainy days.
A) a succession B) succeeding
C) progress D) success
22. The harbour can _____ large liners and cargo-boats.
A) let in B) admit
C) receive D) let out
23. Could you _____ the fact that this box is extremely heavy?
A) account B) count
C) calculate D) explain
24. The moment they ______ the train it began to pull out of the station.
A) boarded B) got
C) jumped D) took
25. The sad news broke her_____.
A) mind B) emotions
C) heart D) feeling
26. The new technique has____ them to double the production of the factory.
A) persuaded B) enabled
C) made D) dissuaded
27. She ____ a dentist a few days ago.
A) ought to see B) ought to be seen
C) ought to be seeing D) ought to have seen
28. The girl ______ herself in sunlight.
A) dived B) divided
C) bathed D) sank
29. Brazilian coffee is usually _____ by ships because this way is cheaper.
A) traded B) transported
C) transferred D) transmitted
30. He _____ his coffee before tasting it.
A) stirred B) streamed
C) steered D) stayed
31. He is _____ to visit us if he knows where we live.
A) likely B) possible
C) probable D) necessary
32. Anne _____ the news to everybody.
A) told B) said
C) advised D) spoke
33. I am very much _____ your visit next week.
A) seeing B) looking forward to
C) waiting for D) hoping for
34. On _____ in London Smith went to see the House of Parliament.
A) coming B) arriving
C) reaching D) getting
35. Students are expected to _____ their classes regularly.
A) present B) attend
C) go D) follow
36. If you _____ your money to mine, we shall have enough.
A) add B) combine
C) join D) unite
37. If you want to telephone him you will have to ____ the number in the book.
A) look at B) look up
C) look through D) look after
38. The _____ from the forest fire could be seen ten miles away.
A) smell B) spark
C) steam D) smoke
39. On entering another country, a tourist will have to _____ the Customs.
A) pass through B) pass by
C) pass over D) pass for
40. Don't wait for me if you______.
A) have a hurry B) are in a hurry
C) have a speed D) are in a speed
41. She was fined £20 for failing to keep her dog under_____.
A) control B) command
C) hand D) orders
42. Don't drop your cigarette butts on the floor. You could ____ fire to the house.
A) cause B) make
C) set D) start
43. We must ____ that our customs and habits are different from theirs.
A) keep up with B) keep in mind
C) keep to ourselves D) keep in touch
44. ____ , what he said at the meeting is true except that a few figures he quoted are not very
reliable.
A) In general B) In particular
C) In respects D) As a matter of fact
45. Reading detective stories is one of his favourite_____.
A) occupations B) hobbies
C) engagements D) habits
46. Last night's strong wind nearly took the roof_____.
A) away B) out
C) down D) off
47. He is the manager of the company. He's _____ it.
A) charged with B) in the charge of
C) charged D) in charge of
48. He felt _____ fired, but he didn't stop studying.
A) little B) fairly
C) rather D) few
49. We went to the station to______.
A) see them out B) see them off
C) goodbye them D) say them goodbye
50. I'd like to take ____ of this opportunity to thank you all for your co-operation.
A) profit B) occasion
C)benefit D) advantage
ⅢCET4 vocabulary
1. After the _____ came the thunder.
A) light B) lighting
C) lightning D) lightening
2. The whole family congratulated Tom _____ his new appointment.
A) on B) for
C) to D) in
3. The enthusiastic workers were determined to fulfil the task____.
A) behind the schedule B) behind schedule
C) ahead schedule D) ahead of schedule
4. By the time the course ends, _____ a lot about the British way of life.
A) we have learned B) we'll learn
C) we are learning D) we'll have learned
5. It was typical _____ him to be so rude.
A) with B) in
C) about D) of
6. I wondered ______ to come to the opening ceremony yesterday.
A) whether he is asked B) whether he should be asked
C) whether he should have been asked D) should he be asked
7. The climb was difficult, but he got to the top of the mountain______.
A) at length B) in length
C) in last D) at the last
8. Professor Smith, many students want to see you. _____ they wait here or outside?
A) Shall B) Will
C) Do D) Are
9. My book is ____ finished; I have only a few changes to make in the writing.
A) virtually B) vertically
C) violently D) visually
10. Mary is being____.
A) unhappy B) helpful
C) delighted D) beautiful
11. His health has ____ from overwork in the past three months.
A) broken up B) broken down
C) broken through D) broken in
12. "Why were you so late for work today?" " ______ to the company was slow owing to the
heavy traffic on the road."
A) To drive B) Driving
C) I drove D) That I drove
13. You have to take the _____ examination before you can be considered for an interview.
A) previous B) preliminary
C) prior D) potential
14. I bitterly regret _____ him the truth. He flew into such a terrible rage.
A) to tell B) to have told
C) telling D) to be telling
15. Since the beginning of the term he has made ____ progress in his studies.
A) remarking B) marking
C) noticeable D) noticed
16. I found my home town completely_____.
A) changed B) changing
C) change D) to be changed
17. The escaped prisoner is still_____.
A) free of charge B) freely
C) in large D) at large
18. Never ____ faith in himself, James Watt went on with his experiment.
A) to lose B) losing
C) lost D) to be lost
19. She ____ on the table, sobbing for an hour or so.
A) leaked B) limited
C) learned D) leaned
20. The small man wore a suit _____ large for him and therefore looked ridiculous.
A) very much B) too much
C) much too D) very many
21. We are in complete_____ of their plans.
A) ignorance B) illustration
C) image D) ideal
22. Mary simply cannot refrain from talking about the party again and again; she had a wonderful
time there, _____ she?
A) hadn't B) had
C) didn't D) weren't
23. We must _____ our journey until the weather improves.
A) define B) delay
C) advance D) accelerate
24. The outline of the distant mountains could hardly be _____ in the mist.
A) made up B) made out
C) made for D) made from
25. The village _____ my grandfather grew up in is not far from the town.
A) what B) where
C) wherever D) which
26. The troops were ordered to ____ and then concentrate 20 miles to the south.
A) collect B) concrete
C) scatter D) scold
27. "Tim can't leave until tomorrow." "I know _____ ."
A) Neither I can B) I can't either
C) I cannot too D) I can too
28. He asked Jane to marry him, but she ____ him
A) turned ... out B) turned ... in
C) turned…down D) turned…up
29. The British people pride themselves _____ their centuries-old tradition.
A) in B) of
C) at D) on
30. Harvard University, _____ in 1636, is one of the oldest universities in the United States.
A) find B) found
C) founded D) founding
Ⅳreading comprehension
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was the first president to take the oath of office in the nation's permanent capital, Washington D.C. Although Washington was a new city, it was already familiar to President Jefferson. In fact, Jefferson had helped plan the capital's streets and public buildings. Besides being a city planner and architect, the new President was a writer, a scientist, and the inventor of several tools.
Jefferson lived in the Presidential Palace. The Palace was more than a home; it contained offices for the President and some of his staff and advisors. It also included dining and reception rooms, where the President could entertain congressmen. However, President Jefferson did not give many formal parties. This was partly because there was no First Lady. Jefferson's wife had
died in 1782. But it was also because Jefferson liked to live in a simple fashion. Once, he showed up for an important meeting wearing old clothes and slippers! Neither Washington nor Adams would ever have dressed so casually.
Jefferson was different from the first two Presidents in other ways, too. He disagreed with them about how the country should be run, and about what part a President should play in running it.
1. According to the passage, the Presidential Palace was built to be____.
A) an office building and home
B) a meeting place for congressmen
C) a home
D) an office building
2. According to the passage, Thomas Jefferson was all of the following except____.
A) a writer
B) a city planner
C) the third president of the United States
D) a carpenter
3. Thomas Jefferson did not entertain very often in Washington D.C. because____.
A) he did not have new clothes
B) the food there was bad
C) he did not enjoy carefully prepared parties and there was no First Lady.
D) his wife did not like it
4. Which of the following statements about Washington D.C. is true?
A) It was not the first capital of the United States.
B) All the American presidents took the oath of office in Washington D.C.
C) There were many old streets in Washington D.C. before 1801.
D) Washington D.C. was planned by Thomas Jefferson.
5. It can be inferred from the passage that George Washington and John Adams both _____.
A) lived in the Presidential Palace
B) were rather formal gentlemen
C) were different from Thomas Jefferson only in how to run the country
D) dressed casually
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
Schools in the 1990's will be working together with businessmen and officers, and factories will be full of schoolchildren and teachers. Since the reforms of the nineteenth century which got children out of factories, the British have disliked mixing learning with commerce. But the past ten years of high youth unemployment have encouraged most schools to create new links with employers to provide their pupils with more marketable skills. And in the next ten years, when youth labor will become scarce rather than plentiful, many employers not yet working with schools will be encouraged to do so.
6. One of Britain's aims of the nineteenth century social reforms must have been to____.
A) provide pupils with more skills
B) create new links with employers
C) separate learning from commerce
D) mix learning with commerce
7. In Britain, the 1990's will see a _____.
A) weak link between schools and factories
B) a high youth unemployment
C) higher demand for skilled workers
D) new increase in youth labor
8. In the past decade, the British schools have taken their pupils to factories because_____.
A) youth labor is plentiful
B) the British think it's good for their children to work there
C) the employers encourage them to do so
D) they have had to prepare their students for employment
9. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?
A) In the past ten years, Britain's youth unemployment rate is high.
B) Birth rate in Britain will become lower.
C) Most British schools have been encouraged to provide their pupils with more marketable
skills.
D) In Britain youth labor will be much less than is needed in the next decade.
10. To solve the problem of labor resources in the 1990's ______.
A) employers must have better relations with schools
B) teachers will have to work together with businessmen
C) the British will have to send their children to factories
D) the British must mix learning with working
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Someday in the future we may not need to have money in our pockets. Is life easier when people don't need to carry any coins for currency at all? Is money heavy to carry? Is it safe to carry money? Maybe in the future each of us will have only one small plastic credit card. We will use it to buy all the things we now buy with money. We will not need money to pay for things.
Of course we may still have some of the same problems with cards that we now have with money. Sometimes we lose money. Maybe we will lose the cards. People steal money. Maybe someone will take the card. Someone may even make a card that looks like our card. Since we can't buy anything without our cards, the credit card may be no better than currency.
Is there something even easier to use than credit cards? All of us have a thumbprint. No two thumbprints are the same. Maybe someday the government will keep people's thumbprints with a number. No person will have the same thumbprint or number. When you want to buy something you will put your thumb on a machine or a computer. Each store or business will have one. Everyone's thumbprint will be in the computers. It will be very difficult to lose our thumbprints. It will be difficult for someone to steal it or make one like it.
11. The word 'currency' most probably means_____.
A) plastic cards
B) paper money
C) coins
D) metal money
12. According to the passage, we all need____.
A) coins
B) currency
C) credit cards
D) some kind of money
13. Our thumbprints may be used in the future because_____.
A) they will help each store
B) each store will have a computer
C) every thumbprint is different
D) computers need them
14. Which one of the following gives the main idea of the second paragraph?
A) Credit cards are worse than currency.
B) Currency may not be more of a problem than credit cards.
C) We use credit cards because people steal money.
D) We have many problems with money.
15. Which of the following statements is not true?
A) There is something easier to use than credit cards.
B) There are no problems with currency.
C) Every person will have a different thumbprint number.
D) There are some problems with the use of credit cards.
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:
If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to analyze defeat and actually profit by it in his next undertaking. Confuse defeat with failure, and you are doomed indeed to failure, for it isn't defeat that makes you fail: it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.
Defeats are nothing to be ashamed of. They are routine incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it without feeling ashamed, analyze it and learn why you failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to cure its own cause. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing else can amuse within us such a compelling desire to succeed. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more tightly until his whole weight is suspended. It is this same reaction that should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you fully use the power which defeat gives, you can accomplish with it far more than what you are capable of.
16. The author_____.
A) orders you to analyze defeat
B) wants you to face defeat
C) advises you to let a baby grasp a rod
D) warns you not to confuse defeat with failure
17. Defeat is valuable_____.
A) because it is a factor
B) because it isn't defeat that makes you fail
C) because it provides the guide and encouragement to success
D) because it is not a thing to be ashamed of
18. What does the author know?
A) He knows every success in life.
B) He knows the factor making for success.
C) He knows every man who is able to analyze defeat.
D) He knows the life of every man.
19. The person who was able to analyze defeat is likely____.
A) to be a successor
B) to face it with feeling ashamed
C) to achieve success
D) to be ashamed of it
20. What does the author advise one to do with the power which defeat gives?
One should_____.
A) explore it
B) explain it
C) let a baby grasp a rod
D) learn it
Ⅴtranslation
1.老师批评了那些懒惰却自认为了不起的学生。
2.现在对大学毕业生来说,有一个折中办法,他们可一边工作,一边继续研究生课程学习。
3.换句话说,你已别无选择,只能勇往直前。
4.那些缺乏实际锻炼的人总是想依赖父母,即使他们已经是大学生了。
5.人跟其他所有动物的最大区别就在于人能够学习并使用语言,但我们仍然不知道这究竟是怎样做到的。跟一般的孩子相比,有些孩子很小就学会了说、读、写。但科学家们对于这种事情发生的原因却不太清楚。他们正在试图查明,在我们教孩子们学习语言的方法中是不是有什么东西实际上却妨碍了他们学得更快些。