综合英语（ 5 ）平时作业（ 1 ）
I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete the sentences. 20%
1. When did you _____ basketball?
A. take up B. take off C. take on D. take down
2. The weather was so good that I would not _____ going out for a walk.
A. refuse B. resist C. regret D. remind
3. His experience in the children _____ his attitudes toward society.
A. shaped B. made up C. accepted D. took
4. Poor eyesight is a _____ to a student.
A. development B. handicap C. drawback D. meaning
5. The style of the dress has gone out of the _____.
A. popularity B. pattern C. form D. fashion
6. The car was _____ for urgent repairs.
A. laid in B. laid for C. laid up D. laid off
7. We should not be arrogant nor _____ towards foreigners.
A. generous B. humble C. indifferent D. modest
8. It is _____ practice to bring a present to the hostess when one is invited to dinner.
A. general B. usual C. common D. ordinary
9. The girl has no _____ interest in anything.
A. permanent B. attractive C. brilliant D. fanciful
10. Kindness is the most important _____ a man can have.
A. effort B. habit C. quality D. hobby
11.If you don't _____ the regulations, you will get into trouble.
A. abide by B. interfere with C. look on D. shuffle off
12.Surrounded for days, the enemy were exhausted and _____ to us.
A. shouted B. fought C. yielded D. screamed
13.We all _____ and early start.
A. agree on B. agree for C. agree with D. agree to
14.The decision still _____.
A. persists B. considers C. thinks D. holds
15.She made a _____ to master English within six months.
A. resolve B. hope C. desire D. record
16.People _____ Einstein as a genius.
A. look B. think C. let D. regard
17.It was _____ of her to speak ill of others behind their backs.
A. lucky B. wicked C. generous D. kind
18.We should _____ the fact that he never done it before.
A. take to B. take off C. take into account D. take away
19.He was _____ simply because he did not know how to spend his time.
A. busy B. happy C. cruel D. idle
20.We have never _____ any illusions about my son.
A. longed B. experienced C. encountered D. entertained
II. Choose the word or phrase which keeps the closest meaning of the underlined one. 20%
1. Politics is no longer forbidden ground .
A. floor B. subject C. question D. problem
2. We've had practically no fine weather this month.
A. really B. mostly C. almost D. immediately
3. Macefield felt that he was bound to come because he had promised to read his poetry to us.
A. was obliged to B. was sure to
C. was glad to D. was willing to
4. I counted it a great honor to be invited to dinner.
A. caught B. confined C. celebrated D. considered
5. The traffic was in a terrible tangle .
A. in a good order B. in a confused state
C. in a good condition D. in a state of tension
6. Before the arrival of the steamboat, the day was glorious with expectancy .
A. hope B. longing C. excitement D. brightness
7. I got hold cold shoulder from him because of a quarrel between us.
A. got a punishment B. got a hit on the shoulder
C. was treated coldly D. got an answer
8. I loathe people who speak ill of others behind their backs.
A. dislike B. discredit
C. love D. look down upon
9. Washing machine can facilitate housework .
A. do housework B. free housewife from housework
C. make housework easy D. make housework difficult
10. After watching the sunset, I was left with a very tranqui l feeling.
A. sad B. terrible C. peaceful D. sleepy
11.Many people disagreed the traffic laws.
A. pay no attention to B. show respect for
C. lay stress on D. get away from
12.She cheerfully accepted my invitation.
A. readily B. sadly
C. easily D. happily
13.He asserted that it was not his duty.
A. explained B. implied C. declared D. exclaimed
14. I don't mean to hurt you.
A. intend B. try C. want D. wish
15.History, too, emphasized material consideration .
A. independence B. prospect C. importance D. abundance
16.Many old building have been demolished in this city.
A. designed B. developed C. declined D. destroyed
17.As the chairman of the society, he was fettered by responsibility.
A. forced B. freed C. restricted D. controlled
18.My boss often finds fault with my work.
A. complains about B. takes pride in
C. speaks highly of D. is interested in
19.She is employed in watering the garden.
A. fixed on B. preoccupied with
C. arranged in D. engaged in
20.Sophie disapproved of social distinctions .
A. Meetings B. organizations of socialists
C. different social systems D. different social classes
III ． Paraphrase the following sentences 20%
IV ． Reading comprehension 21 %
Passage one
Until recently, hunting for treasure from shipwrecks was mostly fantasy; but with recent technological advances, the search for sunken treasure is becoming more popular as a legitimate endeavor. One team of salvagers has searched the wreck of the RMS Republic, which sank in 1909, 55 miles southeast of Boston Harbor. The search party using side-scan Sonar, a device which projects sound waves across the ocean bottom and produces a produces a profile of the sea floor, located the wreck in just two-and-a–half days. Before the use of this new technology, searches could take months or years. The team of 45 divers searched the wreck for two months, finding silver tea services, crystal dinnerware, and thousands of bottles of wine; but they did not find the five-and-a-half tons of American Gold Eagle coins they were searching for. Whether or not the team finds the gold, their mission has already sparked more debate between preservationists and treasure hunters over the spoils .
While a shipwreck's treasure may not have a high monetary value, it can be an invaluable source of historic artifacts preserved in nearly mint condition. Maritime archaeologists worry that the success of salvagers will attract more treasure-hunting expeditions and thus threaten remaining undiscovered wrecks. Once a salvage team has scoured a site, much of the archaeological value is lost. Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict underwater searches and unregulated salvages. On the other hand, the treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold and million-dollar treasure, the wrecks and their historical artifacts would never be recovered.
1. The word “sunken” in line Two is closest in meaning to which of the following words?
a. broken b. underwater c. ancient d. hollow
2. What enabled the search team to find the RMS Republic quickly?
a. Sea floor profiles.
b. A team of 45 divers.
c. Side-scan sonar.
d. Sound waves.
3. What is the main idea of this passage?
a. Searching for wrecks is now much easier due to new technologies like side-scan sonar.
b. Maritime archaeologists are concerned over the unregulated searching of wrecks.
c. The search of the RMS Republic is causing further debate between preservationists and salvagers over searching wrecks.
d. Treasure hunting on underwater wrecks threatens the archaeological value of the site.
Passage two
To many web-building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their essential window on the world; their means of communicating, capturing prey, meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web is like a man marooned on an island of solid rock, totally out of touch and destined to starve to death.
So vital is the web to an orb-web spider's survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily event if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier, it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider.
The spider conserves by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and re-uses it to manufacture new silk. In studies with radioactivity labeled materials, it was found that 95% of web protein reappears in the next day's web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down.
Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider's highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate. If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed, the spider simply retraces its step to see where web is left off and then finished building a normal web. One spider will even building the incomplete web of another.
1. A title that would best express the main idea of the passage would be ________.
a. Secrets of Spiders
b. Secrets of the Spider Web
c. A New Discovery About the Spider Web
d. Secrets of Name
2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. Most spiders are blind.
b. All web-building spiders are blind.
c. Only a small part of web-building spiders can see.
d. All spiders can weave webs.
3. A spider conserves its energy ________.
a. because it construct new webs daily
b. as it walks over the strands it lays
c. by eating only in the evening
d. by eating its own web protein and then re-using it in the new web
4. The fact a spider is able to finish an incomplete web of another proves that ________.
a. spiders have a highly preprogrammed brain
b. a spider re-uses its web protein to reproduce new silk
c. the web is everything for a spider
d. a spider is able to remedy a destroyed web
V. Cloze 。 10%
For many people, food comes from only a handful of different crops, even though there are thousands of different plants grown for human ____ 1 ____. Researchers believed we would make ___ _2 ____ use of these plants. Out of 350000 species of crop plants 3500 are food crops.
It is a statistic that would make visitors from other planets believe we enjoy ____ 3_ ___ which is varied and constantly refreshed with new foods. In reality, though, that is not the case. Those countries which have sufficient food ____ 4 ____ rely on just a few basic crops like potatoes, rice, wheat and sorphum. ____ 5 ____, less than 20 species provide 90 percent of the food eaten by humans.
What is about the other crops? Could they be grown more frequently and over a greater area? Researchers believe there is great ____ 6 ____ in these “under-utilized” crops. Crops raised in one country will often ____ 7 ____ in similar conditions in another.
The high-protein ground-nut bambara is one of the examples. As it has an oil content of only six percent, as ___ 8_ ___ the peanut which has an oil content 50 percent, it has not been attractive as a cash crop. However, it grows well in very hot and dry conditions, where other crops can not be grown. Under other conditions, ___ _9 ___ it does not yield a very good crop. Research is now being conducted to find ways of increasing the bambara yields in conditions ___ _10_ ___ hot and dry.
1. A. consumer B. consumption C. consuming D. costume
2. A. no more B. in full C. still less D. even better
3. A. a diet B. a food C. food D. the food
4. A. seldom B. hardly C. rarely D. still
5. A. Nevertheless B. Moreover C. In fact D. Furthermore
6. A. potential B. possibility C. hope D. prospect
7. A. raise B. thrive C. rear D. improve
8. A. opposes B. opposed to C. opposing to D. opposes to
9. A. yet B. though C. indeed D. of course
10. A. rather than B. more than C. less than D. other than
VI. Writing 。 9 %
Directions:
A. Title: Fast Food
B. Word Limit: about 200 words
C. Your composition should be based on the outline given in Chinese below:
1. 快餐在中国十分流行，它是现代快节奏社会的最佳反映。
2. a. 快餐受欢迎有两条原因： b. 然而，从营养角度来讲，快餐却不尽如人意。
3. 对快餐还是以偶尔品尝为宜。