Unit 6 词汇和语法

Unit 6 Part 9 Vocabulary and StructureDirections: Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.1. Some of your suggestions have been adopted but others have been _______ as they are not workable.A. turned awayB. turned downC. turned backD. turned outCorrect answer: B2. The boss thought him a trouble-maker and turned him ______.A. backB. downC. toD. aroundCorrect answer: B3. Unless he is ________ intense love, he hardly ever looks into someone else's eyes for very long.A. confessingB. refusingC. grantingD. coveringCorrect answer: A4. The observer's statement about the accident was very _____; we know almost everything about it now.A. specificB. especialC. exceptionalD. specialCorrect answer: A5. _______ your opinions are worth considering, the general manager finds it unwise to place too much importance on them.A. AsB. BecauseC. ThoughD. SinceCorrect answer: C6. _________ that they may eventually reduce the amount of labor needed on construction sites by 90 percent.A. So clever are the construction robotsB. Such construction robots are cleverC. So clever the construction robotsD. Such clever construction robots areCorrect answer: A7. A friendship may be ________, relaxed, situational or deep and lasting.A. identicalB. originalC. criticalD. superficialCorrect answer: D8. Your work does not ______ what I expect of you.A. come up withB. come outC. come roundD. come up toCorrect answer: D9. In general, matters which lie entirely within the state boundaries are the ______ concern of the state government.A. excessiveB. externalC. explosiveD. exclusiveCorrect answer: D10. No fault is attached _____ the bus driver for the terrible accident at the railway crossing.A. forB. toC. withD. inCorrect answer: B11. The escaped prisoner waited until the _____ of night before leaving his hiding place.A. darkB. deepC. depthD. deadCorrect answer: D12. Occasionally we experience strong winds and storms from the west, but the_____ winds are from the north-east.A. existingB. prevailingC. particularD. specialCorrect answer: B13. This book is full of practical _____________ on home improvements and repairs.A. helpsB. tipsC. nodsD. cluesCorrect answer: B14. Violence in the local prison has _____________ two lives.A. removedB. killedC. costD. murderedCorrect answer: C15. The doctor told Penny that too much _____________ to the sun is bad for the skin.A. exposureB. meansC. exhibitionD. gratitudeCorrect answer: A16. In preparing scientific reports of experiments, a student should _____________ his findings in clear and precise language.A. exemplifyB. predictC. raiseD. presentCorrect answer: D17. This hotel _____________ $60 for a single room with a bath.A. claimsB. demandsC. pricesD. chargesCorrect answer: D18. She was so _____________ in her job that she didn't hear anybody knocking at the door.A. attractedB. absorbedC. drawnD. outstandingCorrect answer: B19. Although I liked the appearance of the house, what really made me decide to buy it was the beautiful _____________ through the window.A. perspectiveB. lookC. pictureD. viewCorrect answer: D20. I saw the _____________ of the taxi before it disappeared around the corner of the street.A. signalB. rearC. lookD. sceneCorrect answer: B21. After the speech _____________, a lively discussion started.A. being deliveredB. be deliveredC. was deliveredD. having been deliveredCorrect answer: C22. __________ a teacher in a university, it is necessary to have at least a Master's degree.A. To becomeB. BecomeC. One becomesD. On becomingCorrect answer: A23. The man in the corner confessed to _____________ a lie to the manager of the company.A. have toldB. having toldC. being toldD. be toldCorrect answer: B24. I don't think it advisable that Tim _____________ to the job since he has no experience.A. be assignedB. is assignedC. will be assignedD. has been assignedCorrect answer: A25. There is a man at the reception desk who seems very angry, and I think he means_____________ trouble.A. makingB. to makeC. to have madeD. having madeCorrect answer: B26. It is useful to be able to predict the extent _____________ which a price change will affect supply and demand.A. fromB. withC. toD. forCorrect answer: C27. ____________ before we leave, the day after tomorrow, we should have a wonderful dinner party.A. Had they arrivedB. Would they arriveC. Were they arrivingD. Were they to arriveCorrect answer: D28. I'd rather read than watch television; the programs seem _____________ all the time.A. to get worseB. to be getting worseC. to have got worseD. getting worseCorrect answer: B29. I had just started back to the house to change my clothes _____________ I heard voices.A. asB. whileC. afterD. whenCorrect answer: D30. When he arrived, he found _____________ the aged and the sick at home.A. nothing butB. none butC. none other thanD. no other thanCorrect answer: B31. The mere fact _____________ most people believe a nuclear war would be madness doesn't mean it will not occur.A. thatB. whichC. whatD. whyCorrect answer: AUnit 6 Part 18 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from thefour choices marked A, B, C and D.Passage 1In 1848, gold was discovered in California; from all over the nation, thousands of youngmen set out for California. People called this the time of the Gold Rush.A gold miner came into a city looking for a pair of pants. He wanted pants strong enoughto stand up to the rough work of mining. He met a young man named Levi, who sold heavy cloth for tents and wagon tops. They asked a tailor to use heavy cloth for their pants. Then Levi went into the business of making work pants. He asked his brothers to send himsome strong blue cotton cloth called denim (斜纹粗棉布). With this blue denim cloth, Levi started making the kind of pants we call blue jeans today. They were sewed up in thesame way as other pants.In 1860, a miner said that the pockets weren't strong enough to hold the pieces of gold he found. The pockets kept falling off the pants. The cloth was all right. It was the thread that wasn't strong enough. So Levi used rivets (铆钉) to attach the pockets onto the pants.Cowboys needed tough pants, too. They liked their pants to fit tightly. But the rivetsmarked the cowboys' saddles. So Levi covered the rivets with cloth. Then everybody was happy.1. This article as a whole is about __________________.A. how people got blue jeansB. the Gold Rush in CaliforniaC. How blue jeans are madeD. The kind of pants cowboys' wearCorrect answer: A2. While not stated in the article, you can tell that __________________.A. everybody who went to California got a lot of goldB. Levi found riches in the gold fieldsC. Levi sold more jeans to cowboys than to gold minersD. Levi made more money than many gold minersCorrect answer: D3. The word this in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to ___________.A. CaliforniaB. the discovery of goldC. many people looking for goldD. the nation at this timeCorrect answer: C4. Levi used strong blue cotton cloth to make pants because __________.A. gold miners liked the blue colorB. this was the only cloth he hadC. miners wanted pants which could stand rough workD. cowboys liked their pants to fit tightlyCorrect answer: C5. Which of the following sentences is NOT true?A. It was Levi who started the business of making blue jeans.B. It was one tailor who started making blue jeans.C. It was in California that blue jeans first became popular.D. It was in California that gold was discovered.Correct answer: BPassage 2Rote-learning (死记硬背), spoon-fed education, produces a brand of kids that don't knowwhat to do when entering university. They are disciplined into following, not leading. Yet the future depends on creativity and imagination. The world needs creators, makers and shakers of the new centuries, not the followers of the past centuries. As the numbers increase at college and university level, more students from the lower ends are likely to be thrown into a process designed to choose only learners that have proved excellent in listening to teachers.There are three ways to learn: looking, listening and doing.Students and teachers today are a product of learning by listening. The computer may not be liked by traditional teachers, who use rote-learning to put information, which will be out of date in a few years, into the heads of the students. With computer learning you learn by looking, listening and doing; you use three methods of learning, not just one. Therefore, you can learn faster.The changing speed of information is frightening. What we learn now will be out of date in the near future. So what students are learning now at school may be replaced by the time they finish university. We have to learn by choice what to forget. Rote-learning for exams is one thing, but wouldn't it be better to learn how to learn? The students at university today could possibly be doing a job in the not too distant future which has not yet been invented.1. According to the author, the future doesn't need ____________.A. creativityB. imaginationC. creatorsD. followersCorrect answer: D2. In the author's view, how can students learn well?A. Carefully listen to the teacher in class.B. Take down every single word said by the teacher.C. Learn all the notes by heart.D. Combine listening with looking and doing.Correct answer: D3. What does the author mean by "The changing speed of information is frightening"?A. We don't have enough time to adjust ourselves to the speed of information.B. What we learned today may not be useful tomorrow.C. The pace of life is too fast.D. The world is changing every minute.Correct answer: B4. What does the last sentence of the passage tell us?A. Rote-learning is completely harmful.B. Students may have to do jobs which are not yet in existence.C. It's better to learn how to learn than learn what to forget.D. Students must imagine the future.Correct answer: B5. The author's attitude towards rote-learning is _________.A. approvingB. disapprovingC. confidentD. opposite to what the words sayCorrect answer: BPassage 3Since the late 1960s a growing number of women have expressed a strong dissatisfaction with any marriage arrangement in which the husband and his career are the mostimportant considerations in the marriage. By the end of the 1970s, for example,considerably less than half of the women in the United States still believed that they would put their husbands and children ahead of their own careers.More and more American women have come to believe that they should be equal partners in their marriages. This stage of marriage, although still unusual in most Americanmarriages at present, will grow most rapidly in the future. In an equal marriage, the wife gets a full-time job or career which has equal importance to her husband's. The long-standing division of labor between husband and wife comes to an end. The husband is no longer the main provider of family income, and the wife no longer has the mainresponsibilities for household duties and raising children. Husband and wife share all these duties equally. Power over family decisions is also shared equally.The rapid change in women's attitudes toward marriage in the 1970s reflected the rapid changes in the larger society. The Women's Liberation Movement appeared in the late 1960s, demanding an end to all forms of prejudice against females. An Equal Rights Amendment (修正案) to the US Constitution was proposed which would make any form of prejudice on the basis of sex illegal, and though it has failed to be confirmed, it continues to have millions of supporters.1. Since the late 1960s more women have been dissatisfied with the marriage in which__________________.A. they are unhappyB. they are in a lower positionC. only the husband earns moneyD. the wife only takes care of the householdCorrect answer: B2. What is the long-standing division of labor between husband and wife in America?A. Husband―provider, wife―domestic duties.B. Husband and wife share the housework.C. Husband and wife have equal responsibility.D. Husband plays a higher role than the wifeCorrect answer: A3. Which statement is NOT true about the new type of marriage?A. Husband and wife share all their duties equally.B. Wife can also make the decisions in the family.C. Wife earns their living while husband does the housework.D. Husband is also responsible for raising children.Correct answer: C4. Women's attitudes toward marriage involve ____________________.A. the Women's Liberation MovementB. forbidding any form of prejudice against womenC. the changing roles of husband and wife in the marriageD. all of the aboveCorrect answer: D5. Which of the following describes the general idea for this passage?A. The Changing Patterns of Americans' Marriage.B. An Ideal Marriage.C. The Women's Liberation Movement.D. The need for Equal Rights between Husband and Wife.Correct answer: APassage 4If the population of the Earth goes on increasing at its present rate, there will eventually not be enough resources left to support life on the planet. One possible solution to the problem has recently been suggested by an American scientist, Professor Carl Sagan: he believes that before the Earth's resources are completely used up it will be possible to change the atmosphere (大气圈) of Venus (金星) and so create a new world almost as large as the Earth itself. The difficulty is that Venus is much hotter than the Earth and has only a tiny amount of water.Sagan suggests that algae (藻类), plant life that can live in extremely hot or coldatmospheres and at the same time produce oxygen, should be produced in conditions similar to those on Venus. The algae will be placed in small rockets. Spaceships will then fly to Venus and fire the rockets into the atmosphere. In a fairly short time, the algae will break down the gasses in the atmosphere and change them into oxygen that people can breathe. But before man can set foot on Venus, it will be necessary for the oxygen to produce rain to cool the planet, so that after a few years conditions like those on Earth will be produced.If the experiments are successful, life will become possible there but it will not be pleasant at first. When they go to Venus, the first citizens will have to take plenty of water with them and get used to days and nights lasting 60 Earth days. But there will also be someadvantages. They will live longer because their hearts will suffer less stress than on Earth.1. Men may eventually move to Venus because ______________________.A. there are many people on the EarthB. we have used too much oil and waterC. the limited resources can't support life on the EarthD. people take up too much spaceCorrect answer: C2. Now it is difficult for us to move to Venus because ______________________.A. it is too hot for men to land onB. there is no water thereC. we cannot change the environment thereD. it's a long distance for us to go thereCorrect answer: A3. The algae play a very important role in the possible solution because_________________________.A. they can be produced easily on the EarthB. there are a lot of them on VenusC. they can be easily carried to VenusD. they can live in hot and cold conditions and produce oxygenCorrect answer: D4. The first citizens will find life on Venus not pleasant because ___________.A. their hearts will suffer more stressB. their days and nights will last quite longC. there are not any houses thereD. there is too much water thereCorrect answer: B5. One of the advantages the first citizens on Venus will enjoy is ___________.A. they will have much more spaceB. they won't suffer from heart diseaseC. their life will last longerD. they will have better living conditionsCorrect answer: C。