新世纪研一英语期末考试总结

Unit 2 Text A

1.Why won’t oil prices rise at all over the long time?

Firstly, because producers need the cash from oil too much to let their supply be interrupted for long. Secondly，and more important, because demand growth can't push prices upward as long as it is balanced by supply growth.

2.Why can’t the members of the OPEC raise oil prices?

Because if they do，non-OPEC sources will grab market share by developing fields where technology has made production affordable.

3.Why have most majors cut their costs on oil?

Because technology lets the companies maintain healthy earnings at steadily lower oil prices.

4.Who takes a lead in the oil companies?

Those that master technology and efficiency, such as Shell, Exxon, and British Petroleum.

1. In the first year of peace, Lebanon’s GDP soared by almost 40%.

A. flew

B. hovereed C increased D. decreased

2. SAIC’s previous skirmishes with investigators had attracted little attention.

A. conflicts

B. struggles

C. skates

D. arguments

3. The boy grabbed hold of my bag and disappeared quickly into the crowd.

A. seized

B. snapped

C. snatched

D. sneaked

4. Although Chicago has fared better than some cities, unemployment remains a problem.

A. got on

B. charged

C. offered jobs

D. provided welfare

5. The dwarfs were devastated, because they could not figure out how to save Snow White this time.

A. calculate

B. rate

C. consider

D. decide

6. His distrust of the power of critics made him ready to gibe at Divid Sylvester.

A. laugh

B. ridicule

C. susceptible

D. harmful

7. Children are most vulnerable to abuse within their own home.

B. sensible

C. susceptible

D. harmful

more persuasively.

A. Rather than

B. Other than

C. Less than

D. Short for

Text B

1. It snakes in and out of ports, along our busiest highways and through our most crowded cities.

A. sneaks

B. jerks

C. crawls

D. travels

2. She adjusted her glasses and peered at the man.

A. gaped

B. gazed

C. glared

D. ogle

3. Southeast winds nudged the oil slick onto the shore.

A. pushed

B. poked

C. prompted

D. prodded

4. My house had been tethered to a post, but somehow it escaped.

A. corralled

B. tied

C. rid

D. confined

5. The bridge is built to withstand an earthquake of 8.3 magnitudes.

A. stand

B. persist

C. resist

D. consist

6. An evaporation system is used to dissipate heat from the sun and protect the shuttle’s electronics.

A. squander

B. waste

C. accumulate

D. disperse

7. Narcissus was a young man who spurned the nymph Echo and became enamoured of his own reflection.

A. refused

B. scorned

C. affected

D. restrained

8. This disparity in social attitudes is certainly reflected in the ambivalent feelings held by retired people.

A. ambiguous

B. introvert

C. conflicting

D. elusive

9. Commercial sauerkraut is very salty so there is no additional salt in the recipe.

A. receipt

B. prescription

C. menu

D. formula

10. Ratail sales of the quintessential red meats are plummeting, whilst vegetarianism has become a fashionable norm.

A. ascending

B. decreasing

C. declined

D. weakening

Unit 6

1.What are the disadvantages of paper according to the author?

Paper takes up precious space, can be in only one place at a time, is extremely hard to index or search through, and lacks all the interactivity and linking ability of hypertext.

2.What are the major categories of files in an office?

In the office, files can be mainly classified into hot files, documents to be acted on immediately; warm files, still active but of less urgency and cold files, documents that don't need immediate attention.

3.Why is it unpleasant to read something on a computer screen?

Because there are such annoyances/disadvantages as the relatively fuzzy type, glare, the need to scroll repeatedly, the screen's relatively fixed position and so forth.

4.What are the essential problems in using computers in police departments?

First, the police found they spent so much time dealing with the computer interface that they fell short in listening and talking to victims, an essential activity both for offering comfort and for picking up subtle clues to what exactly had happened. Second, the goal of prompt reporting was compromised by the fact that police kept revising their reports after filing them.

5.What are the reason s for people’s chimera of going paperless according to the

author?

Firstly, people who can profit from the idea keep selling it to us. Secondly, all technologies come down to our trying to get what we want, what we desire. And