Quiz for Unit 5-6(第三册)

Quiz for Unit 5-6 (100 points)
I. Vocabulary (1 points for each)
1. a_____: n. a distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround a person, thing, or place.
2. a_____: n. a person who is connected to another person as a business partner, colleague, or companion.
3. p_____: v. declare plainly (some personal feeling, belief, etc.)
4. e_____: v. develop or achieve gradually.
5. i_____: ad. always; constantly
6. v_____: a. rightly named or called; real or genuine.
7. p_____: n. the ability to see, hear and understand; the quality of understanding
8. s_____: a. of, in or forming a number of things, events, etc. of a similar kind, esp. placed or occurring one after another.
9. w____ ____: reduce or become weaker until useless.
10. c____ ____: call or bring to mind; evoke.
II. Blank-filling (2 points for each)
1. My boss was very _____ and gave me time off work to look after my daughter.
2. The Odyssey is a/an _____ of ancient Greece.
3. Paul Simon writes the _____ for almost of his own songs.
4. The amateur acting group eventually _____ into a theatrical company.
5. An unknown terrorist group has _____ responsibility for this morning’s bomb attack.
6. Two hurricanes in a month _____ the Caribbean country.
7. The continued fighting threatens to _____ efforts to negotiate an agreement.
8. The doctor who had _____ to settle down in the poor village became the chief fable of the villagers.
9. The soldiers have never _____ in their determination.
10.She_____ him as a shy man.
III.
Fill the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. (2 points for each)
1. The young actor was requested to speak in a _____ voice. (feign)
2. Many young women have _____ ideas about marriage. (poetry)
3. It’s very easy to get _____ because all the streets look the same. (orientate)
4. It is generally considered _____ for physicians to advertize. (ethics)
5. Frankly, I am quite annoyed at all that _____ advice. (seek)
6. Her hard experience has not coarsened her or made her _____. (cynicism)
7. My little nephew is adorable —the _____ baby I have ever seen. (cuddle)
8. We must be _____ in our criticism of the arms trade. (spare)
9. The readers are completely enthralled by his new _____ mystery novel. (juice)
10. _____ people cannot tolerate the slightest frustration of their wishes. (will)
IV. Translation (6 points for each)
1. 读好书、结交好朋友可以提升境界。

(elevate)
2. 当他有倦意的时候，经常喝杯浓浓的清咖啡提提神。

(refresh)
3. 有时，我们不得不做出选择，因为没有中间路（可走）。

(middle ground)
4. 人们普遍认为外长此行的主要目的是打破两国关系的僵局。

(break the ice)
5. 老道的翻译家虽然理论不多但可以用/凭借经验将一种语言转换成另一种语言。

(rule of thumb) V. Fill in the blanks according to the texts we have learned.( 2 points for each)
So you want to write a poem. You’ve had a rotten day or an 1)_______ thought or a car accident or a squalid love affair and you want to 2)_______ it for all time. You want to organize those emotions that are 3)_______ thr ough your veins. You have something to communicate via a poem but you don’t know where to start.
This, of course, is the problem with poetry. Most people find it difficult to write a poem so they don’t even try. What’s worse, they don’t bother 4)_______ any poems either. Poetry has become an almost totally 5)_______ art form to many of us. As a result, serious poets either starve or work as account executives. There is no middle ground. Good poets and poems are lost forever 6)_______ because there is no market for them, no people who write their own verse and seek out 7)_______ inspiration from other bards.
Fortunately, there is a solution for this problem, as there are for all 8)_______. The answer is to make it easy for everyone to write at least one poem in his life. 9)_______ a person has written a poem, of whatever quality, he will feel 10)_______ with fellow poets and, hopefully, read their works.
A. record
B. foreign
C. reading
D. astounding
E. simply
F. once
G. comradeship
H. further
I. imponderables
J. pounding
Quiz for Unit 7-8 (100 points)
I. Vocabulary (2 points for each)
1. p____: v. look carefully or with difficulty.
2. i____: a. very difficult to notice or feel.
3. h______: n. limit of a person’s knowledge, experience, interest, etc.
4. e____: n. the state of mind in which one is always thinking about oneself and what is best for oneself.
5. p____: a. (of a place) having a large population, esp. when compared with size.
6. o____: v. do a favor or service.
7. p____: a drink supposed to have magic power.
8. p____ and _____: an essential part that must not be ignored.
9. c____ ____: help to cause or bring about.
10. i____: v. fix(ideas and principles, etc.) in the mind of sb.
II. Blank-filling (2 points for each)
1. His time for the race ______ the previous world record by one second.
2. Due to her love for luxury, her expenditure every month was______high.
3. The desire to live ______ her and she began to shout for help.
4. The war had ______ and normal life was resumed.
5. They have only some slight ______ with my parents.
6. It is not a/an ______ goal for me to surpass him in the race since he has held the record for a long time.
7. The duty of a judge requires him to try his best to be ______ .
8. The woman always maintains an air of______ towards any exciting news.
9. The spokeswoman has always ______ journalists with information they want.
10. The news that China won the bid to host the Olympic Games sent its people into ______. III. Fill the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. (2 points for each)
1. The food of this country have______ relied on foreign import.(increase)
2. As students we are required to get______with the latest knowledge in our field of study.(acquaintance)
3. The main ______ of the Hope Project are poverty-stricken children living in remote areas. (benefit)
4. Due to his carelessness, he paid______ large amount of money for the same goods. (due)
5. American Indians are now proud to be the ______ of North America’s first inhabitants. (descend)
6. Traditional herbal medicine is said to have less ______ side effects. (desire)
7. He is above us all, for he is ______ to worldly success. (indifference)
8. His rise from ______ to fame is quite phenomenal. (obscure)
9. He was under the ______ that he might fail the driving license test. (apprehensive)
10. There was a slight, but ______change in his attitude towards this issue. (perceive)
IV. Translation (4 points for each)
1. 假日里，他在海滩上尽情享受休闲时光带来的快乐。

(indulge in)
2. 他们努力将独立自信的观念灌输到学生的头脑中去。

(instill)
3. 这个地区的许多渔民经营各种各样的海产品。

（deal in）
4. 他的积极参与是这次竞赛取得成功的原因之一。

（contribute to）
5. 我们应该充分考虑到这个项目的费用和可能遇到的困难。

(take account of)
V. Fill in the blanks according to the texts we have learned.( 2 points for each)
Most people would agree that, although our age far surpasses all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no 51)_______ increase in wisdom. But agreement 52)_______ as soon as we attempt to define “wisdom”and consider means of 53)_______ it. I want to ask first what wisdom is, and then what can be done to teach it.
There are, I think, several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of these I should put first a sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and 54)_______ of the specialized knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in 55)_______ medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to 56)_______ the whole of your intellectual energy. You have not time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say), as modern medicine has succeeded, in enormously lowering the infant death-rate, not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of making the food supply 57)_______ and lowering the standard of life in the most populous parts of the world. To take an even more spectacular example, which is in everybody's mind at the present time: You study the composition of the atom from a disinterested desire for knowledge, and 58)_______ place in the hands of powerful lunatics the means of destroying the human race. In such ways the pursuit of knowledge may become harmful unless it is 59)_______ with wisdom; and wisdom in the sense of comprehensive vision is not 60)_______ present in specialists in the pursuit of knowledge.。