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M7 U2 exercises
一、单词拼写。

1.His hand shook slightly as he i__________ the key into the lock..
2.The f____________ of a hammer is to hit nails into wood.
3. The room is 10 metres in l and 5 in breadth.
4. — Would you please give me a hand?
— With p .
5. U to sleep at night, I got up to make myself a glass of milk..
6. I made five a for jobs but got nothing.
7. I tried to get through, but there were too many people b my way.
8. Large q of water are needed for cooling purpose.
9. The air in the room is not pure. Do you have any way to p it?
10.An(可调节的 ) electric lamp can be placed in various positions.
11.Some language experts make an attempt to(使标准化 ) spelling.
12.He likes the(当代的 ) art.
13.We must make(安排 ) for the meeting.
14.The(症状 ) don't appear until a few days after you’ re infected.
15.Take the medicine to(缓解 ) the headache.
二、单项选择。

1. With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth _________ each year.
A. is washing away
B. is being washed away
C. are washing away
D. are being washed away
2. As a result of destroying the forests, a large ________ of desert ________ covered the land.
A. numberhas
B. quantityhas
C. numberhave
D. quantityhave
3.— Brad was Jane’s brother.
— ___________ he reminded me so much of Jane!
A. No doubt
B. Above all
C. No wonder
D. Of course
4. We are trying to ring you back, Bryan, but we think we ________ your number incorrectly.
A. looked up
B. took down
C. worked out
D. brought about
5. Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts. The plane ________.
A. takes off
B. is taking off
C. has taken off
D. took off
6. He accidently _________ he had quarreled with his wife and that he hadn ’tbeen home for a couple of weeks.
A. let out
B. took care
C. made sure
D. made out
7. With no one to ________ in such a frightening situation, she felt very helpless.
A. turn on
B. turn off
C. turn over
D. turn to
8.3,500 years ago, some recipes recommended drinking a tea made ________ the dried leaves
of a particular plant to reduce body pains.
A. by
B. of
C. from
D. in
9. It __to be a fine day the day before yesterday.
A. turned out
B. turned up
C. turned down
D. takes up
10. When heated, ice will ___water.
A. turn up
B. take down
C. turn into
D. turn to
11.—Would you take this along to the office for me?
— ______________.
A. My pleasure
B. With pleasure
C. Be pleased
D. Be pleasing.
12. She found it hard to __ __ working late into the night.
A. used to
B. adjust to
C. be adjustable
D. adjust of
13. Your suggestion is very ___. I think the boss will take it.
A. off the point
B. to the point
C. beside the point
D. at the point
14. It doesn ’take long to become ___these drugs.
A. addicted to
B. addiction to
C. addict to
D. addictive to
15. Hearing the news that her son was found, she breathed a sign of ___.
A. excitement
B. joy
C. relief
D. belief
16. This will ___ pressure on the train to some extent
A. reduce
B. relieve
C. relief
D. increase
三、选词填空。

note,purify,put through,come up,make out,come true,take down,
go through,split up,fill in,turn up,put off,try out,look around,decide on,
take over,focus on,due to,no wonder,in contemporary society,
1.Many companies suffered financial losses ________ bad management last year. .
2.I have not had much chance to ________ my new camera yet.
3.Science and technology plays a very important role _____________.
4.Our teacher asked us to ______ the time of reading each passage so that we could improve our reading ability.
5.The water in the local river became too polluted to drink and we were unable to _____ it.
6.––Li Lin is very bright and studies hard as well.
––It ’ s he always gets the first place in any examination.
7.Can you _____ me _____ to Mr. Brown ’s office, please?
8.Let’s put our heads together and ________ a plan of action.
9.I could not find my keys so I spent the morning ________ the house for them.
10.She is so devoted to her work that she keeps ________ going to see her doctor.
11.John failed ________ at his daughter ’s birthday party, greatly disappointing her.
12.The secretary informed me ________ this form, giving my name, age, address and work
experience.
13.Let ’s ________ now and meet again at lunchtime.
14.I ’lltell you how to get to the place; you had better _____ it _____.
15.If you continue working like this, sooner or later, your dream will _______.
16. It ’ s an interesting old book but there are a lot of words I can ’ t ________.
17. ––Why is it so noisy in the corridor?
––I’m afraid something urgent ________.
18.The actor ______ the newspaper looking for his own photo.
19.The company was doing poorly until a new director ________ and changed the focus of sales to
developing countries.
20.He finds it hard ______ his thoughts _____ one thing for longer than five minutes.
答案：
一、单词拼写。

1. inserted
2. function
3. length
4. pleasure
5. Unable
6. applications
7. blocking 8. quantities 9. purify 10. adjustable 11. standardize
12. contemporary 13. arrangements 14. symptoms 15. relieve
二、单项选择。

1-5 DBCBB 6-10 ADCAC 11-16 BBBAC B
三、选词填空
1. due to
2. try out
3. in contemporary society
4. focus on
5. purify
6. no wonder
7. put through
8. decide on
9. going through 10.putting off
11. to turn up 12. to fill in 13. split up 14. take down15. come true
16. make out 17. is coming up 18. is going through 19.took over 20. put through。