现代大学英语第二册课后练习1_基础英语

Lesson 1
Exercises
I. Complete the sentences based on the Chinese given in the brackets.
1. if the grass is greener on the other side of he fence, it is time for you to _____ (施肥)your lawn.
2. Just enjoy the little things you are doing. When you look back, you will ____ (意识到) they were the big things.
3. Walt Disney _____ (总结) how he made his dreams come true in four C’s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy.
4. Xiao Wang broke a leg last week and is _____ (住院治疗).
5. Some travelers adapt themselves so successfully to foreign customs that they are criticized for having become “______” (西化) by their less adaptable fellow countrymen.
6. The plan was ______ (批评) as too idealistic and impractical.
7. We don’t want to freeze everything the way it is forever, we want to develop and _____ (现代化).
8. The waste water is now _____ (净化) and then used for irrigation.
9. The training course aims to _____ (使合格) them as teachers of English.
10. How can you ______ (说明……有正当理由的) your behaviour?
11. Mrs. Jones ______ (认出物品) the purse as hers.
12. The freshmen will first read some ____ (简写) stories.
13. Books can be ______ (分类) indifferent ways.
14. I was really ______ (害怕的) when I was told that 500 million people would watch my performance.
15. The town used to _____ almost entirely _____ (依靠) tourism for its economic development.
16. The president asked me to _____ (主持) the meeting on his behalf.
17. I told them that Mr. Shen ______ (坚持) their giving a straightforward answer.
18. No country has the right to _____ (干涉) other counties’ internal affairs.
19. His grandparents ______ (渴望) his return to his own country.
20. In the last twenty years his research ______ (集中) a new strain of rice.
21. All this ______ at our last discussion. I don’t see why we ne ed to talk about it again.
22. Alice is still _____ (同意了) the choice between the two jobs.
23. They would never _____ （犹豫）these means to get rich.
24. There is no use ______ (埋愿) the situation we are in. we should take action and _____ (依靠) ourselves to change it for the better.
25. Do you still remember the name of the Chinese who ______ (成功) swimming across the English Channel?
II. Give words or expressions with similar meanings.
1. accomplishment
2. to assume
3. attempt
4. career
5. chance
6. disaster
7. to be employed 8. fairly
9. to generate 10. to maintain
11. obvious 12. to rear (one’ children)
13. to suffice
III. Complete the sentences with the expressions listed below in their proper forms.
1. They said that they would _____ no more trees are cut from now on.
2. When he first retired, he felt very uncomfortable. He did not know what to _____ all his time.
3. If you want to know this, I can _____ a real expert.
4. Meals at the hotel _____ 20 yuan per day.
5. James protested that others _____ saying such things about him.
6. Eric told me that everything is the hospital was first-rate, and so was it ____ its doctors and nurses.
7.
They were shocked to hear Professor Jin say that a company should
not ____ make profit only.
8.My father was a historian. He ____ the history of the Ming Dynasty.
9.There are several ways to get around the difficulties when you _____
in the middle of a sentence.
10.Some sociologists argue that the ever-increasing crime rate is due to
the fact that people ____ too much violence in TV programs.
11.In the first half of the year, Li Fa n’s income _____ 6,000 yuan per
month.
12.They promised to _____ the nuclear power station would be safe. IV. Put in the missing words.
If you are like most people, your intelligence (1) _____ from season to season. You are (2) ______ a lot sharper in spring than you are at any (3) ______ time of the year.
Spring appears to be the best (4) _____ of the year for thinking. One (5) _____ may be that in spring man’ mental (6) _____ are affected by the same factors that bring (7) _____ great changes in all nature.
Autumn is the next best season (8) _____ winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to (9) _____ a long vacation from thinking! It has been (10) _____ that cool weather is much more favorable (11) _____ creative thinking than is summer heat. This does not (12) ______ that all people are (13) _______ intelligent in summer than they (14) _____ during the rest of the year. It (15) ______ mean, however, that the mental
powers of large numbers of people (16) ____ to be lowest in summer.
V. Combine each pair of the sentences, using the right emphasizing coordinate conjunctions.
Not … but….; not only… but (also)… ; both… and…; either…or…; neither… nor…
1. His brother is a lawyer. His sister is a lawyer, too.
2. What they lack is not money. What they lack is experience.
3. They have come to china to learn Chinese. They have also come to learn about her culture.
4. I find the new manager is not easy to get along with. I find he is not delightful to talk to, either.
5. What children want most from their parents are love and attention. What they want most are not really material things.
6. Mr. Hu is fluent in French. He is fluent in English, too.
7. Contrary to what people had expected, he attended the meeting. He also spoke for twenty minutes.
8. You may write your essay in your regular exercise book. You may print
a copy if you do it on your computer.
9. I’m not quite sure why he didn’t show up. Perhaps he was not interested. Perhaps he simply forgot about it.
10. A society should respect its scientists. It should also respect its garbage collectors.
11. The teachers don’t believe there is any shortcut in learning English. The students don’t believe in such a thing, either.
12. The purpose of a university is to produce people who are specialists. Its purpose is also to produce civilized citizens.
VI. Construct questions for the answers.
1.
___________________________________________________________ ____.
The essay is written for university freshmen.
2.
___________________________________________________________ _____.
The writer was teaching English Literature at that time.
3.
___________________________________________________________ _____.
The boy came to college to be a pharmacist.
4.
___________________________________________________________ _____.
He didn’t understand why it was important for him to read Shakespeare and wanted the teacher to explain to him. He thought it was a waste of
time for a future pharmacist to read works of literature.
5.
___________________________________________________________ ______.
According to the writer, in a technical training school students learn skills for a job, while in a university, students not only train for skills but develop their mental and moral power.
6.
___________________________________________________________ _______.
The writer thinks that when a person is neither working nor sleeping he should be trying to improve his mind and enrich his life through learning.
7.
_________________________________________________________ ______________.
No, the student wasn’t convinced.
8.
_________________________________________________________ _______________.
Yes, I do. I agree that he says about the purpose of a university.
VII. Put in the right preposition from the list below.
1. Professor Li spoke _______ an expert _____ modern Chinese
literature.
2. He talks ______ a computer expert, but really he knows little.
3. In the 1930s, a lot of people in the USA were ______ work.
4. _____ her 21st birthday, her parents sent her a leather coat ______
affectionate letter.
5. The manager’s office is large and airy. ______ the window is a
CEO-type of desk. An office chair stands _____ the desk. Further back
_____ the corner there is a floor-ceiling bookcase filled ______ books,
magazines, newspapers, etc.
6. Everyone knows him _____ Old Arthur. He lives ______ a little hut
______ the middle of a small wood, about a mile _____ the village. He
goes _____ the village twice a week to buy food, and occasionally he
collects letters and his pension _____ the post office.
7. This is what Old Arthur said ______ himself _____ a reporter
______ the local newspaper: “I get up every morning ______ the birds.
There is a stream _____ my hut and I fetch water _____ there. It’s good,
clear, fresh water, better than you get _____ the city.
Occasionally,
_____ winter, I have to break the ice. I cook simple food ____ my stove; mostly stews and things ____ that. I don’t have much money, but I think I’m a lucky man.”
8. Recently I came ______ a little group _____ worried people, gathered _____ a man lying ____the pavement ____ a busy London road. They were waiting _____ an ambulance, because the man had been knocked down _____ the street, to avoid walking ______ a ladder. This superstition (迷信) goes back _____ the days when the gallows (绞刑架) were built _____ a platform. To get up ____ the platform you had to climb a ladder. To pass ____ that ladder therefore was considered very unlucky.
Key to the exercises:
I. Complete the sentences based on the Chinese given in the brackets:
1. fertilize
2. realize
3. summarized
4. hospitalized
5. westernized
6. criticized
7. modernize
8. purified
9. qualify 10. justify 11. identify
12. simplified
13. classified 14. terrified 15. depend on/upon 16.
preside over
17. insisted on 18. interfere in/with 19. are longing for/longed for/have been longing for 20. has concentrated on 21. was agreed on/upon 22. hesitating about/over
23. resort to 24. complaining about, rely on/upon 25. succeeded in
II. Give words or expressions with similar meanings.
1. achievement
2. to suppose
3. effort
4. profession/occupation
5. opportunity
6. great tragedy/misfortune
7. used/kept busy
8. rather 9. to produce 10. to keep/to keep up/to continue
11. apparent/clear 12. to raise/to bring up 13. to be enough III. Complete the sentences with the expressions listed below in their proper forms.
1. see to it that
2. do with
3. put you in touch with
4. average out to
5. had no business
6. true of
7. be out to 8. specialized in 9. are stuck 10. are exposed to 11. averaged out to 12. see to it that IV. Put in the missing words.
1. varies/changes
2. probably
3. other
4. period
5. reason
6. powers
7. about
8. then
9. take 10. found 11. for
12. mean
13. less 14. are 15. does 16. tend
V. Combine each pair of the sentences, using the right emphasizing coordinate conjunctions.
1. Both his sister and brother are lawyers.
2. What they lack is not money but experience.
3. They have come to china not only to learn Chinese, but to learn about her culture as well.
4. I find the new manager neither easy to get along with nor delightful to talk to.
5. What children really want most from their parents are not material things but love and attention.
6. Mr. Hu is not only fluent in French but also in English.
7. Contrary to what people had expected, not only did he attend the meeting, but he also spoke for twenty minutes.
8. You may either write your essay in your regular exercise book or print
a copy if you do it on your computer.
9. I’m not quite sure why he didn’t show up. Either he was n ot interested, or he simply forgot about it.
10. A society should respect both its scientists and its garbage collectors.
11. Neither the teachers nor the students believe there is any shortcut in learning English.
12. The purpose of a university is to produce people who are both specialists and civilized citizens.
VI. Construct questions for the answers.
1. Who is the essay written for?
2. What was the writer doing/teaching at that time?
3. What did the boy come to college for?
4. Why did the boy go to the writer’s office one day? What was his problem?
5. What is the difference between a university and a technical training school, according to the author?
6. How does the writer think a person should spend the time when he is neither working nor sleeping? Why?
7. Was the tall boy convinced by what the writer said?
8. Do you agree with what the writer says about the purpose of a university?
VII. Put in the right preposition from the list below.
1. as, on
2. like
3. out of
4. For/On, along with
5. By/Near, behind, in, with
6. as, in, in, from, to/into, at/from
7. about, to, from, with, near, from, in, in, on, like
8. on/upon, of, round, on, beside, for, by, off, into, under, to, on, on to, under。