(第二学期)大学英语3阶段性作业1

中国地质大学(武汉)远程与继续教育学院

大学英语3 课程作业1（共 4 次作业）

学习层次：专升本涉及章节：第一单元—第二单元

一、Make a suitable choice for the underlined word or phrase(选择与划线词或词组意思相同的选项)

1. We should not complain about taxes.

A) feel unhappy

B) say bad things

C) care

D) praise

2. What were the effects of the decision she made?

A) reasons

B) results

C) causes

D) bases

3.People don’t realize how serious this recession has actually been.

A) know

B) think

C) doubt

D) remember

4.First editions of certain popular books cannot be obtained for love or money.

A) at any place

B) at any price

C) in any language

D) in any country

5. About a quarter of the workers in the United States are employed in factories.

A) third

B) fourth

C) tenth

D) fifteenth

6. In a bullfight, it is movement, not the color, of subjects that arouses the bull.

A) confuses

B) excites

C) scares

D) diverts

7. Passenger ships and planes are often equipped with ship-to-shore or air-to-land radio telephones.

A) highways

B) railroads

C) sailboats

D) aircraft

8. The firemen acted quickly because lives were at stake.

A) in danger

B) in despair

C) out of condition

D) out of danger

9.Mary called me up very late last night.

A) shouted at me

B) visited me

C) telephoned me

D) waked me

10. Mary gets up at the same time every morning.

A) arises

B) raises

C) arrives

D) stands up

11. Helen will leave immediately.

A) far away

B) right away

C) right here

D) soon

12.Susan is looking for the dictionary, which she lost yesterday.

A) finding

B) looking up

C) looking at

D) trying to find

13. John talked over the new job offer with his wife.

A) discussed

B) mentioned

C) accepted

D) rejected

14. While I sympathize, I can't really do very much to help.

A) when

B) but

C) although

D) where

15.A beautiful woman attended to me in that store yesterday.

A) waited on

B) talked to

C) spoke to

D) stayed with

二、Make a suitable choice according to what you read (根据阅读材料进行恰当的选择)

(1)

Beldon and Canfield are two seaside towns, not far apart. Both towns have many hotels; and in the summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists.

Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon. The next day, the follo wing news appeared on page two of the town’s newspaper, The Beldon Post:

FIRE AT SEABREEZE

Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire. We s ay again to all our visitor: “Please don’t smoke cigarettes in bed.” This was Beldon’s first hotel fire in five years.

The Canfield Times gave the news in these words on page one:

ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE

Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, and some furniture at the Seabreeze Hotel. An angry holiday-maker said, “An electric lamp probably started the fire. The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels. When I turned my bedside light on, I heard a funny noise from the lamp.” We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield.

What are the facts, then? It is not easy to find out the exact truth about the fire.

Now what do you think of the “news”?

16. Many people spend their summer holidays in Beldon and Canfield because