新视野大学英语练习

新视野大学英语练习（第一册）

I. Translate the following into Chinese:

1. No other language lets you experience the cultures of the world like English. With a strong knowledge of English language, you can have wonderful cultural adventures.

2. The Internet gives us a faster way to reach new and existing customers around the world and to keep the lines of communication widely open.

3. The problem of communication between parents and their teenage children does not only lie in the “generation gap”, but also in the fact that neither side fully understands the ideas of the other side.

4. Finding the right balance between work and play is necessary for a person who wants to lead a healthy life.

5. Body movements are unconscious forms of expressions and they can convey certain information to the audience.

6. No matter what people are saying to you, remember that sometimes “action speak louder than words”.

7. If you want to graduate with a degree, you should stay away either from online games or from part-time work.

8. Experience told him that a woman’s natural instinct was to defend herself rather than hurt the attacker.

9. There’s no need to take any action at all for the time being. Sleep on it, and tell me what you think in the morning.

10. In this medical system, payments to individual physicians are adjusted depending on their costs that month.

11. Next time you have a problem, think about how you can improve the situation instead of worrying too much about all the negative aspects. 12. The bottom line is that you gain respect from others only when you have learned to respect yourself.

13. His determination, his refusal to yield, and possibly his integrity had help him win the day.

14. I could make myself feel good by singing, walking, or appreciating the beauty of the natural world.

15. The teacher gave credit to the students who had studied hard and done fine in the exam.

II. Cloze

Passage One

Is integrity fashionable? Is a strong_1_ of morality something that we presently desire? What would it cost to _2_ a person to sell out their conscience? Many experts on group behavior are _3_ tough questions to find out where __4__ a group our inner compass is pointing.

If the bank put $1,000 in your _5__ by mistake, would you keep it or tell the bank? If you _6__ by mistake a better grade on your report card than you earned, would you tell the school or would you keep quiet and keep the better mark? _7___ is interesting because almost everyone said that

the right thing to do would be__8__ the truth known, and yet a high percentage of the people __9__ that they would actually keep quiet in both cases. How can we know what is right, yet fail to _10_ in our actions?

What if, in the first_11_, your grandmother happened to need assistance with some medical_12_ ? Almost everyone said they would keep the money to help their grandmother. What is _13_ is that in this case, almost half of the people _14_ said that keeping the money was also the right thing to do. Even those who said that it was wrong to keep the money thought they could keep the money_15_ the purpose was for their grandmother’s __16__.

What does a conscience _17_ ? Findings from this set of questions _18_ that for most the cost of grandmother’s health. A simple _19_ would be that most people rely on situations _20_ a core set of values to define what is right and wrong. If given a high enough price their inner compass will inevitably point in the direction of self-interest.

1. A. feeling B. feel C. sense

2. A. assure B. tempt C. ensure

3. A. posing B. finding C. tempting

4. A. in B. as C. for

5. A. price B. money C. account

6. A. were given B. are given C. have been given