现代大学英语第二册 第十三课 Mr. Imagination单元测试 13 quiz

Book 2 Unit 13 Mr. Imagination

I. Spell out the words according to the definitions given. The initial letters are given as a clue.

1. v ______ a large ship or boat

2.w______ the place where sb/sth is

3.w______ t o send sb a message by telegram

4.t ______ crossing the Atlantic Ocean

5.s ______ artificially

6.s______ fat

7.s ______ a ship that can travel under water

8.s ______ exactly solidly

9.s______ very high building in a city

10.p ______ having very strict moral attitudes

11.p______ immediately

12.o ______ get sth you want or need

13.m ______ to produce a substance

14.f ______ nervous

15.f______ causing or ending in death

16.d______ prevent sb from having or doing sth

17.c ______ burnt and black

18.b ______ a long thin often crisp piece of bread

19.a______ go up

20.a ______ in a clever or designed way

Keys: 1.vessel 2. whereabouts 3. wire 4. transatlantic 5. synthetically

6.stout

7. submarine

8. squarely

9. skyscraper 10.puritanical

11. promptly 12. obtain 13. manufacture 14. fidgeting 15. fatal

16.deprive 17. charred 18. breadstick 19. ascend 20. artfully

II. Complete the sentences, using the proper forms of the expressions chosen among the ones listed below.

1.His hero rescued an Indian widow from death, fell in love with her, and almost missed

connections ______.

2. People are getting ______the slow progress of our education reform.

3. No wonder they are said to be ______ the Jews who were forced to leave their homeland.

4. This English scholar ______ China ______ many scientific discoveries and technological inventions in ancient times.

5. This new law will _______ government officials ______ abusing their power.

6. In a rage, his wife ______ the book _______ fire.

7. I’m ________ working at that factory producing day after day..

8. Jack London was a sailor for quite a few years before he quit the job and began to _______.

9. She often had to ask for leave _______.

10. The reasonable prices and fine quality made the products we ______ so popular in Africa. Keys:

1. on her account

2.impatient with

3. descended from

4. credit with

5. deprive of

6. flung into

7. fed up with

8.took to letters

9. for his sake 10. turn out

III. Translation:

1. 这个小岛没有人住，而且基本上也没法住人。

2. 她自称是美国一个古老家族的后裔。

3. 在上个世纪二十年代，妇女仍然被剥夺投票的权利。

4 历史学家们通常把中国古代历史上的首次统一归功于他。

5. 我记得第一次求职面试后我感到很失望。

Keys：

1.This small island is not only uninhabited, it is largely uninhabitable as well.

2.She claimed to be descended from one of the oldest families in the United States.

3.In the twenties of the last century, women were still deprived of the right to vote..

4.His torians usually credit him with unifying the whole of China for the first time in ancient

Chinese history.

5.I remember being quite disappointed after my first job interview.