新视野读写第一册第九单元测试

WY周二1、2: Quiz details

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Right or marked by instructor

Wrong

To be marked by instructor

C. accidental

D. automatic

3.It is nice to travel with ______ paid by your boss, at no cost to

yourself.

A. prices

B. costs

C. offers

D. activities

4.The gasoline ______ destroyed the company and injured many

people.

A. explored

B. extended

C. expanded

D. explosion

5.Only two people survived the fire that ______ at midnight.

A. broke out

B. broke off

C. broke up

D. broke down

6.To complete the task successfully, we have to get well prepared

______.

A. in advance

B. in detail

C. in turn

7.The policeman went from house to house, ______ whether anyone

had seen the lost boy.

A. asking

B. interrupting

C. informing

D. introducing

8.On our trip out of the country we visited ______ in England.

A. relationship

B. relation

C. relatives

D. person

9.Theory couldn't do without practice, _______ without theory.

A. practice could do either

B. neither practice could do

C. practice could do neither

D. nor could practice do

10.I _______ the truth of your remarks, although they go against my

interests.

A. cannot but admit

B. cannot but to admit

C. cannot but admitting

D. cannot help but admitting

11.She hardly ever eats _______ potatoes.

A. every bread or

B. bread or

C. neither bread or

D. neither bread nor

12.That's the hotel _______ last year.

A. which we stayed

B. that we stayed

C. for which we stayed

D. where we stayed

13.We often advise him not to drink more wine _______ is good for his

health.

A. as

B. that

C. than

D. but

14."Why does Dr. Takin prefer his office?"

"Because here he is free to do his research _______ he wants."

A. some way

B. anyhow

C. anyway

D. whatever

15.I have never dined with you, sir; and I see no reason _______.

A. how should I now

to computers. Looking at a computer means reading a screen, which is

decidedly not the way most people want to read a book, particularly the

last one.

Reading text on a computer screen is limiting and tiresome. You can't see

where you are or how far you have to go. You can't turn the pages quickly

without reading much to compare parts of the text or to see what your eye

finds freely. You can't comfortably carry a computer screen around with

you, to bed, to the beach, or to the bathroom.

You can't collect computer screens, or cover them beautifully, or place

them on bookshelves in the way the English writer Anthony Powell

described in his book.

But hold everything! The news is far from bad. The book of the future

described to me on a visit to MIT is really a book, just like any other. It

has a cover that could be made of anything you want, and hundreds of

pages you can turn one at a time or turn over quickly.

The key to this book is something called electronic (电子的) ink, or e-

ink, which can be added to the page from within instead of by a press. It

was developed by Joseph Jacobson, an assistant professor at MIT.

As the capacity of the book's memory grows, whole libraries may be

added. Jacobson predicts that this book is able to store the entire U.S.

Library of Congress (国会), whose holdings number more than 17 million

books.

Yet the book would still have the familiar advantages of a book, Jacobson

says. You could turn off its power and carry it anywhere.

Jacobson greatly admires the usual book. "After all," he added, "if books

had been invented after the computer, they would have been considered a

big breakthrough. They run on very low power at a very low cost." Every book ever published in a single copy? Will this really happen? How soon could the last book be available? "A first model of it with just a few pages could be put together in two to three years, with one of 400 pages taking a year or two longer," Jacobson said.

How much will it cost? Jacobson says the final book will probably sell for

$2 to $4 for each reusable page or $500 to $1,000 for a book, although he

is working on ways to reduce costs further.