新视野大学英语综合教程4单词拓展练习+答案

新视野大学英语综合教程4单词拓展练习+答案Unit one: decisive, bide one’s time, stroke, alliance, render, invasion, siege, bring to a halt, desperate, offensive, reckon, crucial, launch, efficient, catch sb. off guard, press on/ahead

1.On October 4, 1957, Soviet scientists ______ the world’s first artificial satellite, called Sputnik.

/doc/b6283f2fba0d4a7303 763a9a.htmlputers connected to data banks make the home the most _____ place to work in many cases.

3.The adoption of the euro is widely viewed as a _____ step toward a single European government.

4.Amazingly, our soccer team won the victory in the ______ final game.

5.He _______ until Harvard University offered his a professorship.

6.I saw a chance of solving all my problems at a _______.

7.NATO is considered as the most powerful military ______ in modern history.

8.On Hitler’s orde rs, the ______ of Poland began on September 7,1941.

9.His troops were ＿＿____ and badly defeated in the

first days of fighting.

10.Hundreds of people were _______ homeless by the earthquake.

11.The city was under ______ for six months.

12.Our journey was _________ by a storm.

13.He makes crude jokes that are _____ to women.

14.Looking up at the sun, I ____ that it must be about three o’clock.

15.The central government is determined to ______ with the reforms.

16.He was so _________ that he got down on his knees and prayed to God.

keys: 1. launched 2. efficient 3. decisive 4. crucial

5. bided his time

6. stroke

7. alliance

8. invasion

9. caught off guard 10. rendered 11. siege

12. brought to a halt 13. offensive 14. reckoned

15. press on/ahead 16. Desperate

Unit 2 lucrative, hazard, prototype, be poised to, vibrate, correlate, eliminate, monotonous, incorporate,

approximately, alert, remote, mount, lane, bunch, expansion

1.The car accident happened at _______ 7:30.

2.The teacher ______ the students to the dangers of swimming in the river.

3.They have found ______ jobs in private security firms.

4.Toyota released its small-car _____ in 1947.

5.The newly-built highways have two _____ for each direction of travel.

6.The government approved a new plan to _______ illiteracy nationwide by 2006.

7.The research has confirmed that tobacco smoke presents a _______ to health.

8. Obesity ______ with increased risk of stroke.

9. Thanks to ______ diagnosis, now you can get a health check-up without setting foot inside the doctor’s office.

10. Microwave ovens operate by agitating the water molecules in the food, causing them to ______, which produces heat.

11. They ______ together to allow others to squeeze into the crowded elevator.