大学英语复习题

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the help of the first letter(s). Use only ONE word to fill in each blank.1. I chased around all day looking for a birthday present to give her.(Suggested first letter(s): ch )2. A police motorcycle chased his car twelve miles, and cornered him near Rome. (Suggested first letter(s): ch )3. Her black eye and bruises (青肿) were undeniable evidence of his . cruelty(Suggested first letter(s): cr )4. What kind of person could treat a fellow human being with such cruelty ? (Suggested first letter(s): cr )5. If executives fail to exploit the opportunities of networking they risk being left behind. (Suggested first letter(s): ex )6. There is a further fear that criminals will exploit the lack of co-operation between different police agencies in Europe.(Suggested first letter(s): ex )7. One aim of the network would be to hasten the entry of new research into clinical practice, a process that most researchers have long felt to be much too slow.(Suggested first letter(s): ha )8. Some doctors may even hasten death with the pain-killing drugs they administer (给药) at this time, but their "intent to kill" is rarely tested in a court.(Suggested first letter(s): ha )9. She could see nothing except a vivid red blur , the color of a London bus. (Suggested first letter(s): bl )10. I just saw the blur of the car as it passed in front of me.(Suggested first letter(s): bl )Directions: Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices given for each blank.Questions 1 to 20 are based on the following passage.I have goals for my life, but they are not fame or fortune. But that does not mean I can just sit 1. STILL quiet peaceful still , doing nothing at all. I want 2. ADVENTUREadventure risk chance , something unusual, exciting and even dangerous sometimes. One dream I have is to be 3.STRAPPED stuck struck confronted strapped into the harness of a jet and fly at twice the speed of sound. Or, I could go into space and 4. DEFY deny oppose violate gravity. On an outer space adventure, I could 5. ORBIT surround orbit twist the Earth in a spacecraft. I also would liketo jump from an airplane, 6.FL Y hang wonder fly suspend in the sky and parachute (跳伞) to the ground. Or maybe I'll climb steep mountain 7.PEAKS heights peaks points maximums in China. It's also possible for me to 8.EXPLORE explore investigate research search tropical jungles in Brazil. No, I'm not 9. DESPERATE horrible hopeless desperate for the spotlight. I don't want to join the 10.CONQUEST dispute defeat victory of fame. I simply don't want my life to be 11.BORING amazing disgusting boring . I could go on a fantastic 12. MISSOIN mission procession responsibility . I could uncover 13. SUBMERGED submerged emerged overwhelmed treasures in the mysterious Bermuda triangle or become a captain on a naval aircraft carrier and 14. CRUISE circle cruise float the seven seas. Maybe I'll investigate crimes or be an attorney for the public and 15.ACCUSE charge blame criticize large corporations of terrible crimes. I could catch them as they are 16. CHEA TING misleading stealing cheating citizens out of their hard-earned money. Or, I could be a government agent and 17. SPY investigate inspect observe on foreign countries. I could find out if they are planning a(n) 18. INV ASION corruption invasion pursuit of our mother country.On second thought, this all seems quite PLICATED destructive tiresome complicated . I take back everything that I have said. A(n) 20. IDLE idle empty unemployed life is for me. I think that I will simply sit back in my big comfortable chair with the air-conditioning set at a perfect 24 degrees centigrade and read about someone else doing those dangerous things. This book about mining for gold will do fine.Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog.A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred (上帝的) texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic (施虐狂的) impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. As to fear, I think, we also need well-documented cases of children being dangerously terrified (恐惧) by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches (女巫), two-headed dragons, magic carpets (魔毯), etc., do not exist; and that, instead of indulging (沉溺) his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick (女巫乘骑的扫帚柄) or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted (中魔法的)girl-friend.No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane (精神健全的) child has ever believed that it was.1. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is __C_____.A. repeated without variationB. treated with respectC. adapted by the parentD. set in the present2. Some people dislike fairy stories because they feel that they ___D_____.A. tempt people to be cruel to childrenB. show the primitive cruelty in childrenC. lend themselves to undesirable experiments with childrenD. increase a tendency to have sadistic impulses in children3. According to the passage great fear can be stimulated in a child when the story is __B______.A. set in realityB. heard for the first timeC. repeated too oftenD. dramatically told4. The author's mention of broomsticks and telephones is meant to suggest that __B______.A. fairy stories are still being made upB. there is confusion about different kinds of truthC. people try to modernize old fairy storiesD. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays5. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? CA. Fairy stories are anything but beneficial to the growth of children.B. Fairy stories teach children the way to adapt to the society.C. No fairy story should be taken as the true description of the reality.D. No fairy story should be told to the children without modification.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.Standing alone at the Browns' party, Anna Mackintosh thought about her husband Edward, establishing him clearly in her mind's eye. He was a thin man, forty-one years of age, with fair hair that was often untidy. In the seventeen years they'd been married he had changed very little; he was still nervous with other people, and smiled in the same embarrassed way, and his face was still almost boyish.She believed she had failed him because he had wished for children and she had not been able to supply any. She had, over the years, become neurotic (神经机能病的) about this fact and in the end, quite some time ago now, she had consulted a psychiatrist (精神病学家), Dr. Abbat, at Edward's pleading (恳求).In the Browns' rich drawing room, its walls and ceiling gleaming (发微光) with a metallic (金属般的) surface of imitation gold, Anna listened to dance music coming from a tape recorder and continued to think about her husband.In a moment he would be at the party, since they had agreed to meet there, although by now it was three-quarters of an hour later than the time he had promised.The Browns were people he knew in a business way, and he had said he thought it wise that he and Anna should attend this gathering of theirs. She had never met them before, which made it more difficult for her, having to wait about, not knowing a soul in the room.When she thought about it she felt hard done by, for although Edward was kind to her and always had been, it was far from considerate to be as late as this. Because of her nervous condition she felt afraid and had developed a sickness in her stomach. She looked at her watch and sighed.6. Why did Anna feel awkward at the party? DA. She came to the party too early.B. She was neglected by the host.C. She felt uncomfortable with the atmosphere of the party.D. She didn't know anyone there.7. What made Anna feel inadequate?A. She did not make a good mother to her children.B. She was unable to satisfy her husband's desire to have children. BC. She did not get along well with her husband.D. She was unable to have a better understanding of her husband.8. As time went by, Anna started to get angry as ___B____.A. she found the Browns were much wealthier than they wereB. her husband was usually more thoughtfulC. she noticed that no one was willing to talk to herD. her husband was bad-mannered in the party9. According to the passage, Edward wanted Anna to attend the party because _C_______.A. he wanted her to have more of a social lifeB. he tried to distract her from some unpleasant thoughtsC. he needed her supportD. he thought she would impress the Browns10. What kind of woman Anna was according to the passage? AA. Sensitive and worried.B. Open and talkative.C. Imaginative and cheerful.D. Sensible and easygoing.。