英美报刊阅读平时测验2答案

Quiz Two

Part I. Choose the best one whose meaning is similar to underlined part.

1. Vietnam experience has been on the minds of Americans from the day when George Bush dispatched troops to Saudi Arabia last August.A

A. sent

B. performed

C. scattered

D. dismissed

2.American social contract is fluid, rapidly changing, post-modernist, just as the

American gene and culture pool is turbulently new every day.A

A. violently and disorderly

B. hardly and lawlessly

C. roughly and bitterly

D. excitedly and noisily

3.Rather than merely providing a shelter, homeless advocates are weaving a web.B

A. recipients

B. supporters

C. advisers

D. wanders

4.We have today a whole young society that has not been called to conscience.D

A. shame

B. duty

C. small voice

D. moral sense

5. In New York the papers had been filled with anguished concern about white racism and black poverty. C

A. deep

B. anxious

C. painful

D. worried

6. The homicide rate among blacks in the United States is more than ten times that of whites.C

A. crime

B. death

C. murder

D. violent

7. Jews too have found that in a climate that seems to tolerate intolerance, incidents of harassment are on the rise. A

A. trouble

B. attack

C. haste

D. harsh

8. The compact embraces principles of justice, openness and discipline that are meant to form the foundation of a “community learning”.A

A. includes

B. grips

C. welcomes

D. hugs

9. In the process, they are learning invaluable lessons about what should be paid attention to. C

A. valueless

B. expensive

C. precious

D. costly

10. I am acutely aware of the burdens drug enforcement places upon us.D

A. fully

B. sensitively

C. accurately

D. keenly

11. The best way to help seniors bent on working may be to remove obstacles in their paths.

A. afraid to work

B. unwilling to work

C. ready to work

D. determined to work

12. The confession of the terrible crime stunned the city.

A. saddened

B. strengthened

C. weakened

D. shocked

13. The economy will suffer if the current skyrocketing oil prices continue.

A. rising

B. flying

C. diving

D. falling

14. The plastics industry scrambled to support recycling mostly out of fear that its ubiquitous products will otherwise be banned.

A. low quality

B. seen everywhere

C. environment- unfriendly

D. cheap and light

15. New Jerseyans turned out a Democratic legislature after the biggest tax boost in state history.

A. reduction

B. drop

C. hike

D. fall

Part II. Reading: Choose the best answer according to the passages.

Free Scotland and Wales!

Prosperity rekindles talk of independence

Emperor Hadrian erected a 118-kilometer wall across Britain in the early second century to protect Roman England from the unruly tribes of Scotland. Today’s Scots think they are the ones who need the wall. In recent years they have quietly built their economy into a powerhouse. The valley between Glasgow and Edinburgh (“Silicon Glen”)now boasts the highest concentration of high-tech companies outside California, and Scotland also covers 21 percent of Western Europe’s oil needs. As decrepit smokestacks have given way to glittering oil-drilling facilities and slick electronics plants, deep-seated Scottish resentment of the English has emerged. According to a poll last week,78 percent of Scots favor some form of devolution from London; one in three wants complete independence.

In Wales, too, economic success has suffused the population with self-confidence. Though it accounts for just 5 percent of Britain’s total population, Wales has attracted 20 percent of the country’s foreign in vestment-￡3.1 billion. This has helped the region cut its unemployment rate from 15 percent in 1985 to 8 percent this year. Much of the investment came from Japan; companies like Sony and Sharp have poured more money into Wales than into any other area outside Japan and

the United States. And as in Scotland, the spirit of independence is

spreading: almost a third of all Welshmen now want to secede.