英语期末复习网络测评

U1

acquisition thrust concentration distinctive

specifically distinguish evidently diminish

adjust function

1. The risk from viruses certainly hasn't diminished ; on the contrary, it has mushroomed and people can easily get infected with virus.

2. I like wild sunflower not because it has a(n) distinctive North American flavor but because its image is closely connected with our continent's early history.

3. One of the main characteristics that distinguish the male bird from female bird is that the former has beautiful feathers.

4. He went to apply for hundreds of jobs with a master's degree in computer science but ended up with nothing. Evidently, it's because he was disabled.

5. Some books are specially designed to tell us information about the social, cultural or professional life of the country.

6. I was embarrassed as an American for having thrust such an awful concept upon the French, saying that the French hated the idea of the theme park, Euro Disney.

7. In places where it does not rain very often, the function of canals is to drain water from rivers or lakes and carry it to fields.

8. There is also evidence of slower acquisition of language and a higher frequency of learning difficulties for these physically disabled students.

9. If you must sit facing the desk, shift your chair slightly as you sit down or adjust your body in the chair slightly so that you can be right in front of your interviewer.

10. Clever readers focus their attention, keeping their concentration on the material they know best and answering questions quickly because they are confident.

assembly moist earnest destination

moisture proclaim asset quest

rally exclaim

1. Last Saturday, about 5,000 people held a protest march and rally against social discrimination against all people with AIDS.

2. When appearing in court, my friend Debra exclaimed in anger to a judge to defend her actions, "I wasn't hurting anyone!"

3. Human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief, which has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.

4. Henry Ford was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles.

5. Unless you have a heated greenhouse, you will have difficulty in keeping the plant indoors for very long because they need a really warm and moist atmosphere.

6. In dry weather, you'd better water your vegetables, flowers, and plants in the morning before the earth loses too much moisture .

7. When you are faced with a difficult situation, you may rely on some of your assets such as family, friends, skills, education, money, and good health.

8. After many years' searching of the world, her quest for her missing brother finally succeeded when she found him in Africa

9. She decided long ago that she would study the subject of physics in earnest as soon as she was accepted by the school.

10. He regretted that he hadn't followed his friend's suggestion. If he had taken the short-cut across the river, he would have arrived at the destination much earlier.

A. fluent

B. acquisition

C. diverse

D. reverse

E. competent

F. competitive

G. skim H. beneficial I. enhance

J. engage K. comprehension L. confusion

M. proficiency N. exposure O. efficiency