英语专业综合教程4课后题答案

1. I saw nothing of the which had forced open a pit you could break your teeth on. A.Strength might

2. All that appeared to me was a profound and grace. B.Mysterious eerie

3. Mastery is genius . C.In operation afoot

4. The craftsman’s labor is as conscious, as and as practical as that of the bricklayer. D.Clever canny

5. in any case, the impressions of childhood and…lie in the memory. B.Clear lucid

6. Like any seed, the seed of a story has its own principle of growth which employs a process of intelligent selection,drawing from the unconscious mind’s vast treasury of experience that it needs to fulfill its form.

C.original inherent

7. You will see that they are not your private . D.Unusual ideas vagaries

8. Rereading tends to errors in writing. B.Forgive condone

9. Self-conscious shows up for what it is. A.Showy behavior flamboyance

10. What you considered a clever understatement is often revealed as an of something difficult tostate. A.avoidance

evasion 1. The evidence now indicates that within fifty years or so world population will at about eight billion before starting a fairly rapid decline. B.achive its maximum of development peak 2. As long ago as September of 1974, Scientific American published a special issue on population that described what demographers had begun calling the “demographic ”from traditional high rates of birth and death to the low ones of modern society. A.change transition

3. If the patterns of the past century don’t change , it will head into negative numbers. A.fundamentally radicallt

4.populations change is too slow and remote for people to feel in their lives—even if the total population were to double or in only a century. A.lessen by one half halve

5. This is true in Western and Eastern countries, in Catholic and in secular societies. B.not religious secular

6. Nobody can say whether world population will ever to every low numbers. A.decrease dwindle

7. Values, not biological imperatives, are the variable in population predictions. C.unmeasurable unfathomable

8. fertility could someday increase just as quickly as it has declined in recent decades. D.probably presumably

9.If the average fertility rate were to take a long time to move from well below to well above replacement rate and back again, trends in world population could go a long way before they themselves. C.inverted

reversed

1. But many people question whether it’s a good idea for fallible human beings to go____the genes of other species.

A.interfere with go mucking about with

2. Its one thing…but something else entirely if it____on your dinner plate. A.appears in the end winds up

3. If the outcry in France indeed____global trouble, it’s by no means clear whether it ought to.

D.is a warming portends

4. Other GM crops have been designed to include a few scraps of DNA from a common bacterium, rendering the plants____to leaf-chewing insects but not to humans. D.dangerous toxic

5. Even a slight increase in____can mean a good increase in profits. A.output yield

6. The company quickly____the product. C.removed

scrapped

7. It churned out not just amino acids but also chemicals that can____allergoes in nut-sensitive consumers. C.cause

Trigger

8. in recent years, Europeans have become increasingly____about had food---and with good reasons.

A.apprehensive jumpy

9. Health officials have grown____about what their citizens consume. D.more fastidious fussier

10. in the US, GM strains are mixed with ordinary strains, so the country’s entire corn export to Europe was effectively____. D.functioning outlawed

11. coming in the mist of such a catfight, the GM ban looks like vengeance as much as____. C.discretion prudence

12. Two years ago, chief executive Robert Shapiro gambled big on biotech, ____the chemical division to focus on the new science. C.forming…from parts of an existing company spinning off