新概念英语第三册习题答案及解析Lesson 54
【Multiple choice questions】 Comprehension
1 We may learn more about the behaviour of insects _____ .
a. and become so fascinated by them that we are no longer moved by them
b. but we are no less likely to lose our irrational fear of them
c. provided they remain unaware of our presence while we observe them
d. as long as they only harm each other and not us (背熟答案)
rational 理性的 / irrational 没理性的 logical / illogical reasonable / unreasonable retional / irrational outrageous / ridiculous be likely to do 有可能做 no less likely 可能性不大
we are no less likely to do sth. 2 The ant is an insect which _____ .
a. will eat its way through anything from picnic lunches to aphids
b. lives in a highly organized society which we find disqusting
c. once it has killed its prey, will bear it Home in a triumphal column
d. shows great ingenuity at finding its way round any obstacle in its path
3 Had the peach tree been planted on the opposite side of the house _____ .
a. it might not have survived the severe winters b. the writer would not have spent days looking at it c. the ants would have had further to go before reaching it
d. the ants would not have found another route of access to the leaves
4 The reason for the ants’ swarming up and down the tree was that _____ .
a. they collected a kind of honey from the leaves b. they fed on a kind of honey contraned in the sap of the tree
c. they were milking a kind of honey from the aphids on the leaves
d. they needed to go back to their nest in the branches of the tree
up and down 上上下下 /来来回回 around 来来回回
Clusters of insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves. Structure
5 By reading about them, we may increase our understanding but _____ dispel our fears. (ll.7-8)
a. we will not b. it does not c. this will not d. not 结合第1题
6 Most of our fears are unreasonable, but we find _____ . (l.12)
a. it impossible to erase them b. that they cannot erase c. them to erase impossible d. erasing them impossible 背熟题干和答案
7 ---- an experiment which, _____ failure to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated. (ll.22-23)
a. even though it was b. in spite of the c. despite its d. was a
in spite of / despite / in contempt of / in disregard of 8 _____ long to find an answer to ... (ll.30-31)
a. The ants had not been b. The quick ants had not been
新概念英语第三册习题答案及解析Lesson 54
