☆Unit 1
I. Vocabulary
1. There was something __c___ about Julia’s quiet dignity. A. impress
B. impression C. impressive D. impressed
2. Social services were strongly __D___ for not taking more action to protect children at risk.
A. critic B. critical
C. criticism
D. criticized
3. I braced myself __B___ the results of my blood test. A. to B. for
C. in D. with
4. Vitamin A helps build resistance __B___ infection. A. to B. for 5. Rob was __A___ enthusiasm. A. brimmed with B. brimmed to
C. brimming with D. brimming to C. in D. with
6. I can’t __D___ what color to paint the house. A. take out B. look out
C. make out D. figure out
7. During the most _C____ time in her career, she wrote five novels. A. produce B. production
C. productive
D. producing
8. The world’s __A___ resources must be used wisely. A. definite B. infinite C. finite
D. definition
9. Without proper lessons, you could __B___ a lot of bad habits when playing the piano.
A. keep up
B. pick up
C. draw up
D. catch up
10. He decided to speed up the research _A____at completing it ahead of schedule.
A. shot B. shoot C. short D. shooting 11. We__D___ into my car and set off. A. was cramming B. cramming
C. was crammed D. crammed
12. I made a phone call to __B___ his address.
A. check in B. check out C. check up D. check on 13. The government __B___ heavy tax on the city dwellers.
A. exposes B. imposes C. opposes D. composes 14. The boy did not like to mop the floor, but he made the _B____ of it. A. use B. best
C. worst D. good
15. On the whole, _C____ students are more likely to succeed in their studies than are those with little _____. A. ambition ambitious C. ambitious ambition II. Cloze
Putting your dreams1 the back burner until the circumstances are right means that they’ll be 2 never be realized. Our only regrets in life are the things that we don’t do. We 3 it to ourselves to go out and do them now 4 it’s too late. Tomorrow? It’s all a lie; there isn’t a tomorrow. There is only a 5 note that we are often not in a position to cash. It doesn’t even exist. When you wake up in the morning it’ll be 6 again and all the same rules will 7. Tomorrow is just another 8 of now, an empty field that will remain so 9 we start planting some seeds. Your time, which is ticking 10 as we speak (at about 60 seconds a minute 11 ; a bit faster if you don’t invest it wisely), will be gone and you’ll have 12 to show for it but 13 and a rear-view mirror full of “could haves”, “should haves” and “would haves”. So what I’m thinking is if we 14 and our allotted time is 15, why the hell aren’t we doing all the things we want to do now?
B. ambition ambition D. ambitious ambitious
C1. A. in B. off
C. on
D. under
2. A. apparently 3. A. owe 4. A. when
B. likely C. definitely C. ascribe C. after
D. probably D. stick D. until D. promises D. daylight D. affect D. version D. unless D. by
D. chronologically D. everything D. soreness D. are dying D. infinite
B. access B. before B. promised B. yesterday B. devote
5. A. promising 6. A. tomorrow 7. A. apply
C. promissory C. today
C. concern C. description C. but C. over
8. A. paraphrase 9. A. if
B. adaptation B. lest B. away
10. A. off
11. A. consequently B. subsequently 12. A. nothing
B. anything
C. accordingly C. something C. regret
13. A. disappointment B. apology 14. A. died 15. A. fixed
☆Unit 2
B. die B. finite
C. have died
C. unfixed
I. Vocabulary
1. Amy was very__B___ about her intention to travel around the world. A. infinite
B. definite C. define D. definitely
2. I marveled _A____ my mother’s ability to remain calm in a crisis. A. at B. on C. in D. with 3. Thousands of years ago the surface of the earth was __B___ desert.
A. bare B. bold C. barren D. bear 4. Their country relies heavily on their air _D____.
A. superior B. inferior C. inferiority D. superiority 5. Japan recession has prompted consumers_B____ on buying cars. A. to cut up
B. to cut back C. cutting back D. cutting up
6. One day he called me into his room during the__C___.
A. assess B. process C. recess D. excess 7. There was a remarkable_B____ between him and Pete.
A. resemble B. resemblance C. assemble D. dissemble 8. When the national income rises, so does the _D____.
A. consumer B. customer C. consume D. consumption 9. The country stepped up _B____ security. A. external
B. internal C. exterior D. interior
10. Your scholarship and research _C____ will be questioned if any of the above applies to your proposal.
A. compete B. competition C. competence
D. competitive
11. Don’t let credit _B____ you to buy something you can’t afford. A. temperature B. tempt C. temptation D. temper
12. I thought long and hard about how to _B____ him, how to persuade him to change his mind, but nothing I said made any difference. A. talk with
B. reason with C. hand with D. handle with
13. Don’t _B____ your boss and co-workers, even if you think they deserve it. A. tell off B. talk off C. take off D. give off
14. She takes exception _D____ the assumption that simply because she is young and she is not able to discern fact from fiction.
A. for B with C. to D. from 15. I have to _D____ the children before I go out. A. go to II. Cloze
I can see the enormous 1 that have taken place in children’s lives and in the ways they are thought about and treated. 2 further back I can see vast differences between contemporary and 3 childhoods. Today, children have 4 responsibilities, their lives are characterized 5 play not work, school not paid labor, family rather than public life and 6 instead of production. 7 this is all relatively recent. A hundred years ago, a 12 year old working in a factory would have been perfectly 8. Now, it would cause social services’ 9 and the prosecution of both parents and factory owner. These changing ideas about children have led many social 10 to claim that childhood is a “social construction”. They use this term to mean that understanding of 11 are not the same everywhere and that 12 all societies acknowledge that children are different 13 adults, how they are different and what 14 are placed on them, change according to the society in 15 they live.
1. A. transmissions B. transitions C. transformations 2. A. Looked
B. Looking B. historic B. a little B. of
C. Look
D. transactions
B. get to C. take to D. tend to
D. Having looked
D. historian
3. A. historical 4. A. little
C. history C. few C. on
D. a few
D. by
5. A. with
6. A. consume 7. A. Yet
B. consumption C. costume D. custom B. As
C. So
D. Because
8. A. acceptable B. adaptable
C. affordable D. accountable
大学英语期末复习资料及答案
