9. A. interaction B. intervention C. interview D. interpretation
10.A. linguists B. psychologists 11.A. adulthood B. childhood 12. A. when 13. A. from
B. where
C. archeologists D. scientists C. girlhood C. what C. to
D. boyhood D. while D. in
B. with
14. A. assumption B. dependence 15. A. that
☆Unit 3
C. expectations D. presumption C. what
D. which
B. where
I. Vocabulary
1. I hope you are not doing this just _B____ the money.
A. for sake of B. for the sake of C. for your sake of D. in your sake of 2. Ninety percent of the boat people did not _A____ as refugees. A. qualify
B. qualified C. qualification D. quality
3. They still __C___ that their policy was successful.
A. proclaimed B. reclaimed C. acclaimed D. claimed 4. Some birds have a/ an _D____ to travel north in winter. A. instinctive B. nature
C. instinct D. sense
5. She needed some time to _B____ her answer to the question. A. dispose
B. compose C. impose
D. repose
6. This means politicians and leaders in all sectors must speak out openly about AIDS and not _D____ difficult issues like sex, sexuality and drug use.
A. shy away from B. shy away C. shy from D. give away from 7. If we cannot ___B__ exactly what we are supposed to be managing, how can we
manage it?
A. write down B. note down C. pin down D. put down 8. One of the gallery’s most prized possessions is the _____ of Da. Vinci. A .description B. portrait
C. feature
D. figure
9. My husband loves adventurous life while I enjoy a more peaceful _____ life. A foreign B. domestic C. interior D. national 10. The car has a surprisingly spacious _____.
A. interior B. exterior C. inferior D. superior 11. The paper was accused of _____ the truth.
A. retorting B. distorting C. misleading D. correcting 12. Some economic statistics are _____ negative signals.
A. taking off B. giving off C. making off D. putting off 13. Eventually your child will leave home to lead her own life, but in the _____ she relies on your support.
A. sometime B. while C. meantime D. same time 14. As far as _____, he is not qualified for this job. A. I concern B. I am concerned
C. I am concerning D. I concerned
15. If you understand this point, you can understand the rest _____ analogy. A. with II. Cloze
In the beginning it was only the rich and famous who had their 1 painted. But from the Renaissance 2 things changed. Firstly, the growing importance of the middle classes led many ordinary people to 3 paintings, often of members of their family.
B. to
C. at
D. by
Secondly, artists became interested in showing scenes of 4 life, set in the 5 of ordinary houses, and 6, they began to 7 ordinary people, such as servant girls, as models. Part of the 8 for viewers today concerns the 9 of these models, in masterpieces such as Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Girl with a Pearl Earring 10 the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. In general, very 11 is known about Vermeer. We know his work includes paintings of 12 and mythological themes. He never seems to have been wealthy, perhaps because he produced 13 few paintings. Like Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring appears to be a simple likeness of a woman with an 14 smile, yet 15 contains levels of meanings and questions. 1. A. portrays 2. A. onwards 3. A. commit 4. A. national 5. A. inferior 6. A. hardly
B. portraits
C. photos
D. descriptions D. towards
B. backwards C. upwards
B. commission C. committing D. commissioned B. internal
C. exotic
C. exterior C. recently C. modify C. mystery C. identity C. from C. little
D. domestic D. interiors
D. mostly
B. superior B. consequently
7. A. encourage B. engage 8. A. myth
B. mysterious
D. display
D. mythology D. distinction D. about D. a little D. religionist
9. A. personality B. recognition 10. A. of 11. A. few
B. by B. a few
12. A. religion B. religious
C. religiously
13. A. apparently B. fairly 14. A. enigmatic 15. A. whose
C. moderately D. relatively
C. excited
D. ecstatic
D. what
B. experienced B. which
C. that
☆Unit4
I. Vocabulary
1. An expensive bicycle is a great _____ to thieves. A. temperate
B. temper C. temptation
D. temperature
2. _____ the doctor, she recovered. A. Thanks for
B. Thanks to C. Thanks of
D. Thanks
3. If you are a highly_____ doctor, what _____ do you have? A. qualify; qualification C. quality; qualified
B. qualified; qualification D. qualification; quality
4. Could you _____ your remarks? A. clarify
B. clarification C. clarity
D. clear
5. Operations which left patients _____ and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable. A. injured
B. abandoned C. exhausted
D. deserted
6. Susan _____ her wedding day and saw herself walking down the aisle on her father's arm. Which one is not right? A. visualized
B. conceived
C. projected
D. imagined
7. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland _____ Great Britain. A. constitute
B. are made up of D. are composed of
C. are consist of
8. Everything is interrelated and _____. A. dependent
B. independent C. interdependent D. depending
9. It isn’t always _____ marks we get at university _____ determines what we do as a
career.
A. that; that
B. how; which
C. what; that
D. which; which
10. You’d better _____ about it with your wife before you make any decision. A. refer B. confer C. infer D. defer 11. I read the book so often that it’s _____.
A. falling down B. falling over C. falling apart D. falling in 12. She was _____ form looking after her elderly mother.
A. wearing out B. wearing off C. wearing of D. wearing in 13. Jack’s _____ with personal cleanliness annoys everyone. A. obsess B. obsession C. assess
D. assessment
14. _____ our concern about the environment, there is little that we can do to protect it.
A. For once B. For though C. For all
D. In all
15. The customs people refused to let me through _____ I signed a document they gave me.
A. until B. unless C. while II. Cloze
We live in a world of 1, dazzling change. 2 globalization, national frontiers are 3 around us, while technological 4 are fundamentally reshaping our lives in ways we can 5 comprehend. In the early 21st century, history is moving more and more 6, and things will never be the same again. But it is only our obsession 7 the novelty, ignorance of deeper historical patterns and arrogant 8 on our own importance that lead us into this kind of talk. Hoping to prove our 9 over the generations that 10 us, we 11 that we live in a period of great change. 12 there is a good case that we do not, in fact, live in very interesting times at all. 13 our enthusiasm about the internet and the ipod, D. in