14 we simply do not live in an age of great technological change. Most of the technologies we use everyday 15 invented decades ago. 1. A. original 2. A. lead to
B. exceptional B. according to
C. casual C. thanks to
D. unprecedented D. thanks for
3. A. collapsing B. attacking 4. A. inventions B. evolutions 5. A. almost 6. A. quickly 7. A. to
B. barely
C. crashing D. bursting C. innovations D. designs C. virtually D. merely C. quick C. at
D. slow D. for D. obstinacy
B. slowly
B. with
8. A. persistence 9. A. inferior
B. consistence B. inferiority
C. insistence
C. superiority D. superior C. preceding C. presume C. And
D. following D. declaim D. That D. Whether
10. A. preceded B. followed 11. A. criticize B. boast 12. A. So
B. Yet
13. A. Although B. Even if 14. A. in fact 15. A. are
☆Unit 5
C. For all
B. basically B. have
C. for now D. meanwhile C. were
D. will be
I. Vocabulary
1. She is a /an _____ young woman, who is always very good company. A. agreeable B. cute C. cruel D. doubtful 2. The official_____ discontented the people.
A. eruption B. disruption C. corruption
D. corrupt
3. Most adults do not feel _____ to deal with a medical emergency involving a child. A. competent B. compete C. competitive D. competing 4. I had to _____ all my courage to face my boss.
A. summon on B. summon in C. summon up D. summon 5. I can hardly _____ from excitement at the thought that I will reunite with my parents soon.
A. stop B. prevent C. refrain D. release
6. They have shown _____ interest in this issue and the _____ of their feelings surprises me. A. intense intensity
B. intensity intensive D. intensity intense
C. intensify intensity
7. I hear that you are _____ a management post.
A. voting for B. running for C. going for
D. taking for
8. He urged me to diversify and not to keep all my money in one _____ type. A. invest
B. investment C. invested
D. investor
9. The _____ admits of no other interpretation.
A. contact B. contract C. conduct 10. How many of the online bookstores offer free _____? A. deliver B. delivery C. delivering
D. discovery D. contradict
11. Many people regard him as a likely _____ to the current managing director. A. successive B success C. succeed
D. successor
12. The same factors push wages and prices up together, the one _____ the other. A. emphasizing
B. reinforcing C. multiplying
D. increasing
13. We hoped that common sense would _____.
A. in fashion B. overwhelm C. prevail 14. “I’d rather not dwell _____ the past,” he told me. A. up B. in C. with
D. on D. prevailing
15. Agriculture was a step in human progress _____ which subsequently there was not anything comparable until our own machine age. A. in II. Cloze
A 1 of people in our world live in societies in 2 the interests of the individual 3 over the interests of the group, societies which I will call 4. In these, most children are born into families 5 of two parents and possibly, other children; in some societies there is a/an 6 share of one-parent families. Other relatives live 7 and are rarely seen. This type is the nuclear family. Children from such families, as they grow up, soon learn to think of 8 as “I”. This “I”, their personal 9, is distinct from other people’s “I”s, and these others are not 10 according to their group membership but to 11 characteristics. Playmates, for example, are chosen on the basis of personal 12. The purpose of education is to enable the child to stand 13 its own feet. The child is expected to leave parental home 14 this has been achieved. Not frequently, children, after having left home, reduce relationships with their parents to a 15 or break them off altogether.
1. A. majority B. minority 2. A. that 3. A. beat
B. what
C. portion C. whose
D. part
D. which D. outweigh
B. for
C.from
D. to
B. improve C. prevail
4. A. individualist B. collectivist 5. A. consist
B. consisted
C. communist D. socialist C. consisting
D. consists
6. A. decreasing B. intense 7. A. somewhere 8. A. itself 9. A. nature
B. nowhere
C. uneven D. increasing
C. everywhere D. elsewhere
D. himself
D. temperament
B. themselves C. oneself B. identity C. character
C. compared 10. A. supervised B. classified D. declared 11. A. collective B. general
C. individual
12. A. interests B. preference C. backgrounds 13. A. on
B. in
C. by
14. A. only if B. before C. as soon as 15. A. medium B. maximum
C. middling
Unit1
I. Vocabulary
1-5 CDDAC 6-10 DCBBD11-15 DBBBC II. Cloze CDABC CADDB DACDB
Unit2
I. Vocabulary
1-5 BACDB 6-10 CBDAC 11-15 BBACD II. Cloze
CBACD BAABD BDACD
Unit3
I. Vocabulary
1-5 BAACB 6-10 ACBBA 11-15 BBCBD II. Cloze
BABDD BBCCB CBDAB
Unit4
I. Vocabulary
1-5CBBAC 6-10 BACCB 11-15 CABCB II. Cloze
DCACB ABCCA BBCDC
D. common D. values D. with D. as long as D. minimum
Unit5
I. Vocabulary
1-5 ACACC 6-10 ABBBB 11-15 DBCDD II. Cloze
BDCAC DDBBB CBACD