《大学英语精读(1)》在线练习⑦

一、单项选择题

1、I’d like to ()_ this old car with a new model, but I can’t afford it.

A.change

B.replace

C.convert

D.substitute


2、my father can speak three languages () chinese and english.

A.beside

B.besides

C.except

D.except for


3、the audience sits in a circle and the performance() in the centre.

A.takes place

B.is taken place

C.holds

D.is happened


4、the americans and the british not only speak the same language but also ()a large number of social customs.

A.share

B.join

C.take

D.make


5、a question then (   ): what are we going to do when we graduate from the university?

A.raises

B.arouses

C.arises

D.rises


6、Please() that you won’t make such a mistake.

A.make out

B.make in

C.make sure

D.make up


7、Few of us thought that the problem was worth().

A.discuss

B.discussed

C.discussing

D.to discuss


8、Many new () will be opened up in the universities.

A.opportunities

B.realities

C.necessities

D.probabilities


9、Tom told his mother he was going to go over his lessons but() he went to bed.

A.almost

B.actually

C.immediately

D.hardly


10、“Where() the recorder? I can’t see it anywhere.” “I() it right here. But now it’s gone.”

A.did you put; have put

B.have you put; put

C.had you put; was putting

D.were you putting; have put


11、I asked him to() me a few minutes so that we could go over the problems.

A.spend

B.save

C.spare

D.share


12、hardly had julie graduated from university () she got a job in a bank.

A.than

B.while

C.when

D.then


13、Don’t be too() about things you are not supposed to know.

A.strange

B.amusing

C.curious

D.conscious


14、She seems to be too short for a( ).

A.twenty-year old girl

B.girl twenty-year-old

C.twenty-years-old girl

D.girl of twenty


15、The students successfully () the answer to the problem.

A.gave up

B.worked out

C.arrived

D.knew


16、We have studied English for only one year,() we can perform English short play already.

A.for

B.and

C.yet

D.or


17、Bill told me that() live with his roommates again next year.

A.he’d rather not

B.he won’t rather

C.he’ll rather

D.he’d rather didn’t


18、early to bed and early to rise() a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

A.make

B.had made

C.makes

D.will make


19、We haven’t seen the Swans for over a week. They () on a trip abroad.

A.could go

B.must go

C.may have gone

D.would have gone


20、The general ordered that the prisoners of war be put to () immediately.

A.death

B.wound

C.injury

D.damage


21、I carry only enough money to make change for a() bill.

A.tens-dollar

B.ten-dollar

C.ten-dollars

D.tens-dollars


22、(      ), mother will wait for him to have dinner together.

A.However late is he

B.However he is late

C.However is he late

D.However late he is


23、(), the more you are aware of content and meaning.

A.The more words you are familiar to

B.The more words you are familiar with

C.You are familiar to more words

D.You are familiar with more words


24、() himself an ideal job.

A.Nowhere he could find

B.Nowhere could he find

C.He could nowhere find

D.He could find nowhere


25、The room was so quiet that she could hear the() of her heart.

A.hitting

B.beating

C.hurting

D.striking


26、We have studied English for only one year,() we can perform English short plays already.

A.for

B.and

C.yet

D.or


27、You would be () a risk to let your kid go to school by himself.

A.making

B.running

C.affording

D.attaching


28、()is good of you to be constantly thinking of helping me.

A.That

B.This

C.It

D.What


29、Good care must() babies particularly while they are ill.

A.take

B.take of

C.be taken

D.be taken of


30、He was completely () by the thief’s disguise.

A.taken away

B.taken in

C.taken through

D.taken up



二、填空题

31、

day after day, a small blue truck speeds along the streets of funen. a dog sits besides the driver, looking at him as if listening to his orders. whenever the truck goes by, the people of funen turn and stare, some in   1   , others in admiration, for on its sides are printed the words tracker dog and a telephone number.

yes, the passenger in the blue truck is a dog that is used to find lost things or follow the   2   of persons and animals. within seven years, the dog and his owner   anderson have found lost things   3   nearly $ 400,000, among which are watches, jewelry, money, cows, pigs, and   4   dogs. of course, the secret of the dog is his sensitive nose.

each year the dog and anderson   5   700 calls for help. four out of five times they find what they are   6  to look for. whenever the phone rings in andersons’ house, the dog is immediately excited. he quickly runs to the truck,  7   to be off in search of the lost.

8  the way, anderson repeats the names of what they are looking for. so by the time they arrive, the dog is   9   to get to work. he circles here and there until he picks up the smell of an object in a place   10   it doesn’t belong.

1. a. wonder         b. anger         c. row           d. fear

2. a. advice          b. rules          c. tracks        d. feet

3. a. valuable        b. rather than     c. worth         d. like

4. a. wild            b. even like       c. lovely         d. other

5. a. make           b. pay           c. answer       d. refuse

6. a. permitted       b. asked         c. guided        d. willing

7. a. eager          b. afraid          c. nervous       d. ought

8. a. by             b. in             c. on           d. asking

9. a. pleasant        b. ready         c. used          d. ordered

10. a. which          b. that           c. where         d. when


32、

the young engineer sat down on a rock and rested his head in his hands. he would never get home; it was hopeless. for weeks he had been1 in the northwest canadian forest. now there was a terrible pain behind his eyes, and worst of all, he had gone 2.

suddenly a man appeared out of the woods, an indian who had been hunting in the area. seeing the engineer’s  3 , he caught a fish in a nearby stream and fed the sick man the  4 of the fish and some flesh from its head.  5 , within a few hours the engineer’s pain was gone. a day later he could see again, and the next day he had completely  6 .

when he returned home, the engineer told the story to dr. price. not until years later did it become a(n)  7 fact that this was just an everyday lifeguard doing its work, for what the engineer did, by eating fish eyes, was to take his vitamin(维生素).

vitamin a’s biggest job is to keep the eyes  8 . without a, people and animals get night blindness and other eye problems.9 a, people can even be totally blind. a helps to keep the skin in good shape. a also helps with bones and teeth and has something to do with proper   10 of blood cells.


1.a. lose     b. lost       c. losing       d.to lose 

2.a.blind     b.mad       c.changed      d.separated

3.a.starvation    b.situation      c.trouble     d.reality

4.a.tail       b.skin        c.bone        d.eyes

5.a. possibly        b. surprisingly

 c. fortunately      d. immediately

6.a.covered     b.discovered       c.recovered      d.uncovered

7.a.actual      b.accepted         c.solved         d.ordinary

8.a.rolling      b.moving         c.going          d.looking

9.a. for        b. with           c. without       d. about

10.a.growth        b.search        c.choice        d.size


33、

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1. a. see              b. know           c. ask                      d. answer

2. a. answer          b. solution                c. question                  d. problem

3. a. works   b. costs              c. sells                    d. buys

4. a. guarded        b. granted                c. guided                d. guaranteed

5. a. pay             b. send              c. receive             d. buy

6. a. titles            b. summaries        c. names             d. prices

7. a. original     b. first                      c. same                     d. another

8. a. spending         b. costing                 c. taking                   d. sitting

9. a. publicized     b. polished              c. published          d. popularized

10. a. dozen      b. little                 c. handful                 d. couple



三、问答题

34、

governments,media and people around the world have become very worried about something called sudan i (苏丹红1号). this chemical dye,_1_ in many food products, was said to _2_ cancer. newspapers told everyone to be careful and governments pulled this product off supermarket _3_.

    sudan i is a red dye used for _4_ oils, waxes, petrol, shoe and floor polishes(上光剂). scientists have found if used in food, it can _5_ an increased risk of cancer.

    on march 4, beijing’s food safety office said that it found the cancer-causing dye in meiweiyuan chili(红辣椒)sauce in the city. now the _6_, famous us food company heinz, has recalled its chili sauces and chili oils sold in china.

    this follows news of food companies, including mcdonald’s, _7_ some products in britain after finding the dye in them.

    france was the first to _8_ the chemical dye in 2003. since then , foods _9_ sudan i have been banned in the european union.

    _10_ experts say that people who have eaten any of the products should not _11_ too much. the cancer risk from sudan i is very _12_, as only tiny amounts of it are used in foods.

    sudan i was banned from food products because experiments on rats _13_ that it could cause serious tumors(肿瘤).

    but, alan boobies, an expert in london, says there is little _14_ for the public to worry. he said that the levels fed to the rats were in much, much bigger amounts _15_their body size. the amounts in food products eaten by humans are _16_.

    the rats that got tumors were given 30 milligrams of sudan i per kilogram of body weight, every day for two years. animals given half the amount showed no _17_ of cancer.

the tumors only _18_ in the rats after many months. for humans, this means that if the dye were to have any _19_, it would take around 20 years. professor boobis gives a _20_.”it’s just like the cancer risk linked with smoking just one cigarette in a lifetime,” he said.


1. a. stuck                       b. stored                     c. found               d. offered

2. a. produce                         b. cause                     c. make               d. give

3. a. shelves                b. cases                c. storage            d. tables

4. a. gluing                        b. gathering                c. coloring        d. conducting

5. a. allow for                  b. adjust to                 c. call for             d. contribute to

6. a. seller                         b. producer                 c. customer     d. farmer

7. a. breaking up            b. putting out        c. pulling away    d. taking back

8. a. reject                         b. invent                         c. notice                     d. produce

9. a. causing                   b. including                 c. containing              d. using

10. a. but                           b. also                        c. then               d. so

11. a. complain                  b. disagree                 c. worry               d. blame

12. a. high                         b. low                          c. common       d. rare

13. a. guided                         b. guaranteed             c. rated               d. showed

14. a. concern                     b. reason                 c. cause                  d. right

15. a. compared to            b. regardless of          c. used to            d. in spite of

16. a. none                        b. larger             c. tiny                  d. more

17. a. signals                      b. marks                         c. symbols           d. signs

18. a. produced              b. developed                 c. made               d. created

19. a. effect                       b. cause                         c. harm               d. change

20. a. connection            b. perception                  c. recognition      d. comparison



五、翻译题

35、这个新方法会帮助你们解决这个难题。(enable)

 The new method will enable you to solve the difficult problem.


36、他不久就要离开了,但我们还没有找到可以替代他的人。(take the place of)

 He has to leave soon, but we haven’t found anyone who can take the place of him.


37、报纸影响思想潮流。( influence, current)

Newspapers influence the current of thought.


38、老板进来的时候他假装在看一份重要文件。(pretend)

 He pretended to be reading an important paper when the boss entered.


39、警察有责任维护公共秩序和安全。(be responsible for)

the police are responsible for the preservation of public order and security.


40、今年夏天,小男孩和他的父母一起去了乡下。这对他来说将是一次难忘的经历。 (that)

The little boy went to the countryside with his parents this summer. That would be an unforgettable experience for him.


41、我们学校图书馆的书比他们学校的多。

The books in our school library are much more than those in their library.


42、我以前从未听说过那个名字,他一定是新记者。( hear of )

I’ve never heard of that name before, he must be a new reporter.



六、写作题

43、以It Will Be Better (一切都会好起来)为题,写一篇英语短文。

要求:

1、短文分三段:回顾过去、陈述现在、展望未来;

2、内容不限,发挥自己的想象力;

3、不少于80个单词。

It Will Be Better

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