Unit 1 Changes in the Way We Live

Test 1

1、单选题:
Toronto residents are already wary of going to restaurants, ridership has dropped on public ______, and industry watchers say the decline in tourism has been devastating.‎
选项:
A: transit
B: rendezvous
C: gratitude
D: territory
答案: 【 transit

2、单选题:
In the late 1940s, experimenting with high-frequency radio waves, Percy L. Spencer of the Raytheon Company soon invented the microwave ______, which made millions of dollars for Raytheon and millions of bags of popcorn for kids everywhere.‎
选项:
A: bomb
B: prospect
C: stove
D: oven
答案: 【 oven

3、单选题:
Monkeys swing between the trees on ______.‌
选项:
A: sleeves
B: laces
C: vines
D: antennas
答案: 【 vines

4、单选题:
The page had so many corrections and comments on it that the original text was virtually ______.​
选项:
A: unloaded
B: unreadable
C: unpredictable
D: undone
答案: 【 unreadable

5、单选题:
Anyone who has handled a fossilized bone knows that it is usually not exactly like its modern _____, the most obvious difference being that it is much heavier.​
选项:
A: replacement
B: alternative
C: counterpart
D: substitution
答案: 【 counterpart

6、单选题:
Now the cheers and applause _____ in a single sustained roar.‌
选项:
A: mingled
B: concentrated
C: assembled
D: permeated
答案: 【 mingled

7、单选题:
The illustrations for the book were drawn by a _____ artist.‌
选项:
A: monster
B: long-overdue
C: flourishing
D: freelance
答案: 【 freelance

8、单选题:
The massive _____ readership, the almost free publication, and the ease in putting words online, combined, mean that literary magazines, which are practically profit-free in printed form, are blooming across the Web.‏
选项:
A: potential
B: rotary
C: patronize
D: dizzy
答案: 【 potential

9、单选题:
The team are ten points ahead of their closest _____ in the league.‌
选项:
A: enemies
B: fugitives
C: watchmen
D: pursuers
答案: 【 pursuers

10、单选题:
The scientists have absolute freedom as to what research they think is best to _____.‎
选项:
A: engage
B: devote
C: seek
D: pursue
答案: 【 pursue

11、单选题:
By _____ computation, he estimated that the repairs on the house would cost him a thousand dollars.‏
选项:
A: coarse
B: rude
C: crude
D: rough
答案: 【 rough

12、单选题:
Young people are not _____ to stand and look at works of art; they want art they can participate in.‍
选项:
A: conservative
B: content
C: confident
D: generous
答案: 【 content

13、单选题:
He _________ his lessons about Italy with photographs of the people who live there.‍
选项:
A: illustrated
B: cited
C: quoted
D: explained
答案: 【 illustrated

14、单选题:
What she told me about the affair simply doesn't make any ________.​
选项:
A: idea
B: sense
C: meaning
D: significance
答案: 【 sense

15、单选题:
________ the dog was the first animal to be domesticated is generally agreed upon by authorities in the field.​
选项:
A: Until
B: It was
C: What
D: That
答案: 【 That

16、单选题:
Most parents encourage their children to take an active part in social events, _______ those events do not interfere with their studies.‎
选项:
A: so that
B: lest
C: unless
D: provided
答案: 【 provided

17、单选题:
____________, if he doesn't learn he knows nothing.​
选项:
A: A man is ever so clever
B: Be a man ever so clever
C: So clever as a man ever is
D: No matter how a man is clever
答案: 【 Be a man ever so clever

18、单选题:
Luck is on investigators' minds, too. With scant (不足的) leads, _______ of previous serial-killer manhunts (追捕) say police may have to wait to get lucky.‍
选项:
A: veterans
B: suspects
C: dwellers
D: friskers
答案: 【 veterans

19、单选题:
Pfizer's (美国辉瑞公司的) patent in China, which is valid until 2014, could bar _______ producers from a market worth around 200 billion Yuan.​
选项:
A: vulnerable
B: domestic
C: diligent
D: pessimistic
答案: 【 domestic

20、单选题:
He is serving a 13-year _______ sentence for smuggling explosives.‏
选项:
A: salvation
B: jail
C: civil
D: whip
答案: 【 jail

21、单选题:
"The electronics giant Philips is working on technology that will ______ the next generation of mobile phones into miniature video stores and music libraries," Britain's i New Scientisti0  says in last Saturday issue.‍
选项:
A: transform
B: endure
C: heave
D: disguise
答案: 【 transform

22、单选题:
Because the road was being repaired, barriers were ______ to prevent people from driving in that area.‏
选项:
A: played up
B: closed up
C: put up
D: picked up
答案: 【 put up

23、单选题:
This scandal was all the more alarming because the companies involved in were mostly trusted ______ names and the perpetrators were their top executives.​
选项:
A: entertainment
B: household
C: vulnerable
D: nasty
答案: 【 household

24、单选题:
In the busy holiday season, extra buses are provided to ______ the existing service.‏
选项:
A: complement
B: compliment
C: supplement
D: implement
答案: 【 supplement

25、单选题:
The map was drawn to the standard _________ of 1 to a million, so there was not much detail.‎
选项:
A: ratio
B: scale
C: percentage
D: rate
答案: 【 scale

26、单选题:
Strictly speaking, there should be a clear ________ between dictionaries and encyclopedias.‍
选项:
A: boundary
B: limit
C: edge
D: limitation
答案: 【 boundary

27、单选题:
The government’s new program will _______ a lot of new jobs for the local residents.‍
选项:
A: lead
B: result
C: generate
D: gender
答案: 【 generate

28、单选题:
Dr. Welson’s wealth enabled him to ______ his passionate interest in art.‏
选项:
A: pursue
B: appreciate
C: conclude
D: encounter
答案: 【 pursue

29、单选题:
Steel is an alloy (合金) composed _____ of iron and carbon.‏
选项:
A: primarily
B: traditionally
C: carefully
D: partially
答案: 【 primarily

30、单选题:
We are taught that a business letter should be written in a formal style _____ in a personal one.‌
选项:
A: rather than
B: other than
C: better than
D: less than
答案: 【 rather than

Unit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes

Test 2

1、单选题:
They shouldn't take a risk of reaching the apples on the ______ branches.‏
选项:
A: humble
B: topmost
C: reverse
D: successive
答案: 【 topmost

2、单选题:
Without heating it's impossible for people to live in a(n) ______ apartment in the winter of North America.‏
选项:
A: frozen
B: snowing
C: balding
D: icy
答案: 【 icy

3、单选题:
Economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, which has been built on a consolidated foundation, still has _____ for further development and diversification.‏
选项:
A: evolution
B: compromise
C: contentment
D: potential
答案: 【 potential

4、单选题:
"We are convinced that ef

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