Ships_in_the_Desert_补充练习

Ships in the Desert

Ⅰ. Choose the best words to complete the sentences.

1. This thought ___A____ their objections. A. underlied 说明解释 B. processed

C. scattered 散开 D. slipped

2. She wore a dress that ___B__ her stomach. A. pointed

B. revealed 揭露透露显示 C. burned D. chart

3. The boiling water ___D____ the glass. A. crashed B. stretched C. changed D. cracked

4. The patient showed signs of ____A____. A. distress 痛苦悲伤 B. layers

C. atmosphere D. slab

5. The trade union ___C____a new contract with the owner. A. monitored B. absorbed C. negotiated D. comprehend

6. The bank required collateral to __B_____ the loan agreement. A. adjust B. ecure C. reserved D. shimmered

7. The film will soon be ___C____. A. threatened B. understood C. released D. shimmered

8. The noise outside __A_____ my attention.

A. distracts B. transforms C. resists D. changes

9. The amount of rain ___C____ the growth of crops. A. influenced B. effected C. affected D. impacted

10. He _____D__ several important changes. A. emerged B. submerged C. restrained D. effected

11. Scientists ___B____ that there is no animal life on the Mars. A. present B. assume C. assess D. require

12. This is a fact even our enemies have to ____D___. A. hold B. leapfrog C. complicate D. acknowledge

13. He tried to __B_____ his anger. A. disarm B. restrain C. pose D. include

14. I have got ___A____ in the quarrel between Tom and Jack. A. involved B. inspired C. concluded D. accomplished

15. An airliner ___C____ west of the city last night. A. arose B. landed C. crashed D. dropped

16. I saw a clearly D__ shape outside the window in a flash of light. A. developed B. accelerated C. viewed D. defined

17. The milk _D_ over the table. A. distributed B. reshaped C. lasted D. spilled

18. Can't you guess the meaning of the word from the ____C___? A. environment B. atmosphere C. context D. relationship

19. The children were thin and badly in need of ___B_____. A. precedents

B. sustenance食物营养养料 C. species D. regulation

20. This microscope has a ___A_____ of eight. A. magnification B. acceleration C. transformation D. collision

Ⅲ. Fill in the blank with the following phrases and make changes if necessary.oa good catch, at best, at rest, at stake, in time to, blot out, comparable to, in nature, in progress, in the process, in turn, present … with, reserve for, taken together, to the point 1. Nothing is :

comparable to her beauty. 2. The mist came down and 3. He is blotted out the view a good catch 如意郎君，条件就是好 for some young woman.

in progress 进行 .

in the process 在4. Our work is now 5. I told Frank and he in turn told Sheila.

6. They are trying to extend the range of goods they sell and, 此过程中 to appeal to a new type of customer.

7. The company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and hundreds of jobs are at stake . 8. These seats are reserved for 保留 old and sick people.

9. Our class _presented___the school with____a clock.

10. We can’t get home before nine o’clock at best 11. The machine is at 至多充其量 .

rest 静止不动安息

准时 the music.

12. The audience clapped in time to 13. The temperature rose to the point that the firemen had to leave from building. 14. taken together Taken together

（=taking all the factors into consideration =considering all

=一并考虑） , these measures should create a lot of new jobs.

15. The two things are the same in outward form but different in nature . Ⅳ. Text comprehension:

1. By saying “It wasn’t a good day,” the author meant ___D___. A. there wasn’t any fish B. the weather was not good C. they were not feeling good

D. it’s impossible to have a good catch of fish

2. In order to search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis, the author has been to _____D___. A. the equator B. the North pole C. the South pole D. all the above

3. According to the author, _____C__ is the worst among the following problems. A. acid rain

B. large oil spills C. global warming

D. the contamination of underground aquifers

4. The eventual solution to the arms race exists in ___D____. A. disarmament of one side

B. a new deployment of forces on either side

C. some ultimate weapon owned by one side or another

D. new understanding and a mutual transformation of relationship itself

5. From this text we learned the best way to settle the environmental crisis is to _C_____. A. return to nature B. stop deforestation

C. educate people about environment D. reduce our power to affect the world

Ⅴ. Write T for a true statement and F for a false statement, according to the text.

1. The core sample dug from the glacier showed that a small reduction in one country’s emissions had changed the amount of pollution found in the Antarctic. 2. The industrial revolution early in the 19th century accelerated the global warming.

3. There are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than in all Americas. 4. In high northern latitude, you can sometimes see a strange kind of cloud high in the sky, if the sky is clear after sunset.

5. All the water pollution, air pollution, and illegal waste dumping are essentially local in nature. 6. Human civilization is now the main cause of change in the global environment. 7. The 20th century has witnessed two key factors that define the physical reality of our relationship to the earth are: a sudden and starling surge in human population and a sudden acceleration of the scientific and technological revolution. 8. The startling images of environmental destruction now occurring all over the world have so much in common that they do not shock and awake us any more. 9. The problem of the unclear arms race is primarily caused by technology.

10. The key changes in the transformation of the way we relate to the earth involve more new technologies than new ways of thinking about the relationship itself. Ⅵ. Point out the right rhetorical device for the following used in the text.

1. … but as I looked out over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. 2. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-foodbeef: 3. What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky? 4. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn’t it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? 5. And in our own time we have reshaped a large part of the earth’s face with concrete in our cities …

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1-1: / 答案:A 1-2: / 答案:B 1-3: / 答案:D 1-4: / 答案:A 1-5: / 答案:C 1-6: / 答案:B 1-7: / 答案:C 1-8: / 答案:A 1-9: / 答案:C 1-10: / 答案:D 1-11: / 答案:B 1-12: / 答案:D 1-13: / 答案:B 1-14: / 答案:A 1-15: / 答案:C

1-16: / 答案:D 1-17: / 答案:D 1-18: / 答案:C 1-19: / 答案:B 1-20: / 答案:A 2-1: /

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答案:in nature 4-1: / 答案:D 4-2: / 答案:D 4-3: / 答案:C 4-4: / 答案:D 4-5: / 答案:C 5-1: / 答案:T 5-2: / 答案:F 5-3: / 答案:F 5-4: / 答案:T

5-5: / 答案:F 5-6: / 答案:T 5-7: / 答案:T 5-8: / 答案:T 5-9: / 答案:F 5-10: / 答案:F 6-1: /

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