现代大学英语 第四册第一课spring sowing测验题

Quiz One(Book 4)

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bulge detestation integrate contemplate exalt spectacle endow hideous prominent impediment hustle delinquent monologue hypocrisy ruinous I. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the word you choose. (15%)

1.The level of inflation is a serious __________to economic recovery. 2.His son was ________ to a high position in the government through family connections. 3. It is generally agreed that humans are________ with a special inborn capacity for language. 4. Most ________ children have deprived backgrounds.

5. Only in extreme circumstances would European leaders _________this step.

6. As punishment, she transformed him into a _______ beast and placed a spell on everyone in the castle. 7. Morris ignored the question and continued his_________. 8. His eyes seemed to ________ like those of a toad. 9. Here the window plays a ________ part in the design.

10. They left themselves wide open to accusations of double standards and _________. 11. The bishop expressed an utter __________ of rats.

12.John's slight speech __________ made it difficult for his mother to understand him. 13. It seems that he enjoys the ________and bustle of life in the big city. 14. We are trying to _______ production, supply, and sale. 15. The sunrise was a splendid _________.

II. Fill in the blanks with a word, the first letter of which is given, to complete the following sentences.(10%)

1. Man enjoys agreement as cows will g___________ althe same way on the side f a hill.

2. I had better explain that I was a f_________ visitor to the headmaster’s study, because of the latest thing I

had done or left undone.

3. I delighted to c_________ a pious lady who hated the Germans with the proposition that we should love our

ennemies.

4. Political and religious systems, social customs, loyalties and traditions, they all came t__________ down

like so many rotten apples off a tree.

5. If you set out to climb a mountain, h_______ you climb, you have failed if you cannot reach the top.

6. I no longer d________ lightly a mental process which for nine tenths of the population is the nearest they

will ever get to thought.

7. Had the game gone too far? In those prewar days, I s_______ to lose a great deal, for the sake of a hobby. 8. C_______ of the world to my way of thinking might be difficult, since my system did away with a number

of trifles,….

9. I lost Ruth and gained an undeserved reputation as a potential l_________.

10. To hear people j_______ their habit of hunting foxes by claiming that the foxes liked it.

III. Conversion ( 30%)

1) Give the adjective form of the following words.

1.indignation________________ 2. hypocrisy_______________

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3.muscle___________________ 4.reverence______________ 5.contradiction_____________ 6. remorse________________ 7.ruin_____________________ 8.literature________________ 9. prestige__________________ 10. star_________________ 2) Give the noun form of the following words.

1. absorb_________________ 2. modify____________ 3.versatile_____________ 4. contemplate_____________ 5.ignore____________ 6. proficient___________ 7.utter______________ 8. expend_____________ 9. eternal_____________ 10.detect_______________

IV. Put the most appropriate in the blanks (15%)

1.My sister cannot stand ________________.

A. to be kept waited B. to be kept waiting C. being kept waiting D. being keeping waiting

2.Most so8thern states had set up primary school systems by the late eighteen century, but only in New England___________ and open to all students.

A. primary schools were free B. free were primary schools C. were free primary schools D. were primary schools free

3.When Lily was born, we gave Emma a baby doll so that she wouldn’t feel left___________.

A. out B. aside C. behind D. over

4.The retiring professor made important achievements in research and was _______ by his colleagues. A. evaluated B. exalted C. fascinated D. examined

5.The main features of the telegraph were developed by two inventors, but it was Samuel Morse who successfully _________ their ideas.

A. integrated B. publicized C. financed D. conformed

6.Current software or engineering managers cannot afford to_________ behind new technical development before finding themselves hopelessly outdated. A. lag B. retreat C. retard C. linger

7.In judging the degree of his guilt, the question remains whether he acted out of purely_________ motives or thether he acted with thoughts of his own advantage in mind. A. selfish B. generous C. benevolent D. disinterested

8.I began to doubt Donald’s_________as his story got stranger and stranger. A. insanity B. sanity

C. unconsciousness D. consciousness

9.You may have failed the examination,but you can at least ________ yourself with the thought that you did your best.

A. persuade B. assure C. console D. satisfy

10.In the ________ of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, the United States has vowed to rebuild New Orleans and Gulf Coast communities while improving protection against raging storms.

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A. aftermath B. threshold C. termination D. end

11.The Head of State of Canada is represented by__________. A. The Monarch B. the President

C. the Prime Minister D. the Governor General 12 William Butler Yeats was a(n) ________ poet and platwright. A. American B. Canadian C. Irish D. British

13.Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century. A. T.S.Eliot B. D.H.Lawrence C. Theodore Dreiser D. James Joyce

14.The words “kid,child, offspring” are examples of _________. A. dialectal synonyms B. stylistic synonyms

C. emotive synonyms D. collocational synonyms 15.Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.? A. Houston B. Boston

C. Baltimore D. Philadelphia

V. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. (10%).

1. 2. 3. 4.

She was just busy being beautiful.

Mr. Houghton was given to high-minded monologues about the good life, sexless and full of duty. I murmured that if we were counting headas, the Buddhist were the boys for my money. They did not visit my grammar school in the flesh though they were there in books.

VI. Translate the following text into Chinese. (20%)

Many people have played themselves to death, even eaten and drunk themselves to death .Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity— forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into(渗入) the cellar like swamp water（沼泽水）. Many who avoid learning, or abandon it, find that life is drained dry. They spend 30 years in a chair looking glumly（忧郁地） out at the sand and the ocean; on a porch swing waiting for somebody to drive down the road. But that is not how to live.

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