新理念外语网络教学平台第四册Unit1测试答案

the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 was one of the most successful surprise attacks in the history of modern (11)_________________ . Japanese warships, including several aircraft carriers, crossed the western Pacific to Hawaii without being seen. They launched their warplanes on Sunday morning to attack the huge American (12)_________________ and air base.

Many of the American sailors were asleep or at (13)_________________ . They were completely surprised. In fact, some Americans outside the base thought the Japanese planes must be American airmen making training (14)_________________ in new airplanes. The sounds of guns and (15)_________________ soon showed how wrong they were.

The Japanese planes (16)_________________ or seriously damaged six powerful American battleships in just a few minutes. They killed more than three thousand (17)_________________ . They destroyed or damaged half the American airplanes in Hawaii. American forces were so surprised that they were (18)_________________ much of a fight. Japanese losses were very light.

Japan’s destruction at Pearl Harbor was so complete that officials in Washington did not tell the full details immediately to the American people. They were afraid the nation might panic if it learned the truth about the loss of so much (19)_________________ .

The following day, President Roosevelt went to the Capitol building to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Japan. The Senate (20)_________________ without opposition. In the House of Representatives, only one congressman objected.

Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Congress reacted by declaring war on those two countries.

Script: Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 was one of the most successful surprise attacks in the history of modern warfare. Japanese warships, including several aircraft carriers, crossed the western Pacific to Hawaii without being seen. They launched their warplanes on Sunday morning to attack the huge American naval and air base.

Many of the American sailors were asleep or at church. They were completely surprised. In fact, some Americans outside the base thought the Japanese planes must be American airmen making training flights in new airplanes. The sounds of guns and bombs soon showed how wrong they were.

The Japanese planes sank or seriously damaged six powerful American battleships in just a few minutes. They killed more than three thousand sailors. They destroyed or damaged half the American airplanes in Hawaii.

American forces were so surprised that they were unable to offer much of a fight. Japanese losses were very light.

Japan’s destruction at Pearl Harbor was so complete that officials in Washington did not tell the full details immediately to the American people. They were afraid the nation might panic if it learned the truth about the loss of so much American military power.

The following day, President Roosevelt went to the Capitol building to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Japan. The Senate approved his request without opposition. In the House of Representatives, only one congressman objected.

Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Congress reacted by declaring war on those two countries.

正确答案： warfare

正确答案： naval

正确答案： church

正确答案： flights

正确答案： bombs

正确答案： sank

正确答案： sailors

正确答案： unable to offer

正确答案： American military power

正确答案： approved his request

Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Napoleon soon realized he could not feed, clothe, and quarter his army in Moscow during the winter. In October 1812, he ordered his Grand Army to 21 from Moscow.

The French retreat turned into a 22 . From fields and forests, the Russians launched 23 attacks on the French. A short distance from Moscow, the temperature had

already dropped to minus 4 degrees Celsius. On November 3, the winter’s first snow came. 24 horses fell dead in their tracks. Cannon became 25 in the snow. Equipment had to be burned for fuel. Soldiers took ill and froze to death. The French soldiers 26 , leaving the dead along every mile.

As the Russian army was gathering its strength, the French had to flee Russia to avoid certain defeat. At the Berezina River, the Russians nearly 27 the retreating French by burning the bridges over the swollen river. But Napoleon, by a 28 of luck, was able to build two new bridges. Thousands of French soldiers escaped, but 29 of fifty thousand dead. Once across the Berezina, the tattered survivors 30 toward Vilna.

A) equipment B) Exhausted C) Tiring D) dragged on E) retreat F) hit-and-run G) nightmare H) trapped I) flee J) at the cost K) strength L) limped M) stroke N) stuck O) escaped

21. ______________________

正确答案： E

22. ______________________

正确答案： G

23. ______________________

正确答案： F

24. ______________________

正确答案： B

25. ______________________

正确答案： N

26. ______________________

正确答案： D

27. ______________________

正确答案： H

28. ______________________

正确答案： M

29. ______________________

正确答案： J

30. ______________________

正确答案： L

Section B

Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.

Passage One

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

We are all inclined to believe that our generation is more civilized than the generation that preceded ours. From time to time, there is even some substantial evidence that we hold in higher regard such civilized attributes as compassion, pity, remorse (懊悔), intelligence and a respect for the customs of people different from ourselves. Why war then?

Some pessimistic historians think the whole society of man runs in cycles and that one of the phases is war. The optimists, on the other hand, think war is not like an eclipse (日食) or a flood or a spell of bad weather. They believe that it is more like a disease for which a cure could be found if the causes were known.

Because war is the ultimate drama of life and death stories and pictures of it are more interesting than those about peace. This is so true that all of us, and perhaps those of us in television more than most, are often caught up in the action of war to the exclusion of the ideas of it.

If it is true, as we would like to think it is, that our age is more civilized than ages past, we must all agree that it’s very strange that in the twentieth century, our century, we have killed more than 70 million of our fellowmen on purpose, at war. It is very strange that since 1900 more men have killed more other men than in any other seventy years in history.

Probably the reason we are able to do both, that is, believe on the one hand that we are more civilized and on the other hand wage war to kill ― is that killing is not so personal an affair as it once was. The enemy is invisible. One man doesn’t look another in the eye and run him through with a sword. The enemy dead or alive is largely unseen. He is killed by remote control: a loud noise, a distant puff of smoke and then silence.