2014级单元测试 (B)（Unit1-Unit2）
Ⅰ. Multiple Choices (每题0.5分，共25分)
1. Your works will ________, but try to improve it.
A. get ahead B. get by C. get through D. get across 2. We ________ that he was lost, even before we were told.
A. suspected B. suspended C. sustained D. doubted 3. It was ________ of you to torment the homeless.
A. ill B. evil C. bad D. wicked
4. ________, it’s probably not advisable to change the company’s name.
A. In the balance B. On balance C. On the balance D. In balance 5. Can you ________ how the heart sends blood around the body?
A. explain B. demonstrate C. illustrate D. display 6. Please ________ up the dishes in the cupboard.
A. stock B. stake C. stack D. stalk 7. Who will ________ the export department?
A. overhear B. overlook C. overflow D. oversee 8. He does odd jobs to ________ his income.
A. add up B. complete C. supplement D. remedy
9. They suspected that an explosive ________ had been left somewhere inside the building.
A. device B. instrument C. implement D. tool 10. He makes a big ________ from selling waste material to textile companies. A. advantage B. profit C. benefit D. interest 11. The kids can’t resist the ________ of McDonald’s.
A. attraction B. tempting C. assistance D. temptation 12. We do deal with paintings here, but this is ________ a furniture shop.
A. primitively B. previously C. primarily D. profoundly 13. It is healthier to release ________ than to bottle it up. A.frustration B. frustrated
C. administration D. administrated
14. I forgot to return those books. Now they are ________ and I shall have to pay a fine. A. long due
B. long past
C. overdue
D. over past
15. A massive car bomb ________ the police headquarters. A. blew
B. blasted
C. gazed
D. swept
16. We must harness the rivers which ________ annually. A. famine
B. disaster
C. overlap
D. overflow
17. The problem with spam is that it tends to ________ desirable e-mail.
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A. swamp B. flood D. overrun D. damp
18. The rich food doesn’t ________ easily. A. consume B. resume
C. digest
D. regress
19. The scientist has spent six months in the ________ of the Antarctic. A. solitudes
B. attitudes
C. altitude
D. Solidity
20. His investment had disastrous ________: he lost everything he owned.
A. effects B. outcome C. subsequences D. consequences
21. These cars have the fuel efficiency, reliability and space to get you through your daily ________ with ease.
A. communication B. commute C. community D. commitment 22. I’m not sure that these new shoes really ________ these trousers. A. get by B. get along C. go after D. go with 23. Stop looking for the perfect job--it’s just a ________. A. fancy B. vision C. fantasy D. imagination
24. It doesn’t make ________ to buy that expensive watch when the cheaper ones are just as good.
A. meaning B. awareness C. sense D. significance
25. She ________ in horror as she saw a school bus spun out of control. A. gasped B. yelled C. sighed D. exclaimed 26. Do you think he’ll ________ a cook wearing that hat?
A. be passed as B. pass on C. be passed for D. pass for
27. Because of the mad cow disease, the EU ________ a worldwide ban on British beef product exports.
A. challenged B. charged C. forged D. imposed
28. The company seems to ________ not creating too much excitement around it. A. be intent on B. intent on C. be intend on D. intend on 29. The police are ________ the criminal.
A. closing on B. closing in on C. closing on in D. closing in
30. He works in a school and translates some English documents for a company ________.
A. on the side B. by the side C. by side D. on side
31. ________ my parents, I’m still a kid though I’m in my thirties.
A. In eye of B. In the eyes of C. In the eye of D. In eyes of
32. When she was a little girl, her father often led her around some ________ sites and told her many stories about things that had happened many years ago. A. historical B. historic C. conventional D. traditional 33. Some delegates were immediately sent to Israel. Their ________ was to negotiate a ceasefire. A. missile B. assignment C. obligation D. mission 34. The principal ________ all secret societies for the reason of security. A. perished B. extinguished C. cancelled D. abolished
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35. Short-sighted people often ________ at others when they are wearing no glasses. A. stare B. peer C. gaze D. look
36. A different experience of the world could ________ a completely different approach to life.
A. liberate B. motivate C. abolish D. forge
37. The first ________ of the journey was by boat to Lake Naivasha in Kenya A. log B. lag C.lug D. leg
38. The president has ________ his foreign minister to act as representative to that conference.
A. granted B. authorized C. confided D. abolished 39. He often went out in ________ to avoid the ever-present journalists. A. dark B. disgust C. disguise D. capture
40. According a recent survey, many people say they may be ________ to consider buying products shown in TV commercials
A. compelled B. motivated C. spotted D. estimated
41. Our parents work hard to support us so as to make us a knowledgeable person! We should not ________ them ________.
A. let…down B. let… off C. put…down D. take…down 42. She holds deep religious ________.
A. convicts B. convey C. conversion D. convictions
43. It can be hard for even a trained doctor to ________ the symptoms of lung cancer. A. spit B. spot C. bundle D. bid
44. In the past, poor children were frequently ________ to work from an early age. A. compelled B. forged C. captured D. taken 45. He sometimes felt his boss was trying to ________ him ________.
A. push…around
B. push…by
C. push…forward
D. push…over
D. supposed
46. Most of the local residents ________ the closing of their hospital. A. disposed B. opposed C. proposed
47. All three children have ________ in our family — they are all treated in the same way. A. equalization B. equalizer C. equality D. equability 48. The October Revolution ________ a new era in the history of mankind. A. ushered into B. ushered in C. pushed into D. pushed in 49. The police ________ several suspects for questioning. A. attained B. contained C. detained
D. sustained
D. allotment
50.All she was interested in was the ________ of her own career. A. achievement B. adjustment C. advancement
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Ⅱ. Cloze (每空1分，共15分)
Yet this stop was only part of a much larger ___1___ for me. Josiah Henson is ___2___ one name on a long ___3___ of courageous men and women who together ___4___ the Underground Railroad, a secret___5___ of escape ___6___ and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South. Between 1820 and 1860, as ___7___ as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.
In October 2000, President Clinton ___8___ $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to ___9___ this first great civil-rights struggle in the U.S. The center is ___10___ to open in 2004 in Cincinnati. And it’s ___11___ time. For the heroes of the Underground Railroad ___12___ too little remembered, their ___13___ still largely ___14___. I was ___15___ on telling their stories.
1. mission 2. but 3. list 4. forged 5. web 6. routes 7. many 8. authorized 9. honor 10. scheduled 11. about 12. remain 13. exploits 14. unsung 15. intent
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