英语练习Part I Grammar and vocabulary1．I'm not sure whether China will win most medals in the 2012 Olympic Games, but it is certain that the world will have better understanding of China afterwards．A．the；不填B．不填；the C．the；the D．the；a 2．—This book written by Tony Garrison is of great use for our course．—But I think his latest one is worth reading．A．better B．more C．most D．very3．—Do you regret paying five hundred dollars for the painting?—No，I would gladly have paid for it!A．twice so much B．twice as much C．as much twice D．so much twice 4．—be in the library this afternoon?—No．Very likely I'll be at home all day．A．Do you likely to B．Will you likely toC．Are you likely to D．Do you like to5．Isn't it a good idea for us to some money each month to purchase a car like Mr. Brown ?A．keep in B．set aside C．take out D．make up6．—Do you think John is coming to attend the lecture?—Sure．I have___________ him to．A．promised B．suggested C．persuaded D．supposed7．The doctors said that few patients，________，could come back to normal after getting this disease．A．if some B．if any C．if have D．if has8. He often thinks of ___ he can do more for his country.A. whatB. howC. thatD. which9．We must believe that each one of us is able to do something well，________ ，when we discover what this something is，we must work hard at it until we succeed．A．for which B．and which C．so that D．and that 10．If law and order not sound in a country，neither the citizen nor his property is safe.A．are B．were C．was D．is11．—Why do you look so worried?—My computer broke down and my essay since．A．was left to finish B．has left to finishC．has been left unfinished D．had been left unfinished 12．It was getting dark when we were still halfway．，we almost ran out of gas.A．To make matters worse B．Making matters worseC．To make thing worse D．Making thing worse13．—he come to see you as he promised?—Of course．And I'd rather he me the truthA．Can；cover B．Will；inform C．Shall；told D．Should；would tell14．some teenagers don't realize is difficult life can be after they get addicted to drugs．A．What；how B．That；how C．What；what a D．That；what 15．—0K，$500，but that is my last offer．—A．Good idea! B．What did you say?C．Oh，it's up to you．D．OK．it's a deal．16. Many boarders in our school ___ last Thursday that the air-conditioners be allowed to sue since it was still very hot in September.A. mentionedB. urgedC. refutedD. hoped17. Because of not being able to ___ everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown.A. point outB. work outC. cope withD. cling to18. An old saying goes that no bread eaten by man is as sweet as ___ earned by his own labor.A. oneB. thatC. itD. such19. She stopped to help the boy ___.A. although being in a hurryB. although he was in a hurryC. although been in a hurryD. although in a hurry20. Please excuse ___ in without ___, but I do have something urgent.A. to have come ... askingB. my coming ... askingC. to come ... being askedD. me coming ... being asked21. Her fluency in English gave her an advantage ___ other girls when she applied for the job.A. thanB. inC. ofD. over22-- Where did you have a dancing party yesterday?-- It was in the hall ___ we used to have dinner.A. thatB. whichC. whereD. at which23. Only ___ to have escaped being fined by the policeman.A. did some of the drivers seemB. some of the drivers seemedC. did seem some of the driversD. seemed some of the drivers24. He may be late, ___ we ought to wait for him.A. of that caseB. under which caseC. in which caseD. for that case25. ___ in his wild imagination, he knew nothing of time. Which word is NOT PROPER here?A. InvolvedB. LostC. AbsorbedD. Interested26. Modern scientific inventions have ___ many words ___ the language.A. exported, toB. introduced, intoC. borrowed, fromD. imported, into27. It was a matter of ___ would take the position.A. whoB. whoeverC. whomD. whomever28. I read about it in some book or other. Does it matter ___ it was?A. whereB. whatC. howD. which29. The other day, my brother drove his car down the street at ___ I thought was a dangerous speed.A. asB. whichC. whatD. that30. Advertising is different from other forms of communication ___ the adviser pays for the message to be delivered.A. in thatB. in whichC. so thatD. now thatPart II(A)Officials at Boston College have made what may be a critical decision: they’ve stopped 26___________ (give) out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students 27_____________(establish)digital identities by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being used, but, instead, the college will offer forwarding (转发) services.Starting next year, freshman enrolled at Boston College won’t be given 28______ actual email account complete with login and inbox, just an email address. This address, in the format of johnsmith@bc. edu will simply forward mail to the studen t’s already established inbox, be it Gmail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, or 29______________ else they may be using.The college reached a smart decision after first looking 30___________ outsourcing（外包）their email to the cloud. While the Boston College decision may have been made for cost-saving reasons more than anything, we can easily imagine this as being the start of a new trend.Can you even imagine a U.S. college student who didn’t have an email address of their own by the time they were a f reshman? It’s practically unheard of. Today’s students are digital natives immersed (浸润) in technology from the day they were born. It simply doesn’t make sense 31___________ (give) them yet another account to manage when they enter college.By going this route, there are still some challenges 32___________ (overcome), though. For example, a student who changes their email carrier will probably forget to alert the institution to the change and could then miss out on significant messages from the university with regard to their courses, scholarship, safety information, etc.In the end, we think the decision Boston College made 33___________ easily be the start of a new trend. We’re sure the students like it, too.(B)Getting kids to share their toys is a never-ending battle, and forcing them to do so never seems to help. New research suggests that allowing children to make a choice to ___34___ their own toys in order to share with someone else makes them share more in the future. The new findings are published in Psychological Science.These experiments were ___35___ by psychological scientists, Nadia Chernyak and Tamar Kushnir of Cornell University. They found that sharing things with otherswhen they are given a difficult choice leads children to ___36___ themselves as people who like to share. It also makes them more ___37___ to act in a pro-social （亲社会的）manner in the future.Previous research has explained why rewarding children for sharing can backfire. Children come to think of themselves as people who don't like to share since they had to be ___38___ for doing so. Because they don't view themselves as "sharers" they are less likely to share in the future.Chernyak and Kushnir were interested in finding out whether ___39___ chosen sacrifice might have the opposite effect on kids' ___40___ to share. To test this, the researchers introduced five-year-old children to Doggie, a sad puppet. Some of the children were given a difficult choice: Share a ___41___ sticker with Doggie, or keep it for themselves. Other children were given an easy choice between sharing and putting the sticker away, while children in a third group were required by the researcher to share.Later on, all the children were introduced to Ellie, another sad puppet. They were given the option of how many stickers to share (up to three). The kids who earlier made the difficult choice to help Doggie shared more stickers with Ellie. The children who were ___42___ faced with an easy choice or who were required to give their sticker to Doggie, on the other hand, shared fewer stickers with Ellie. Therefore, children did not benefit from simply giving something up, but rather from willingly choosing to give something up of value.“You might imagine that making difficult, costly choices is taxing for young children or even that once children share, they don’t feel the need to do so again,” Chernyak says. “But this wasn't the case: once children made a difficult decision to give up something for someone else, they were more ___43___, not less, later on.”Chernyak concludes.(C)Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves am azingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircrafts cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars 44______________(produce) which go even faster and each new computer boasts of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.All this saves time, but at a price. 45______________ we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known 46______________ jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, 47______________（spend）too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may send harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think 48______________.However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activities that we find 49__________ difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone 50___________ we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, lettingimagination take us into another world.There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much 51____________we might envy a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive (原古的) existence.Part III clozeWe come by business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s store. 36 we worked and watched, we learned that work was about more than 37 and making a sale.One lesson stands out in my 38 . It was shortly before Christmas. I was in eighth grade and was working evenings, straightening the toy section. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was ____39___ a brown torn coat with dirty sleeves. His shoes were scuffed and his one shoelace was torn. The little boy looked poor to me — too poor to 40 to buy anything. He looked 41 the toy section, picked up this item and 42 , and carefully put them 43 in their place.Dad came down the stairs and walked over to the boy. His steel blue eyes 44 and the dimple（酒窝）in his cheek stood out as he asked the boy what he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas 45 to buy his brother. I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same respect as any adult. Dad told him to take his 46 and look around. He did.After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy 47 , walked up to my dad and said, “How much for this, Mister?”“How much you got?” Dad asked.The little boy held out his hand and 48 it. His hand was creased(起皱) with 49 lines of dirt from clutching（紧抓）his 50 . In his hand 51 two dimes, a nickel and two pennies—27 cents. The price on the toy plane he’d picked out was $3.98.“That’ll just about 52 it,” Dad said as he53 the sal e. Dad’s reply still54 in my ears. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn’t notice the dirty, worn coat or the single torn shoelace. What I saw was a happy child with a 55 .36. A. Because B. Since C. As D. After37. A. survival B. labor C. hardship D. entertainment38. A. way B. mind C. life D. time39. A. putting on B. dressing C. having D. wearing40. A. try B. attempt C. afford D. manage41. A. for B. around C. up D. over42. A. that B. one C. it D. this43. A. up B. away C. back D. off44. A. opened B. smiled C. shone D. looked45. A. tree B. card C. present D. cake46. A. effort B. word C. time D. courage47. A. car B. gift C. plane D. section48. A. showed B. opened C. gave D. turned49. A. long B. straight C. wet D. main50. A. toy B. pocket C. hand D. money51. A. lay B. had C. held D. laid52. A. work B. cover C. need D. take53. A. took B. returned C. close D. offered54. A. rings B. stays C. remains D. gets55. A. bag B. treasure C. package D. thingPart IV readingApple’s iPhone may be big news, but in Silicon valley all eyes are on Facebook. The all-ages private Internet club that began as a college student hangout has become the tech industry’s hottest ticket.Facebook’s membership among the early adopters who are first to get hold of new technology trends has skyrocketed in recent weeks, sparking a minor backlash among kids who find it “unpleasant” that adults are flooding to their site.The Palo Alto-based company , founded in 2004 as a social site for students at Harvard by then-graduate Mark Zucherberg, has seen usage spike (峰值) by allowing hundreds of software makers to build programs for the site.Indeed, Venture capitalists are now quizzing Web entrepreneurs on their “Facebook strategy”.“Call it escape velocity(速度) or whatever you want, but social networking now has it. Facebook now has it,” Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen wrote last week on his blog. His latest company, Ning, is helping users build simple software programs that can easily be made to run within Facebook.“Don’t miss what’s happening to Faceboook. It is turning mainstream,”notes popular technology blogger Robert Scoble.Facebook, which started out offering simple Web profile pages for users to update personal details and link to their friends, has since late May provided an easy way to enhance profiles with growing menu of 1,400 applications from virtual horoscopes to music video players.Membership has exploded to over 29 million active users, up one million users in just the past week and five million from six week ago. It’s adding more than 150,000 members a day, up from its pace of 100,000 six weeks ago, Facebook says.Facebook has become the central way many users keep track of Web sites they use every day. More importantly, it’s a way to keep up with what friends are doing, says Chief Technology Officer Adam Angelo, a high school classmate of Zuckerberg.Far bigger rival MySpace has difficulty striking a balance between sharing personal data and not revealing “too much information”. Many Facebook users post their mobile phone numbers, political affiliations or changes in dating status.“Facebook is not open the way the Web is open. Users share all kinds of information on the site they would never share on the Web,”Angelo, 22, says. “We get users to reveal more information because we protect users’ privacy.”Facebook’s core audience of high-school and college students is uncertain what to make of the arrival of business users, teachers and authority figures of all sorts, even parents.One protest group, called “Facebook Should Be Students ONLY”with 30,000 members, is a magnet from random discontent.“Facebook should mos def (most definitely) be ONLY students,” Katerina Laurel, 15, of Kansas City, Kansas, writes in Web shorthand. “Our CHOIR teacher has (a Facebook membership).”Laurel’s solution is to use the site’s privacy controls to exclude the teacher s/principals/deans/choir directors in her life. “I can just block them from my site if I don’t want them to see any of my profile,” she says.1. The phrase “hottest ticket” is closest in meaning to _________.a. the most popular thingb. the most important newsc. the most wonderful newsd. the most interesting things2. Which of the following is true of Facebook?a.Facebook is open to college students.b.Adults are not welcomed by Facebook.c.Lots of people registered in Facebook recently.d.Facebook originally just opened to software makers.3. It can be inferred from the passage that Facebook _________.a. is the best in social networkingb. provides Web profile pages for program makersc. keeps on improving its servicesd. has become the No.1 communication platform.4. Many Facebook users post their private data because ________.a.they hope to keep in touch with friendsb.they don’t care to reveal personal informationc.they are required while registeringd.their privacy is well protectedPart V翻译：1.我们不应该让别人认为他们的建议是无足轻重的。
