QUIZ

1. When she heard the news of the death of her son in the terrorist

attack in New York, the mother broke down and .

(Suggested first letter(s): w )

2. I was determined that I would not or make the parting harder for him,

and I managed to say goodbye to him without tears.

(Suggested first letter(s): w )

3. Early signs of a disease are usually , so we very often fail to pay

any attention and go to see a doctor in good time.

(Suggested first letter(s): unno )

4. The small question marks could have been made in other ways, and are

hardly anyway.

(Suggested first letter(s): no )

5. One quality of American art life is the link between art historical

teaching and criticism, which is not so common elsewhere.

(Suggested first letter(s): no )

6. Her explanation for being away was obviously a lie, but he it whole

Quiz for Unit 1 and 3

I Dictation

1) sprightly 2) landscape 3） mortified 4） exhilarating 5）grandeur

6) deceased 7) scramble up 8) irrevocable 9） craggy 10） pagoda 11) punctual

12) punctuality 13) casual laborer 14) flexibility 15） justified 16） unwarranted

17) inferior 18) observance 19)forthwith 20） applicant

II Blank filling

1) ____________ peaks and rolling fells tower over lush green valleys, where sheep

graze peacefully beside moss—covered dry stone walls。

2) In tiny Dove Cottage, patches of blackened wall still ____________ the

smokiness of the candles the Wordsworth made in the tiny kitchen。

3) It has been lovingly recreated by the National Trust to that era, ____________

servants going about their daily chores。

4) Those idyllic lakeside settings with their ____________ vistas make the lakes

Quiz 1

1. In my opinion, you can widen the _____ of these improvements

through your active participation.

A. dimension B. magnitude

C. volume D. scope

2. The tourist is forbidden to enter a country if he does not have a(n)

_____ passport.

A. operative B. effective

C. valid D. efficient

3. Gone with the Wind deals with questions __________America’s

Civil war and the experiences of two couples of lovers.

A. concerned B. concerned with

C. concerning with D. concerning

4. She was very interested in the work of certain charities, and made a

regular _________ to them.

A. subscription B. contribution

C. allowance D. tribute

5. Anthropology is a science _____ anthropologist use a rigorous set of

Quiz 1

Exercise 1翻译时注意词序调整法的运用

1. With the third party acting as an intermediary, to take the interest of the whole into account, we

strongly demanded with frankness and sincerity many times at the end of the autumn of the same

year that you should compensate all our losses.

2. Somebody tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up from the exercise books of my young

pupils, which I was just correcting, into the lined, kindly face of a little woman farmer of old age.

3. That our environment had little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and

behavior is central to this theory.

4. Many species can communicate an amazing amount of information via sound, information on

which both the life of an individual and the continued existence of the species may depend.

5. All living languages are characterized by sound changes that have occurred and will continue to