英语精读试题与答案.doc

Exercises ( Units One 一 Five)

I. Vocabulary and structure

1. On my way to school, I saw people ______ advertisements and sample products.

A. conveying B. creating C. discarding D. distributing

2. The professor thought that I was making good progress in my studies and told me

to _____ my good work.

A. keep up B. go ahead with C. hold back D. come up with

3. His marked changes in personality were _____ by a series of unfortunate events in

life.

A. brought out B. brought to C. brought up D. brought about

4. Jane's anger could not be ____ when the conversation turned to the criticism of

her own father.

A. held on B. held out C. held back D. held up

5. __ with the picture, Mary tore it to pieces.

A. Dissatisfying thoroughly B. To dissatisfy thoroughly

C. To be thoroughly dissatisfied D. Being thoroughly dissatisfied

6. Because my TV set ____ I could not watch the football game broadcast live last

night.

A. broke up B. broke off C. broke down D. broke out

7. Don't forget ____ when you are finished with the electronic iron.

A. to turn it off B. to have turned it off

C. turning it off D. having turned it off

8. As a cleaning woman, her ___ duties include cleaning the desks and mopping the

floor.

A. continuous B. routine C. initial D. constant

9. This road will never end, and it ____ goes all around the world.

A. possibly B. probably C. likely D. could

10. Many American Indians ___ contact with ghosts, so they disposed of the bodies

of dead relatives immediately.

A. frightened B. dazzled C. dreaded D. scared

II. Cloze

Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you _1_ wonder how it is possible for us to

_2_ people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the _3_ that make one

face different from another. Yet a very young child一 _4_ an animal, such as a pigeon一can learn to recognize faces. We all _5_ this ability for granted. We also tell people apart _6_ how they behave. When we talk about someone's

personality, we mean _7_ in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks, and feels that _8_ that

individual different from others.

Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone's

personality _9— words is somewhat easier than _10_ his face. If you were asked to

describe what a "nice face” looked like, you _11_ have a difficult time doing so. But if

you were asked to describe a "nice person,you _12_ begin to think about someone who

was kind, _13_, friendly, warm, and so forth.

There are many words to describe _14_ a person thinks, feels, and acts.

Gordon Allport, _15_ U.S. psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words

_16_ differences in people's behavior. And many of us use this information as a

—17_ for describing, or typing, a _ _18_. Hippies,

bookworms, _19—,

military types一people are described with

such _ _20_.

1. A. sometimes B. ever C. always D. anytime

2. A. spot B. locate C. know D. recognize

3. A. features B. characteristics C distinctions D. qualities

4. A. or even B. and also C. and then D. and too

5. A. have B. use C. take D. regard

6. A. in B.by C. from D. with

7. A. the manners B. the means C. the ways D. the patterns

8. A. causes B cause C. makes D. make

9. A. with B.by C.in D. using

10. A. describe B. describing

C. to describe D. description of

11. A. will B. would C. shall D. should

12. A. may B. can C. might D. will

13. A. considerate B. considerable C. considering D. concerned

14. A. why B. when C. how D what

15. A. a B. an Cthe D. that

16. A. characterizing B. characterize

C.

characterized D. to characterize

17. A. base B. foundation C. point D. criterion

18. A. person B. personality C. man D. woman

19. A. politicians B. scholars

C.

professionals D. conservatives

20. A. nouns B. jargon C. nicknames D. terms

III. Fill in each blank with a preposition or an adverb・

Some men spend their whole lives trying to forecast the weather. Such people collect

exact information (1) ____________ the weather (2) ______ all parts (3) _____ the

world. Men are sent (4) _____ various places (5) _____ the earth's surface to collect

information (6) ____ the winds, air pressure, changes (7) ______ temperature, rainfall

and cloudiness.

Each place sends its information (usually (8) _____wireless) (9) certain times

each day (10) ______ the central office where the weather information (11) ________

all these places can be examined. The information received is put (12) ______ (13)