第一单元
1、But in the past 100,000 years--even the past 100 years--our ( ) have been transformed but our bodies have not .
A:live B:liveliness C:livelihoods
2、Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would ( ) on humans if they had the chance . A:deliver B:carry
C:perform D:apply
3、However,when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers,so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock,their behavior became ( ) different .
A:marked B:markedly
C:remarkable D:remarkably
4、“With a mind prepared by thorough school ( ),the American boy develops repidly into the skilled workman .”
A:headline B:guideline
C:baseline D:discipline
第二单元
1、Greater efforts to increase agricultural ( ) must be made if food shortage is to be avoided .
A:productive B:production
C:produtivity D:product
2、The current emphasis on stadardized testing highlights analysis and procedure,( ) that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought .
A:means B:mean
C:meaning D:meaningful
3、The movement of the moon conveniently ( ) the unit of month..
A:offered B:granted
C:provided D:supplied 第三单元
1、I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat ( ) .
A:disapproval B:rejection C:refusal D:decline
2、Life insurance is financial protection for dependents against loss ( ) the bread-winner’s death .
A:at the cost of B:on the verge of
C:as a result of D:for the sake of
3、In contrast to the U.S.,Japan and Sweden are funding their medical care ( ) .
A:more flexibly B:more extravagantly C:more cautiously D:reasonably
4、In this factory the machines are not regulated ( ) but are jointly controlled by a central computer system.
A:independently B:individually
C:irrespectively D:irregularly
第四单元
1、It was during the same time that the communications revolution speeded up,beginning with transport,the railway, and leading ( ) through the telegraph,the telephone,radio,and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane.
A:on B:out C:over D:off
2、I didn’t say anything like that at all.You are purposely ( ) my ideas to prove your point.
A:revising B:contradicting
C:distorting D:distracting
3、It turns out that pecaliar way of conducting the experiments may be have let to ( ) interpretation of what happened.
A:disputable B:enlightening
C:reliable D:misleading
