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09级新视野大学英语3（unit5）测试题
Serial number (序号):
nhce30905
Time allowed:
40 minutes
Full score:
50 points
Instructions
Part 1 Word-spelling
Each item/blank: 1 point(s)
Full score: 10
Directions: Fill each blank with an appropriate and complete word
1.We\'ll forget this little____ , but never let me catch you lying again!
Correct answer: episode
2.The local farmers\' ____markets all our produce better than we do.
Correct answer: aociation
3.Jennifer\'s heart beat faster but she forced herself to slow the quick, ____ breathing caused by her panic.
Correct answer: shallow
4.Her mother and sisters and brothers all embraced her but she showed no ____.
Correct answer: emotion
5.An ____ of a year paed before another meeting took place.
Correct answer: interval
6.Even if he stood ____ in front of him, he doubted that Stillman would be able to see him.
Correct answer: directly
7.I\'m afraid this banknote is a fake; it\'s just a ____ piece of paper.
Correct answer: worthle
8.Some of the survivors said that one of the fire exits had been ____.
Correct answer: barred
9.Wait for a couple of minutes with your mouth closed before ____ the thermometer (体温表).
Correct answer: inserting
10.One theory is that the ____ has been present in humans for a very long time.
Correct answer: infection
Part 2 Close
Each item/blank: 1 point(s)
Full score: 20
Directions: Decide which of the choices diven below would best complete the paage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.Mark the best choice for each blank.
11.My grandfather paed away today.He had a (1) __ maive;__( exceive maive exclusive offensive) heart attack.(2) _ Because ___( Due Because Although Since) of his treatment he was in a lot of pain.You see, the doctors were able to keep his body (3) _ alive;___ (alive lively lived live), even though there was little chance of saving him.The (4) __ worst;__ (worst last most poor) part of it was that my grandfather, who had always been quite humorous, could (5) _ barely;___ (presently barely justly slightly )communicate after that.He just didn\'t seem to be the (6) _ same ___(distinctive same identical influential )person anymore.My grandfather was a fat man.After the (7) stroke ___( blow infection stroke strike), it took my grandmother, my mother and me to dre
him each morning.After he was dreed, we (8) _ adjusted;___ (adjusted inserted decorated secured) his pillow and sat him in his bed.His everyday life was wholly (9) _ comprised ___ (consisted comprised included constituted) of watching whatever was on the TV.He couldn\'t (10) Select ____(too even al so just) change the channel.
The doctors had worked hard to (11) Select ____(let have keep want) him alive.However, a few weeks (12) Select ____(late later before afterward) they told us something disappointing.The surgical (13) Select____ (structure operation venture adventure) had not been succeful.My grandfather\'s condition had no (14) Select____(clue badge sign signal )of improvement.Next, X-rays showed my grandfather had obtained a lung (15) Select____(reduction affection infection corruption)—a frequent problem with stroke patients.Drugs would make him sick and could not (16) Select ____(ensure endure secure cure) him.
That was the time for us to make a (17) Select _ tough ___(regret table violent rough tough) decision.On the one hand, we could not (18) Select ____(tolerate bear endure permit )to see our once vigorous grandfather suffering.He was living the painful, limited life to which the stroke had (19) Select ____(rejected accused condemned damned )him.On the other hand, we hated to be the one to decide to let nature take its course.
At last we decided that the right thing to do would be to let him die with (20) Select ____(privilege epaceem brace grace.
He died a peaceful death.
Correct answer: (1) maive; (2) Because; (3) alive; (4) worst; (5) barely; (6) same; (7) stroke; (8) adjusted; (9) comprised; (10) even; (11) keep; (12) later; (13) operation; (14) sign; (15) infection; (16) cure; (17) tough; (18) bear; (19) condemned; (20) grace;
Part 3 Reading Comprehension
Each item/blank: 2 point(s)
Full score: 20
Directions: In this section there are two paages followed by questions ,each with four suggested answers marked [A],[B],[C],[D].Choose the one that you think is the best answer.
You must face the fact that in your inmost heart you hate the thought of moving.It is easiest not to leave the rooms where your children paed through their wonderful childhood and annoying teens to a friendly but slightly distant maturity.Until, suddenly one day, the distance is absolute and they are grown up and gone.Then you find yourself living in too large a house, which consumes in its maintenance too much energy and money.When we found ourselves in this situation a few years ago, we determined to move while we still had the strength and before the emotional ties that the old house had wrapped around us became too powerful to be broken.Move while you can! But be sure you really want to, and do not move too often.It is an exhausting proce.
Your first task is to find a house that will suit you.It must be smaller, quieter, easier to run, and more conveniently placed for transport.Not so small, though, that it will not have room for your largest pieces of furniture, and located not too far from the neighborhood where so many friendships have been built up.
At last we found one: a late Victorian cottage, in a street where the houses, all small, range from late 18th to mid 20th century.It was near enough to where we wanted to live.It had no basement (底下层), which was a great convenience for aging legs; there were only two floors: one for ourselves and one where friends, children, and grandchildren could spread themselves when they came to stay.Each floor had two rooms.There was a kitchen on the ground floor, with the bathroom above it.
12.
The paage concerns ________.
A) buying a house for a newly married couple
B) buying a large house for a growing family
C) buying a better house when people have more money to spend
D) buying a smaller house for older people whose children have left home
13.
The paage implies that grown-up children are _______.
A) more friendly to their parents when they are grown up
B) distant from their parents
C) friendly but not very close
D) annoying
14.
The author decided to move ________.
A) when his house gave him too much work and cost too much to run
B) when he grew tired of his house
C) when he suddenly got the strength to do so
D) before the house collapsed
15.
The author advises people in his own situation ________.
A) to move into a very small house
B) to move somewhere where the largest poible pieces of furniture will fit
C) not to move too far from the main road
D) to choose somewhere not so noisy
16.
According to the paage, the new house had _________.
A) two floors
B) three floors
C) four floors
D) two bathrooms
A devastating quake ripped through Turkey.American structural engineers say there was something that might have leened the damage and saved lives.Pictures of the devastation in Turkey show us what engineers already know: a powerful earthquake has an ally in a weak building.Jim Malley of Degenkolb Engineers said, \"The most common form of multi-story building in Turkey is a concrete frame.\" He says, \"These are very heavy buildings and it\'s not uncommon for them to collapse in earthquakes because of the extra weight.\"
Malley says the risk of building collapse increases when the first floor is a shop, because gla windows replace brick walls.\"Undoubtedly, there was a gla store front at this level, and that made it much weaker.As a result, we got the collapse of that first story.\" Also, Malley says Turkey\'s concrete frame buildings often lack reinforcing steel.
In California, each big quake teaches engineers another way of dealing with the problem.They have learned to use steel frames to reduce the weight of new buildings.
Janiele Maffei shows a San Francisco skyscraper under construction.She says, \"The building is designed to move and to sway, and the connections to stay together.\"
The 1994 Northridge, California quake taught people about the weakne of rigid joints.Engineers found a simple solution.Janiele Maffei demonstrates this in the building under way.
\"See to the right of the connection, see the structure? See how it looks smaller in some points? That\'s called a dog bone; you can see how it looks like a dog bone, how it is small in the middle and big on the ends.What that will do is it will take the strees away from the connection, and concentrate them in that smaller section of the structure.\"
17.
How can an earthquake be helpful?
A) It can cause buildings that are too old to collapse.
B) It can get rid of the buildings that are made of concrete.
C) It can teach people how to make safer buildings.
D) It can teach people how to be safe in buildings.
18.
What can make a building heavy, and therefore increase the risk of it collapsing?
A) A shop on the first floor.
B) The use of concrete.
C) Gla store fronts.
D) Brick walls.
19.
In California, builders have learned to use ________ to reduce risk.
A) brick walls
B) gla windows
C) skyscrapers
D) steel frames
20.
Because of one Californian earthquake, engineers understand the problem of _________.
A) steel frames
B) reinforcing steel
C) shop windows
D) joints that are too firm
21.
In the final paragraph, Janiele Maffei is describing ________.
A) a new type of skyscraper
B) a new kind of joint
C) a weakne of skyscrapers
D) a bone material used in building
Correct answer: DCABA CBDDB
