英语期末复习网络测评.doc

acquisition 
thrust 
concentration 
distinctive 
specifically 
distinguish 
evidently 
diminish 
adjust 
function 

U1

1. The risk from viruses certainly hasn't diminished ; on the contrary, it has mushroomed and people can easily get infected with virus.
2. I like wild sunflower not because it has a(n) distinctive  North American flavor but because its image is closely connected with our continent's early history.
3. One of the main characteristics that distinguish  the male bird from female bird is that the former has beautiful feathers.
4. He went to apply for hundreds of jobs with a master's degree in puter science but ended up with nothing. Evidently, it's because he was disabled.
5. Some books are specially designed to tell us information about the social, cultural or professional life of the country.
6. I was embarrassed as an American for having thrust  such an awful concept upon the French, saying that the French hated the idea of the theme park, Euro Disney.
7. In places where it does not rain very often, the function  of canals is to drain water from rivers or lakes and carry it to fields.
8. There is also evidence of slower acquisition of language and a higher frequency of learning difficulties for these physically disabled students.
9. If you must sit facing the desk, shift your chair slightly as you sit down or adjust your body in the chair slightly so that you can be right in front of your interviewer.
10. Clever readers focus their attention, keeping their concentration  on the material they know best and answering questions quickly because they are confident.

assembly 
moist 
earnest 
destination 
moisture 
proclaim 
asset 
quest 
rally 
exclaim 

1. Last Saturday, about 5,000 people held a protest march and rally against social discrimination against all people with AIDS.
2. When appearing in court, my friend Debra exclaimed  in anger to a judge to defend her actions, "I wasn't hurting anyone!"
3. Human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief, which has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the mon people.
4. Henry Ford was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles.
5. Unless you have a heated greenhouse, you will have difficulty in keeping the plant indoors for very long because they need a really warm and moist atmosphere.
6. In dry weather, you'd better water your vegetables, flowers, and plants in the morning before the earth loses too much moisture .
7. When you are faced with a difficult situation, you may rely on some of your assets such as family, friends, skills, education, money, and good health.
8. After many years' searching of the world, her quest  for her missing brother finally succeeded when she found him in Africa
9. She decided long ago that she would study the subject of physics in earnest as soon as she was accepted by the school.
10. He regretted that he hadn't followed his friend's suggestion. If he had taken the short-cut across the river, he would have arrived at the destination much earlier.
A. fluent 
B. acquisition 
C. diverse 
D. reverse 
E. petent 
F. petitive 
G. skim 
H. beneficial 
I. enhance 
J. engage 
K. prehension 
L. confusion 
M. proficiency 
N. exposure 
O. efficiency 
Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. Instead of teaching reading or writing skills which are beneficial  to students, now teachers are somehow encouraged to reverse  the learning process. For instance, they ask students to read the questions at the end of a reading text first, and then teach them to skim  the text for the answers with various test-taking skills. We wonder whether the test-taking skills really help improve their language proficiency.
The ability to read or write should enhance  the ability to do reasonably well on prehension of reading texts or fluent  writing. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through learning test-taking skills. Teachers must be careful when they teach students how to read and write to avoid any false language acquisition . Too many discussions on test-taking skills will only end up with more confusion  in learning because students have bee more interested in test-taking skills rather than concentrating on the nature and quality of what should be taught.
As a result, students may be petent  in taking tests while they have little or no exposure  to serious reading or thinking. They are unable to understand or talk about what they read, which is definitely disastrous to their academic preparation.

U2
persist 
boost 
invest 
orient 
evaluate 
accumulate 
accelerate 
calculate 
speculate 
undertake 

1. The United Nations official said to undertake  a new peace move in the Middle East when there is a chance to reach an agreement.
2. We might speculate  further from the story and say that these people probably lived very close to the well because of the importance of water to life.
3. As they are not sure about the situation in the flood-stricken area, they will first send trained nurses there to evaluate  the needs of each patient.
4. If the extremely hostile relationships tend to persist , the conflicts between the two parties make it difficult to recognize that they share mon needs and goals.
5. As more students are inclined to choose business as their major, the college has to offer more courses that are business- oriented .
6. If workers believe inflation is likely to accelerate , they will demand higher wages to pensate for expected increases in prices.
7. If you have a good planning to set aside 500 dollars per month, it would take two years to accumulated  the minimum sum needed for your child.
8. If the population continues to rise at the present rate, scientists have calculated that the world's population will double by the end of the century.
9. The cost of repairing damaged public facilities is so high that some local governments are unwilling to invest  in the rebuilding projects. 
10. According to recent research reports, learning a new dance step may boost the brain in the same way that learning a language does.

liable 
liberal 
unconscious 
objective 
promising 
realistic 
sufficient 
dominant 
cynical 
destructive 

1. Both parents and teachers are very concerned about the destructive effects that violent films may have on children.
2. If you keep interrupting me, it is unlikely that I will have sufficient time to give you the plete picture which you are so anxious to get!
3. The new method is both reliable and objective ; furthermore, it has benefited greatly from the development of puter technology.
4. Of all the media, the Internet is clearly dominant , with television a close second, at least as a source of news and other information.
5. Body movements are often unconscious  forms of expressions, and they can convey certain information to the audience.
6. The school principal has some liberal  views about what his students should wear and how much freedom should allow them.
7. Word meanings are especially liable  to change because people learn them by hearing them in context rather than by looking up the standard definition. 
8. The pany seems promising  because the electronic and printing unit alone has annual sales of about $80 million.
9. During the time of economic depression, many people may seem to be cynical about what the government might do, and they just cannot believe the wealthy officials. 
10. The bottom line is that I have tried to be true to myself at all times and in all situations, and I simply don't think it is realistic  to expect anything else.

enroll 
bother 
install 
invest 
recruit 
reform 
revise 
shrink 
acknowledge 
confirm 

1. Steve Jobs has been acknowledged  as a genius in business; his greatest skills are his insight, creative mind, and his management ability.
2. To keep the panies going, firms need to recruit  candidates frequently to replace those who choose not to continue their contracts.
3. I believe I have to revise  my ideas about my boss — he's stubborn sometimes but very clever and creative in many cases.
4. In order to improve their job skills — to get new jobs or to advance in the ones they already have, many enroll  in some forms of continuing education courses.
5. In business settings, email is best used to convey some key information, to confirm appointments, to document decisions, or to contact a decision maker directly.
6. Wetland losses have caused populations of some bird species — starved for water, food, and nesting sites — to shrink  by 60 to 80 percent.
7. Better technology means you can install  more sensitive alarm systems in your home and carry less cash on the street.
8. The name Joe particularly bothers  me as some think it makes me more qualified to be a baseball player rather than an art critic.
9. We can surely reform  our public health care system, but it still gives us, for all its flaws, the best health care in the world.
10. The manual labor in the countryside for 10 years had invested him with a strong will and perseverance to overe difficulties.

A. calculate 
B. asserts 
C. distinguish  
D. literally 
E. secured 
F. broadened 
G. performs 
H. insight 
I. accumulate 
J. inserts 
K. just 
L. extremely 
M. bound 
N. perceive 
O. sight 
Why study the humanities? The 19th-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill asserts that, instead of places for pure learning, universities ought to be places that literally  encourage students to bee good human beings.
This assertion may sound out-of-date since most college students today are bound to learn knowledge and special skills. According to Mill, human beings are just  human beings before they are lawyers or doctors. Mill further explains that a strong liberal arts curriculum will make lawyers or doctors see differently with broadened  horizons.
But can someone be a successful lawyer of great inner insight  without studying the humanities? Yes. Can someone succeed in business or medicine without the liberal arts? Sure. But we ought to distinguish  "the goodness of the operation" from the "goodness of the operator". How well someone performs in a specialized field is not necessary to do with how well a person behaves as a good human being.
The study of the humanities, therefore, prepares students for their future "philosophic habit of mind" — something extremely different from an Internet and Information Age which values speed and instant satisfaction. On the contrary, studying the humanities enables us to accumulate  slow, on-going knowledge to respond to the basic questions of our age, a means of human betterment.

U3
deceive 
distract 
confuse 
hesitate 
snap 
rouse 
affirm 
surrender 
witness 
acquaint 

1. More and more unexpected stress and pressure began to get to her, and one morning she just snapped  as she could no longer bear them.
2. The young and handsome speaker was standing in front of a large crowd of people, attempting to rouse  the crowd with a cry for action.
3. No matter where we are, we must not let cultural, racial, or social barriers distract us from the job that must be done on our responsibility.
4. The government has surrendered  itself to the pressure from big business and panies and eventually brought down interest rates.
5. The fresh air and bright sunlight deceived  me into thinking I might still have some youthful energy left in these old bones of mine.
6. The man denied having witnessed  the accident because he was afraid of getting himself involved in a long process of investigation.
7. The press gave a pletely different version of the events, which greatly confused those who tried to understand the truth.
8. He continued to affirm  that the introduction of divorce would make it more difficult for people to lead "good moral lives".
9. Staff members were asked to acquaint themselves with what had been discussed and covered if they were absent from the meeting yesterday.
10. The young writer hesitated , reluctant to destroy any part of his own work, for which he had devoted all his time for quite a few years.

equivalent 
static 
chaotic 
alert 
feasible 
coarse 
stable 
implicit 
refined 
sensible 

1. It's understandable that at 15,000 feet, no pilot who is already suffering from the effects of lack of oxygen will be able to make sensible  decisions.
2. English law says that circumstances of a marriage aren't static, and therefore a judge should decide how financial assets will be divided in cases of divorce.
3. Contrary to young people, mature adults would prefer to choose some professions that are stable  and could bring prestige and economic benefits.
4. The new manager of the pany plained several times that he could not work effectively under such chaotic  conditions.
5. She didn't openly attack the plan, but the fact that she was against it was implicit in her silence when others were saying things in support of it.
6. Reserved speaking style and refined  manners are always considered characteristic of English gentlemen.
7. I respected her because she was very polite and, like the rest of her people, never laughed if an outsider said something coarse .
8. Now that we have the extra resources from the local government, the long-term project started a year ago seems economically feasible .
9. Passengers on the plane were told to stay alert  at all times and report any suspicious packages to the crew members immediately.
10. Several games based on the "Star Wars" movies require players to choose between the light and dark sides of the Force, equivalent  to good and evil.
A. mysterious 
B. previous 
C. fluid 
D. liquid 
E. indispensable 
F. stable 
G. miserable 
H. labeled 
I. shift 
J. implicit 
K. exploit 
L. explore 
M. tends 
N. intends 
O. frame 
I don't want any sort of traditional stability in my life right now. The thought of marriage, staying in one place and doing one thing, will make me feel miserable because there are too many things on my to-do list. Don't take me wrong that I won't shift  to marriage, but certainly not yet.
The previous  four mon life phases, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age, are now added with two more, labeled  "odyssey" and "active retirement". Of the new ones, the less understood is odyssey that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood.
For our parents' generation, adulthood tends  to be defined by achieving certain things. We all know them – owning a house, having a stable career, getting married and ultimately having children.
We use "finding ourselves" to frame  the concept of the odyssey years, but it's more important for us to understand the implicit  meaning: the pursuit of knowledge and making use of the accessibility of information and experiences around us.
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