Unit 5 Travelling abroad
I.单项选择1. B 2.B 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. D 7. C 8. B
9. A 10. D 11.B 12. A 13. D 14. B 15. C D D B
1. Good technique in medicine means less pain and fewer deaths and, ___ it is our duty to master it.
A. altogether B. therefore C. otherwise D. however
2. His long service with the company was ____ with a present.
A. admitted B. acknowledged C. attributed D. accepted
3. Since his retirement, having a walk along the river after supper has become part of his daily __.
A. tradition B. custom C. convention D. routine
4. _____ Kate and Joan who taught Tom the nice song last night
A. Was it B. Were there C. Will it be D. Must it have been
5. No matter what you say, I shall _____ my opinion.
A. carry out B. keep up C. insist on D. stick to
6. ---I want to go to Beijing with you.
---If so, your holiday arrangement must ____ mine.
A. catch up with B. come up with C. put up with D. fit in with
7. With his money____, he couldn’t go home.
A. leaving B. missed C. running out D. run out
8. Sometimes we are asked _____ the likely result of an action will be.
A. that we think B. what we think C. what do we think D. that what we think
9. She was educated at Beijing University, ____she went on to have her advanced study abroad.
A. after which B. from which C. from that D. after that
10. We were in _____ when we left that we forgot the airline tickets.
A. a rush so anxious B. a such anxious rush
C. so an anxious rush D. such an anxious rush
11. The old tower must be saved, _____ the cost.
A. however B. whatever C. whichever D. wherever
12. _____ more about university courses, call (920) 746-3789.
A. To find out B. Finding out C. Find out D. Having found out
13. The World Wide Web is sometimes jokingly called the World Wide Wait because it ____ be very slow.
A. should B. must C. will D. can
14.—People should stop using their cars and start using public transport.
— _____ . The roads are too crowded as it is.
A. All right B. Exactly C. Go ahead D. Fine
15.—I’m afraid Mr Wood can’t see you 4 o’clock. —Oh, _____I won’t wait.
A. no doubt B. after all C. in that case D. in this way
16. The owner of the cinema needed to make a lot of improvements and employ more people to keep it running, ____meant spending tens of thousands of pounds.
A. who B. that C. whom D. which
17. ---Anything special ---I can ____the vegetable pie-it’s the specialty of the restaurant.
A. comment B. suggest C. command D. recommend
18. To increase the output of his factory, we should ____the updated machines ____the ones which are out of fashion.
A. substitute; with B. substitute; for C. replace; with D. replace; for
II.单词拼写
1. We know it must be very difficult to a________ to living abroad.
2. They set out to work as soon as they s_____________ in.
3. He was so lazy that he did little p______________ for the exam.
4. We attended a l__________ given by a famous professor yesterday.
5. The teacher r_________ the book written by Dickens to his students.
6. Whenever she did badly in her tests, her parents would do what they could to c___________ her.
7. As is suggested by the doctors, sweets cannot be the s_____________ for cigarette.
8. Usually, at the beginning of the essay, we should a_________ everybody who has given us help.
9. He is always o___________ in doing a lot of exercises so as not to have any time to do physical exercise.
10. Because of his hard work, he s___________ in passing the test this time, which made both his teacher and his parents happy.
III.翻译
1. 学生们正在忙于复习准备期末考试。(be occupied )
2. 他的提议是不值得考虑的。(out of the question)
3. 适应这个新环境比他预想的难得多。(adjust)
4. 这位老妇人经常安慰处于困境中的人们。(comfort)
IV. 阅读理解
Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert, seeking a million in prize money. To win, they had to finish the 142-mile race in less than 10 hours. Teams and watchers knew there might be no winner at all, because these vehicles were missing a key part—drivers.
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, organized the race as part of a push to develop robotic vehicles for future battlefields. But the Grand Challenge, as it was called, just proved how difficult it is to get a car to speed across an unfamiliar desert without human guidance. One had its brake lock up in the starting area, Another began by throwing itself onto a wall. Another got tied up by bushes near the road after 1.9 miles.
One turned upside down. One took off in entirely the wrong direction and had to be disabled by remote (远距离的) consol. One went a little more than a mile and rushed into a fence; another managed to go for six miles but stuck on a rock. The “winner,” if there was any, reached 7.8 miles before it ran into a long, narrow hole, and the front wheels caught on fire.
“You get a lot of respect for natural abilities of the living things,” says Reinhold Behringer, who helped design two of the ear-size vehicles for a company called Sci-Autonics, “Even ants (蚂蚁) can do all these tasks effortlessly. It’s very hard for us to put these abilities into our machines.”
The robotic vehicles, though with necessary modern equipment such as advanced computers and GPS guidance, had trouble figuring out fast enough the blocks ahead that a two-year-old human recognizes immediately. Sure, that very young child, who has just only learned to walk, may not think to wipe apple juice off her face, but she already knows that when there’s a cookie in the kitchen she has to climb up the table, and that when she gets to the cookie it will taste good. She is more advanced, even months old, than any machine humans have designed.
46. Watchers doubted if any of the vehicles could finish the race because ______.
A. they did not have any human guidance
B. the road was not familiar to the drivers
C. the distance was too long for the vehicles
D. the prize money was unattractive to the drivers
47. DARPA organized the race in order to ______.
A. raise money for producing more robotic vehicles
B. push the development of vehicle industry
C. train more people to drive in the desert
D. improve the vehicles for future wars
48. From the passage we know “robotic vehicles” are a kind of machines that ______.
A. can do effortlessly whatever tasks living things can
B. can take part in a race across 142 miles with a time limit
C. can show off their ability to turn themselves upside down
D. can move from place to place without being driven by human beings
49. In the race, the greatest distance one robotic vehicle covered was
A. about eight miles
B. six miles
C. almost two miles
D. about one mile
50. In the last paragraph, the writer implies that there is a long way to go
A. for a robotic vehicle to finish a 142-mile race without any difficulties
B. for a little child who has just learned to walk to reach the cookie on the table
C. for a robotic vehicle to deal with a simple problem that a little child can solve
D. for a little child to understand the importance of wiping apple juice off its face
46. A 47. D 48. D 49. A 50. C