Exercises
I. Multiple choice
Direction: Identify the choice that best completes the statement,
1．The computer revolution may well change society as as did the Industrial Revolution.
A. comparatively
B. certainly
C. fundamentally
D. insignificantly
2．Petrol is refined from the__________oil we take out of the ground.
A. fresh
B. original
C. rude
D. crude
3．If America insists on using fuel-efficiency standards to cut__________emissions, then tough ones are better than weak ones.
A. ship
B. boat
C. vehicle
D. vessel
4．As the country with the largest military expenses in the world, even a single soldier's is rather expensive.
A. dress
B. uniform
C. costume
D. gown
5．Scientists have found new uses for some__________such as mercury and lead.
A. stuff
B. matters
C. substances
D. materials
6．The engineer__________a rare disease when he was working in Africa.
A. took
B. suffered
C. caught
D. infected
7．Without the friction between their feet and the ground, people would__________be able to walk.
A. in no time
B. by all means
C. in no way
D. on any account
8．Tall-growing crops should be planted where they will not shade or__________with the growth of smaller crops.
A. interrupt
B. interfere
C. disturb
D. distract
9．The mechanic examined the car engine__________but could find nothing wrong with it.
A. exactly
B. completely
C. thoroughly
D. throughout
10．The melting of the snow has caused flooding by__________rivers.
A. increased
B. expanded
C. overgrown
D. swollen
11．As a result of the radio__________for help for those who lost their homes in the earthquake, over a million pounds has been raised.
A. appeal
B. call
C. program
D. demand
12．An ambulance must have priority as it usually has to deal with some thing of__________.
A. urgency
B. danger
C. crisis
D. emergency
13．Our compass and maps proved__________to us in the walking tours.
A. valuable
B. worth
C. profitable
D. valueless
14．The fundamental , which govern all physical processes, are related to many everyday occurrences.
A. rules
B. regulations
C. principals
D. principles
15．He told me his digestive trouble is cured__________and all.
A. for long
B. for life
C. for ever
D. for good
16．The liquid was heated until the temperature__________1000℃.
A. arrived
B. reached
C. achieved
D. attained
17．Half the planet always faces the sun, while the other half is__________dark.
A. clearly
B. consequently
C. continually
D. continuously
18．The noise was so faint that only those with excellent__________were aware of it.
A. ear
B. listening
C. hearing
D. ears
19．It is said that a heavy__________is imposed on foreign radios.
A. tax
B. fine
C. duty
D. rate
20．The doctor took X-rays to__________the chance of broken bones.
A. make sure
B. rule out
C. break down
D. knock out
II. Reading Comprehension
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are re quired to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Passage One
When we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones—the kind of high-tech, solar-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazines. But the U. S. has more than 100 million existing homes, and it would be 1 wasteful to tear them all down and 2 them with greener versions. An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those houses. And it would take an average of 65 years for the 3 carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the resources lost by destroying an old one. So in the broadest 4, the greenest home is the one that has already been built. But at the same time, nearly half of U. S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and 5 our homes, offices and other buildings. “You can't deal with climate change without dealing with existing buildings, ”says Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.
With some 6, the oldest homes tend to be the least energy-efficient. Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that 7 over time and let in more outside air.
Fortunately, there are a ____8____ number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from ____9____ ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home. And efficiency upgrades（升级）can save more than just the earth; they can help ____10____ property owners from rising power costs.
A）accommodations B）clumsy C）doubtful D）exceptions
E）expand F）historic G）incredibly H）powering I）protect
J）reduced K）replace L）sense M）shifted N）supplying
O）vast
Passage Two
For a while, biologist Arjan Boonman lived in Indonesia and spent much of his time traveling the country to make ____11____ recordings of bats. “There's a lot of deforestation there, and lots of bats are ____12____ going to go extinct, ”says Boonman, now a post doctoral researcher at Tel Aviv University in Israel. 13 by the bats, he decided to gather as much information as 14 about the various species in Indonesia, before they're gone. One day Boonman sat down on a bus next to a friendly man, who told him he'd heard a species 15 cave nectar bats making a clicking sound with their wings, perhaps using it to echolocate. Echolocation is the process whereby bats and other animals bounce sound off their surroundings to help them navigate, especially in the dark. Boonman was 16. Bat biologists, including Boonman, pretty much all assumed that bats only echolocate 17, by making sounds in their larynx. It was also generally thought that the vast majority of species in this family, known as Old World fruits bats, didn't echolocate at all, says bat expert Nancy Simmons, the curator - in - charge at the department of mammalogy at New York's American Museum of Natural History.
Boonman was convinced that it was a story worth looking into, and together they and a third scientist went to Thailand to record several different unrelated species of fruit bats（one of the better travel excuses out there）. They found that several species of bats did 18 make clicking sounds with their wings, increasing the frequency of these clicks more than fivefold when they turned out the lights. This and other experiments led them to 19 that the bats use these wing clicks to find their way around, and the clicking appears to function as a primitive form of echolocation, says Simmons, who wasn't involved in the study, which was 20 in the journal Current Biology.
A）called B）published C）vocally D）feasible E）possible
F）probably G）primarily H）stop I）indeed J）conclude
K）Interested L）Fascinated M）identical N）skeptical O）audio