第二章单元测试
- Goodyear's words highlight the importance of having a wide focus of attention and keen powers of observation. His message is admirably summed up in Pasteur's famous words: "In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."
Reading this passage and answer Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization of rubber（ ） - Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. Those signs or cues include the thousand and one ways in which we orient ourselves to the situation of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meet people, when and how to give tips, how to make purchases, when to accept and when to refuse invitations, when to take statements seriously and when not. “Thousand and one” means（ ）
- This may be true or it may be false-who can say?-but what is true in it, so it seemed to me, reviewing the story of Shakespeare's sister as I had made it, is that any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty. Reading this passage and answer according to Woolf, a sixteenth century woman born with a great gift like Shakespeare's would certainly（ ）
- For the italicized word, choose the best meaning below.
When borrowers are in trouble, we give them respite from debt repayments.（ ） - Kensington Wade in London, Britain's first English-Mandarin primary school, recruited its first batch of 15 students from Europe, the United States and South America recently.The school, the first of its kind in Europe, is an epitome of the rising popularity of the Chinese language around the world. Mastering the Chinese language means advantages and opportunities in the job market and the business world, because the Chinese companies and projects related to China are on the rise around the world.
Reading this passage and answer what is the significance of Kensington Wade?（ ）
A:by repeated investigation B:by mere chance C:with no previous experimentation D:with a prepared mind
答案:with a prepared mind
A:what the figure refers to B:countable C:a multitude of D:limitless
答案:countable
A:be driven crazy because of her suppressed gift B:have to fight skillfully for recognition C:get admiration from others D:become a witch or a wizard
答案:be driven crazy because of her suppressed gift
A:relief B:Payment C:rest
答案:relief
A:It symbolizes the growing popularity of the Chinese language in the world. B:It offers many people opportunities in the job market. C:It indicates the change of school-running mode. D:It marks the beginning of a new type of international school.
答案:It symbolizes the growing popularity of the Chinese language in the world.
