期末英语复习题
Unit 1 Ex. 6 Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Make changes where necessary.
isolate consumer specific conquence element
trap relea (v.) strategy convenience priority
1. The company will spend $6 million on sales ______ as well as the development of new products.
2. We all agreed on our basic aims, but when we got down to ______ items it became more complicated.
3. Nowadays, ______ not only demand the high quality of the products but also their after-sale rvices.
4. The movie star was caught in the act of shoplifting but was ______ after paying a fine t
o the supermarket
5. The soldiers pretended to run away and the enemy, in pursuing them, were finally ______.
6. As a ______ of being in hospital, Shelly decided to become a nur.
7. The village ______ from the outside for three days becau of the flood.
8. After the Second World War, millions of people were left homeless; so the government decided to give ______ to housing.
9. In many shops, shopping bags are provided for the customers’ ______.
10. With a tearful love story and two famous stars, the movie has all the ______ for a success.
strategies specific consumers relead trapped conquence was isolated
priority convenience elements
Ex. 8 Translate the following ntences into English.
1. 这场给人类带来巨大灾难的战争对这样一个诗人产生了什么影响呢？（impact on）
How did the war, which brought terrible disasters to mankind, impact on such a poet?
2. 做母亲的有时候不能察觉她们所宠爱的孩子们的过错，这样做的结果会使孩子们再次犯同样的过错。（be blind to）
Mothers are sometimes blind to the faults of their beloved children, which will cau the children to make the same mistake again.
3. 作为一个在这个完全陌生的国度里的新移民(immigrant)，，她总是感觉到孤立无援。(isolate)
As a new immigrant in this completely strange country, she always felt isolated.
4. 做事不先考虑周全常会导致失败，因此我们应该三思而后行。(result in, act before thinking)
Acting before thinking often results in failure, so we should think before we leap.
5. 奢谈的时候已经过去了，我们必须积极行动起来保护我们的环境。(take ... action)
The time for talking is past; we must take a positive action to protect our environment.
Passage B
Ex. 13 Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Make changes where necessary.
audio boundary cup (v.) decade directly
focus overtake species subtle tone
1. The essayist’s language express rich and ______ meanings.
2. The stockbrokers ______ by the sharp drop in the stock market last Tuesday.
3. Biologists have estimated that there are around one million animal and plant ______
living in the rainforests.
4. In the United States the cost of living has been steadily rising 7. To be safe, you may put on your dark glass to avoid the sun shining ______ in your eyes.
in the past few ______.
5. The quickly growing company has ambitious plans to expand beyond national ______.
6. That computer store is having a sale of ______ software; let’s go and have a look.
7. To be safe, you may put on your dark glass to avoid the sun shining ______ in your eyes.
8. When the kitchen is finished, I’m going to ______ my attention on the garden shed.
9. In a rious ______ of voice, the doctor warned him to keep off sugar.
10. She ______ her hands around the mug of hot coffee to warm them.
subtle were overtaken species decades boundaries audio directly focus tone cupped
Ex. 15 Translate the following ntences into English.
1. 年轻人有时会抱怨无法和父母沟通。(to communicate with)
Young people sometimes complain of not being able to communicate with their parents.
2. 玛丽从小就盼望着能在中国云南的一个村庄住上几年，现在她终于梦想成真了。(to take up residence)
3. 家养的动物习惯于依赖人，因此很难在野外继续生存。(to survive)
Domestic animals are ud to depending on humans, so it is difficult for them to survive in the wild.
4. 他突然有种恐惧感，觉得自己会因为经济不景气而被公司裁员。(to overtake)
He was suddenly overtaken by a fear that he would be laid off by the company becau of bad economy.
5. 我想他很快就会回来，因为他答应和我一起吃晚饭。(to figure)
I figure he’ll be back soon since he promid to have dinner with me.
Unit2
Ex. 6 Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Make changes where necessary.
apparent convince curiosity detail fundamental
patience respond spark stir ultimate
1. The theories of relativity have made ______ changes in our views of the univer.
2. That is our __________ proposal, and no other changes will be considered.
3. The forest fire was found to have been ________ by a cigarette end.
