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09级新视野大学英语3（unit5）测试题
Serial number (序号): nhce30905
Time allowed: 40 minutes
Full score: 50 points
Instructions
Part 1 Word-spelling
Each item/blank: 1 point(s) Full score: 10
Directions: Fill each blank with an appropriate and complete word
1. We'll forget this little____ , but never let me catch you lying again!
Correct answer: episode
2. The local farmers' ____markets all our produce better than we do.
Correct answer: association
3. Jennifer's heart beat faster but she forced herlf to slow the quick, ____ breathing caud by her panic.
Correct answer: shallow
4. Her mother and sisters and brothers all embraced her but she showed no ____.
Correct answer: emotion
5. An ____ of a year pasd before another meeting took place.
Correct answer: interval
6. Even if he stood ____ in front of him, he doubted that Stillman would be able to e him.
Correct answer: directly
7. I'm afraid this banknote is a fake; it's just a ____ piece of paper.
Correct answer: worthless
8. Some of the survivors said that one of the fire exits had been ____.
Correct answer: barred
9. Wait for a couple of minutes with your mouth clod before ____ the thermometer (体温表).
Correct answer: inrting
10. One theory is that the ____ has been prent in humans for a very long time.
Correct answer: infection
Part 2 Clo
Each item/blank: 1 point(s) Full score: 20
Directions: Decide which of the choices diven below would best complete the passage if inrted in the corresponding blanks.Mark the best choice for each blank.
11. My grandfather pasd away today. He had a (1) __ massive;__( excessive massive exclusive offensive) heart attack. (2) _ Becau ___( Due Becau Although Since) of his
treatment he was in a lot of pain. You e, the doctors were able to keep his body (3) _ alive;___ (alive lively lived live), even though there was little chance of saving him. The (4) __ worst;__ (worst last most poor) part of it was that my grandfather, who had always been quite humorous, could (5) _ barely;___ (prently barely justly slightly )communicate after that. He just didn't em to be the (6) _ same ___(distinctive same identical influential )person anymore.
My grandfather was a fat man. After the (7) stroke ___( blow infection stroke strike), it took my grandmother, my mother and me to dress him each morning. After he was dresd, we (8) _ adjusted;___ (adjusted inrted decorated cured) his pillow and sat him in his bed. His everyday life was wholly (9) _ comprid ___ (consisted comprid included constituted) of watching whatever was on the TV. He couldn't (10) Select ____(too even al so just) change the channel.
The doctors had worked hard to (11) Select ____(let have keep want) him alive. However, a few weeks (12) Select ____(late later before afterward) they told us somethin
g disappointing. The surgical (13) Select____ (structure operation venture adventure) had not been successful. My grandfather's condition had no (14) Select____(clue badge sign signal )of improvement. Next, X-rays showed my grandfather had obtained a lung (15) Select____(reduction affection infection corruption)—a frequent problem with stroke patients. Drugs would make him sick and could not (16) Select ____(ensure endure cure cure) him.
That was the time for us to make a (17) Select _ tough ___(regret table violent rough tough) decision. On the one hand, we could not (18) Select ____(tolerate bear endure permit )to e our once vigorous grandfather suffering. He was living the painful, limited life to which the stroke had (19) Select ____(rejected accud condemned damned )him. On the other hand, we hated to be the one to decide to let nature take its cour.
At last we decided that the right thing to do would be to let him die with (20) Select ____(privilege epaceem brace grace.
He died a peaceful death.
Correct answer: (1) massive; (2) Becau; (3) alive; (4) worst; (5) barely; (6) same; (7) stroke; (8) adjusted; (9) comprid; (10) even; (11) keep; (12) later; (13) operation; (14) sign; (15) infection; (16) cure; (17) tough; (18) bear; (19) condemned; (20) grace;
Part 3 Reading Comprehension
Each item/blank: 2 point(s) Full score: 20
Directions: In this ction there are two passages followed by questions ,each with four suggested answers marked [A],[B],[C],[D].Choo the one that you think is the best answer.
You must face the fact that in your inmost heart you hate the thought of moving. It is easiest not to leave the rooms where your children pasd through their wonderful childhood and annoying teens to a friendly but slightly distant maturity.
