填空题Unit 1
1.This rearch ems to lend some validity to the theory that the drug might cau cancer .
2.In a number of developing countries , war has been an additional impediment to progress .
3.Anthea was about to play her trump card : without her signature none of the money could be relead .
4.I flunked my cond year exams and was lucky not to be thrown out of college .
5.I didn't want to lo my composure in front of her .
6.The management did not em to consider office safety to be a priority.
7.For three hours a committee of state nators listened to a parade of local residents giving their opinions.
8.Thousands of lives will be at stake if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon.
9.Brierley's book has the merit of being both informative and readable .
10.I think there was a conspiracy to keep me out of the committee .
Unit 2
1.It is not easy for Chine people to respond properly to others' compliments and equally difficult for them to accept criticisms gracefully.
2.We should be truly thankful to Mr Deng XiaoPing for taking the plunge and initiating the economic reform in china .
3.Unfortunately ,television studio are strangely designed and dressing -rooms are often miles away from the studios ,so we had to find a place where she and her entourage could relax in comfort without the need to climb stairs .
4.What is the u of whining about you bad luck ? It is more important to find the real cau
of your misfortune .
5.The rising real estate prices thwarted（阻碍）his ambition of owning a hou of his own in the big city. Disappointed, he returned to his hometown .
6.The old women sat silently beside her collapd hou ,her eyes brimming with tears and hatred .
7.He writes clearly and lightheartedly about the 100 best rivers and gives his expert advice on how to navigate their reaches .
8.Outside the forest the snow was already six inches deep and growing steadily , relentlessly deeper .
9.There is no doubt that his duty extends to informing his patient ,if asked ,of the nature of his illness and its likely prognosis.
10.Tho who are climbing the career ladder fast may u alcohol as a booster to help th
em to achieve,and tho who recognize that that they have failed to reach the top may also turn to alcohol ,in an attempt to bolster their failing lf-image.
11.A typically Chine countryside hou is one who eaves protrude over the wall.
12.The ship came back from the region that had just been attacked by a strange dia.Thus the health officials placed all its crew in quarantine.
Unit 3
1.Given the sophistication of modern machines, there is little that requires manual labor .
2.After the police relead their report ,John was exonerated from all responsibility for the accident .
3.The world constructed by online games ems to many youngsters a reasonable surrogate for "real life ",although what they e is not real in the least .
4.In a speech at the Congress ,the president extolled（赞美）the virtues of free enterpris
e and expresd his distaste for the blatant hegemony in IT industry .
5.He soon became notorious becau he enjoyed deriving perver satisfaction from embarrassing people .
6.I endor everything that has been said from both side of the Hou in support and admiration of him and of the courage and fortitude that he and his family have displayed.
7.The opposition members of the parliament derided the government 's respon to the crisis .
8.The poor women was defrauded of her money by a dishonest accountant .
9.The other guests were stunned into silence as h began swinging into the gaggle of giggling photographers and kicking at them frantically .
10.Back to the us,the sly businessman was faced with racketeering charges that may nd him to life imprisonment .
Unit 4
1.It is certainly undemocratic ,and many people are beginning to feel that it borders on the unconstitutional .
2.Traditionally ,organizations are constructed pyramidally; with a hierarchy most powerful at the top and progressively less so as the pyramid spreads downwards .
3."No theory explains everything ,"she remarks . Yet it is just the desire to explain everything which is the spur of theory .
4.The archaeologist in the film knew that there was a cur upon anyone who entered the pyramid .
