B8U2综合练习

一、用以下所给单词构成的短语填空。

strike, exact, bring, condition, vain, cast, bound, pay, time, favour 1. I don’t care about the price, so long as the car is ______________. 2. It happened late last century, in 1995 ________. 3. In the long run prices of houses ______rise.

4. I have tired very hard to find a solution to the problem, but _______.

5. Those ___________ the plan will be asked to speak out their mind and how to carry it out. 6. Although the students complained sometimes, they found their efforts in the preparation for the play___________.

7. He had to pause _________ to wipe the sweat from his forehead, because the air-conditioning system broke down.

8. Anyone would be _________ by such news as that.

9. DNA from the blood of dinosaurs is supposedly used to _________ them __________. 10. These old songs _________ warmth ________ his heart. 二、根据汉语提示完成句子。

1. On the one hand, a lot of people are going to the USA, but _______________（另一方面），a lot of people are coming back from there.

2. ___________________ (随后是)the invention of another robot. 3. He is shy _______________ (然而他的哥哥坦率并开朗).

4. She burst into tears at the news ____________________________(他的父亲死于一场事故). 5.There are _______________ (架子上总共20本书), of which most are about language learning. 三、完型填空

A clone is an exact copy of a plant or animal _1_ from any one cell. Since Scottish scientists reported that they had _2_ to clone a sheep named Dolly in 1996, research into cloning has grown rapidly. In May 1998, scientists in Massachusetts managed to create two identical calves

(牛犊) _3_ cloning technology. A mouse has _4_ been cloned successfully, but the debate over cloning humans really started when Chicago _5_ Richard Seed made a surprising announcement. “We will have managed to clone a human being within the next two years,” he told the world.

Seed’s announcement _6_ a lot of media’s attention. In Europe, nineteen nations have already _7_ an agreement banning human cloning and in the US the President _8_ : “We will be introducing _9_ law to ban human cloning and many states in the US will have _10_ anti-cloning laws by the end of the year .”

Many researchers are not so negative _11_ cloning. They are worried that laws _12_ human cloning will threaten important research. In March, the New England Journal of Medicine called any plan to ban research on cloning humans _13_ mistaken. Many researchers also believe that _14_ attempt to ban it, human cloning will become routine because it is _15_ to stop the progress of science.

Is there a reason to fear that cloning will _16_ a nightmare world? The public has been bombarded （轰炸）with newspaper articles, television shows and films, _17_ cartoons. Such information is often misleading, and makes people _18_ what on earth the scientists will be doing next.

_19_ the next five to ten years scientists will probably have found a way of cloning humans. It could be that _20_ soon we will be able to choose the person that we want our child to look like.

1. A. produces B. produce C. producing D. produced 2. A. tried B. succeeded C. attempted D.managed 3. A. taking B.teaching C. using D.learning 4. A.too B. either C.also D. as well 5. A. reporter B. physicist C.writer D.artist 6. A. aroused B. rose C.rose up D. was raised 7. A. signed B. wrote C. drew D. arrived 8. A. spoke B.told C.reported D.announced 9. A. the B. a C. an D./ 10.A.allowed B.agreed C.passed D.approved

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11. A.in B.for C. beyond D.about 12. A.forbidden B.permitting C. banning D.referring 13. A.seriously B.personally C.partly D.possibly 14. A. despite of B.though C.although D.in spite of 15. A. possible B.impossible C.likely D.probably 16. A.lead to B.stick to C.come to D.add up to 17. A. as much as B.as many as C.as well as D.as good as 18. A.puzzle B.worry C.wander D.wonder 19. A.Upon B.Within C.Out of D.At 20. A.much B.pretty C.too D.more

四、短文改错。

下面短文中共有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(\\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。 注意：

1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

When I was ten years old, I went to Yangzhou with two American. I became their guide. First, we went to the Shouxi River. They wanted to look around the river by the boat. After buy the tickets, we got into a boat. We went around seeing the beautiful sight. After that, we went shopping. The sellers couldn’t spoke English. Though it was very harder, I tried my best listen to their words carefully and translate the sentences. They bought some little things with their help. Next, we went to a small zoo but took some pictures. When we felt hunger, we went out and had

lunch. After lunch, we visited some old house and learned more about Chinese history.

五、写作进阶：翻译下列句子，注意黑体部分要用到本单元的单词、短语或者句型。然后将其合并成一篇短文。

1.约翰跟他的双胞胎妹妹性格不同。（differ）

______________________________________________________________________________ 2.他总是很乐观，而他妹妹却时不时感到很沮丧。（from time to time, cast down） _________________________________________________________________________-____ 3.一天他想和妹妹修一辆状况很差的二手车，但他妹妹却不允许他干这活。（in bad condition, forbid, undertake）

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4.她希望他不要拿这样的事情来烦她。（bother）

______________________________________________________________________________ 5.但她抵制不了他想尝试一下的欲望。（resist）

______________________________________________________________________________ 6.他突然想到应该找朋友帮忙。（strike）

______________________________________________________________________________ 7.他的朋友非常支持他的想法。（favour）

______________________________________________________________________________ 8.他们的努力最后得到了回报。（pay off）

______________________________________________________________________________ 9.然后传来消息说车已经修好了。（完全倒装）

______________________________________________________________________________ 10.他把他的成功归功于朋友的帮助。（owe）

______________________________________________________________________________ 请将以上句子连成一段语言流畅、用词准确、逻辑严密的短文。

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