现代大学英语第二册第一课AnotherSchoolYear---WhatFor单元测试quiz1.doc

Book 2 Unit 1 Another School Year-What For?I. Spell out the words according to the definitions given. The initial letters are given as a clue.1. a _behaving in a proud and self-important way2. a _ able to be bought, used or easily found3. a _ to gain; to get for oneself by ones own work4. c _ to state that sth is true or correct, esp. after some kind of test5. c _ a person who pays for help or advice from a person or organization 6. c _ educated and refined; having an advanced culture7. d _based on the idea that everyone should have equal rights and should be involved in making important decisions8. e _to officially arrange to join a school or university9. e _to enable sb to see or experience new things or learn about new beliefs, ideas, etc.10. f _all the teachers of a university or college11. i _certain to happen and impossible to avoid12. m _ to continue to have as before13. p _ to lead; to be in charge 14. p _the act of trying to achieve sth. in a determined way15. r _ to care for a person or an animal until they are fully grown16. s _able to understand or appreciate art, music or literature17. s _to be enough 18. s _a certificate of an academic degree19. s _to spend most of your time studying one particular subject20. s _ related to your spirit than to your body or mindII. Fill in the blanks with the phrases we learned in the text.1. It was January of 1940 and I _graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. 2. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course he meant to _ a scroll that would read Bachelor of Science.3. It would certify that he had _ pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history.4. Nevertheless, I was young and I had high sense of duty and I tried to put it this way: “For the rest your life”, I said, “your days are going to _ about 24 hours.5. You will _ the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesnt jump the fence, or that your client doesnt go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence.6. _ everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children.7. What do you_ those other eight hours?8. Will the children ever_ a reasonably penetrating idea at home?9. Will you be _ a family that maintains some contact with the great democratic intellect?10. “Look,” he said, “you professors raise your kids your way; Ill take care of my own. Me, Im _make money.11. If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of mans development we call historythen you _ in college.12. _ few if any of you will leave your names to be cut into those stones.13. When you have read a book, you have_ your human experience.14. A civilized mind is,_, one that contains many such lives and many such worlds.15. We _ make available to you, as best we can, that expertise.III. Translation:1. 总理明天将赴纽约出席联合国会议。(leave for)2. 他们缺得不是钱，而是经验。( notbut)3. 他们到中国来不仅仅是为学汉语，而是为了了解中国文化。 (not onlybut also)4. 我不太清楚他为什么没来。既可能是他不感兴趣，也可能是忘了 (eitheror)5. 社会应该既尊重科学家，也尊重环卫工人。（bothand）V. Writing:With the authors idea about the college education, what do you expect to get out of college?Key: I. 1 arrogantly 2 available 3 acquire 4 certify 5 client 6 civilized 7 democratic 8 enroll 9. expose 10 faculty11.inevitable 12.maintain 13. preside 14. pursuit 15. rear 16. sensitive 17. suffice 18. scroll 19. specialize 20. spiritualII. 1. was fresh out of; 2. reach for; 3. specialized in; 4. average out to; 5. see to it that; 6. Along with; 7. do with; 8. be exposed to; 9. presiding over; 10. out to;11. have no business being;12. The chances are that; 13. added to; 14.in essence;15. are here toIII.1. The premier is leaving for New York for a UN conference tomorrow.2. What they lack is not money but experience.3. They have come to china not only to learn Chinese, but to learn about Chinese culture as well.4. Im not quite sure why he didnt show up. Either he was not interested, or he simply forgot about it.5. A society should respect both its scientists and its garbage collection.