高考英语第一轮复习词汇检测练习选修八.doc

高考英语第一轮复习词汇检测练习-选修8 Unit 1-2
Unit 1   A land of diversity
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。

第一组：strait, hire, apparent, seagull, racial, nationality, bakery, slavery, slip, majority, applicant, ferry

1 It is _________ from her accent that she is from the north of China.
2 China is a big country with 56 __________.
3 The Taiwan _________ separates Taiwan from the mainland.
4 Did I call you Richard? Sorry, Robert, just a __________ of the tongue.
5 They have appealed for an end to the __________ discrimination in aspects such as employment.
6 It was time to end the _________ and set slaves free.
7 You can buy newly-made cakes from across the __________.
8 There were more than 50 ___________ for the job, but only 10 were employed.
9 The __________ of representatives are in favor of the plan, only a few are against it.
10 There is no bridge over the river between the primary school and the village. So those children need to be __________ to and from school.
11 He was ________ three years ago and he is content with the job in the company.
12 A _________ is a seabird with long wings and usually with white or black feathers.
第二组：swap, cattle, socialist, mixture, means, immigration, insert, indicate, percentage, luggage, aircraft, react

13 China is a __________ country with the Chinese Communist Party ruling.
14 Over the past years, there has been a big rise in __________ to the USA.
15 __________ coins into the slot and press for a ticket.
16 We own a big farm, where sheep and _________ are kept.
17 What _________ of the population in China are farmers?
18 Some people can _________ badly to seafood, such as shrimps.
19 Research __________ that eating habits are related to health.
20 An __________ carrier is a large ship that carries planes which use it as a base to land on and take off from.
21 His telephone is out of service. Is there any other __________ of contacting him?
22 I’ve finished this magazine. Can I _________ with you?
23 Water is a _________ of hydrogen and oxygen.
24 After getting off the train, I asked Peter to stay with our __________ while I found a taxi.
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
by means of  make a life  occur to  team up with   mark out  take in  a great/good many 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    
1 Our trip __________ a visit to the old temple built in the Ming Dynasty.
2 It never __________ me to ask him for help.
3 I got to know Jack years ago and now we __________ each other quite well.
4 Thoughts are expressed ___________ words.
5 ___________ workers joined in the general strike last week. They wanted higher wages.
6 The old man used to ___________ by selling newspapers.
7 We _________ a tennis court on the lawn.
Unit 2   Cloning
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。

第一组：clone, arbitrary, moral, merely, resist, decoration, assumption, commercial, differ, straightforward, regulation, disturbing, media

1 It is impossible to make _________ about how people feel about the new law.
2 It is very _________ to think that a fierce tiger that escaped from a zoo wandered about.
3 Dolly, the _________ sheep, lived for only six years.
4 All the new employees are asked to learn about the rules and _________ of the company and they must obey them.
5 Never draw an __________ conclusion before you think carefully.
6 American English __________slightly from British English in vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.
7 The bank strongly __________ cutting down interest rates.
8 The __________ covered Hu Jintao’s visit to Hong Kong in honor of the 10th anniversary celebrations since its return to China.
9 Huaqiangbei and Dongmen are both the ___________ heart of Shenzhen City.
10 He is _________ a boy of five, but he can speak very good English.
11 That some evil leaders hoped to clone themselves raised some _________ questions among the world.
12 I like to make friends with those _________ people. I hate those who are dishonest.
13 Christmas is drawing near. Let’s go and buy some __________ to make our house and Christmas tree more beautiful.
第二组：breakthrough, obtain, argument, forbid, reasonable, ceiling, accumulate, undertake, zebra, bother, retire, procedure

14 Xiao Lin likes to spend all his time playing online computer games at a net bar. Now his mother _________ him to go to visit any net bar.
15 Your application must go through a few __________ before it is finally approved.
16 We had an __________ with the waiter about the bill because we thought he overcharged us.
17 He was fortunate to have _________ a big fortune by investing wisely in the stock market.
18 Professor Wang works very hard, for he both teaches and __________ research.
19 His explanation was not _________, so all of us didn’t accept it.
20 The electric fan is hanging from the _________ of the room.
21 After years of hard work the five doctors achieved a ________ in cancer treatment.
22 My father is currently 59 years old and will __________ from work next year.
23 By reading this book I am sure that you will __________ a lot of information about Britain.
24 Sorry to _________ you, but there is a call for you on line two.
25 A _______ is an African wild animal like a horse with black and white lines on its body.  
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
be cast down  object to  in favour of  be bound to (do)  from time to time    bring back to life    pay off   
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
1 During my stay in Japan my sister visited me ___________.
2 I __________ to know that she failed in the final exam.
3 All your efforts will ___________. Just keep it up!
4 All those present at the meeting __________ the plan.
5 He has made full preparations for the exam. He __________ succeed.
6 Are there anyone __________ human cloning?
7 I think some day dinosaurs may be ___________ through cloning.
选修八
Unit 1
一 第一组：1 apparent  2 nationalities  3 Strait  4 slip  5 racial  6 slavery  7 bakery  8 applicants  9 majority  10 ferried  11 hired  12 seagull 
第二组：13 socialist  14 immigration  15 Insert  16 cattle  17 percentage  18 react  19 indicates  20 aircraft  21 means  22 swap  23 mixture  24 luggage
二 1 takes in  2 occurs to  3 team up with  4 by means of  5 A good many  6 make a life  7 marked out  
Unit 2
一 第一组：1 assumptions  2 disturbing  3 cloned  4 regulations  5 arbitrary  6 differs  7 resists  8 media  9 commercial  10 merely  11 moral  12 straightforward  13 decorations 
第二组：14 forbids  15 procedures  16 argument  17 accumulated  18 undertakes  19 reasonable  20 ceiling  21 breakthrough  22 retire  23 obtain  24 bother  25 zebra
二 1 from time to time  2 was cast down  3 pay off  4 objected to  5 is bound to  6 in favour of  7 brought back to life
高考英语第一轮复习词汇检测练习-选修8 Unit 3-5
Unit 3   Inventors and inventions
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。

第一组：discovery, criteria, dot, passive, patent, current, monitor, straw, tap, distinguish

1 The countryside is _________ with small villages.
2 I have bought a new PC with a 17 inch colour _________.
3 The __________ of a child’s body in the river shocked the community.
4 Remember to turn off the _________ after you wash.
5 Insert a drinking __________ here and you will suck the milk out.
6 The new regulation played a __________ but not active role in the reform of the factory.
7 He made a new invention and applied for a _________.
8 I am interested in ________ affairs so I surf the internet to read the latest news every day.
9 What __________ do you think can assess a student’s ability?
10 Liu Xiang has __________ himself as an athlete.
第二组：perfume, valid, stable, helicopter, practical, power, application, product, file, triangle

11 The __________ landed on the roof of the building to save those trapped in the big fire.
12 My passport is __________ for only one month. I must renew it.
13 The new _________ gained great success after it was introduced to the market.  14 Please draw a right-angled __________ with a set square(三角尺).
15 If you want to be a member of our club, please fill in an _________ form first.
16 __________ is one of the great four inventions in ancient China.
17 After three days of treatment the patient’s condition is very __________.
18 Every __________ on the same disk must have a different name.
19 In that cosmetics section you can buy expensive well-known French _________.
20 From a _________ point of view, this is not a good place to live in.
第三组：refrigerator, committee, bear, forehead, version, court, abrupt, convenient, jam, mess, expectation

21 A special _________ was set up to look into that matter.
22 The weather here is changeable. Sometimes it has an _________ change in temperature.
23 Would you like to play tennis with me? I have already booked a tennis _________.
24 The temperature here is always below zero degrees. I cannot really __________ living in such cold weather!
25 It is very _________ from here to downtown. There are many buses running along this street.
26 The Chinese _________ of Harry Porter is due for publication this September.
27 I was late because I was held up in a traffic __________.
28 __________ of life for both men and women has improved greatly in China in the past 20 years.
29 Put the ice creams in the __________. Or they will melt very soon.
30 Your room is in a _________. Why not put things in place?
31 I felt my son’s _________ and thought he must be running a fever.
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
call up   now and then   in case   dive into   set out to (do)   get through
in truth   hang on   out of order   ring back    ring off    set about   
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 It turned out that the newcomer was __________ a spy.
2 I won’t __________ my brother unless something unexpected happens.
3 Please __________. I will go and get her.
4 Our freezer is __________ again. We’d better buy a new one instead of repairing it.
5 Last winter that writer __________ writing a new long novel.
6 The police __________ investigate the cause of the fire.
7 Please take your credit card with you _________your money is not enough.
8 He is not here right now; will you please __________ later?
9 She _________ her bag and took out a few coins.
10 The line is engaged; I cannot _________ to his office.
11 I must _________ now because I will go to a meeting.
12 ___________, I visit my grandpa and grandma in the country.
Unit 4   Pygmalion
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。

第一组：mistaken, sob, brilliant, compromise, plot, disgusting, status, bathtub, adaptation, superior

1 At first neither of the two sides would give in but after lengthy talks they reached a __________.
2 Over the years women want to be given equal _________ and pay with men.
3 I thought I saw someone I knew, but actually I was _________.
4 This film is an __________ of a famous writer’s works and it is well received.
5 A __________ is a container that you put water in and then you get into to wash your whole body.
6 Although I disagree with him, yet I cannot speak out, for he is my immediate __________.
7 She has one of the most __________ minds in her country.
8 They were put into prison because they were accused of __________ against the state.
9 Listen! I hear a baby _________ in the next room.
10 I think it is very __________ that some people show off themselves in public.
第二组：pence, classify, pronunciation, hesitate, alphabet, betray, overlook, antique, dismiss, uncomfortable

11 Mary’s ___________ is the best in our class. She speaks very standard English.
12 The books are often ___________ according to subject.
13 Since it was a well-paid job I didn’t _________ for a moment about taking it.
14 She was terrified of saying something that would make her _________ herself.
15 –How much altogether? – Fifty ________, please.
16 Looking into the matter, the police _________ an important fact.
17 From across the street there is an _________ shop, where you can see very old but often valuable objects.
18 School is _________. The students will enjoy a two-month summer holiday.
19 The chair is so hard that it feels _________ to sit on.
20 The English vocabulary is arranged in the order of __________.
第三组：classic, pronounce, condemn, musical, outcome, nail, troublesome, fortune, effective, ambassador

21 My daughter is very __________. She can play quiet a few instruments.
22 A high school diploma (文凭) __________ him to work in a factory with a low pay.
23 The film Casablanca is really a __________ among the many foreign films.
24 President _________ the country to be in a state of war.
25 He graduated from a foreign affairs university and worked as the British __________ to the United Nations.
26 His son is addicted to computer games and cannot get rid of them. It is really a __________ problem for him.
27 This kind of new drug is very __________ against cancer but a little expensive.
28 Please bring me a hammer and I will _________ the painting up.
29 She is hoping her US performance will be the first step on the road to fame and _________.
30 The negotiation is still on. We are waiting for the final __________.   
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pass…off as   make one’s acquaintance(make the acquaintance of sb.)  
in amazement  generally speaking  in terms of  show…in  the other day  take away  fade out   in need of  
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 It was a bad year for films, __________ both quantity and quality.
2 He escaped by __________ himself _________ a guard.
3 Peter, please _________ the man at the door ________.
4 It was in London that I ____________ Jones, who was an electrical engineer.
5 I don’t know who has ____________ my dictionary.
6 I happened to have read this story in a magazine ___________.
7 ___________, girls are more careful than boys.
8 Our school is badly ___________ two teachers of English.
9 ___________ the music at the end of the scene.
10 I looked at him ___________.
Unit 5  Meeting your ancestors
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。

第一组：patient, systematic, applaud, accuracy, alternative, punctuation, tentative, division, yogurt, affection, preserve, analysis, skilful, radioactive, botany