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Unit 3 Part 9 Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
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1. 
The football match had to be _________ owing to (由于) the bad weather.

A. cancelled

B. advanced

C. arranged

D. held

Correct answer: A

2. 
The starter (赛跑发令员) gave the ________ for the race to begin.

A. advice

B. signal

C. glow

D. attention

Correct answer: B

3. 
This lovely old town has a _________ you couldn't find in a big city.

A. condition

B. standard

C. situation

D. charm

Correct answer: D

4. 
They were under the _________ that the company was doing well, but in fact it was in serious trouble.

A. conclusion

B. expression

C. enjoyment

D. illusion

Correct answer: D

5. 
I didn't know what to do, but then an idea suddenly ________ to me.

A. appeared

B. happened

C. occurred

D. emerged

Correct answer: C

6. 
Pipes made of plastic are now widely used in building as they are light and do not become _________ in water.

A. ripe

B. instant

C. rotten

D. mature

Correct answer: C

7. 
We watched the plane _________ behind the clouds.

A. disappearing

B. disappeared

C. diving

D. dived

Correct answer: A

8. 
The United Nations Conference on Global Environment, which took place earlier this year in Vienna, was a very ________ meeting.

A. productive

B. communicative

C. aggressive

D. protective

Correct answer: A

9. 
The local government tried its best to ensure each of its citizens a _________ supply of food at regular intervals (时间间隔).

A. consistent

B. continual

C. continuous

D. numerous

Correct answer: A

10. 
It was difficult to guess what her ________ to the news would be.

A. reaction

B. excitement

C. impression

D. opinion

Correct answer: A

11. 
There have been many ___________ in their marriage but they still love each other.

A. ups and downs

B. from head to toe

C. time and again

D. over and over

Correct answer: A

12. 
The father advised her to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons ________ he found the young man charming and intelligent.

A. as though

B. even though

C. because of

D. due to

Correct answer: B

13. 
She _________ a new idea for increasing sales.

A. came up with

B. came up at

C. came by

D. came for

Correct answer: A

14. 
The rain stopped and the sun __________ to shine.

A. came down

B. came out

C. came off

D. came on

Correct answer: B

15. 
After several days of heavy rain the roof __________ with a loud noise, crashing (坠落) onto the ground.

A. came out

B. came down

C. came on

D. came at

Correct answer: B

16. 
The boy __________ the dog with a thick stick but the dog did not yield.

A. came at

B. came with

C. won over

D. won at

Correct answer: A

17. 
The lawyer __________ the jury (陪审团) by his moving defense.

A. won at

B. won over

C. came at

D. came down

Correct answer: B

18. 
The government will have to work hard to __________ the confidence of the people after the terrible event.

A. win back

B. win through

C. come up with

D. come at

Correct answer: A

19. 
Sally has made a complete _______ influenza (流行性感冒).

A. pass by

B. decision against

C. recovery from

D. care of

Correct answer: C

20. 
He does his work carefully but he is terribly _______ it.

A. careful about

B. good at

C. slow at

D. interested in

Correct answer: C

21. 
A teacher should always be thoughtful _______ what's best for his pupils.

A. in

B. by

C. of

D. at

Correct answer: C

22. 
On hearing the bad news, she was _______ and didn't know what to do.

A. on her guard

B. without a clue

C. over her head

D. in her time

Correct answer: B

23. 
To increase our working efficiency, it is necessary to _______ every moment we have.

A. include in

B. keep from

C. take advantage of

D. look up to

Correct answer: C

24. 
My parents are not interested in modern music. They are _______.

A. before the date

B. behind the times

C. after the fashion

D. against the tides (潮流)

Correct answer: B

25. 
She has nothing to do with the murder case. She is not _______ it.

A. concerned with

B. related in

C. involved in

D. concerned in

Correct answer: C

26. 
I _______ Alice, who was on her way to see how I was getting along.

A. came up with

B. got out of

C. ran over

D. ran into

Correct answer: D
Unit 3 Part 18 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)
Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
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Passage 1
Coffee is one of the most popular (流行的) drinks throughout the world today. In fact, according to some estimates, over 30% of all adults in the world drink coffee at least once a day on the average.
Coffee contains a kind of drug called caffeine (咖啡因). Caffeine is a chemical that stimulates (刺激) the nerves of the body. Drinking coffee tends to make people a little bit more awake-at least for a short time―because of this stimulating effect on the nervous system (系统). A cup of coffee has, on the average, about 3% caffeine in it.
One story of the discovery of the coffee plant relates to this effect of caffeine. According to the story, coffee was discovered in East Africa. The story says that coffee was first found by a goat farmer named Kaldi. This was about the year 850.
Kaldi was leading his animals through the mountains and the goats were stopping repeatedly to eat the plants near the path. Suddenly, some of the goats started jumping up and down in a very strange way.
Kaldi figured out that the goats were acting this way because of the plants they were eating. Kaldi himself tried eating some of the green beans (豆荚) that the goats had been eating. He, too, felt the stimulating effect of the beans.
Kaldi wanted to prove what had happened, so he picked some of the beans and took them back to his home village, where he told his story. The green bean got the name "Kaffa" and later "coffee" because the beans were discovered in a place called Kaffa in Africa.
Then for years, people used to eat a few of the green Kaffa beans when they were in the mountains and needed extra energy to do their work. It was later found that the coffee beans could be picked and then dried until they turned brown, and then they could be stored. If the beans were dried and stored, they could be used at any time.

1. 
What is caffeine?

A. A kind of seed.

B. A kind of plant.

C. A kind of drug.

D. A kind of nut.

Correct answer: C

2. 
What is the purpose of drinking coffee?

A. To become more awake.

B. To become more healthy.

C. To become more happy.

D. To become more clever.

Correct answer: A

3. 
Coffee was first found by a __________.

A. doctor

B. farmer

C. druggist（药剂师）

D. chemist（化学家）

Correct answer: B

4. 
How did the goats react after eating the plants?

A. They fell asleep.

B. They could not find their way home.

C. They started jumping up and down.

D. They wanted to eat more.

Correct answer: C

5. 
Why did the green bean get the name "Kaffa"?

A. Because Kaldi loved his home village very much.

B. Because Kaldi's goats loved the green bean very much.

C. Because the beans were discovered in a place by this name.

D. Because the beans could be picked and dried.

Correct answer: C

Passage 2
Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. The servants (女仆) were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning, the glow had become so bright that one of the servants, Jane, woke her master to see it. Pepys went to the window to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, so after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked as though the fire was dying down, though he could still see it. So he set to work to tidy (整理) his room and put his things back where he wanted them after the servants had cleaned everything.
While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard that the fire was a bad one: three hundred houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the building so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning. Someone told him that the fire had started in a baker's house in Pudding Lane (小巷), and then the flames (火焰) had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is said, at Pie Corner.

1. 
The servants were up very late because _______________.

A. they were chatting

B. they were having a party

C. they were preparing for a dinner

D. they were watching a fire

Correct answer: C

2. 
Pepys went back to bed because _______________.

A. he was not interested in chatting about a fire

B. he did not think the fire was anything special

C. the fire was far away

D. the fire had died down

Correct answer: C

3. 
When Pepys was tidying his room and things, Jane came in and told him that _______________.

A. the fire was dying down

B. the fire had been put out

C. the fire was a bad one

D. no flame could be seen

Correct answer: C

4. 
The fire started _________________.

A. on London Bridge

B. in a baker's house

C. because the lane was too narrow for people to come in

D. because people could not get enough water to put it out

Correct answer: B

5. 
Pie Corner was __________________.

A. the site of the Tower of London

B. the site of the Great Fire of London

C. the place where the fire ended

D. the place where Pepys lived

Correct answer: C

Passage 3
In the United States 84 colleges now accept just women. Most of these colleges were established in the 19th century; they were designed to offer women the education they could not receive anywhere else. At that time major universities and colleges accepted only men. In the past 20 years many young women have chosen to study at colleges that accept both men and women. As a result some women's colleges decided to accept men students too. Others, however, refused to change. Now these schools are popular (流行的) again.
The president of Trinity College (三一大学) in Washington, D.C. said that by the end of the 1980s women began to recognize that studying at the same school with men did not mean women were having an equal chance to learn. The president of Smith College in Massachusetts says a women's college permits women to choose classes and activities freely. For example, she says that in a women's college a higher percentage of students studies mathematics than in a college with both men and women.
Educational experts say men students in the United States usually speak in class more than women students do. In a women's college, women feel freer to say what they think. Women's schools also bring out leadership capabilities in many women. Women are represented everywhere. For example, at a women's college every governing office is held by a woman. Recent studies reportedly show that this leadership continues after college. American women who went to women's colleges are more likely to hold successful jobs later in life.

1. 
Women's colleges were established to ________________.

A. give women the same right of education that men enjoy

B. make changes to the traditional educational system (系统)

C. defy men's privilege (特权) in society

D. train women in particular fields

Correct answer: A

2. 
Studying at the same school with men does not mean ________________.

A. women can do the same thing as men

B. that women are given the same chance as men

C. women are allowed more freedom to develop themselves

D. the present educational system does not allow other choices

Correct answer: B

3. 
According to the passage, in women's schools _________________.

A. women are freer than if they study at the same school with men

B. women could do anything they want

C. they teach things peculiar to women

D. men are openly challenged

Correct answer: A

4. 
Which one of the following statements is NOT true about women's college?

A. Women feel freer to say what they think.

B. More women can participate in the management of the college.

C. A very high percentage of women will become leaders later.

D. Women are more likely to be successful in their later careers.

Correct answer: C

5. 
The title of this passage is most likely to be ______.

A. Female Education in the United States

B. Women's Schools in the United States

C. Women Should be Given the Same Education as Men

D. Education in America

Correct answer: B

Passage 4
Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females. However, this number changes a great deal, and by the age of maturity (成熟), the number of young men is about the same as that of young women. And among 70-year old people, there are twice as many women as men. But this great universal (普遍性) truth is changing. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that for the first time there will be too many boys in those crucial (至关紧要的) years when boys are searching for a mate. What is even more troubling is that the survival of so many boys has removed a chance for natural selection (选择) to do its work. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the difference in weight is due to genes (基因), a force of change has gone.
There is another way to commit evolutionary (进化的) suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Except in some religious communities, very