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 way
2. a ______ able to be bought, used or easily found
3. a ______ to gain; to get for oneself by one’s own work
4. c ______ to state that sth is true or correct, esp. after some kind of test
5. c ______ a person who pays for help or advice from a person or organization
6. c ______ educated and refined; having an advanced culture
7. d ______ based on the idea that everyone should have equal rights and should be
involved in making important decisions
8. e ______ to officially arrange to join a school or university
9. 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 college
11. i ___certain to happen and impossible to avoid
12. m ______ to continue to have as before
13. p ______ to lead; to be in charge
14. p ______ the act of trying to achieve sth. in a determined way
15. r ______ to care for a person or an animal until they are fully grown
16. s ______ able to understand or appreciate art, music or literature
17. s ______ to be enough
18. s ______ a certificate of an academic degree
19. s ______ to spend most of your time studying one particular subject
20. s ______ related to your spirit than to your body or mind

II. 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 doesn’t jump the fence, or that your client doesn’t 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; I’ll take care of my own. Me, I’m _______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 man’s development we call history—then 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。( not…but…)
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 only…but 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 (either…or…)
5. 社会应该既尊重科学家，也尊重环卫工人。（both…and…）

V. Writing:
With the author’s 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 faculty
11.inevitable 12.maintain 13. preside 14. pursuit 15. rear
16. sensitive 17. suffice 18. scroll 19. specialize 20. spiritual

II.
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 to

III.
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. I’m not quite sure why he didn’t 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.