B4U3小测试及答案.doc

Unit Three QUIZ1. Directions: Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate word from the box. Change the form when necessary. contempt construct vital essay disregarding disrupt allocate differ anecdotal innumerable balanced gender culturally profession postgraduate 1) The tourist industry is of _ importance to the national economy. 2) It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this _ . 3) If you find a prescribed medication is _ your sleep, the effects may be temporary. 4) The Department of National Health intends _ resources according to needshealth status and population size. 5) By _ speed limits and passing red lights, we somehow got to the airport in time. 6) How could she have loved a man who so clearly held her in _ ? 7) Sociologists believe that _ differences in voting will gradually disappear. 8) Lies that protect someones feelings are often _ acceptable in the Western countries. 9) Study for the dissertation for _ degrees is normally undertaken during the summer vacation. 10) She has received _ get-well cards and flowers.11) The city has announced a plan to _ another runway at LaGuardia Airport.12) The symptoms did not _ between the two groups. 13) There is no apparent conclusive scientific study, but the _ evidence is strong that the herb is useful. 14) Recently historians have taken a far more _ view of the Irish question. 15) Many teachers are thinking about leaving the _ for more highly paid careers. 2. Directions: Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate preposition or adverb 1) The levels of blood glucose depend _ part on what you eat and when you eat. 2) The flames lit _ the sky. 3) These added up _ a system you could understand and adjust to, whether or not you approved of it. 4) Gartners Vendor Ratings are designed to give decision makers deeper insight into a provider and to answer questions that go _ the product or service. 5) We are accustomed _ using audio to present examples of language in use. 6) Many of us still have the habit, carried _ from when we learned to read, of reading the words so that we can hear them in our head. 7) Do you approve _ doctors using human embryos for research? 8) I try to sometimes call _ those who do not seem to be paying attentionand that seems to be mainly boys. 9) Companies that are not market-driven risk falling _ the competition. 10) Marias been my partner since I took the business _ from my father. 3. Directions: Read the following passage and fill in the blanks. As women decide to move into roles that were traditionally 1) _ to them, there is a decrease in the number of sharp 2) _ that once marked the behavior of men and women. School-related 3)_ is an example. If there once was a stereotype that women perform less well than men in mathematics and better in language and the arts, the differences today are almost nonexistent. Once females are encouraged to take advanced mathematics courses, and once males are encouraged to 4) _ interests in language and the arts, they are able to 5) _ advantage of a schools offerings without the 6)_ that boys do better in math, girls do better in areas involving verbal skills. In an ideal world, once opportunities within a society are opened up to members of both sexes, individuals can pursue various goals 7) _ on their abilities and interests. Further, they can pursue their goals without the constant 8) _ that there will eventually be limits placed on them. This ideal world does not yet exist, but there has been research in diverse cultures that has given insights into what a society without unnecessary 9) _ restrictions might look like. Research has focused on the pressures for movements away from traditional restrictions and the results of the changes in the 10) _ of males and females. Many of these changes have resulted in the disappearance of the sharp differentiation between the behavior of men and women. . A. ignored B. denied C. disregarded A. distinctions B. similarities C. disagreements A. participation B. performance C. aspiration A. seek B. follow C. pursue A. make B. use C. take A. preference B. prejudice C. ignorance A. based B. according C. owing A. caution B. pressure C. concern A. gender B. masculine C. feminine A. performance B. features C. behavior Keys:1. vital essay disrupting allocating disregarding contempt gender culturally postgraduate innumerable construct differ anecdotal balanced profession2. in up to beyond to over of on behind over3. BABCC BACAC4. Directions: Listen to the passage and complete the summary with the exact words you hear: Men are generally more 1)_ than women and enjoy taking 2_. More men than women are convicted for 3) _. Some say that this is simply a matter of 4) _; others suggest that it is a 5) _ of the way we organize the sex and gender 6) _in our society. In fact, many of the findings have turned out to be 7) _. Biologically, men certainly seem to be the 8)_ sex. On average, men experience heart 9)_ 10 years earlier than women, but have a better rate of 10)_ if they survive the first year attack. Symptoms also 11)_ by sex. In adulthood, men are more likely to be 12) _ with viruses and have a shorter average 13) _. Regardless of the findings that sex differences really do 14) _ after all and despite the pressure to