新概念英语自主学习练习题.doc

Unit1How does one save face or lose face? This concept is in fact for different peoples throughout the world and is not 1. ( )Chinese. It could also be considered a Western 2.(). However, it carries much weight for Asian people and its 3.() in Asian countries is greater. Some Asian people believe that the 4. ( )of face and other rituals and 5. ( )like honoring your parents do not 6. ( )in the West, but it would be too 7.（） to put it in this way. When we 8. （）the values held by families in the West, we find that many have similar beliefs to 9. （）that guide Asian culture, and they 10. them in their daily lives. So, some ideas are becoming 11.（） similar between the east and west. For example, American students are having a stronger 12. （）of studying hard for the honor of their families than before. And American people are more concerned about the disadvantages of happy education for primary education than they 13.（）. One major 14. （）is how each weighs an 15.（） rights against the rights of the community. There are people, 16.(), and even leaders in the West who believe that the freedom of an individual carries much more 17.() than needs for the order in the community. 18.() Americans hold the right to own a gun so dear that they have consequently been willing to 19.() a blind eye to the harm that people 20.() guns has caused. A proper balance between Western and Eastern ideas can be a very good idea. 答案;1entirely 2convention 3significance 4principles 5customs 6exist 7absolute 8assess 9those 10practice 11increasingly 12consciousness 13used to be 14difference 15individuals 16communities 17weight 18Some 19turn 20obtaining阅读理解：I used to go to Starbucks (星巴克) for their coffee, but thats changed since I discovered their comforting, tasty teas, which are better than coffee any time. Tea is cool even when its hot. People drink more tea than any other drink in the world, except for water. Whether its served hot or cold, natural and flavored teas are drinks that have been consumed (消费) for centuries. Everywhere you look, youll find various kinds of teasin restaurants, grocery stores, television advertisements, and gift shops. Why is there all this excitement about tea? Whats its attraction? Well, there are many possibilities for why more and more people are drinking tea. One possibility is that people are coming to notice the benefits of drinking tea, particularly green tea. Studies show that drinking four cups of green tea a day can reduce the risk of developing various types of cancer, as well as heart disease. The key to teas effects of cure seems to lie in chemicals found in tea which prevent a process that leads to the growth of cancers. Green tea may also prevent skin cancer. It has also been linked with helping the body to rid itself of harmful materials, and green tea is thought to possibly protect against colds and Parkinsons (帕金森) disease. Another explanation for why people are drinking more tea may be due to the comforting process of just making a cup of tea. The time it takes to prepare tea leaves in hot water and enjoy its gentle flavor forces drinkers to slow down and relax a while, making it the perfect way to improve a world where people are so crazy about cappuccino（热牛奶咖啡）, a hot coffee with milk in it. So, whether you drink tea, eat it in foods, wear it to smell good, or take it in pills, one thing is certain, the use of tea is more than a trendit is a habit of our past and if studies prove the benefit of its use, it will undoubtedly be an important element of our future. 1.Nowadays, among all the drinks in the world, tea is _.A. the most widely consumed drinkB. as widespread as coffeeC. even more widely consumed than waterD. the second most widely consumed drink2.The passage does not mention _ as a possible benefit of drinking tea.A. preventing skin cancerB. helping the body to rid itself of harmful materialC. curing Parkinsons diseaseD. reducing the risk of developing cancer3.It is good to drink tea because the time it takes to prepare a cup of tea _.A. allows the tea leaves to absorb enough waterB. enables drinkers to relaxC. is suitable for people to get some newsD. can improve the quality of cappuccino4.The writer suggests that in the future people will probably _.A. follow the trend and go on drinking teaB. drink more water than teaC. form the habit of eating tea leaves in foodsD. take tea as an important part of their life5.The passage is mainly about _.A. the benefits of drinking teaB. the benefits of drinking coffeeC. using tea leaves in fortune tellingD. advising people to drink tea and waterUnit3Do high divorce rates in countries like England and the United States indicate that marriage is no longer a life-long 1.（） Have we lowered our 2.（） for marriage? Some suspect that it is the temporary nature of things in our life that has 3. （）to high rates of divorce. We change jobs 4.（） we change our socks, and make new friends each time we move, 5.（） is often. Divorce is a 6.（） result in such a social environment. 7.（）, divorce is becoming the norm for the next 8.（）. Now there is much less 9.（） from children for their parents to divorce than before. It seems that the idea of marriage commitment of staying together until death is quietly 10（）. 11.（） the children of divorced parents learn to 12.（）divorce more readily? Or is it a matter of learning from their parents how to make a marriage 13.（）? Most people still have 14.（） about divorce when children are involved. Many wait until their children have grown and have 15. （）the home to get a divorce. Nowadays, people across the globe see 16.（） in an unhappy marriage as 17. （）than getting a divorce. One 18. （）is some women, who would have previously 19.（） hardship while married, now have enough education and money to be able to 20.（） outside of marriage. There is a real formula for change.答案：1 commitment 2expectations 3led 4as often as 5which 6subsequent 7Moreover 8generation 9resistance 10passing away 11Do 12accept 13work 14reservations 15left 16staying 17worse 18factor 19suffered 20survive阅读理解：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 womens 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 womens college permits women to choose classes and activities freely. For example, she says that in a womens 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 womens college, women feel freer to say what they think. Womens schools also bring out leadership capabilities in many women. Women are represented everywhere. For example, at a womens college every governing office is held by a woman. Recent studies reportedly show that this leadership continues after college. American women who went to womens colleges are more likely to hold successful jobs later in life.1.Womens colleges were established to _.A. give women the same right of education that men enjoyB. make changes to the traditional educational system (系统)C. defy mens privilege (特权) in societyD. train women in particular fields2.Studying at the same school with men does not mean _.A. women can do the same thing as menB. that women are given the same chance as menC. women are allowed more freedom to develop themselvesD. the present educational system does not allow other choices3.According to the passage, in womens schools _.A. women are freer than if they study at the same school with menB. women could do anything they wantC. they teach things peculiar to womenD. men are openly challenged4.Which one of the following statements is NOT true about womens 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.5.The title of this passage is most likely to be _.A. Female Education in the United StatesB. Womens Schools in the United StatesC. Women Should be Given the Same Education as MenD. Education in AmericaUnit5Mommy, do you love me? asked Cleo during dinner that evening. Of course I do, Her mother replied 1. （）what was next. Mommy do you love me usually 2.（） her daughter wanted something. Then why dont you ever want to play with me? Mrs. Nelson was a single mother trying to 3.（）her daughter by herself. She worked fifty hours a week at a job and 4.（）to cover the costs of their home. This didnt 5.() the two hours of driving between the office and home. She was gone by 7 a.m. and back around 7 pm, just 6.() to cook a late dinner for her and her daughter and 7.() her daughter to bed. On the weekends, the house was usually so unclean that she spent most of her time 8. ( )it up, doing the wash and 9.() in the kitchen. When she was finished with that, she hardly had any 10. ( )for anything else. Mrs. Nelson understood that she had not been giving her daughter the 11. of time that she needed, but she didnt know 12. ()to do. She felt so guilty and so 13.（） to change her situation. She was also greatly angry with Cleos father for 14.（） them in this situation. She tried to smile at her daughter and give her some type of 15. （）for the following weekend, but 16. （）she started to cry. She got up from the table and went to the bathroom to 17. （）water on her face and then returned to the table where her daughter was still eating. Cleo looked 18.（）; 19.（）, she hadnt said anything that she thought was hurtful. Im sorry, Cleo, her mother said without further explanation. How would you like to go to the zoo next Sunday? Cleos face 20.（） up. Mrs. Nelson knew that her situation wasnt going to improve anytime soon, but feeling depressed in front of her daughter wasnt going to do anything to improve the situation. 答案wonderingmeantraisemanagedincludein timeputstraighteningcleaning upenergyamountwhat elsehelplesshaving leftpromiseinsteadsplashconfusedafter allbrightened阅读理解：If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise and as a result, we are aging unnecessarily soon. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of aging could be slowed down. With a team of colleagues (同事) at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain activity of a thousand people of different ages and varying (不同的) jobs. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the activity of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intelligence and feeling, and determine the human character. (The rear section of the brain, which controls functions like eating and breathing, does not change with age, and one can continue living without the ability to think and feel.) Change of front and side parts, as bits die off, was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not to be seen in some sixty-and-seventy-year-olds. Matsuzawa discovered from his tests that there is a simple answer to the loss normally associated with age?using the head. The findings show in general terms that the decrease of the brains ability to think begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White-collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant. Matsuzawas findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must move around properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain needs. The best way to keep blood moving well is through using the brain. He says, Think hard and engage in conversation. Dont rely on pocket calculators. 1.The team of doctors wanted to find out _.A. why certain people age sooner than othersB. how to make people live longerC. the size of certain peoples brainsD. which people are most intelligent2.Which of the following statements is true?A. People who work in the government dont age as quickly as people in the town.B. The back of the brain is in charge of peoples eating.C. The easiest way to prevent the brain from aging is to improve our diet.D. We are young when we have enough physical exercise.3.The doctors tests show that _.A. our brains shrink as we grow olderB. the front section of the brain does not shrinkC. sixty-year-olds have better brains than thirty-year-oldsD. some peoples brains less active than other peoples4.According to the passage, which group of people seem to age sooner than the others?A. Lawyers.B. Professors.C. Doctors.D. White-collar workers.5.The article is possibly written for _.A. junior studentsB. ordinary readersC. doctors and nurses in hospitalsD. university professorsUnit6完形填空When I was younger, I was 1.（） to wear my hair short as it said you wanted to join the army and 2. （）the actions of the military. As nothing could have been 3. （）from the truth, I made sure my hair never looked as if I was 4.（） the military. However, I did not 5.(） want what the average citizen thought was an appropriate 6.(). I needed to say that I wasnt like them by looking more 7.(), so I grew my hair long. But what I 8.() about myself and the other long-haired men was that we were all trying to say that we didnt 9.() . What I also noticed was that other than having long hair, we 10.() doing anything that was very impressive. I decided then that I no longer wanted to make a 11.() by wearing my hair a certain way. I chose a(n) 12. cut that tried not to say anything. My hair was short, but not to the 13. that it carried the label, supporter of military operations. I kept my hair that way for a couple of years, but I still wasnt satisfied. My hair was still long enough that it could be 14. in different ways to reflect my willingness to be like the others. It could also be combed 15. where I was losing my hair. Again, I felt like my hair was 16. me. There was only one thing to do. I had my hair shaved really short which showed exactly where I was 17. it. My head felt cold and I kept on 18. it; but at least I had passed the 19. age for someone in the military, so no one would 20. a 30-something man with hair loss for a want-to-be soldier. 答案：1afraid 2supported 3further 4joining 5necessarily 6appearance 7remarkable 8noticed 9belong 10werent 11statement 12average 13extent 14styled 15to hide 16misrepresenting 17losing 18rubbing 19characteristic 20confuse阅读理解：In 1848, gold was discovered in California; from all over the nation, thousands of young men set out for California. People called this the time of the Gold Rush. A gold miner came into a city looking for a pair of pants. He wanted pants strong enough to stand up to the rough work of mining. He met a young man named Levi, who sold heavy cloth for tents and wagon tops. They asked a tailor to use heavy cloth for their pants. Then Levi went into the business of making work pants. He asked his brothers to send him some strong blue cotton cloth called denim (斜纹粗棉布). With this blue denim cloth, Levi started making the kind of pants we call blue jeans today. They were sewed up in the same way as other pants. In 1860, a miner said that the pockets werent strong enough to hold the pieces of gold he found. The pockets kept falling off the pants. The cloth was all right. It was the thread that wasnt strong enough. So Levi used rivets (铆钉) to attach the pockets onto the pants. Cowboys needed tough pants, too. They liked their pants to fit tightly. But the rivets marked the cowboys saddles. So Levi covered the rivets with cloth. Then everybody was happy. 1.This article as a whole is about _.A. how people got blue jeansB. the Gold Rush in CaliforniaC. How blue jeans are madeD. The kind of pants cowboys wear2.While not stated in the article, you can tell that _.A. everybody who went to California got a lot of goldB. Levi found riches in the gold fieldsC. Levi sold more jeans to cowboys than to gold minersD. Levi made more money than many gold miners3.The word this in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to _.A. CaliforniaB. the discovery of goldC. many people looking for goldD. the nation at this time4.Levi used strong blue cotton cloth to make pants because _.A. gold miners liked the blue colorB. this was the only cloth he hadC. miners wanted pants which could stand rough workD. cowboys liked their pants