[语言类考试复习资料大全]Who Wins the Lion's Share(2)

1、书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。祝愿天下莘莘学子：学业有成，金榜题名！语言类考试复习资料大全Who Wins the Lions Share(2)Who Wins the Lions Share(2)Part OneUsage and StructureJudge which of the following underlined parts is wrong and make corrections.问题:1. Northern Americans are prone to alcoholism since they have low alcohol tolerance and which

2、is influenced by body weight, patterns of consumption, and diet. A. prone to B. low C. and D. which is 答案: C 去掉and问题:2. Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp raked $1.1 billion in profit last year, which is likely to stoke the controversy over skyrocketing health insurance costs. A. raked B. in C.

3、stoke D. over 答案: A rakedraked in问题:3. Google is trying to lock down or control as many of the traffic-generating sites as they can to freeze Yahoo, MSN and, to some extent, AOL. A. lock down B. traffic-generating C. freeze D. to 答案: C freezefreeze out问题:4. By the terms of the deal a large English f

4、orce was required to arrive within three miles of the castle by the specified date. This arrangement both displeased King Robert and King Edward II who viewed the loss of the castle as a blow to his prestige. A. By the terms B. by C. both displeased D. a blow to 答案: C both 放在 displeased 后面问题:5. Ther

5、es no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior. An emerging body of research shows that positive health habitsas well as negative onesspreading through networks of friends via social communication. A. peer groups B. on C. spreading D. via 答案: C spreadingspreadPractice of S

6、killsStudy Skills Fill in the blanks with the given words and phrases of cause and effect. as a result of, because of, cause, due to, effect, lead to, on account of, owing, to, reasons for, result in 1. A one-week investigation indicates several causes of mistakes _ both carelessness of our staff an

7、d imperfectness of our dispatch system.答案: due to/owing to2. Therefore, before the situation gets any worse, the Dispatch Department is asked to look into the cases in order to find the _ these mistakes in view of quality service and better image of the company.答案: reasons for/causes of3. This year,

8、 the cost of travel and entertainment will have a bigger impact on profits, _ changes in airline fares.答案: owing to/due to4. _ the trainers late arrival nearly 90 minutes was missed.答案: As a result of/Because of5. For this I apologise, but _ this delay we have extended the time of the courses to mak

9、e up for the lost time.答案: because of/as a result of6. Turning right without due care _ 698 accidents last year.答案: resulted in/caused7. Rising temperatures have been _ the snowline to retreat on mountains all over the world.答案: causing8. The _ of the fluctuation of the temperature was to kill the l

10、aboratory specimens.答案: effect9. The Welsh revolt _ another invasion of Wales by King Henry in 1165.答案: led to/resulted in/caused10. There are no provisions in the Act which specify whether a foreign exchange gain or loss is _ income or capital.答案: on account ofWriting Skills Turn the following sent

11、ences into indirect speech. 问题:1. During the general election campaign, Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan asked a question in his speech: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?答案: During the general election campaign, Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan asked the audience in his spee

12、ch whether they were better off now than they used to be four years ago.问题:2. They complained, The media is paying too much attention to swinging public opinion polls when they should be focusing on the issues.答案: They complained that the media was paying too much attention to swinging public opinio

13、n polls when they should have been focusing on the issues.问题:3. The China CCTV reporter asked an old man during a survey, How many bottles have you picked up today?答案: The China CCTV reporter asked an old man during a survey how many bottles he had picked up that day.问题:4. The Norwegian mass killer

14、said to the court: I acknowledge the acts but do not plead guilty.答案: The Norwegian mass killer acknowledged his acts to the court but did not plead guilty.问题:5. But a leading software expert says, Theres no doubt about the authenticity of the birth certificate, and the claim of fraud is flat-out wr

15、ong.答案: But a leading software expert confirms the authenticity of the birth certificate, and he dismisses claims of fraud as flat-out wrong.Part TwoCloze Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. In good times and in bad, its ha

16、rd to say no to moneywhich can 1 dependency like nothing else. 2 , the purpose of transforming the international food-aid business into an international-business business is to foster entrepreneurial independence, not 3 . So in order to be truly transformative, the money gift cannot simply be a gift

17、 and 4 but a gift. If that money is not to create a 5 state of subordination, the money gift must create business. As in P4P (Purchase for Progress), the cash might impel small farmers 6 more loans, more pesticides, more seeds, more land; to buy low and sell high. Of course, when money has been depl

18、oyed as a 7 to action, the deployment becomes entangled in ideology. The money may eventually 8 the widest variety of political and economic reactions. 9 , Maori warriors believe that all gifts ultimately accrue to the giver, so that if you give a hungry man a fish he may 10 gut and cook and eat the

19、 fish, but the spirit of the fish, its hau, will eventually become restless and return to the 11 of the fish. And if the gift happens to be the 12 -grain-purchase formulae of the World Food Program, the hau will journey through the spirit land of giftdom until it returns to its 13 , the warm, rich,

20、capitalist womb of Bill Gates. Along the same 14 , Claude Lvi-Strauss noted that the Nambikwara chieftains of the Brazilian Amazon proved their chieftainship through generosity. 15 distributing food and other goods, the big man 16 and increased his power. Thomas Hobbes made his fourth Law of Nature:

21、 No man giveth, but with intention of good to 17 . And the Eskimo have a proverb: Gifts make 18 as whips make dogs. It may be best not to know the ultimate effect of your gift. Such knowledge might 19 the ideological romance that made the gift possible in the first 20 . 1.A.heightenB.fosterC.reduceD.intensify答案:B2.A.Of courseB.NonethelessC.SoD.Likewise答案:A3.A.resistanceB.subservienceC.concessionD.helplessness答案:A4.A.nothingB