新编大学英语B3quiz Unit1题目及答案

Subject: unit1 quiz

Directions:

Complete each of the following sentences with the appropriate form of the word in brackets.

We need to encourage the disabled and help them live more lives. (worth)

A free of ideas is of great importance in the knowledge economy. (circulate)

My mother sat and watched me eating my food with a(n) expression on her face—I could tell she had something to say. (thought)

Nothing can shake our to fight against international terrorism. (determine)

If he didn't have a secretary to remind him, he wouldn't keep any of his . (appoint)

The typist had to change the letter five times. (competent)

This problem is from the main one since they are so closely related to each other. (separate)

I wouldn't want my to be a big organization—I'd rather work for an individual or a small business. (employ)

Tom had the to be ill on the day of the party. (fortune)

He is a(n) for a large steel company in Sheffield. (represent)

Those who drop out of school must lower their of success. (expect)

Writing a paper for the top journal is a(n) task. (challenge)

Their relationship was destroyed by his terrible . (jealous)

He answered all my questions with complete . (assure)

Too many mistakes in writing are . (forgive)

To everyone's surprise, his of the storm came true. (predict)

I always feel when faced with a difficult problem, so I need to build up my self-confidence. (adequate)

Her in language study established her fame in linguistic circles. (accomplish)

19) As he had contracted (感染) a contagious (传染的) disease, he was immediately sent to a(n) hospital. (isolate) )

His treatment as a child had given him a strong sense of . (inferior)

2. Directions:

Complete each of the following blanks in the passage with the best choice listed below.

Chris Peterson was teaching a class in abnormal psychology at Virginia Tech when he told his students to 1)_________out an Attributional Style Questionnaire —a carefully designed test that determines a person's 2)_________of optimism and pessimism. The students also answered 3) _________about their general health, including how often they went to a doctor.

Peterson followed the health of his students the 4)_________ year and discovered that the pessimists had twice as many infectious diseases and made twice 5) _________ many trips to the doctor as the optimists. Later, Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania and two of his colleagues, using interviews and blood 6)_________ , found that optimists have better immune function than pessimists. Studies 7) _________ other researchers show the same thing. Why? One big factor is that "Pessimistic individuals," as Seligman writes, "get 8) _____________ more easily and more often." When a person is depressed, certain hormones (荷尔蒙) become depleted (大大减少), 9)_________a chain of biochemical events that end 10) _____________ slowing down the activity of the immune system. For example, two key players in our immune systems are T cells and NK cells.

T cells recognize invaders (like viruses) and make more copies of themselves to kill 11)_________the invaders. Pessimists' T cells don't multiply as quickly as 12) _________ , allowing invaders to get the upper 13) _________ .

NK cells 14)_________ in the blood and kill whatever they come across that they 15) _________ as foreign (like cancer cells). Pessimists' NK cells can identify foreign entities, but they don't 16)_________ them as well as the optimists' NK cells.

1) A. fill B. read C. examine D. check

2) A. standard B. amount C. level D. quantity

3) A. problems B. questions C. reply D. response

4) A. next B. later C. previous D. following

5) A. as B. more C. of D. so

6) A. tests B. samples C. subjects D. models

7) A. through B. with C. in D. by

8) A. excited B. worried C. depressed D. annoyed

9) A. produced B. creating C. leading D. raised

10) A. with B. by C. off D. up

11) A. in B. at C. off D. across

12) A. optimists' B. optimists C. optimism D. optimist's

13) A. side B. wind C. hand D. rank

14) A. circulate B. blend C. melt D. approach

15) A. clarify B. identify C. classify D. isolate

16) A. destroy B. invade C. clean D. sweep

worthwhile/worthy circulation thoughtful determination appointments incompetent inseparable employer misfortune representative expectations challenging jealousy assurance unforgivable prediction inadequate accomplishment isolation inferiority

ACBDA ADCBD CACAB A