Loving and Hating New York 补充练习题/test
Loving and Hating New York
Ⅰ. Reading comprehension
1. Many Europeans take New York as their favorite city, because ________.
A. They are reassured by the sight of the fashion avenues of Madison and Fifth.
B. There are many familiar international names in New York.
C. New York’s charged nervous atmosphere and vulgar dynamism.
D. New York city is a cosmopolitan city.
2. In author’s eyes, New York is ________.
A. a sacred place
B. a mongrel city
C. a international metropolis
D. a conventional city
3. The signs of how the New York fallen cannot be seen from ________.
A. New York never boasted its greatness.
B. Many advertising campaigns publicly praise New York.
C. Many New Yorkers wear T-shirts with a heart design and the words: “ I love New York” printed on it.
D. New York is trying desperately to regain her lost privileged status.
4. From where the author begins to give an actual description of New York itself.
A. The last sentence of paragraph 5.
B. The first sentence of paragraph 6.
C. From paragraph 1-5.
D. The whole essay.
5. Which of the following cities is located in New York?
A. Jersey
B. Soho
C. Nashville
D. Beverly Hills
Ⅱ. Determine whether the following statements are true or false. Put “T”, if the statement is true and put an “F”, if false.
1. According to the author, New York is no longer the leading city is the United States.
2. New York is a city that resists the prevailing trends of America and it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and uncommonness.
3. Europeans take to New York because they feel reassured when they see so many jewelers, shoes stores and designer shops bearing familiar international names on Madison and Fifth avenues.
4. The rhetorical device employed in “ Nature constantly yields to man …” is personification.
5. It is the fascination charm of New York as well as the opportunity to be a journalist that attracts the author to New York.
6. It is the good living conditions that draw those young people to New York.
7. The sentence “ All have their sovereignties” means all the different ethnic groups have their own little areas which they control.
8. New York is not longer the banking and communications headquarters for America.
9. The newcomers to New York are never fully assimilated.
10. New York regards the United Nations as an unworkable, impractical and hypocritical institution.
Ⅲ. Point out what figure of speech is used in each of the following sentences:
1. While sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, pre-empt the air waves form California
2. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood.
3. New York was never Mecca to me.
4. Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroaching cement and petrol fumes.
5. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world.
6. “So what else is new?”
7. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.
8. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical.
treaties forced upon her by foreign invaders.
Ⅳ.Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
1. He fought back at his tormentors with ________ of a corner red rat.
A. dejection
B. depression
C. desperation
D. despair
2. He monopolized the conversation by ________ of his own prowess at hunting and fishing.
A. boasting
B. bragging
C. crowing
D. vaunting
3. It was alleged that he was present at the scene of the crime, but he ________ that he was in Europe at the time.
A. asserted
B. maintained
C. affirmed
D. testified
4. It has become the ________ for royalty to appears as democratic and “ folksy” as the average politician.
A. fashion
B. trend
C. vogue
D. style
5. The ________ between Guelphs and Ghibellines in medieval Italy passed from controversy over papal authority to petty was between city states.
A. contention
B. friction
C. conflict
D. strife
6. He was too nervous to speak and had to be ________ .
A. prompted
B. motivated
C. stimulated
D. propelled
7. A short cut through the mountain is extremely ________ in winter.
A. distant
B. inaccessible
C. remote
D. dessert
8. Australia ________ the Treaty of Peace with Japan on 10th April, 1952; New Zealand on 29th April, 1952.
A. confirmed
B. sanctioned
C. ratified
D. approved
9. He is a poet with ________ imagination.
A. luxurious
B. luxuriant
C. luscious
D. lustrous
10. ________ clod hoppers guffawed at seeing male ballet dancers wearing tights.
A. naive
B. unaffected
C. unsophisticated
D. provincial
11. He felt listless until the sea breeze ________ him and steadied his nerves.
A. cheered
B. encouraged
C. exhilarated
D. excited
12. She endured her illness with great __________
A. fortitude
B. forbearance
C. persistence
D. resolution
13. Mary is no long willing to meet her husband’s bullying with docile ________.
A. patience
B. sufferance
C. tolerance
D. forbearance
14. The actress was becoming extremely _________ with all the questions they were asking by the uncalled-for innuendo in the reporter’s question.
A. outraged
B. aggravated
C. exasperated
D. insulted
15. It would be ________ of me to have a church wedding when I don’t believe in God.
A. hypocritical
B. hypercritical
C. hysterical
D. hypothetical
16. He balanced the glass ________ on the arm of the chair.
A. precociously
B. precariously
C. precautionary
D. precipitously
17. You can rest ______ that the talented young secretary has been able to confirm what he said in the original report.
A. assured
B. ensured
C. insured
D. reassured
18. The leader’s speech in defense of the policy didn’t carry much ________.
A. conviction
B. belief
C. confidence
D. concern
19. American revolutionaries who rejected England’s claim of ________ over the colonies.
A. sovereignty
B. authority
C. power
D. right
20. The public is very _____ about the governor's plans for a tax cut.
A. susceptible
B. dubious
C. suspicious
D. deliberate
21. The two countries will _____ full diplomatic relations now that they have settled their long standing border dispute.
A. recove
B. restore
C. renovate
D. replace
22. Everyone in the auditorium was weeping by the time he finished the _____ tale, though it was fabricated obviously.
A. pessimistic
B. pathetic
C. patriotic
D. melancholy
Ⅴ.Put the following words and phrases into the appropriate blanks in the following sentences.
measure up against cut off … from in terms of be reckoned with look up to out of phase with yield to beckon to out of step with swallow up
1. They were already a political force to
.
2. The school is widely
for its excellent teaching.
3. The new building is
its surroundings.
4. I
temptation and had a chocolate bar.
5. The job is great
salary, but it has its disadvantages.
6. He ________ himself ________ all human and lived alone in a remote area.
7. The figures are not very good when
those of our competitors.
8. I watched her walk down the road until she was
by the darkness.
9. He
the waiter to bring the bill.
10. She was
her colleagues and regarded as an eccentric woman.
Ⅵ.Fill in each blank with a suitable verb from the lists below in the proper form.
decline decrease diminish drop dwindle lessen reduce
1. I hope to obtain your forgiveness, to
your ill opinion.
2. His sense of personal initiative is cultivated instead of being
.
3. The number of nations allied with Germany
as the war continued.
4. The incidence of malaria
dramatically because of the eradication of malarial mosquitoes.
5. Certain medicines are said to be effective in
people’s weight.
6. It is said that her vitality and creativity are
with age.
7. Classes
as more and more students played truant.
8. Owing to the strike, coal supplies are
quickly.
9. I hope the number of mistakes you make in the exercises will
as time goes on.
10. After years of illness he was
to a skeleton.
11. My aunt has decided to spend her
years in the suburbs of shanghai.
12. Mr. Smith’s hopes ____ as his fortune ____ away to nothing.
13. The price of the new products has been
owing to a twenty per cent rise in productivity.
14. Their funds
because of their extravagance and ill-management.
border edge fringe margin rim verge
15. The proposal was carried by a very narrow
.
16. Be careful! The
of your glass is cracked.
17. I hurt my knee against the
of the stove.
18. Don’t go near the
of the precipice; you may stumble and topple over.
19. The
between the two countries runs along the mountain ridge.
20. He pushed the leftovers of the food on the
of the plate.
21. When writing the composition, be sure to write in every other line and leave a
.
22. When the toy was taken away, the girl found herself on the
of tears.
23. Professor Hill always writes his comments in the
of his students’ papers.
24. Caracas, a modern city on the
of the Orinoco wilderness, is dominated by a profusion of motor traffic.
25. The bond issue, proposed as a way of financing a centennial celebration, failed by a narrow
.
26. The thin detective with the horn
glasses wandered through the garden.
27. Owing to the poor management, this firm was nearly on the
of bankruptcy.
28. At the wedding, though the in-laws on the outer
didn’t enjoy themselves as much as “the privileged group”, the atmosphere was, on the whole, genial and harmonious.
29. These recruits are going to be sent to guard the farm on the Chinese side of the
with Burma,
30. Many young graduates like to work in the publishing house now not because of the
benefits it offers, but because of the pleasant working environment it provides for all.
Ⅶ.For each blank in the following passage, choose the most suitable word from the list of words provided below. Each work can be used once only. Write your choice of words in its proper form in the corresponding blanks in the passage.
grudge In the light of willingly freedom knowledge philosophers spiritual comfort measure passers-by measure the only exception in terms of is fully aware of estimate steal occasionally nothing in the open envious of the world of nature beggars sacrifice is free from be paid for human dignity with ease
Nothing to Sell and Nothing to Buy
It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. ( 1 )
this statement, teachers live by selling ( 2 )
, ( 3 )
by selling wisdom and priests by selling ( 4 )
. Though it may be possible to ( 5 )
the value of material goods ( 6 )
money, it is extremely difficult to ( 7 )
the true value of the services which people perform for us. There are times when we would ( 8 )
give everything we possess to save our lives, yet we might ( 9 )
paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service. The conditions of society are such that skills have to ( 10 )
in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop. Everyone has something to sell. Tramps seem to be ( 11 )
to this general rule. Beggars almost sell themselves as human beings to arouse the pity of ( 12 )
. But real tramps are not ( 13 )
. They have nothing to sell and require ( 14 )
from others. In seeking independence, they do not sacrifice their ( 15 )
. A tramp may ask you for money, but he will never ask you to ( 16 )
him. He has deliberately chosen to lead the life he leads and ( 17 )
the consequences. He may never be sure where the next meal is coming from, but he ( 18 )
the thousands of anxieties which afflict other people. His few material possessions make it possible for him to move from place to place ( 19 )
. By having to sleep ( 20 )
, he gets far closer to ( 21 )
than most of us ever do. He may hunt, beg, or ( 22 )
to keep himself alive; he may even, in times real need, do a little work; but he will never ( 23 )
his freedom. We often speak of tramps with contempt and put them in the same class as beggars, but how many of us can honestly say that we have not felt a little ( 24 )
their simple way of life and their ( 25 )
from care?
Ⅷ.Translation