Unit 2　Cloning

　　.單詞拼寫

　　1．The brothers________(不同) widely in their tastes.

　　2．Being a straightforward girl, she said that she hated

　　learning a________(商業(yè)的) course.

　　3．The old teacher had accumulated much experience of teaching before he________(退休)．

　　4．I'd like to come, too, if you have no________(反對(duì))．

　　5．He always managed to________(得到)what he wanted.

　　6．Don't be so serious. I________(僅僅) played a joke on you.

　　7．However, the problem that she later developed a serious lung disease________(打擾) scientists.

　　8．You should follow the normal procedure if you want to___ _____(承擔(dān)) the law case.

　　9．The scientists have made a breakthrough in the research to__ ______(抵抗) the deadly disease.

　　10．It's very disturbing that there is too much violence in the common________(媒體)．

　　答案：1. differ 　2. commercial 　3. retired　4. objection　 5. obtain　6. merely　7. bothered　8. undertake　9. resist　10. media

　　.完成句子

　　1．He________ ________ ________(沮喪)because he was forbidden to go out with his brothers.

　　2．My uncle comes to have dinner with us________ ________ ________ ________(不時(shí)地)．

　　3．Keep on working hard like this, and your research________ ________ ________ ________(一定能取得) great success.

　　4．In ancient times, people believed that they could________ ________ ________ ________ ________(使復(fù)生) after death.

　　5．He tried________ ________(白費(fèi)力氣)to persuade her to marry him.

　　6．All of them were strongly________ ________ ________(支持)the project.

　　7．Thinking they have grown up, the boys________ ________(反對(duì))being treated like children.

　　8．Even though the house has a long history, it is still________ ________ ________(狀態(tài)良好)．

　　答案：1. was cast down 　2. from time to time　3. is bound to obtain　4. be brought back to life　5. in vain 　6. in favour of

　　7. object to　8. in good condition

　　.單項(xiàng)填空

　　1．(2011·濟(jì)南模擬)The new clothes in that shop are so beautiful that Anna cannot________taking a close look at them, although she cannot afford them at present.

　　A．enjoy　B．imagine

　　C．risk

　　D．resist

　　答案：D　句意：那家商店里的新衣服那么漂亮，以致Anna忍不住仔細(xì)地看了看，雖然她目前買不起。enjoy“喜歡”；imagine“想像”；risk“冒險(xiǎn)”；resist“抵抗”。

　　2．You mustn't lose heart; sooner or later your efforts will__ ______.

　　A．pay off

　　B．take off

　　C．give off D．set off

　　答案：A　考查短語(yǔ)。句意：一定不要灰心，你的努力遲早會(huì)得到回報(bào)的。pay off“成功，奏效，達(dá)到目的”；take off“起飛，騰飛”；give off“發(fā)出”；set off“出發(fā)，引發(fā)，引起”。

　　3．—I told you she was not serious about him and now she has dumped him.

　　—Poor boy! It will take him a long time to get over this____.

　　A．beat

　　B．strike

　　C．blow

　　D．knock

　　答案：C　考查名詞。blow“打擊，不幸，精神上的打擊”。再如：His death was a terrible blow to her. 他的逝去對(duì)她是個(gè)可怕的打擊。

　　4．Sales of their new video has________one million dollars this year.

　　A．got over

　　B．set up

　　C．brought about

　　D．broken through

　　答案：D　考查動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)。句意：去年，他們新影帶的銷售額突破了一百萬(wàn)美元。break through“突破”。

　　5．When I got home, I found the door open. A terrible thought________me—had anyone broken into the house?

　　A．beat

　　B．struck

　　C．knocked

　　D．a(chǎn)ppeared

　　答案：B　考查動(dòng)詞。句意：回到家時(shí)，我發(fā)現(xiàn)門開著。我突然有了一個(gè)可怕的想法“有人闖入過嗎？”。strike在此表示“突然想到，猛地意識(shí)到”。

　　6．After the quarrel, I tried all my best to fix the misunderstanding between us, but all my efforts seemed________.

　　A．in trouble

　　B．in case

　　C．in time D．in vain

　　答案：D　考查介詞短語(yǔ)。句意：爭(zhēng)吵過后，我盡力消除我們之間的不快，但是努力都是白費(fèi)。in vain“白費(fèi)勁，徒勞無功”。

　　7．Suddenly the idea came to me________I might turn to Mr.Smith for help.

　　A．what

　　B．that

　　C．which

　　D．whom

　　答案：B　考查同位語(yǔ)從句。I might turn to Mr.Smith for help就是the idea的內(nèi)容，同位語(yǔ)從句不缺成分用that引導(dǎo)。

　　8．The hospital described his________as “satisfactory” while he felt there was something wrong.

　　A．condition

　　B．situation

　　C．energy

　　D．position

　　答案：A　考查名詞辨析。condition“情況，狀態(tài)”；situation“形勢(shì)”；energy“能量”；position“位置”。

　　9．Yesterday I had a word with the CEO of the company，______who used to teach at Beijing University.

　　A．one

　　B．the one

　　C．that

　　D．it

　　答案：B　the one作同位語(yǔ)，特指the CEO of the company。

　　10．Garter Druse________his selection for the important task to his courage，devotion and knowledge of the area.

　　A．led

　　B．owed

　　C．devoted

　　D．contributed

　　答案：B　考查動(dòng)詞。owe sth. to...為固定搭配，表示“把……歸功于”。句子意思為“Garter Druse把他對(duì)重要任務(wù)的選擇歸功于他的勇氣、奉獻(xiàn)精神和對(duì)這個(gè)領(lǐng)域的了解”。

　　11．Our school forbids________， that is to say, we are not allowed________at school.

　　A．to smoke; to smoke

　　B．students' smoking; smoking

　　C．students' to smoke; smoking

　　D．students' smoking; to smoke

　　答案：D　句意：我們學(xué)校禁止吸煙，也就是說，我們不允許在上學(xué)期間吸煙。forbid與allow的用法類似，forbid/allow sb. to do sth., forbid/allow(sb.'s)doing sth.。

　　12．If you________this task, you must be ready to suffer from hardship.

　　A．a(chǎn)pply

　　B．experience

　　C．undertake

　　D．command

　　答案：C　apply“應(yīng)用”；experience“經(jīng)歷”；undertake“承諾，擔(dān)任”；command“命令，要求”。句意：如果你承擔(dān)這項(xiàng)任務(wù)，你應(yīng)該做好應(yīng)對(duì)困難的準(zhǔn)備。

　　13．I have no objection ________your story again.

　　A．to hearing

　　B．to have heard

　　C．to hear

　　D．to having heard

　　答案：A　object和objection后常接to，而且to是介詞。

　　14．The genes of the cloned animals are so arranged that it can't________such a disease, so it soon died.

　　A．overlook

　　B．resist

　　C．exist

　　D．withdraw

　　答案：B　考查動(dòng)詞辨析。 overlook“忽略”；resist“抵擋”；exist“存在”；withdraw“撤回，取回”；can't resist such a disease“不能抵擋住這樣一種疾病”。

　　15．—Hey, if you can't enjoy that at a sensible volume, please use the earphone. I'm studying.

　　—Oh, I'm sorry. I________realize it________you.

　　A．don't; bothers

　　B．didn't; bothered

　　C．don't; was bothering

　　D．didn't; was bothering

　　答案：D　由語(yǔ)境可知，我沒意識(shí)到(指前者提醒之前沒意識(shí)到，現(xiàn)在已意識(shí)到了)這么大的音量一直打擾著您。故第一空用一般過去時(shí)，第二空用過去進(jìn)行時(shí)。

　　.完形填空

　　Here's a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly.

　　Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods—even if you also exercise regularly—could be__1__for your health. And it doesn't matter where the sitting takes place—at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV—just the overall number of hours it__2__.

　　Research is preliminary(初步的), but several studies__3__people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die.

　　In an editorial__4__this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin Ekblom-Bak of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences suggested that authorities rethink how they define__5__activity to highlight the dangers of sitting.

　　While health officials have issued guidelines__6__minimum amounts of physical activity, they haven't suggested people try to limit how much time they spend in a seated__7__.

　　“After four hours of sitting, the body starts to send__8_ _signals，”Ekblom-Bak said. She explained that genes regulating the amount of glucose and fat in the__9__start to shut down.

　　Even for people who__10__， spending long stretches of time sitting at a desk is still harmful.

　　Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the World Health Organization, said people who

　　exercise every day—__11__still spend a lot of time sitting—might get more benefit if that exercise were spread across the day，__12__in a single bout.

　　That wasn't__13__news for Aytekin Can, 31, who works at a London financial company, and spends most of his days sitting __14__a computer. Several evenings a week, Can also teaches jiu jitsu, a Japanese martial art__15__wrestling, and also does Thai boxing.

　　“I'm sure there are some detrimental__16__of staying still for too long, but I hope that being__17__when I can helps，” he said. “I wouldn't want to think the sitting could be__18__dangerous.”

　　Still, in a study published last year that tracked more than 17,000 Canadians for about a dozen years, researchers found people who sat__19__had a higher death risk, independently of whether or not they exercised.

　　Figures from a US survey in 2003～2004 found Americans spend more than half their time sitting, from working at their desks to sitting in cars.

　　Experts said more research is needed to__20__just how much sitting is dangerous, and what might be possible to offset those effects.

　　文章大意：本文說明的是：越來越多的科學(xué)家提醒，即使經(jīng)常鍛煉身體，長(zhǎng)時(shí)間坐著也會(huì)對(duì)健康產(chǎn)生有害影響。

　　1. A. bad

　　B. good

　　C. mean

　　D. dead

　　答案：A　此處意為：長(zhǎng)時(shí)間坐著也會(huì)對(duì)健康產(chǎn)生壞影響，故選A項(xiàng)。

　　2. A. does

　　B. occurs

　　C. matches

　　D. dies

　　答案：B　不管你坐在哪里，它都會(huì)發(fā)生。occurs符合句意。

　　3. A. advise

　　B. talk

　　C. suggest

　　D. say

　　答案：C　但已有幾項(xiàng)研究顯示，故選suggest。advise“建議”，talk“談?wù)摗焙蛃ay“說”均不符合句意。

　　4. A. thrown

　　B. caught

　　C. seen

　　D. published

　　答案：D　根據(jù)“在英國(guó)《運(yùn)動(dòng)醫(yī)學(xué)》雜志上發(fā)表的一篇評(píng)論文”，應(yīng)用published。

　　5. A. biological

　　B. physical

　　C. psychological

　　D. logical

　　答案：B　相關(guān)機(jī)構(gòu)應(yīng)重新考慮如何界定身體鍛煉，以強(qiáng)調(diào)久坐的危害。根據(jù)句意應(yīng)選B。

　　biological“生理的”；psychological“心理的”；logical“邏輯的”，均不符合句意。

　　6. A. commending

　　B. mending

　　C. recommending

　　D. communicating

　　答案：C　衛(wèi)生官員已發(fā)布指南建議人們的最低身體活動(dòng)量。recommend意為“建議”符合句意。

　　mend“修補(bǔ)”；commend“命令”；communicate“交流”。

　　7. A. stand

　　B. state

　　C. post

　　D. position

　　答案：D　但在一天最多坐幾個(gè)小時(shí)的問題上還是個(gè)空白。保持坐姿：in a seated position。

　　8. A. harmful

　　B. careful

　　C. wonderful

　　D. skillful

　　答案：A　身體會(huì)開始發(fā)出有害的(harmful)信號(hào)，A項(xiàng)正確。careful“仔細(xì)的”；wonderful“完美的”；skillful“有技巧的”。

　　9. A. head

　　B. arm

　　C. body

　　D. foot

　　答案：C　此時(shí)調(diào)節(jié)體內(nèi)(就是身體：body)葡萄糖和脂肪量的基因會(huì)開始罷工。

　　10. A. sleep

　　B. rest

　　C. walk

　　D. exercise

　　答案：D　即使對(duì)那些經(jīng)常鍛煉(exercise)的人來說，長(zhǎng)時(shí)間坐著也有害。

　　11. A. and

　　B. so

　　C. but

　　D. then

　　答案：C　對(duì)于那些每天鍛煉但依然(就是轉(zhuǎn)折：but)有很多時(shí)間是處于靜坐狀態(tài)的人來說……。

　　12. A. rather than

　　B. other than

　　C. more than

　　D. less than

　　答案：A　如果每天的鍛煉可分散進(jìn)行而不是(rather than)一次集中完成。other than“除……以外”；more than“多于”；than“少于”，均與句意不符。

　　13. A. bad

　　B. harmful

　　C. disadvantageous

　　D. welcome

　　答案：D　這對(duì)于艾特金·肯來說不是什么好消息。這里就是“受人歡迎的”消息。welcome符合句意。harmful“有害的”；disadvantageous“不利的”，與句意不符。

　　14. A. behind

　　B. back

　　C. in front of

　　D. forward

　　答案：C　肯每天大部分時(shí)間都坐在電腦前(in front of)。故選C項(xiàng)。

　　15. A. referring

　　B. involving

　　C. taking

　　D. bringing

　　答案：B　不過肯每周有幾個(gè)晚上教授一種和日本摔跤武術(shù)相關(guān)的柔術(shù)，此外還練泰國(guó)拳擊，

　　involving“與……相關(guān)的”，符合句意。

　　16. A. effects

　　B. prefects

　　C. affects

　　D. offers

　　答案：A　我知道長(zhǎng)時(shí)間坐著不動(dòng)肯定會(huì)有不好的影響。effects符合句意。affect是動(dòng)詞“影響”，語(yǔ)法不符。

　　17. A. inactive

　　B. active

　　C. interactive

　　D. positive

　　答案：B　但我希望我做的這些運(yùn)動(dòng)能起到作用，故選active“活躍的”。inactive“不活躍的”；interactive“互動(dòng)的”；positive“正面的”，均不符合句意。

　　18. A. such

　　B. little

　　C. lot

　　D. that

　　答案：D　句意：我不愿相信坐著會(huì)產(chǎn)生那么危險(xiǎn)的后果。that用作副詞，意為“那么”。

　　19. A. less

　　B. fewer

　　C. more

　　D. further

　　答案：C　長(zhǎng)時(shí)間坐著的人死亡率更高，more表示“更多”，符合句意。