Module 4　Sandstorms in Asia

　　I. 单项填空

　　1．—May I help you？You seem to be having some problems.

　　—________，thanks.I think I can manage.

　　A．All right B．No problem

　　C．It’s all right

　　D．There’s no way

　　答案　C　考查交际用语。句意为：——我可以帮助你吗？你好像遇到了一些麻烦?！皇露?，谢谢。我想我能处理好。第一个说话人主动提出为第二个说话人提供帮助，根据答语中的“I think I can manage.”可知，第二个说话人婉言拒绝了，故选C，意为“没事儿，没什么”。2．The top leaders of the two countries are holding talks in a friendly________．

　　A．atmosphere

　　B．state

　　C．situation

　　D．phenomenon

　　答案　A　[句意：两国高层领导人之间的会谈在友好的气氛中举行。atmosphere“气氛”；state“状态”；situation“处境”；phenomenon“现象”。由句意可知A项正确。]

　　3．It is beyond my________to search the murderer's house, for I haven't got permission from my superior.

　　A．ability

　　B．force

　　C．power

　　D．strength

　　答案　C　[考查名词辨析以及固定搭配。beyond one's power “超出某人的权力”。句意：我没有权力搜罪犯的家，因为我没有上级的许可。]

　　4．—I'm still working on my project.

　　—Oh, you'll miss the deadline.Time is________．

　　A．running out

　　B．going out

　　C．giving out

　　D．losing out

　　答案　A　[run out有“用完，耗尽，结束，期满”的意思，常和time连用，表示时间耗尽。此处用现在进行时表示“即将到期”。]

　　5．Some false advertisements are taking the countryside women as their targets, because they are easy to________．

　　A．take in

　　B．take on

　　C．take over

　　D．take up

　　答案　A　[考查动词短语辨析。句意：有些假广告把乡村妇女作为目标，这是因为她们容易上当。take in“欺骗”；take on“呈现，雇用”；take over“接管”；take up“占据，从事”。]

　　6．—The moment I saw him, he began to________about the bad weather he had while traveling there.

　　—He must have had a very unpleasant journey there.

　　A．complain

　　B．compensate

　　C．compromise

　　D．explain

　　答案　A　[考查动词辨析。句意：“我一看到他，他就开始抱怨在那里旅行时的糟糕天气?！薄澳撬谀抢锏恼獯温眯锌隙ú辉趺从淇臁薄omplain“抱怨”；compensate“偿还，补偿”；compromise“折中，妥协”；explain“解释”。由句意可知，A项符合。]

　?。甌he professor thought that the idea the young engineer________was worth considering.

　　A．brought up B．made up

　　C．set up D．picked up

　　答案　A　考查动词短语。句意为：教授认为那位年轻的工程师提出的想法值得考虑。分析句子结构可知，“the young engineer________”是定语从句，修饰先行词the idea，且根据句意可知，答案为A。bring up提出；make up弥补，组成；set up建立；pick up捡起，获得。8．Since the matter was extremely________， we dealt with it immediately.

　　A．tough

　　B．tense

　　C．urgent

　　D．instant

　　答案　C　[考查形容词辨析。根据语境中的immediately可知，应用urgent(急迫的)。tough“棘手的”；tense“紧张的，焦虑的”；instant“立即的，立刻的”。]

　　9．________magazines to find pictures that you can stick on your poster.

　　A．See through

　　B．Look into

　　C．Look through

　　D．Pull through

　　答案　C　[句意：翻阅杂志找找能贴在你的海报上的图片。look through“翻阅，浏览”；look into“调查”；pull through“从……中恢复健康”；see through“看穿，看透”。]

　　10．I don't think they have any food left.________， lend them some.

　　A．If possible

　　B．If so

　　C．If not

　　D．If ever

　　答案　B　[句意：我认为他们没有什么剩余的食物了。如果这样的话，借给他们一些。if so“如果是这样”，符合句意，故选B项。如把题干中的don't去掉，并把any改为some，则选C项。]

　　．The police asked John to________those photographs and try to pick out the man he had seen.

　　A．look around

　　B．look after

　　C．look up

　　D．look through

　　答案　D　句意为：警察让约翰浏览(look through)那些照片并尽力找出他看到的那个人。look around四处看看；look after照看；look up查询。12．We took our umbrellas with us when we went out in order to________us from a heavy rain.

　　A．ban

　　B．preserve

　　C．prevent

　　D．protect

　　答案　D　[protect sb from sth意为“?；つ橙嗣庠狻?。ban“禁止”；preserve“?；ぃ晃ぁ?；prevent“防止；阻止”。]

　　13．________that he might fail the driving test, he made several more calls to confirm the result.A．Concerns

　　B．Concerning

　　C．Concerned

　　D．To concern

　　答案　C　[考查concern的用法。句意：担心自己可能不能通过这次驾驶测试，所以他多打了好几遍电话核实考试成绩?？瞻状κ亲髟蜃从?，表示“担心的”，故用concern的过去分词形式。]

　?。甒hat the public is ________ about is whether medical workers and scientists will be able to find a cure for the new disease in a short time.

　　A．concerning

　　B．concern

　　C．concerned

　　D．to concern

　　答案　C　句意为：公众关心的是医疗工作者和科学家们是否能在短期内找到治疗这种新疾病的方法。be concerned about担心，关心；concerning为介词，意为“关于”，与题意不符。15．Having been warned of the likely lung cancer, Mr. White had to________on smoking.

　　A．cut down

　　B．cut off

　　C．cut in

　　D．cut out

　　答案　A　[考查短语辨析。句意：怀特先生被警告可能得了肺癌，他不得不减少吸烟的量。此句要用cut down表示“减少”。cut off“切断”；cut in“插进”；cut out“剪裁”。]

　　II. 完形填空

　　It might have been a really bad stressful day, feeling trapped inside by the cold and snow which surrounded us.My husband got dressed and __1__that he was going outside to build a giant snowman.

　　At first he stood alone，__2__massive amounts of snow.Soon after a neighbor joined in.Then we reluctantly put on our snow gear and__3__outside.It wasn't long __4__we were smiling and enjoying the __5__of snow that Mother Nature had provided.Others came to our yard one by one to give a __6__in the making of our giant snowman.

　　In the end we all stood back and __7__at what we had created.He was eleven feet high, twenty-five feet around at the base and __8__with many household items supplied by various __9__．People drove by and smiled.Some even stopped just to enjoy his __10__．

　　With the passing of time, the spring made its __11__back into our yard and the snowman changed form __12__．In a final effort to save what we created for just a little bit __13__，somebody stopped by and changed the snowman's __14__to look like a rabbit.As I prepared for the start of another week, I decided to __15__my e-mail before going to bed.I found a (an) __16__message that contained the subject line：__17__the snowman.

　　The e-mail said：your neighbor looks on in disbelief！Now you people are relishing(享受)the sounds and smells, along with __18__of spring.But I am sure people will never forget the __19__energy displayed in Mr.Snowman.You and your family keep it up, as this is what the world needs now.More power to you and your loved ones, keep __20__with the world around!

　　Perhaps it was more than a snowman we built that day.The message seems clear.Our environments will turn out to be what we make of them.The possibilities are endless and the choice is ours.

　　Notes：

　　①reluctantly adv.勉强地，不情愿地　②disbelief n．不相信

　　1．A.announced

　　B．stated

　　C．informed

　　D．insisted

　　2．A.pressing

　　B．pouring

　　C．piling

　　D．clearing

　　3．A.looked

　　B．headed

　　C．rushed

　　D．wandered

　　4．A.when

　　B．since

　　C．after

　　D．before

　　5．A.softness

　　B．abundance

　　C．whiteness

　　D．flexibility

　　6．A.design

　　B．tip

　　C．hand

　　D．tool

　　7．A.wondered

　　B．stared

　　C．worked

　　D．suspected

　　8．A.decorated

　　B．wrapped

　　C．provided

　　D．equipped

　　9．A.societies

　　B．communities

　　C．neighborhoods

　　D．families

　　10．A.sculpture

　　B．existence

　　C．occupation

　　D．survival

　　11．A.entrance

　　B．appearance

　　C．warmth

　　D．way

　　12．A.considerably

　　B．instantly

　　C．roughly

　　D．steadily

　　13．A.further

　　B．longer

　　C．deeper

　　D．stronger

　　14．A.remains

　　B．version

　　C．form

　　D．figure

　　15．A.answer

　　B．delete

　　C．sort

　　D．check

　　16．A.serious

　　B．curious

　　C．elegant

　　D．punctual

　　17．A.recall

　　B．keep

　　C．enjoy

　　D．praise

　　18．A.beauty

　　B．scenes

　　C．sights

　　D．attraction

　　19．A.various

　　B．joyous

　　C．significant

　　D．spiritual

　　20．A.communicating

　　B．advancing

　　C．developing

　　D．sharing

　　【语篇解读】 大雪过后，作者的丈夫准备去堆一个巨大的雪人。在众人的努力下，一个高11英尺、底部周长25英尺的巨大雪人诞生了。从巨大的雪人身上，作者得到启示：我们的环境由我们自己来创造，只要我们努力，一切皆有可能。

　　1．A　[announce宣布，宣告。state声明，陈述，常用于正式场合；inform通知，告知，不符合句意；insist坚持说，坚持认为，坚持(做某事)，不符合语境。]

　　2．C　[要堆雪人，首先要把大量的雪堆在一起，故选C。A、B、D三项意思分别为“挤，压”、“倒”、“清理”，均不符合上下文语境。]

　　3．B　[head作动词，常意为“(向某方向)出发，动身”；head outside走到外边。rush强调动作迅速，与句中reluctantly(不情愿地)表达的意思不符。A、D两项不符合语义。]

　　4．D　[It wasn't long before...是固定句型，意为“不久……”。]

　　5．B　[the abundance of snow意为“充足的、大量的雪”。A、C、D三项意思分别为“柔软”、“白色”、“灵活性”，均不符合语境。]

　　6．C　[give a hand意为“帮忙”，指人们帮忙堆雪人，符合语境。]

　　7．A　[wonder在文中意思是“对……感到惊讶”，指作者没想到他们能堆这么大一个雪人。]

　　8．A　[堆成雪人后，人们用家中的东西来装饰它，故选A。B、C、D三项意思分别为“包装”、“提供”、“装备”，均不符合语境。]

　　9．D　[因雪人巨大，装饰物品由很多家庭提供。A、B、C三项意思分别为“社会”、“团体”、“街坊”，均不符合语境。]

　　10．B　[有些人甚至仅仅为了欣赏雪人(的存在)而停下来观看。A(雕刻)、C(职业，占有)、D(幸存，生存)三项均不符合语境。]

　　11．D　[make one's way意为“(向某处)前进”，文中指“春天又回到我们的院子里”。]

　　12．A　[considerably意为“相当大地”。因天气变暖，雪人变化相当大。B、C、D三项意思分别为“立刻”、“大体上”、“稳定地”，均不符合语境。]

　　13．B　[为了挽救雪人，让它存在的时间更长一些，有人把雪人融化后的残雪变成了一只兔子。]

　　14．A　[remains意为“剩余物”，文中指雪人融化后的残雪。version版本；form形式、形状；figure数字，体型；均不符合语境。]

　　15．D　[check意为“检查，核实，查看”，句中指作者查看邮箱里是否有邮件。A、B、C三项意思分别为“答复，回答”、“删除”、“分类”，均不符合语境。]

　　16．B　[curious意为“好奇的、奇怪的、不寻常的”，指作者收到一封奇怪的邮件。]

　　17．C　[enjoy the snowman意为“欣赏雪人”。A、B、D三项意思分别为“回忆”、“保存”、“赞扬”，均不符合上下文。]

　　18．C　[sights这里指春天的“景象”，与句中的“sounds，smells”一致。]

　　19．B　[joyous 意为“使人快乐的，高兴的”；the joyous energy意为“令人愉快的精神”。A、C、D三项意思分别为“各种各样的”、“有意义的”、“精神上的”，均不符合语境。]

　　20．D　[keep sharing with the world around意为“与周围的人共享”。A、B、C三项意思分别为“交流”、“前进”、“发展”，均不符合语境。]

　　III. 阅读理解

　　A

　　Are you the type of person who always says “yes”？I’ve come to learn that it is very important to learn to say “no”．It’s okay.People are still going to like you.They may even respect you more because they know you are honest.

　　I’m not saying to say “no” to someone who really needs your help.I’m talking about turning down that meeting that you really do not want to attend or that birthday party that you don’t want to be a guest at.

　　Think for a moment how you feel when you say “yes” to something that you really don’t want to do.If you’re like I once was，you can’t sleep at night and you think about it too much.It weighs on your mind.You try to find ways out.Whatever you’re saying to yourself，if you really wanted to go，you wouldn’t have all of these thoughts.

　　So，why not just say “no” from the beginning？Maybe you feel like if you don’t show up at the meeting (by the way，it is not one you must attend)，your boss isn’t going to like you or your co-workers won’t respect you.Maybe you feel as if your mom，dad or sisters won’t love you as much if you don’t do everything for them what they ask every occasion.