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Test A

I. Vocabulary and Grammar

1. I have to ____ myself to make sure I was not dreaming.

      A. cut  B. pinch  C. pitch in  D. plunge

2. When the couple was saving money to buy a house, they had to ___ pennies.

      A. nod   B. plunge  C. pinch  D. spray

3. The conference ____ without reaching any agreement.

      A. broke away   B. broke off   C. broke up   D. broke through

4. Last night there was a ___ explosion in one of the dining halls in Virginian Tech University.

      A. hasty B. terrific  C. conspicuous  D. remarkable

5. Poets sometimes ____ to making use of strange language in their works to express their feeling.

      A. proceed  B. appeal  C. incline  D. resort

6. Ms. Wang ____ in her leather handbag till she collected exactly the correct change for the bus ticket.

      A. felt  B. searched  C. found   D. rummaged

7. The children managed to ____ under the fence and got into the party without paying.

      A. compress B. squeeze  C. hug  D. huddle

8. We were startled by the ____ from the Baotou Spring in our visit to Jinan city.

      A. foam B. surf  C. spray  D. lather

9. The reporter managed to get an ___ interview with the Prime Minister.

      A. exclusive  B. excessive  C. excluding  D. Extinct

10. How can we make it ____ to them for all the worry we have caused them.

      A. off  B. for C. out  D. up

11. Anyone with half an eye on the unemployment figures knew that the assertion about economic recovery ___ just around the corner was untrue.

      A. would be  B. to be  C. was  D. being

12. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorms long before people ___.

      A. do  B. hear  C. do them D. hearing it

13. What I am convinced ___ is that the world’s population will grow to an unforeseen extent.

      A. for  B. in  C. with  D. of

14. The differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly ____.

      A. noticed  B. to be noticed  C. being noticed  D. to notice

15. What we know of life on earth suggests that life ___ wherever the proper conditions exist.

      A. arise   B. could arise  C. would arise  D. will arise

II. Translation the following phrases into Chinese and sentences into English.

1.do the dishes 洗盘子（洗餐具）

2.all things considered 所有的事情都要去考虑

3.to feel cornered 感到了被逼入困境

4.to be at sth 正在进行某一类事（at (CONDITION) preposition =used to show a state, condition or continuous activity: a country at war； children at play）

5.to have an effect on sb./ sth 对某人或某事物产生了影响

6.to come to one’s aid 对某人进行急救护理

7.to make it up to sb 补偿某人、报答某人

8.to come up with sth 想出什么来（计划或答案）

9.to do sth out of concern for sb 做某些事情表现出了对某人超乎寻常的关心（出于关心某人而为之做某事）

10.              to take one’s word 相信某人的话

11.              每当有紧急任务要完成时，他们都毫不犹豫地投入工作。（pitch in）

When they have urgent tasks to be finished, they always pitch in (the work ) without hesitation.

( Whenever there is a emergent task to be done, they pitch in without hesitation.)

12.              未名湖边的灯都亮了，北大校园看起来从没有这么漂亮过。（用with的复合结构）

The campus of Peking University looks never beautiful before with all the lights beside the lake of Weiming bright.

(The campus of Peking University looks most beautiful with all the lights on around the Weiming lake.)

13.              亲戚和朋友都祝贺他通过了这次入学考试。（to congratulate someone on sth）

Relatives and friends all congratulated him on passing the test of entering school.

(Relatives and friends all congratulated him on passing the entrance examination.)

14.              他想起他们一起度过的日子，他们的关系是多么亲密，他们又是多么了解对方。（how + adj.）

He thought of the years they had spent together, and how close they were, and how they knew each other.

< He thought of the years they had spent together, and how close they were, and how WELL they knew each other.>

15.              我只是不明白白人和黑人结婚有什么错。（wrong with）

I just don’t see what’s wrong with a white person marrying a black person.