Mark Twain --- Mirror of America
Ⅰ. Word explanation
1. range
A. to launch
B. to wander
C. to seek
D. to wonder
2. cruise
A. voyage
B. crowd
C. cloud
D. boat
3. profound
A. perfect
B. deep
C. proud
D. desirable
4. frailty
A. weakness
B. stiffness
C. frugality
D. fracture
5. core
A. centre
B. thread
C. edge
D. front
6. obsess
A. to process
B. to observe
C. to preoccupy
D. to absorb
7. attest
A. to prove
B. to arrest
C. to attend
D. to progress
8. cosmos
A. custom
B. system
C. universe
D. course
9. slum
A. a piece of ground going up or down
B. a city area of dirty, poor living condition
C. an area of soft wet land
D. the entire tract of country drained by a river
10. perception
A. understanding
B. conception
C. entrance
D. percentage
11. rebuff
A. to puff
B. to oppose
C. to refuse
D. to reprove
12. debunk
A. to retell
B. to expose
C. to impress
D. to describe
13. flirt
A. to fling over
B. to play with
C. to throw away
D. to point at
14. ingenuity
A. stupidity
B. reality
C. cleverness
D. truth
15. deplore
A. to look for
B. to ask for
C. to be in lack of
D. to be sorry about
16. long and tiring
A. scathing
B. cynical
C. tedious
D. abundant
17. good, strong, quick at understanding
A. keen
B. revered
C. earnest
D. puritanical
18. the state of intellectually deceived or misled
A. vanish
B. ambition
C. illusion
D. dreary
19. importance with respect to power to produce an effect
A. consequence
B. sultan
C. clamour
D. providence
20. a prevailing tendency or inclination
A. epidemic
B. trend
C. gratitude
D. climax
Ⅱ.Replace each underlined part with one word learnt in the text, the first letter of which is given:
1. You can't expect him too much. He is just a teenager. j 2. The naughty boy of ten got our room messed up. m 3. We really miss the life in the countryside years ago, it was simple and pleasant. i
4. The St. Lawrence River is suitable for ships to travel from the Great Lakes to the sea. n
5. A wide and uninterrupted view was shown in the beginning of the movie. p
Ⅲ.Decide whether the following statements are true or false:
1. In Nevada's Washoe region, Mark Twain tried very hard and persistently to get the enormous wealth of gold and silver but failed, because it belonged only to the lucky ones.
2. TOM SAWYER is a story about the boyhood adventures of a lad whom Mark Twain named Billy Rogers at first.
3. According to Mark Twain, the people who stayed at home of California were slow, sleepy and sluggish-brained.
4. Mark Twain's national reputation was first well established as \"the wild humorist of the Pacific Slope\" because of the publication of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER.
5. If Mark Twain had not accepted the job as a reporter offered to him by TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE, literature would have lost that literary giant.
Ⅳ. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the following words or expressions in its proper form. Each word or expression is to be used only once.
acquaintanceship, contact, drain, every bit, to acknowledge, to acquaint with,
to be accustomed to, to be broke, to succumb, to teem with, trap, vanish
1. I have heard about your friend but I ___ not __him.
2. Their closewith congressmen was advantageous. 3. He has a wideamong all sorts of people.
4. Ditches are dug through swampy landaway the water. 5. The inventorbecause nobody would buy his machine. 6. The soldiers would rather die thanto the enemies. 7. Don't despise him. His head eccentric ideas.
8. The lawyer's question was aguilt.
that caused the defendant to admit his 9. She'sas good a cook as her mother. 10. Harryto be the cleverest boy in the class. 11. Of course I ___ not ___ associating with society people like you. 12. Many kinds of animals havefrom the earth. Ⅴ. Give the full spelling of the words according to the context.
1. Honesty, justice are the e forever.
values of human life which will last
2. I told them of my strange, exciting and dangerous journey a in the
mountains.
3. Someone who is p it.
loves their country and feels very loyal towards 4. Someone who is r has a lot of ideas that are not related to real life, for example about love or about ways of changing society.
5. Something that is h way.
is amusing, especially in a rather witty or clever 6. An o is someone who is hopeful about the future, and believes that things will happen in the best possible way.
7. If you d remember it.
information, you think about it, understand it, and
8. If you p in a particular activity, action, or system, you take part in it. 9. Someone who is d works hard in a careful and conscientious way. 10. C with someone or something is the state of communicating or spending time with them or the state of touching them.
11. G is the feeling of being grateful, or the expression of this feeling.
12. A c is a piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine which is
always written by the same person or is always about the same topic.
13. If you are a to something or to something happening, you are
used to it or are familiar with it.
14. If someone sets a t they do something that becomes accepted or fashionable, and that is copied by a lot of other people.
15. An e is a company or business or something new, difficult, or
important that you do or try to do.
16. A c of a situation or event is a result or effect of it. 17. If you p something, you will imagine your own thoughts as being experienced by other people.
18. In the m means in the period of time between two events. 19. If you e (19) your r(20) as something, you cause people to have a particular opinion of you often because you have done something very well.
21. An o that you want to do.
is a situation that makes it possible for you to do something
22. If you are u by someone or something you do not think they are very good, unusual, or worth your attention.
23. A t is device or hole which has been placed or dug somewhere in order to catch animals or birds.
24. I is used to describe a result, situation, or event that happens
immediately without any delay. It is also used to describe food or some other product that is manufactured in such a way that you can make it ready for eating or using with very little time or effort, for example by just adding water.
25. A c piece of writing, film, etc. is one that is thought to be of very high quality and has become standard against which other similar things are judged.
26. A person.
is a feeling of fondness and caring, especially for another
27. A d is a firm, emphatic statement which shows that you have no doubts about what you are saying.
28. If you cannot s something or someone, you find it or them very difficult to bear or tolerate and you dislike it or them very strongly.
29. If things such as ideas, beliefs. or statements s a place, they
spread quickly through it.
30. An i is an idea or belief which you think is true but is in fact false or something that looks like one thing in appearance but is another thing in reality, or is not really there at all.
1-1: / 答案:B
1-2: / 答案:A
1-3: / 答案:B
1-4: / 答案:A
1-5: / 答案:A
1-6: / 答案:C
1-7: / 答案:A
1-8: / 答案:C
1-9: / 答案:B
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1-10: / 答案:A
1-11: / 答案:C
1-12: / 答案:B
1-13: / 答案:B
1-14: / 答案:C
1-15: / 答案:D
1-16: / 答案:C
1-17: / 答案:A
1-18: / 答案:C
1-19: / 答案:A
1-20: / 答案:B
2-1: /
答案:juvenile
2-2: /
答案:mischievous
2-3: /
答案:idyllic
2-4: /
答案:navigable
2-5: /
答案:panorama
3-1: /
答案: F
3-2: /
答案: T
3-3: /
答案: F
3-4: /
答案: F
3-5: /
答案: T
4-1: /
答案:am… acquainted with
4-2: /
答案:contact
4-3: /
答案:acquaintanceship
4-4: /
答案:to drain
4-5: /
答案:was broke
4-6: /
答案:succumb
4-7: /
答案:teems with
4-8: /
答案:trap
4-9: /
答案:every bit
4-10: /
答案:is acknowledged
4-11: /
答案:am accustomed to
4-12: /
答案:vanished
5-1: /
答案:eternal
5-2: /
答案:adventures
5-3: /
答案:patriotic
5-4: /
答案:romantic
5-5: /
答案:humorous
5-6: /
答案:optimist
5-7: /
答案:digest
5-8: /
答案:participate
5-9: /
答案:diligent
5-10: /
答案:Contact
5-11: /
答案:Gratitude
5-12: /
答案:column
5-13: /
答案:accustomed
5-14: /
答案:trend
5-15: /
答案:enterprise
5-16: /
答案:consequence
5-17: /
答案:project
5-18: /
答案:meantime
5-19: /
答案:establish
5-20: /
答案:reputation
5-21: /
答案:opportunity
5-22: /
答案:unimpressed
5-23: /
答案:trap
5-24: /
答案:Instant
5-25: /
答案:classic
5-26: /
答案:Affection
5-27: /
答案:declaration
5-28: /
答案:stand
5-29: /
答案:sweep
5-30: /
答案:illusion
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