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Unit 2 Listening and Speaking习题检测
基础知识自测
一、用单词的适当形式完成句子
1.In 1954, she _________(elect) to the first National People’s Congress and, over the next several ____________
(decade), she held many important positions.
2.To a person nothing is ________(precious) than their life.
3._____ response to the audience’s great demand,the play will/would be put on in the theatre twice a week.
4.People taking subway to work are_____ the majority.
5.The majority who attended the meeting yesterday_____(be) students.
二、根据汉语意思填写单词
6.Social evolution always takes place in the _______ (困境) of economic development and cultural preservation.
7.He sees honesty as an important _________(美德), which has never changed in his world.
8.She _________(回复), “I’d rather stay single to study all my life!”
9.What do you do when you are about to ________(昏倒) physically?
10.Let me________(阐明)the point with some very, very simple graphs.
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三、完形填空
Last year I decided to do some volunteer work. I began to _11_ on the Internet and discovered Volunteer USA. Three months later I _12_ myself on a plane to Phoenix, Arizona. I was _13_ at the thought of living with loads of new people for three months. However, within fifteen minutes of arriving, my worries had gone. Everyone was so _14_and like-minded that it was very easy to feel at home.
I was sent to the Coronado National Forest for my first 8-day _15_. We had to carry everything we needed and walk three miles to where we worked. It may not seem like a _16_ way but in 35℃ heat and with a heavy pack, my legs were on fire.
My job was to _17_ a stairway out of rock. This _18_ climbing up and down the side of a mountain inhabited by mountain lions, although I should say they were only heard, never _19_.
Three days later, a beautiful stairway came into being. The __20__ of knowing that my __21__ will be on that mountainside for years to come is massive.
But on the last night we were __22__ in a thunderstorm. I woke up at midnight to find a swimmi