1. I suggest you your position carefully
A. think up B. think back C. think through D. think out
2. Her mother-in-law??s desire to the family has caused great trouble
for the newly married couple.
A. disagree B. develop C. dominate D. determine
3. The manufacturers cheap chemical substance for the nutrition in
milk which caused a lot of children to die.
A. substituted B. instead C. replaced D. placed
5. Even though they about their professor??s grading standards，they
admired and respected him very much.
A. complained B.murmured C. scolded D. groaned
6. We spent the day looking round the museum.
A. for the more part B. for the most part
C. to the more part D. to the most part
7. Tom seemed less about the proposed move.
A. eager B. active C. energetic D. enthusiastic
8. The bank says it is doing everything it can to people that savings
are safe.
A. assure B. reassure C. ensure D. insure
9. He appeared embarrassed and ill with the sustained applause that
greeted him.
A. for ease B. at ease C. to ease D. of ease
10. The teacher would get if students failed to prepare for her class.
A. offensive B. offending C. offend D. offended
Ⅳ. Complete the following sentences with the expressions given below.
Change the form where necessary.
think over on occasion except for to no avail now and then
1. I will the suggestion put forward by my teacher.
2. I tried to persuade her not to resign，but.
3. He is very careful ，but he has，，made small mistakes.
4. She would be the ideal person for the job her lack of experience.
5. I still see her for lunch ，but not as often as I used to.
unit Eight
Text A
Pre-clas s activity
Ⅰ. Find in Column B descriptions that fit the words in Column A.
A B
1. foreword A. to excite the body or mind
2. stimulate B. doubt or anxiety about the consequence of something
3. estimate C. to study with close attention
4. advantage D. something that may help one to gain a desired result
5. pore E. to calculate roughly the time，cost，size，etc. of something
6.misgiving F. to bring to an end
7. abolish G. a short introduction at the beginning of a book
8. arise from H. to meet by chance
9. bring about I. to result f rom
10. run into J. to cause to happen
Ⅱ. Spell the following words with the help of their definitions and the
first letters.
1. s a student in the second year of college.
2. c the process of creating something
3. a to cause to like ，admire or notice
4. e without end or seeming to be without end
5. r to stop working at one??s job，usu. because of age
6. e something that is equal in meaning，amount or value
7. i a suggestion not expressed but understood
8. h funny and amusing
9. a a book written by oneself about one??s own life
10. s to form opinions without definite or complete knowledge
or evidence
Ⅲ. Cross out the word that does not belong to the group.
1. unexpected unpredicted unforeseen unnoticed
2. speculate guess create suppose
3. conf ine restrain restrict evolve
4. equivalent similar twin reliable
5. description explanation implication account
Clas s activity
Ⅰ. There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence
there are four choices marked A，B，C and D. Choose the one
answer that best completes the sentence.
1. It is reported that the latest missiles can f ire with accuracy.
A. stubborn B. ref ined C. incredible D. impulsive
2. We desire that the tour leader immediately of any change in plans.
A. announce B. inform C. notify D. assume
3. Physics is to the science which was called natural philosophy in
history.
A. alike B. equivalent C. likely D. uniform
4. A witness has given the police a detailed of the men who robbed
the bank.
A. description B. instruction
C. suggestion D. implication
5. People wouldn??t think a group leader if he ever lied to the public.
A. reliable B. thoughtful
C. rational D. intelligent
6. Canned foods are with housewives because it takes so little time to
cook them.
A. popular B. welcome C. desirable D. usual
7. The French pianist who had been praised very highly to be a great
disappointment.
A. turned in B. turned up
C. turned out D. turned down
8. In the past ten years，skyscrapers have developed in Chicago and
New York city.
A. homogeneously B. spontaneously
C. simultaneously D. harmoniously
9. His last novel is his greatest to Spanish literature.
A. application B. contribution
C. creation D. equivalence
10. His English teacher had written on his report that he showed great
as a mathematician.
A. promise B. imagination
C. information D. energy
11. Could you your discussion to the matter in question.
A. confine B. define C. refine D. speculate
12. He held a number of for his many innovations.
A. rights B. patents C. privileges D. claims
13. Over the year we have had several about future policy.
A. account B. speculation C. debates D. emergency
14. A strange smell from the bottom of the garden.
A. arose B. rose C. raised D. aroused
15. She eats an amount of food and yet she is really thin.
A. believable B. unbelievable
C. unreliable D. credible
16. Computer technology will a revolution in business administration.
A. bring around B. bring about
C. bring out D. bring up
17. More than several million people have been by drought.
A. affected B. effected C. inf luenced D. suffered
18. There is speculation that he is going to resign.
A. intense B. extensive C. extended D. widespread
19. When the company financial problems，its leader asked each
member to buy a share.
A. ran down B. ran into C. ran out D. ran over
20. The incident as a warning to other students who are tempted to
cheat in exams.
A. regards B. dismisses C. serves D. viewed
Ⅱ. Choose a suitable word from the groups to complete the following
sentences and try to figure out the difference in meaning.
1. arise rise raise arouse
arise vi. to come into existence
rise vi. to move from a lower position to a higher position
raise vt. to cause something to rise or become bigger or better
arouse vt. to cause to wake; to cause sb to have the feeling of
( 1) People complained that prices have steadily.
( 2) The president has said that there are no plans to taxes.
( 3) Should the opportunity ，I??d love to go to China.
( 4) The new law has much public concern.
2. affect effect influence
affect to cause some result or change
effect to achieve and cause sth. to happen
influence to have an effect on
( 1) As a political party，they are trying to a change in the way that
we think about the environment.
( 2) The team??s performance was by the rain.