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起止时间:2020-02-24到2020-07-07
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Week 1 Beauty (i) 1.5 Quiz
1、 It is very difficult, or even impossible, for a man to give a right answer when a woman asks him how she looks, because men cannot have an honest yet sensitive response to the question.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
分析：(para. 2) No amount of rehearsal will help you come up with the right answer. (para. 3) The problem is that men do not think of their looks in the same way women do.
2、 According to the text, men and women evaluate their appearance differently in a way that men are satisfied with being average-looking, paying little attention to their looks, while women pay great attention to their body and image, considering their appearance as not good enough even if they are in fact attractive.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确
分析：(para. 4.) Most men are not arrogant about their looks. They like to think of themselves as average-looking. Average is fine. (para. 5) Women do not look at themselves this way. No matter how attractive a woman may be, she has trouble thinking “I’m beautiful.”
3、 Women are not confident with their appearance because they are put in an inferior social status.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
分析：(para 6) This chronic insecurity isn’t inborn, but created through the interaction of many psychological and social factors, for example, their childhood experiences with toys, and the influence of the media causes women to consider their looks so deficient.
4、 Girls’ toys are proportioned to have extreme measures of the body (e.g. in terms of height, weight, and waist size), whereas most of boys’ toys look weird rather than handsome.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确
分析：(para. 6) Girls grow up playing with dolls proportioned in a way that is physically impossible for a living human to achieve. In contrast, most of the toys that young boys have played with were weird-looking.
5、 The author points out that women care much about their appearance due to pressure from men.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
分析：(para. 9) The truth is that most men think beauty is more than just lipstick and perfume and take no notice of these extra details. So the author thinks that the claim is not right.
Week 2 Beauty (ii) 2.6 Quiz
1、 She decided to buy that car because it used less gasoline and had the two __ she couldn’t live without: a GPS and a CD player.
A:alternatives
B:accessories
C:artifacts
D:attributes
答案: accessories
2、 The two teams each have their strengths and their weaknesses, and thus they can __ each other when working on the project together.
A:conceive
B:confront
C:complement
D:compliment
答案: complement
3、 Mrs. McBride, my neighbor, was a fanatic (狂热的) gardener, planting lots of flowers and vegetables on the __ at the back of her house.
A:installment
B:segment
C:allotment
D:fragment
答案: allotment
4、 At the end of his term in office, the governor was criticized for failure to ___ his campaign promise.
A:live down to
B:live to
C:live up to
D:live it up to
答案: live up to
5、 No amount of money with her life will __ her desire for comfort.
A:appreciate
B:appeal
C:appease
D:applause
答案: appease
6、 Her good looks, _______ her elegance, is devoted to her popularity among the boys.
A:complete with
B:compare with
C:complement with
D:compliment with
答案: complete with
7、 __ your heart ______ love and you will have a broad mind.
A:Shower … with
B:Come up … with
C:Excuse … with
D:Conform … with
答案: Shower … with
8、 Morgan was so excited about the concert that she __ three outfits that morning before settling on a miniskirt and leggings with boots.
A:went over
B:went through
C:went on
D:went off
答案: went through
9、 As the financial crisis got worse, people throughout the country went out onto the street to express their _____ over Wall Street’s greed.
A:curiosity
B:jealousy
C:outrage
D:disagreement
答案: outrage
10、 As a top industrial designer in the world today, he thinks design is ____ just making attractive products. It can also help change the way people live.
A:more than
B:less than
C:fewer than
D:better than
答案: more than
11、 Vocabulary words are the building blocks of your language ability, but don’t be with just memorizing vocabulary. It’s more useful to know how to use 50 words than to memorize 100. (obsess; 请用所给单词的合适形式填空。 )
答案: obsessed
12、 Girls grow up playing with dolls so that if they were human they would be seven feet tall and weigh 61 pounds, with tiny thigh and a large upper body. (proportion; 请用所给单词的合适形式填空。)
答案: proportioned
13、 It is important for every man to understand how to treat women with respect and _____. (admire; 请用所给单词的合适形式填空。)
答案: admiration
14、 The school choir does not have enough time to prepare for public performances. (rehearse; 请用所给单词的合适形式填空。 )
答案: rehearsal
15、 The cheese cake Jenny made for the dinner was so delicious that it was simply . (resist; 请用所给单词的合适形式填空。 )
答案: irresistible
16、 The approaches adopted to affix value ____ land vary from state to state, and the values of commercial land are assessed each year. (请填入正确的介词或副词。)
答案: to
17、 At the press conference two days ago, the spokesman for the Defense Ministry refused to voice an opinion ____ the war. （请填入正确的介词或副词。）
答案: on
18、 The bridge is structurally _______ and has some section loss, cracking, holes, tears and failed deck joints, according to a state inspection report from January. (deficiency; 请用所给单词的合适形式填空。)
答案: deficient
19、 The exhibits in the museum are structured like the many little threads of a spider web, with each str______ adding to the larger picture. (请根据字母提示填入正确的单词；填写答案时需填入完整的单词。)
答案: strand
20、 Scholars are exceedingly proud of their intellects and never pass up a chance to tell the world how smart they are; this is typical ______ academics. (请填入正确的介词或副词。)
答案: of
Week 3 Culture (i) 3.5 Quiz
1、 What stereotypes of Chinese Americans are depicted in the media?
A:Chinese Americans are “foreign” and “unassimilated”.
B:Chinese are alien predators.
C:Chinese Americans are polite.
D:Chinese Americans as a whole are a model minority.
答案: Chinese Americans are “foreign” and “unassimilated”. ;
Chinese are alien predators. ;
Chinese Americans are polite. ;
Chinese Americans as a whole are a model minority.
2、 How did the article in The New York Times Magazine describe Chinese language and culture?
A:Direct
B:Indirect
C:Polite
D:Impolite
答案: Indirect;
Polite
3、 The dominant American society appreciates and respects Chinese people for being modest and discreet.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
分析：The author “worry that the dominant society may see Chinese people from a limited perspective, hedging us in with the stereotype”, which “may lead to actual intolerance and be part of the reason why there are few Chinese in top management positions, or in the main judiciary or political sectors” (Para. 22). Actually, the remarks that Chinese people are modest and discreet are “only the crust of the interaction, or what is said from the polite distance of social contexts” (Para. 26). They are only a stereotype of Chinese people’s exterior behavior.
4、 The right way for the Chinese to respond at the dinner table in America is to say directly whether they want to have anything or not.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确
分析：According to the author’s mother, “if you don’t breach the old rules of etiquette and say you want it, they won’t ask you again” at the dinner table in America (Para. 8). That means Chinese people should say directly whether they want to have anything or not and do not have to refuse for the sake of politeness if they in fact want to eat it.
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