高级英语1 lesson 9课外练习及答案.doc

Lesson 9Mirror of AmericaⅠ. Word explanation1. rangeA. to launchB. to wanderC. to seekD. to wonder2. cruiseA. voyageB. crowdC. cloudD. boat3. profoundA. perfectB. deepC. proudD. desirable4. frailtyA. weaknessB. stiffnessC. frugalityD. fracture5. coreA. centreB. threadC. edgeD. front6. obsessA. to processB. to observeC. to occupyD. to absorb7. attestA. to proveB. to arrestC. to attendD. to progress8. cosmosA. customB. systemC. universeD. course9. slumA. a piece of ground going up or downB. a city area of dirty, poor living conditionC. an area of soft wet landD. the entire tract of country drained by a river10. perceptionA. understandingB. conceptionC. entranceD. percentage11. rebuffA. to puffB. to opposeC. to refuseD. to reprove12. debunkA. to retellB. to exposeC. to impressD. to describe13. flirtA. to fling overB. to play withC. to throw awayD. to point at14. ingenuityA. stupidityB. realityC. clevernessD. truth15. deploreA. to look forB. to ask forC. to be in lack ofD. to be sorry about16. long and tiringA. scathingB. cynicalC. tediousD. abundant17. good, strong, quick at understandingA. keenB. reveredC. earnestD. puritanical18. the state of intellectually deceived or misledA. vanishB. ambitionC. illusionD. dreary19. importance with respect to power to produce an effectA. consequenceB. sultanC. clamourD. providence20. a prevailing tendency or inclinationA. epidemicB. trendC. gratitudeD. climaxⅡ.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, 　　vanish1. I have heard about your friend but I ___ not __him.　2. Their close with congressmen was advantageous.3. He has a wide among all sorts of people.4. Ditches are dug through swampy land away the water.5. The inventor because nobody would buy his machine.6. The soldiers would rather die than to the enemies.7. Don't despise him. His head 8. The lawyer's question was a that caused the defendant to admit his guilt.9. She's as good a cook as her mother.10. Harry to be the cleverest boy in the class.11. Of course I ___ not ___ associating with society people like you.　12. Many kinds of animals have from the earth.Ⅴ. Give the full spelling of the words according to the context.1. Honesty, justice are the e values of human life which will last forever.2. I told them of my strange, exciting and dangerous journeys a in the mountains.3. Someone who is p loves their country and feels very loyal towards it.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 is amusing, especially in a rather witty or clever way.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 information, you think about it, understand it, and remember it.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 b。